Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition, nicknamed "Intrepid Ibex," provides so much functionality and ease of use, at zero cost of acquisition, that it is really impossible to ignore. For anyone or any business ...

What can you do now? Well, you could try CentOS Stream, but it's not the same thing. Classic CentOS was a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone. CentOS Stream, however, "tracks just ahead of a current ...

Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" has just entered the beta phase of development - and that means another 650+MB download and some good hands-on time with my favorite Linux distro! I first took a look at ...

A month after the beta dropped, Linux distro Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is officially out. Besides running GNOME 2.22 and Firefox 3 Beta 5, a big new feature is Wubi support, which’ll let Ubuntu live on ...

The best all-around Linux distribution available today. Over the past decade, Linux has emerged from a herd of obscure and nerdy operating systems to warrant a place in even the most technologically ...

Both Ubuntu and VMWare recently released upgrades — Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" is available for download and VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 is also out. The problem is that the two don't play well together. It ...

In fact, the anti-Vista uproar has been so loud that Microsoft has been forced to keep Windows XP alive in many forms—including as "downgrade options" for OEM customers and, currently, as an ...

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Canonical will release Intrepid Ibex this week, improving wireless networking and sporting BBC content. Profitability, though, could be three to five years away. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...