Development Release: Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5

Posted on February 22, 2008
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Steve Langasek has announced the fifth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”: “Welcome to Hardy Heron Alpha 5, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.04.” Features include: “X.Org 7.3; Linux kernel 2.6.24 with dynticks support for amd64; PulseAudio enabled by default; PolicyKit integration; Firefox 3 Beta 3….

Canonical to resell IBM DB2 Express-C as software, virtual appliances

Posted on February 22, 2008
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Canonical to resell IBM DB2 Express-C as software, virtual appliances

For the First Time Ubuntu Users Can Purchase Annual Support Contracts

LONDON, February 21, 2008 - Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced the availability of IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 as software through the Ubuntu Partner Repository and as a virtual appliance running on VMware.

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Sun Snags Open Source Virtualization Company, Innotek

Posted on February 17, 2008
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BobB writes to mention Sun has acquired Innotek, open source desktop virtualization vendor. “VirtualBox will remain free of charge under Sun and be placed in the company’s xVM portfolio of virtualization products, Steve Wilson, Sun’s vice president of xVM, wrote in a blog posting. ‘If we’re going to continue to give it away, why is Sun investing in VirtualBox? In short, because the developers that build applications have a huge amount of influence on how they’re deployed,” Wilson wrote in his blog. “We believe that developers using VirtualBox can help guide their friends in the data center towards xVM Server as the preferred deployment engine. Beyond that, I think there is a huge opportunity to link with Sun’s other developer-related assets like NetBeans, Glassfish and (soon) MySQL.’”

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Canonical to resell Parallels virtualization software through Ubuntu partner repository

Posted on February 7, 2008
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Canonical to resell Parallels virtualization software through Ubuntu partner repository

Ubuntu users can get direct, easy access to Parallels

LONDON, February 7, 2008 - Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced the availability of Parallels Workstation for Linux through the Ubuntu Partner Repository – giving Ubuntu users the ability to quickly find, install and run Parallels software.

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