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Balint Reczey: Building the Linux kernel in under 10 seconds with Firebuild
Russell published an interesting post about his first experience with Firebuild accelerating refpolicy‘s and the Linux kernel‘s build. It turned out a few small tweaks could accelerate the builds even...
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Bryan Quigley: Email list to Ghost site - PastaDollar.com
My brother, Nick, just launched a new website/newsletter using Ghost. Ghost is pretty unique in this space, it is:Open SourceBacked by a Non-ProfitA web publishing platformA newsletter publishing...
View ArticleCorey Bryant: OpenStack 2023.1 Antelope for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
The Ubuntu OpenStack team at Canonical is pleased to announce the general availability of OpenStack 2023.1 Antelope on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish).Details of the Antelope releaseUbuntu 22.04...
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Sean Davis: Enable Color Emoji on Xubuntu
Many of us are exiting another drab, grey winter season. As Spring ramps up and the colors of the world awaken all around us, maybe now is the time to make your Xubuntu desktop just a bit more...
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Stuart Langridge: Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, a review
So, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, which I have just watched. I have some thoughts. Spoilers from here on out!Up front I shall say: that was OK. Not amazing, but not bad either. It could...
View ArticleDavid Mohammed: Ubuntu Budgie 23.04 Release Notes
Ubuntu Budgie 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) is a normal release with 9 months of support, from April 2023 to January 2024. Ubuntu LTS releases are focused on long term support. If stability is more important...
View ArticleDavid Mohammed: Ubuntu Budgie 23.04 Released!
We are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro, the 23.04 release for both the desktop and Raspberry Pi4. This is a standard release supported for 9 months packed full of all...
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Xubuntu: Xubuntu 23.04 released!
The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 23.04.Xubuntu 23.04, codenamed Lunar Lobster, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until January 2024.Xubuntu...
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Dustin Kirkland: My Walk on the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, 2023
This is one long, retrospective, organized into 3 parts, about my 2023 hike of the Portuguese Camino de Santiago.Part 1 is about my preparation, packing and gearPart 2 covers a retrospective of...
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Balint Reczey: Improve build time of Rust, Java and Intel Fortran projects...
Rust is a hugely popular compiled programming language and fully supporting it was an important goal for Firebuild for some time.Firebuild’s v0.8.0 release finally added Rust support in addition to...
View ArticleScott Moser: Today I learned: set -e sucks even more.
Today I learned: set -e sucks even more.Summary: Just don’t use set -e.I’ve never been a fan “errexit” in shell. You’ve probably seen this as set -e, or set -o errexit or sh -e.People write lists of...
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Jonathan Riddell: Kommit 1.0.2 Released
Kommit 1.0.2The first stable release of Kommit is now available for packaging and distribution.https://apps.kde.org/kommit/Kommit is a Git GUI...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Getting KDE Apps to our Users
Some time ago, before the world locked down, I pondered that KDE wasn’t very good at getting our apps to our users. We didn’t even have a website that listed our apps with download links. If you were...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Open to work!
I decided to leave my job (Principal Software Engineer) after 4 years. I have no idea what I want to do next, so I’ve been having loads of chats to try and work that out.I like working in mission...
View ArticleSergio Durigan Junior: Ubuntu debuginfod and source code indexing
You might remember that in my last post about the Ubuntu debuginfod service I talked about wanting to extend it and make it index and serve source code from packages. I’m excited to announce that this...
View ArticleThomas Bechtold: Mounting an encrypted zfs filesystem
I got a new SSD and did a fresh Ubuntu 23.04 install. What I usually do, is connecting the old disk via USB and copy data over from the old disk to the new SSD.But my old disk used encrypted ZFS. It...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: Soaking Up the Cider
We discuss switching to Apple Music on desktop Linux, sideloading homebrew on the Steam Deck, and finding note-taking nirvana.
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 788
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 788 for the week of May 14 – 20, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here.In this issue we cover:Improvements to PPA management in...
View ArticlePodcast Ubuntu Portugal: E248 Lutricías Lúdicas
O Diogo continua em missão secreta (alegadamente), na senda de caixas amarelas (alegadamente) que permitam concretizar com sucesso acções num Centro Linux (alegadamente) e mais não podemos dizer....
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Jonathan Carter: Upgraded this host to Debian 12 (bookworm)
I upgraded the host running my blog to Debian 12 today. My website has existed in some form since 1997, it changed from pure html to a Python CGI script in the early 2000s, and when blogging became big...
