Apr 13,2008
Official distro sites
The main homepage for Ubuntu – the standard and most popular Ubuntu distro, using the gnome desktop environment.
The home for Kubuntu – a linux distro with the poular KDE desktop environment.
The homepage for Edubuntu – a linux distribution aimed at classroom and educational usage. For schools and universities.
Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment. Older computers feel lively again, while newer ones will run faster than ever before! Recommended for old computers and various Xfce freaks.
Similar to the Ubuntu distribution but with only what they claim to be truly free software.
Study and interact
Meet the Ubuntu community, world famous for its helpfulness. Main place for searching, writing, interacting and finding a sollution for your Linux/Ubuntu problems. Probably the standard forum for all Debian based Linux distro’s.
The ultimate place to post your ideas and read and vote for other’s ideas. This is where you give your vote about what you want the Ubuntu dev’s to implement and fix for future Ubuntu distributions.
A place for the Ubuntu community to discuss ideas and store team-related information. You can find vital geek information such as the exact Hardy Heron release schedule.
Manuals and user guides
The offical user documentation and manual. It is very general.
A very good “how-to” guide to quickly find a solution for common questions and problems. There is also one for Kubuntu available here.
Official IRC and mailing lists
The Ubuntu channels can be found on the Freenode network, irc.freenode.net and the main room is #ubuntu and it is rather crowdy. Check the link above for the other channels.
Ubuntu user’s technical support, not for general discussions.
Ubuntu developers mailing list
The subject says it all but anyone may subscribe. Probably incredibly geeky.
Newsletters and guides
The Ubuntu weekly newsletter summarizing what happened in the Ubuntu world. Use rss and then you wont miss anything and it also catches the Full Circle Magazines. A must read for Ubuntu users.
The magazine for the Ubuntu community. Includes full and detailed reviews, guides, how-to’s, interviews etc. Recommended.
Ubuntu Video is a video portal that takes the best Ubuntu-related videos on the Internet, from places like YouTube and Google Video, and centralizes them in one convenient spot.
Store
The official Ubuntu shop hosted by Canonical. Buy clothing, accessories, etc with the beautiful Ubuntu logotype. Check it out!
For the geeks and hardcore users
Geeky live feed about latest posts at the forums, bug reports in the launchpad, ideas in brainstorm etc. The main idea behind the site is to reflect the enormous activity Ubuntu has on all fronts. It’s really cool and impressive for sure.
I believe this is Ubuntu main development site. I never quite understood this further than you can search for bugs and status for the same. I guess you follow the developers activities on this site.
The ultimate geek blog and the contributors consist of some of the Ubuntu developers. Check it out and get the feeling of a genuinely geeky but still interesting Ubuntu blog, written by the dev’s themselves.
Bonus: Step-by-step-guide how to make a this awesome Ubuntu desktop in 30 minutes
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Good list of Ubuntu websites here. I’m glad Ubuntu Brainstorm made the list– it’s the easiest way for non-programmers to share their ideas about the future of Ubuntu. I would also urge more people to use Launchpad to submit bug reports. It’s even easier in Hardy, where Apport will catch and upload bugs very easily.
Scott
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