Yes indeed, free Ubuntu stickers. Nothing new but for those of you who don’t know, you can get free Ubuntu stickers one of two ways:
Show of hands as to who will grab it right away? Anyone already using it?
My favorite features:
A nice collection of screenshots for newly released Linux Mint 3.1 is available at OSDir.com. Mint 3.1, codenamed Celena, is compatible with Ubuntu Feisty repositories. New features in 3.1 include:
Also included are new artwork, improved stability and performance, new tools, and upgrades. Visit LinuxMint.com to get the full feature list.
I feel it is a day of mourning with this news from ArsTechnica:
Back in the excitingly heady days of the dot-com bubble, the rivalry between Sun and Microsoft was one of the highlights. Sun’s famous motto “The Network is the Computer” threatened to make Microsoft’s desktop monopoly obsolete, and visions of a world of thin clients running Java backed up by expensive Sun servers were dancing in then-CEO Scott McNealy’s head. Much has changed since then, of course. McNealy resigned, lawsuits were settled, and these days Sun and Microsoft are fast friends. Now, in a rather stunning bit of news, Microsoft and Sun announced at a press conference that Sun has signed up to become a Windows Server Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), selling Sun x64-based servers that come bundled with Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Sun has released a chart showing which hardware will be ready for the Windows operating system, and the company is expected to ship the first bundled systems within 90 days.
From VentureCake:
“Although Distrowatch may say your mate’s homemade Linux rules the world, we’ve always been Google Trends fans. When reconfirming that the big three - Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSuSE - are still the most popular Linux distros, we noticed that Ubuntu has reached another milestone entirely.”
“Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution to overtake Jesus in Google Trends, establishing a firm lead over the bearded one since the end of Q1 this year.”
You really should go to VentureCake and read the rest. Really, right now…
From Mobile Magazine comes this tasty little tidbit:
I think that the Apple iPhone was garnering more attention and creating more rumors than the Google Phone, but interest in the latter is really start to ramp up now that the former is already out in the marketplace (with a price drop too). Five fresh rumors have arisen surrounding the secretive Google Phone, but unfortunately none point toward a potential release date.
In other news from LinuxDevices.com:
A free GNOME-based Linux distribution for mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs has achieved a major release. OpenedHand’s Poky Linux 3.0 (”Blinky”) is based on X11, GTK+, and the Matchbox window manager, and includes an impressive-looking new application framework and theme called “Sato 0.1.”
The new “Blinky” release of Poky is based on X11/GTK+/Matchbox, much like the Nokia-sponsored Maemo.org project. However, in place of the proprietary Hildon GUI layer, it includes a new “Sato 0.1″ component described by OpenedHand as, “a simple fast GTK+ based PDA/Smartfone fully featured theme and application framework.” The screenshots below show Sato 0.1 in action.
Visit the post to see the rest of the screenshots. They are very fancy…