KGB says best linux for beginner is Ubuntu or Fedora. What do you think is the best Linux for beginners?

Rick Spencer said Ubuntu was entering a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo!. Now, we know that a similar deal with Google gives much better financial returns.

At a strategic time just before the release of its Lucid Lynx, Canonical has released data relating to the number of Ubuntu users worldwide. This report estimates Ubuntu users at 12 million. That is a major 50% increase over the last 18 months.

Canonical, the company behind the popular linux distro Ubuntu, has teamed up with Funambol to provide Mobile Phone syncing support with UbuntuOne.

The upcoming release of Ubuntu, i.e Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, is already showing signs that it boots fast – very very fast if you are using SSD. The Ubuntu developers will probably not be able to achieve the 10-second boot that they were aiming for in Ubuntu 10.04, but an Ubuntu Developer, Benjamin Drung, has managed to boot Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx in 3.6 seconds using SSD.

Mark Shuttleworth has announced the codename of the Ubuntu release after Lucid Lynx today. In a post in his blog, Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 10.10 will be called “Maverick Meerkat”.

According to a leaked company memo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is reportedly interested in buying Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux Distro Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is changing the file size system from base-2 to a base-10 system from Ubuntu 10.10. This change is done to bring more uniformity and to replace the ambiguous system that is neither SI nor IEC complian that is used in Ubuntu currently.

Histwi is a desktop Twitter account management app for Linux. In this article, we discuss how to install it in Ubuntu and gives a detailed review of the app and discuss its usefulness.

Clementine is basically a port of Amarok 1.4 to Qt4. It provides an excellent alternative for those whose want to use Amarok 1.4 but wants the improved technologies provided by Qt4.

OpenOffice 3.2 was released about a month ago. It has many improvements over the previous versions including faster startup, better compatibility with MS Office etc. In this article, we show you hou how you can install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala from PPA.

Ubuntu One Music Store is now available for the public. It had been in closed beta for quite some time now and all that we knew about it came from the few beta testers’ blogs. The store is, however, still considered as a beta and will be available as a plugin with Rythmbox.

TestDrive is a software for Ubuntu using which you can download and test the latest Ubuntu build conveniently. It automates the process of downloading and installing the latest Ubuntu builds in a virtual machine. In this article, we show you how you can install and use TestDrive in Ubuntu from Hardy to Lucid.

A video demonstration of Ubuntu running on a HTC Touch Pro2 device. Ubuntu was ported to the HTC Touch Pro2 device by XDA forum members.

Ubuntu has released the final changelog for its feature list. The features have been decided after months of development and inclusion of varied themes and artwork.