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Tweet Installing Firefox in Kubuntu 8.10 I have repeatedly been unable to update Firefox to the latest version in assorted Linux distros over the course of a few years. For the most part, I see this as poor user interface design by the developers of the assorted software update applications. For example, I don’t recall [...]

Tweet Survey: Increase in “mission critical” Ubuntu Server use A survey of the Ubuntu Server community has been published showing that more organisations are relying on Ubuntu for “mission critical” tasks. The survey, carried out by Canonical, the commercial sponsor for Ubuntu, and RedMonk, an open source oriented market research organisation that makes all of [...]

Tweet Exira Red Hat Firecrackers The Exira Red Hat Firecrackers met at the Lions Community Center on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 11:30 a.m. to enjoy a turkey dinner and make plans for the coming year. Those in attendance were Queen Silva Christensen, Noreen Leigan, Lorraine Hoegh, Erma Nelson, Elaine Rasmussen, Evelyn Nelson, Maxine Christensen, Beverly [...]

Tweet Ubuntu Gaining Popularity For Businesses Ubuntu is currently the most popular desktop Linux distribution. However, it is also rapidly gaining popularity among businesses around the world, according to the latest survey by Canonical and open source analyst firm RedMonk. Almost 7,000 respondents, mostly from North America and Europe, took part in the survey. The [...]

Tweet A Week Of Open Source Riches Over the last couple of weeks, many of the open source projects that I use on a daily basis enjoyed new releases, including a Firefox competitor (sort of): Flock 2.0. Upgrade time! I was using the Firefox 3-based beta of Flock 2 for quite some time without noticing [...]