• [Phoronix] Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva Performance Compared – “Last week we released Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 and one of the article requests we received as a result was to do a side-by-side comparison between the popular desktop Linux distributions. Ask and you shall receive. Today we have up 28 test results from Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9, and Mandriva 2008.1.”
• Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why? – “The City of Vienna made several crucial mistakes. In this article, I will list the most prominent ones…”

• Digg – Official Booze of the Ubuntu distro?
• Unixfication II | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – “Can the Linux community get over its “not invented here” ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a culture of inclusion and not of exclusion and isolationism…”
• Development of Automatix has been discontinued – From the founder of AX, “Ubuntu as a distro has been faulty by design from the start. It was always a mediocre Debian fork…it failed to deliver in terms of public anticipation. Automatix was the one of the biggest reasons…why Ubuntu succeeded in its second and third years as a distribution…Folks like Matthew Garrett do not understand DPKG well enough to understand that Automatix was NEVER a replacement for dpkg, or apt or synaptic (do not read Add-Remove which is an extremely poor implementation in itself). We made Automatix and we made Ubuntu as popular as it is today [my emphasis]. If someone wants a more technical discussion, feel free to write. If I read the kind of trollish crap that Matthew Garrett wrote, I will not bother to reply. I do not have time for beginners and learners who try to sound important.” WOW. Matthew pipes in on the thread.

edit: getautomatix.com seems to be down. Here is an image of the post: http://img108.imageshack.us/my.php?image=axlivesty5.png

edit part II: getautomatix.com is back up.

• VIA unveils open source driver development portal – vnunet.com – “The first offering is graphics drivers for the VIA CN896 digital media IGP chipset for the new Ubuntu 8.04 LTS distribution…”

• FOSSwire » Ubuntu Cheat Sheet – Command line cheat sheet for controlling common apps and utilities.
• Ubuntu man Shuttleworth dissects Hardy Heron’s arrival | The Register – “We would be quite willing to revisit the elements of our release schedule in order to make that synchronicity possible, if the fact that we happen to do April and October wouldn’t work for the majority of the distros. We would be flexible in that regard…” Martin Owens, the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo leader also pipes in and discusses issues with PulseAudio and bug reports. He also asks if Canonical’s focus on virtualization and support for enterprise solutions is moving away from goals of pushing Ubuntu into the mainstream.
• Ubuntu’s Hardy Heron is here | The Pervasive Datacenter – CNET Blogs – “Canonical says that they have relationships with more than 30 PC manufacturers (many of them regional) as well as dozens of commercial ISVs, Open Source and otherwise (IBM Lotus Notes, Parallels, VMware, Alfresco, Zimbra, etc.)…”
• Hardy Heron reflects Ubuntu Linux ambitions – “The desktop contributes more to Canonical’s bottom line than the server…The server business is still Canonical’s primary focus for support revenue. But the company has been getting paid for desktop and consumer-electronics work…”