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Canonical’s reshaping of Ubuntu is complete, but does 11.10 live up to the hype? Russell Barnes takes a look at the 15th iteration, Oneiric Ocelot, probably the only distro to be loved and loathed in near equal measure…

There are 2 times a year when all Linux users, and especially Ubuntu users, are excited. They are April and October. These are months when new versions of Ubuntu Linux are released. This October is not an exception. 13th of October (sorry, not Friday this time) saw release of version 11.10, nicknamed Oneiric Ocelot. As usual, Canonical, company beyond Ubuntu, releases whole family of systems based on the same core: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu. There is a lot of new in Ubuntu 11.10 version. Especially because it is first system where Unity takes ownership of the system and moves old good GNOME2 fully aside. That's why it needs more detailed review. For the time being... Let's first have a look at little bit less popular, but still very good branch of Ubuntu which uses KDE as Desktop Environment: Kubuntu.

Unlike the last release, which featured a switch to an entirely new Unity user interface, this one is a fairly incremental upgrade. What most of us expected were further refinements to this new user interface, and Ubuntu more or less delivered on that, but let’s get into the nitty gritty.

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Ubuntu 11.10, code-named Oneiric Ocelot, is the latest stable release of the popular Linux distribution. Since tradition demands that screenshots be published before a review, here are a few from a test installation for your visual pleasure.

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The new Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) has just been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 11.04 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 11.10.

When Google announced Q3 financial results today, most folks noted Google’s quarterly revenues surged 33 percent and nearly hit $10 billion. But perhaps the more interesting figure is $42.6 billion; that’s how much cash Google now has in the bank. Talkin’ Cloud wonders: Will Google CEO Larry Page open the vault and send Google out on a cloud services shopping spree? Here are early thoughts.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: New features in KMail: renaming attachments, disabling filters Telepathy gets KWallet support for passwords, integration of global presence into kded-modue Rewritten array classes in Okteta read more

I agree with his assessment of Red Hat. As far as I can determine, there’s not a for-profit company on the planet more dedicated to both the spirit and letter of the GPL. But SUSE? The distro that crawled into bed with Microsoft under Novell’s ownership, and remains Redmond’s Linux lover under the stewardship of Attachmate? Excuse me, but I think we can depend on SUSE staying the course about as much as we can depend on Apple not suing Samsung.

The official launch of Ubuntu 11.10, which had been code-named “Oneiric Ocelot,” is the first major launch of the Linux-based OS since its top developer announced an ambitions goal to reach 200 million desktops within a couple of years. Ubuntu 11.10 became available as early-development alpha software earlier this year, and it was clear from the outset that this operating software has clearly found its stride.

There is no denying the fact that the death of Steve Jobs is a great loss to the world but death of Dennis Ritchie, the father of Unix, is no less. Rob Pike, the programming legend and Googler, said, “When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified. But Dennis had a bigger effect, and the public doesn’t even know who he is.”

By combining three useful command-line tools (less, watch and xdotool) along with two xterm windows, you can create an automatically scrolling reader.



Say you have a good book in text-file form ('book.txt') that you just downloaded from Project Gutenberg. more>>

For those interested in the GPU hardware acceleration support for Opera 12 that was made available with this morning's release of Opera 12 Alpha, here's the stipulations regarding the "out of the box" Linux GPU driver support...

Latest stable release of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has just been released. We already seen many of the new features in earlier development releases. So let’s check what’s new in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Download options.

Adobe hedges bets with Nitobi Anyone hoping to pronounce Flash dead as Adobe transitions to the brave new HTML 5 world will have been disappointed, based on the company's MAX Conference last week.…

Node Web Development by David Herron is book written for those who want to start using Node.js for real Web Applications. Book is short and written for purpose of practical examples. Of course if it will be longer it would be even better but this is very good starting point for learning Node.js.

Back when Ubuntu 11.04 was released, we wrote a post about stuff you may need to tweak or fix. Some of those tweaks still work but since this is a new version, there are new things that need tweaking so I've decided to make a new post with some popular old tweaks as well as some new ones.

Dennis Ritchie has passed away, and will be remembered by everyone who has made programming their career and hobby.

This morning I noticed Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot is here. After switching to Linux Mint when Ubuntu started using Unity as the default desktop, I'm wondering if Ubuntu 11.10 is just another Ubuntu headache or the real deal?