Sheldon Cooper, one of the four main characters, the self-proclaimed genius and truest nerd on The Big Bang Theory has been seen using Ubuntu linux.

It is not Google Chrome which may replace Firefox in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Maverick Meerkat; it is the open-source Chromium.

EiskaltDC++ is a DC++ alternative to the old Linuxdcpp client. It has a rather nice interface and has a few more functions than Linuxdcpp.

In the UDS-M, it has been decided that there will most likely be some changes in the applications that are installed by default with Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10.

At the latest Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, there were talks on moving X.Org Server to the user-space and running it as a normal user instead of the current root.

In the Ubuntu Developers Summit, Aurelien Gateau presented a Global Menu for the next Kubuntu release.

Ubuntu Light is meant to be an instant-on OS to be supplied by OEM, as a dual boot installation with other OS (like Windows).

Today Mark Shuttleworth announced a new interface for Ubuntu Netbook Edition – Unity. The main focus of Unity are maximization of screen resource, mainly the vertical pixel, and making it suitable for touch-screen devices.

The Ubuntu Women Team is being restructured and a new election process will be put in place to elect not one single leader but three co-leaders to the community

I recently tried the newest version of the Kubuntu Netbook Remix (KNR). Take a look at the screenshots I’ve included here. You might consider trying this new OS on your netbook.

In the Ubuntu Open Week Q&A Session following the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx release, Mark Shuttleworth has announced that GNOME 3′s most hyped feature, the GNOME-Shell is not going to be present in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

Ubuntu went out of its way to license H.264 and discarded Theora in the process. This made Canonical the only company dealing in Linux to license H.264 video.

Phoronix has recently conducted a total of 165 graphics tests. Ubuntu’s Mesa recorded a win with the NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX but lost miserably everywhere else.

Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition will have a single menu bar for all the applications.

Ubuntu 10.04 final release came amidst speculations of bugs like the X.Org memory leak and there are no major bugs till now but a number of minor bugs.