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The Fridge: Talking about Ubuntu Studio with Scott Lavender, Project Lead for...
Have you ever wanted to know more about some of the Ubuntu derivative distributions? In this interview we look at Ubuntu Studio with Scott Lavender Ubuntu Member and Project Lead for the Ubuntu Studio...
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Raphaël Hertzog: How to make 110.28 EUR in one month with free software and...
Create an account on Flattr.com (mine is here); Submit the URL of your free software project to the Flattr directory with a good description and the proper tags (here’s my entry for dpkg); Add a...
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The Fridge: Feature Freeze in place for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
The Feature Freeze is now in effect for Maverick. The focus from here until release is on fixing bugs and polishing. If you believe that a new package, a new upstream version of a package, or a new...
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Kees Cook: CryptProtect broken
Dan Rosenberg pointed me to a paper from the 2010 WOOT conference that mentions my work to implement the CryptProtect function in Wine. Their research is awesome, and it was fun to compare my attempts...
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Brian Murray: Biking Ubuntu
This past weekend I participated in the Providence Bridge Pedal, in Portland, Oregon, with both of my sons. This is an interesting event because they close the top deck of both interstate highways...
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Seif Lotfy: My sexy desktop
Well I received a lot of comments and mails about my overall *sexy* desktop layout and look… So to get everyone down a bit here is what you need to use and set up to have your desktop look like mine…...
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Martin Owens: Ubuntu Census
I am in support of the census package that Canonical is trying out. We could do with more public access to the data set the package will create, but that’s not really a policy of the package. That’s a...
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Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, August 12th
I'm looking forward to seeing some of you tonight for another Ubuntu Hour!The general idea for Ubuntu Hour is that we meet up for an hour someplace public wearing with some Ubuntu stuff visible (some...
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Hollman Enciso: How To Obtain Your Team Members Karma From Launchpad .net
One of our communuty members, Fernando (you can check his blog at http://blog.beford.org ) post some weeks ago this small javascript that could be pretty useful for other LoCoTeams. I' m transcribing...
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Ingeniero Forigua: Como obtener lista de karma en un team en launchpad
Como obtener lista de karma en un team en launchpad Uno de nuestros miembros de la comunidad de ubuntu colombia, Fernando (Puedes ver su blog en http://blog.beford.org) publico hace algunas semanas...
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David Tomaschik: Using Ubuntu to save at-risk youth
Nick Ali (boredandblogging) asked me to forward this on to the planets, and it’s really quite worth it. Murray Wilson has a video about refurbing older hardware through the use of Linux. Take a...
View ArticleDaniel Stone: lca 2011 cfp closing soon!
Just a reminder that the linux.conf.au 2011 call for papers is closing THIS SATURDAY, 14th August! If you haven't already submitted your talk, get in now while you still can ...
View ArticleAron Xu: Covert GBK/BIG5 encoded ID3 tag to UTF8
For Chinese Linux users, we may meet many mp3 files with GBK/BIG5 encoded ID3 tags, which are very time consuming to change them to UTF8 one by one. Before using the following solution, please confirm...
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Ddorda: Great success + Pictures :)
Hey there, After all the time expecting excited, we (the Israeli LoCo) had a booth on August penguin event, which is no less than the biggest FLOSS event over here. First of all, we spread more than...
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Canonical Design Team: My new friend
World, this is Rick. Rick, this is the world. Very kindly donated to me by Ale on the design team here at Canonical. Maverick, Rick for short, sits proudly on my desk. He joins the lovely plush Lynx...
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Canonical Design Team: Finding the Ubuntu font design
In our second post from Dalton Maag we get an insight into the origin of our very own Ubuntu font. Over to you, Lukas. Finding the Ubuntu font design In late 2009 we were first approached by the...
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Launchpad News: Better dupe finding
One of my favourite things about Launchpad’s bug tracker is the dupe finder: when you report a new bug, it’ll search to see if there’s already a similar bug report. It’s the same for questions in...
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Vincent Untz: GNOME Policy on Copyright Assignment
I guess a few people remember that Clutter was proposed for inclusion one year ago. Most of the GNOME community loves it, so there was no real question about accepting it. Except that it required...
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Dustin Kirkland: Count Me In!
There's a bit of buzz right now, about the canonical-census package -- a package that only exists in the Canonical Partner archive. Please read Rick Spencer's post for clarification on what the...
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David Sugar: Free Software on the reservations
"Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving" - Russell MeansMitakuye Oyasin,(to all my...
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