Is Ubuntu's latest release capable of meeting its lofty support goal?

While Window 7 was stealing all the limelight yesterday Canonical made available the Release Candidate (RC) of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10.

Mark Shuttleworth, the founding angel and CEO of Canonical, which distributes Ubuntu Linux, has praised Microsoft's newly released Windows 7.

Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

Leigh Dyer has come up with a list of improvements he'd like to see by the time 8.10 ships.

Does Ubuntu have a future on servers, or is super-stable Debian the classier OS? Leigh Dyer weighs up the pros and cons.

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

The latest edition of the Ubuntu Linux operating system has been released.

Canonical has announced plans to limit the distribution of free Ubuntu CDs, claiming that demand is outpacing supply

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Look out Windows, Ubuntu has crossed over into the netbook space and has debuted on the HP Mini 1000 Mi. And strangely enough, it weighs less than the same Windows model.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

The latest beta of the open source Linux distribution Ubuntu 9.04 is now out and has loads of interesting things to play with.

Hey, we like Linux, which is why we're a tad concerned by Ubuntu's efforts to come up with a hip training slogan.

Ubuntu pre-loaded on Inspiron machines.