You've probably read it at Digg.com or /. – but here's Simon Law discussing how Ubuntu is being developed.
Download the files with the speech here
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Simon Law leads the Quality teams for Ubuntu, a free-software operating system built on Debian GNU/Linux. As such, he leads one of the largest community-based testing efforts for a software product. [...]

Ralph Whitbeck had an itch to run Ubuntu and did it using WMware Player. In other Ubuntu news, Brent Roos installs Flock On Ubuntu
Read how he did it here
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I actually wanted to see how Konqueror compared to Safari in rendering as I needed a way to test since I don't own a Mac. Since [...]

Swapping WinXP with Ubuntu on your laptop – why and what's the gain by doing it is the topic of this blog.
Read it here
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1. Use Firefox – If you use Firefox for the web you’ll be 80% there and you won’t be able to tell which platform you’re working on anyway.
2. Use Open Office – [...]

To comply with GPL license restrictions, MEPIS is now offering MEPIS related GPLed source code as a 2 DVD set available from the MEPIS Store
See it announced here
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In most cases, the source code for the GPLed components contained in the SimplyMEPIS collective work are available from the Ubuntu pools, however in accordance with the restrictions [...]

The German pcwelt.de have an article in English about Ubuntu and the wealth of utilities on Linux platforms.
Have your fun here
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Is it the perfect bare-bones desktop? No; it still ships with multimedia players, unnecessary Internet tools, and, yes, the GIMP. But Ubuntu's developers have taken great care to streamline its Gnome-based UI to make it [...]

Linux.com have an article about APT-based utilities, that remain largely unknown to desktop users. Some of these utilities offer a range of functionality far beyond those of the basic tools.
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These functions include setting up package sources (apt-cdrom and apt-spy), querying package information (apt-cache and apt-rdepends), extracting the latest list of bugs associated with [...]

TheFridge have posted a couple of items regarding the upcomming Ubuntu Magazine (working name)
Pleas for help and a reminder of it's existence is here
And here's a poll to find out what it should be called
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Anyone interesting in helping the Magazine project get off the ground should check out the Magazine Project Charter which has a [...]

Tuxmachines reviews SimplyMEPIS 6.0 and are not impressed due to the amount of small errors and glitches.
Read the review here
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In the press release, Warren Woodford stated, “Converting MEPIS to the Ubuntu pool while incorporating the latest Open Source software advances has taken several months, but it's been worth the effort. This appears to be the [...]

Bill roth writes about how it is to be using Ubuntu at BEA's Corporate offices using BEA's own products…sounds like an ad disguised as an article.
But here it is
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I wanted to try an real application with it, so I download BEA Workshop Studio, of course. I needed a little bit of help from superstar [...]

In this issue – Edgy Eft Knot 1 Release, The Classroom, Ubuntu Magazine Meeting, Canonical Commercial Repositories, Opera 9 for Ubuntu and much more
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter – Issue #7 for the week of July 15 – 21, 2006
You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
== In This Issue ==
* [...]

SearchOpenSourece have a small article about patch speed and praises Debian for its global developer group, as this speeds up patching issues.
The article is here, Ubuntu is also on the better side.
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The fact that other freely available versions like Debian score so well may reflect the distributed nature of such projects. With participating developers all [...]

I am writing this as a partial documentation of my trials and tribulations with hopes of aiding all Linux noobs on the steps necessary to create a basic Linux, Apache2, MySQL5 and PHP5 system with FTP
HowtoForge comes to your aid with the guide
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I, like many others, made the decision to attempt an install [...]

The Linux Professional Institute will provide certification testing during LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco, August 15 – 17, 2006
Read the press release here
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For the first time at a LinuxWorld event LPI will also be offering both the Ubuntu Certified Professional exam and the exams for the MySQL 5.0 certifications (Developer and Database Administrator).

LXer have summarized the recent arguments against having no open ports after an install of Ubuntu.
Read the overview here at LXer
Or go for the source of the critisism
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The “No Open Ports” policy: This policy (or at least the way many people interprete it) seems to be thought out by someone who doesn't have much experience [...]

performancepccanada have reviewed Ubuntu – yet another sign that Linux is getting more headlines in the mainstream media
Read it =Reviews]here
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You know a Linux distribution is becoming popular when it’s mentioned at the Fox News website, and there it was in a June 20 headline, ‘Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop-Linux Champ’. Of course, the story was [...]

