Monthly Archives: July 2006

Xubuntu's Jani Moses interviewed

Xubuntu core developer Jani Monoses (‘janimo’ on IRC) gets the A-list celebrity treatment and joins Ubuntu’s Walk of Fame over at Behind Ubuntu. Xubuntu is designed for lower-specification or older machines and can install on machines with only 64MB of RAM. It manages this amazing feat by switching out the traditional full-scale KDE and GNOME […]

Register says Ubuntu goes mainstream

Our friends at the UK’s premier third-rate IT blog, The Register, have a new interview up with Benevolent Dictator Mark Shuttleworth branding him a “millionaire cosmonaut and self-funded Linux guru” and talking about taking Ubuntu to the mainstream. Mark reveals that Canonical is using about $10m/year on building and promoting Ubuntu, all currently coming from […]

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS given award by IT Reviews

Dapper has been given a “Recommended” award by IT Reviews: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is a very complete and usable Linux distribution and one that’s remarkably easy to get to grips with compared to some others. All of which makes it a good starting point for newcomers, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s cut-down in […]

Simon Law, Ubuntu's "Bug Czar"

LXER.com has published an interview with Simon Law, head of Quality Assurance for the Ubuntu Project. Specifically for QA, you can join the Ubuntu BugSquad. We’re a tight-knit group of people who are interested in helping with the neverending flow of bugs that come in. You can start by helping to triage new bugs and […]