This is a sighting of Ubuntu on American ABC news in a sensationalist segment about “terrorist hackers on steroids.” They are showing the Ubuntu Ambience theme to show that all terrorist hackers use Linux. This is sensationalist journalism, like all mainstream news, but is an interesting screenshot though.
The first electronic computer; the ENIAC, was born of the need to calculate ballistics tables for a sideways firing from air-planes. This necessitated the construction of the massive computer to hold vacuum tubes pulsating at 100,000 beats per second. The computational speed was estimated to be at 1,000 multiplications per second, this would be able … Read more
There is more news on the Ubuntu front, the distribution has been spotted on the ABC TV Extreme makeover television show. Sure this is just another mindless reality television show, but it is cool that they put Ubuntu out in the open on a popular television show like this. And there is a new LightDM … Read more