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Stuart Langridge: Ronin
In 1701, Asano Naganori, a feudal lord in Japan, was summoned to the shogun’s court in Edo, the town now called Tokyo. He was a provincial chieftain, and knew little about court etiquette, and the...
View ArticleJulian Andres Klode: Ubuntu 2022v1 secure boot key rotation and friends
This is the story of the currently progressing changes to secure boot on Ubuntu and the history of how we got to where we are.taking a step back: how does secure boot on Ubuntu work?Booting on Ubuntu...
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Colin King: Integer shift gotcha
Left shifting values seems simple, but the following code contains a bug: The literal value 1 is actually a signed int, so the promotion to a uint64_t type will sign extend the value before assigning...
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Lukas Märdian: Netplan v0.106 is now available
I’m happy to announce that Netplan version 0.106 is now available on GitHub and is soon to be deployed into an Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora installation near you! Six months and 65 commits after the previous...
View ArticleSalih Emin: ucaresystem core 4.4.0 : Now published for Ubuntu Kinetik and Lunar
The new release of ucaresystem core is released and available for Ubuntu Kinetik (22.10) and Ubuntu Lunar (23.04) The all time classic uCareSystem is now release for Ubuntu Kinetik (22.10) and Ubuntu...
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Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in February 2023
Here’s my (forty-first) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.DebianThis was my 50th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019...
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Sean Davis: Xubuntu Minimal Visual Tour
Xubuntu Minimal provides a lighter-weight alternative to the full-size Xubuntu desktop. The core desktop experience allows you to build your very own version of Xubuntu with the tricky configuration...
View ArticleSerge Hallyn: It’s like…
Let’s say you had one of those huge keyrings, with 50 keys on it. (Let’s say 41 keys – number chosen either randomly or bc its the current number of capabilities) On the plus side, when you want to let...
View ArticleAaron Rainbolt: A brief history of my experience with Linux
From an early age, I’ve been very interested in computers. They were fascinating and profoundly powerful devices, capable of doing things that were (and in some ways still are) beyond my understanding....
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Andrea Corbellini: Authenticated encryption: why you need it and how it works
In this article I want to explore a common problem of modern cryptographic ciphers: malleability. I will explain that problem with some hands-on examples, and then look in detail at how that problem is...
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Aaron Rainbolt: An In-depth Review of the Kubuntu Focus XE Gen 1
About four months ago, a friend of mine got me in touch with his employer at the time. I was in a bit of a bind, using rather old and slow hardware (a 3rd gen mobile i5) for my development work, and...
View ArticleAndrea Corbellini: On ignoring mistakes, resilience, and the hidden dangers...
As a scuba diver who often explores new places, I can say that I have found myself in some dangerous situations, but I always made it back to the surface without facing any negative consequences. Does...
View ArticleScott Moser: Fixing the qemu serial console terminal size.
Fixing the qemu serial console terminal size.Qemu can allow you to attach to a serial console of your guest. This is done with either -nographic or -serial mon:stdio. Its great for getting text output,...
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Jonathan Carter: MiniDebConf Germany 2023
This year I attended Debian Reunion Hamburg (aka MiniDebConf Germany) for the second time. My goal for this MiniDebConf was just to talk to people and make the most of the time I have there. No other...
View ArticleAlan Pope: Simple RSS Mastodon Bot
Linux Matters I recently started presenting Linux Matters podcast with my friends Martin Wimpress and Mark Johnson. In episode 4 (that link will only work once the episode is released) I briefly talked...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 789
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 789 for the week of May 21 – 27, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here.In this issue we cover:Ubuntu StatsHot in SupportLoCo EventsUbuCon...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: Automatic for the People
RSS is alive and well, and powering Mastodon bots, the best mouse for desktop Linux (possibly), and using the Stream Deck to automate desktop Linux.
View ArticlePodcast Ubuntu Portugal: E249 Salame Yellow
O Diogo está finalmente de regresso da sua holiday trip, com renovado vigor para um rebranding do franchising! Temos histórias inenarráveis, emaranhados de cabos e PDF e actividades possivelmente...
View ArticleUbuntu Blog: Docker container security: demystifying FIPS-enabled containers...
In today’s rapidly changing digital environment, the significance of robust Docker container security measures cannot be overstated. Even the containerised layer is subject to compliance standards,...
View ArticleUbuntu Blog: Ubuntu Summit 2023 – Call for Proposals
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