When Beryl and Compiz decided to merge, Beryl temporarily took the name CompComm. After a failed vote and a lot of argument the combined project finally got a name: Compiz Fusion. While our community has some democratic features, ultimately it is a meritocracy and the people who contribute the most value have the most say. [...]

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The planned features to be included in Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” have been finalized and announced today. Most of the features are minor because of the usual 6 month release plan which will result in a final release in October. Here is a summary: latest version on GNOME compositing window manager by default with Metacity [...]

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A user on the Ubuntu forums has managed to get Ubuntu to validate as genuine Windows. As far as I know no one has done work on Wine to get validation working, so this shows how bad Microsoft’s tests are. MS can’t even stop Linux users from downloading their genuine-Windows only software. I just did [...]

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Currently Dell only sells Ubuntu PCs in the United States. On Dell Ideastorm you can now vote for Ubuntu PCs worldwide, the suggestion has become the most popular on the site. Hopefully once Dell has seen the success of Ubuntu in the US they will sell it anywhere.

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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu has posted on his blog that there are no negotiations happening with Microsoft. We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the threat of unspecified patent infringements. Allegations of “infringement of unspecified patents” carry no weight whatsoever. We don’t think they have any legal merit, and they [...]

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