Canonical is listed as a licensee of H.264 from MPEG LA, the patent pool which licenses out the codec patents, but does this mean that Ubuntu users are covered by this license? The confusing answer is: it depends.
This Thursday Canonical will release the next incarnation of Ubuntu, version 10.04, codenamed "Lucid Lynx." This release does something that no other OS has done and integrate "social" right into the OS.
Psystar, the company that's been making headlines for selling Mac-clone systems, has now released a 'build your own Hackintosh' kit.
In a changing landscape, could we see a time when Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome come together to form a single browser?
With the final release of Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" only days away (scheduled for April 23, 2009), let's take a look at the Release Candidate.
Is it possible to be free of Microsoft Office if you are an Outlook user?
For those interested in taking the latest incarnation of Ubuntu for a spin, you might like to know that a release candidate of Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" is available for download a few days ahead of the full release.
MSI has unveiled details of its new Eclipse motherboard - the company's first X58 motherboard for Intel Core i7.
Not a single post I make about Ubuntu goes by without at least one of you making some comment about my distro of choice and suggesting that I try some other distro. Well, never let it be said that I don't listen to you - so this week I decided to take openSUSE 11.0 for a spin.
Users of the upcoming Ubuntu "Intrepid Ibex" are in for a surprise - being confronted by a EULA the first time they launch the Firefox web browser. And it's caused a bit of a stir.