Andreas Barth has announced that a new site in the Debian universe is on its way – DebianTimes. The site should contain all the nice small items that are too unimportant for debian-news@lists.debian.org, but are important enough that they should be announced somewhere.
Well, it sounds like Debian-News.net to me!
The announcement and request for ideas is [...]

In a short interview with Jeff Waugh, infoworld covers that Ubuntu is working on improving power management.
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Jeff said that Thinkpads are still the most popular laptop for Linux and “since they are mostly all Centrino based it's a big advantage as Intel open-sources the drivers. This makes those specific drivers more manageable in [...]

TecTonic have covered that the editors of ResExcellence.com, a popular Macintosh website and longtime Mac enthusiasts, have switched to Ubuntu
Read about the reactions here
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To be quite honest the community problem was the real killer. If … the community was fun to be around and work with … I would have stuck it out. I would [...]

Two more Ubuntu reviews have appeared today – and they are both very positive
One here at itreviews
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A much more business-like implementation of Linux, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS retains many of the features that have made it so popular, with sensible enhancements in terms of installation, hardware support and usability. Still a very complete solution and equally [...]

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It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.
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Stating that “I can't see how Ubuntu Linux 6.06 is ready for anything except perhaps a patch release.”, Jem Matzan reviews 6.06.
Read the rest here
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After spending three days with Ubuntu Linux 6.06, and recognizing that a large percentage of first-time GNU/Linux users are trying out Ubuntu before other distros, I understand why many people think [...]

Scott Spanbauer writes that Ubuntu 6.06 is sweet, but can be slow on older PCs. Here's how to speed it up.
See it at pcworld
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It was such a nice change, I began to wonder how well Ubuntu would run on some of my older PCs. Alas, the resulting installations were a little slow, and in [...]

This screenshot show at Flickr shows Ubuntu running on a Sony X17 – and it seems like there's more to come.
See the show here
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Taniwha says:No, it's not all working yet – but we have a client paying us to get it working… so “watch this space”quote]

This weeks DWN contains items on DzongkhaLinux launched, Consolidating SSL Certificates and Dealing with Documentation Issues in Stable.
—————————————————————————Debian Weekly Newshttp://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/30/Debian Weekly News – July 25th, 2006—————————————————————————
Welcome to this year's 30th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter forthe Debian community. Christoph Berg [1]implemented an overview pagefor tasks in the [2]packages overview. He also [3]announced that therepository [...]

Jeff Waugh leaves Canonical to work for Gnome and Canonical is also looking for a security engineer.
Jeff says goodbye here
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I’m excited about Ubuntu, passionate about its mission, confident in its future, and have thoroughly enjoyed being part of it from the very beginning… But ultimately, my heart lies with another, and I have to [...]

Using Ubuntu, ClusterMonkey have provided a guide, which is the first of a series in which they give you detailed step-by-step instructions on how to build a virtual cluster with Xen.
Part one is found here
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Thanks to the Xen virtual machine monitor, you can create a number of virtual machines, all running simultaneously in your computer, [...]

ChannelRegister have an interview with Mark Shuttleworth on the upcoming path and strategy of Ubuntu.
The two pages start here
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Mr Shuttleworth also has a distant intention, somewhere in the future, of recouping some of the $10m a year he funnels into Ubuntu, and trying to turn it into some kind of profitable business.
“We are in this [...]

Damn Small Linux-Not 0.1 release candidate no. 3 have been sent out in the open for your pleasure.
Here's the changelog and announcement
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1. New theme and background 2. New gcombust replaces cdw 3. Added Samba/LinNeighborhood 4. Added Madwifi drivers 5. Added fuse/sshfs 6. Restored fluxter 7. Fixed hard drive install and now on menu.

Tom Adelstein writes about how to setup BIND on a Debian system.
Read it here
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The early information contained in the primary zone file exists to accommodate your secondary or slave server. That's BIND for you. When you look at the SOA entry you will see the information for the secondary server in lines 2 through 6.
The [...]

DebianTutorials have been updated with a guide of how to install nVIDIA Drivers on Etch
Read it here
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Installing the nVIDIA driver binary for Linux has changed a little bit. It's still damned simple, but since the switch to Xorg in Etch from XFree86 in Sarge there is a file location change we have to consider. It's [...]