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Upgrading Ubuntu to the Cutting Edge

Mar 09, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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How to the install latest version of Ubuntu (including alpha or beta).

This is Tech Tip Video Contest Week (March 9 - 13) at LinuxJournal.com!

Want a free 1-year digital subscription to Linux Journal? This is your lucky week. Watch the daily Tech Tip videos this week and collect the secret letters hosts Shawn Powers and/or Mitch Frazier announce during the videos each day. Come this Friday, unscramble the letters to reveal the secret word(s). Everyone with the correct answer who responds by 11:59:59PM U.S. Eastern Daylight Time March, Friday 13th, 2009 wins a free digital subscription to Linux Journal -- it's that easy!

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What is Ubuntu? Ubuntu is a

Dom's picture
Submitted by Dom (not verified) on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 00:35.

What is Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system containing the very best free and open source software applications you need to work and play. With Ubuntu you can surf the web, read email, create documents, presentations and spreadsheets, edit images and more.
What does "Ubuntu" mean?

Ubuntu is an African word, which has been described as "too beautiful to translate into English". The essence of Ubuntu is that "a person is a person through other people". It describes humanity as "being-with-others" and prescribes what "being-with-others" should be all about. Ubuntu emphasises sharing, consensus, and togetherness. It's a perfect concept for Free Software and open source. Here's a great article that describes Ubuntu, which may help define it. Wikipedia also has a good definition.

How do you pronounce Ubuntu?

Ubuntu, an African word from Zulu and Xhosa, is pronounced "oo-BOON-too".

(By dom)

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Submitted by Dom (not verified) on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 00:36.

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Be Nice...

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 22:41.

If you're watching this for the contest, be nice to LJ's server's and download the video. You're probably going to have to watch it several times, so there's no reason to stream it each time.

letter in this video?

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Submitted by craigoda on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 09:13.

It took me a while to find the secret letters. When I first saw the video I wasn't sure if the contest was starting with this video or not. I had to watch the video about six times. Maybe I'm slow to catch on. It's an interesting concept for a contest. Have you tried something like this before?

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Its pronounced anyway you

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Submitted by lilricky (not verified) on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 06:38.

Its pronounced anyway you want to say it. And if you want to be technical, different regions of the world have different pronunciation rules, even within those regions there are differences. So, why don't we accept these differences and stop being a troll.

Uhh, no. It's pronounced

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 07:13.

Uhh, no. It's pronounced oo-BOON-too. No other way. A few years ago, Ubuntu and Canonical plastered it on the Ubuntu front page in an effort to get people to pronounce it correctly.

It's pronounced oo-BOON-too.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 19:29.

It's pronounced oo-BOON-too.