During the summer I wrote about Everex‘s planned inexpensive Linux PC at Wal-mart. Now the $200 Everex gPC has launched. Everex, a longtime personal computer vendor, has unveiled its latest PC featuring Ubuntu Linux-based open-source productivity software and Google-based Web 2.0 applications, for a mere $198. The gPC does not run Ubuntu, but does run [...]

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GNOME 2.20 has been released, this is the version that will be included in Ubuntu 7.10. The improvements in GNOME 2.20 include: Improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power [...]

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X.org version 7.3, after being delayed a few days, has now been released. This is the version that will be in the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 release. The so-called killer feature of this version of X is the new support for hotplugging of input devices (such as keyboard, mice, touchscreens) as well as output devices (monitors, [...]

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This fits in with my series about Linux for Grandparents so well I just had to post it. On Sunday, August 12 Leo Laporte talked to Karin on his radio show. Karin is a Grandma who refused to pay more money to Microsoft and switched to Linux! All by herself, she tried various Linux distributions [...]

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Debian, the Linux distribution that Ubuntu is based on, is 14 years old today. Incredible! Here is a link to the original announcement by Ian Murdock. This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, which I’m calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put together [...]

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