Joe Barker: Posting Code How-Tos Online
This is something I've given quite some thought to in the recent weeks. I recently moved for a job in software development, and as I'm sure many of you can imagine, sometimes you get stuck coding and...
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Amber Graner: Community-Canonical Relationships – The honeymoon might be...
When I got home yesterday I had a few messages asking about whether or not I had seen yesterday’s CC (Community Council) Meeting. I was away from my computer for most of the day yesterday so I didn’t...
View ArticleBrandon Holtsclaw: Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those who have been fortunate enough to have known Steve have lost a dear friend and inspiring mentor....
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Brandon Holtsclaw: Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011
October 5th, 2011Apple and the world have lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those who have been fortunate enough to have known Steve personally have...
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Joe Liau: Ubuntu: Grievous Goat
Grievous Goat: It’s coming for you Ubuntu (pronounced /juː’bʌntu:/ yuu-BUN-too, or /ʊ’bʌntu:/ uu-BUN-too, or by some select tribes as /ʌ’bʌntʌ/ u-bun-tu) is a mythical beast that is well-known in...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: What I learned from Steve Jobs
Unless you've just awoken from a coma, you're probably well aware that Steve Jobs passed away a few hours ago. It might be the very first time that the death of a "celebrity" has saddned me. Steve...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Thanks Steve!
Steve Jobs has been an incredible influential individual to our lives, and especially to our jobs. Thanks to his vision and his drive he made people love, and be proud of, something that before was...
View ArticleSense Egbert Hofstede: A community needs something to do
Reading Amber Graner’s post about Tuesday’s meeting of the Community Council, I recognised a feeling that I also had when I stopped being an active member of the community in January this year. At that...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Ubuntu Server Trenches, The Big Picture
Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 is shaping up to be a fantabulous release from the server team! I’m starting early celebrations for Oneiric by pushing out a series of Ubuntu Server from the trenches articles....
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Ubuntu Community in Debian-land (oftc)
Ex-Ubuntu’ers and active Ubuntuers are more then welcome to join #ubuntu-expats on irc.oftc.net — just because we’re on oftc doesn’t mean we have to ditch the community! It’s an off-topic social...
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Valorie Zimmerman: Teaching the next Adas: join KDE for Ada Lovelace Day...
October 7th is Ada Lovelace Day, a day many people celebrate by writing about women who influenced them in their science, technology, engineering or math career.KDE wants to celebrate the day a bit...
View ArticleColin Watson: Top ideas on Ubuntu Brainstorm (August 2011)
The Ubuntu Technical Board conducts a regular review of the most popular Ubuntu Brainstorm ideas (previous reviews conducted by Matt Zimmerman and Martin Pitt). This time it was my turn. Apologies for...
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Scott Kitterman: kde4libs | 4:4.6.5-0ubuntu1 | natty-updates | source
As of today, KDE SC 4.6.5 is in natty-updates for all users. This brings 11.04 up to date with the final KDE SC 4.6 update produced by KDE plus some additional high priority fixes. This is the third...
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Dave Morley: Lighthouse Workday
So today for a change we had the first of a hopefully a monthly get together for home workers of the Midlands.The Lighthouse some of you might know from LRL. It has a simple usage policy you buy drinks...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE SC 4.6.5 released to natty-updates
The final KDE SC 4.6.x series maintenance update, 4.6.5, has completed our QA process and been released to natty-updates. It will be coming soon to a mirror near you. This release brings no design or...
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Ronnie Tucker: Full Circle Podcast Episode 25: The Podcast as a Rolling Release
Full Circle Podcast Episode 25 The Podcast as a Rolling Release In this episode, Floss UK Un-conference and Programming in Schools. Full Circle Podcast is also a proud member of the Tech Podcasts...
View ArticleMichael Hall: UDS-P Summit Development Cycle
We’re less than a month away from the start of UDS-P, which means we’re winding down the development pace on the Summit project. It’s been a very, very busy 6 months for us, we’ve done more work on...
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Eric Hammond: Updated EBS boot AMIs for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on Amazon EC2...
Canonical has released updated instance-store AMIs for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy on Amazon EC2. Read Ben Howard’s announcement on the ec2ubuntu Google group. I have released corresponding EBS boot AMIs for...
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Alan Pope: Voting in a new Ubuntu Community Council Begins
The Ubuntu Community Council (CC) comprises a group of individuals from Canonical and the wider Ubuntu community. It’s the primary non-technical governance body for the Ubuntu project. I was fortunate...
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Serge Hallyn: google chat in irssi
When I’m AFK, I like to have irc PMs forwarded to google chat on my phone. However, when I’m at my laptop, I don’t want to have to type google chat messages into my phone. (And I certainly don’t want...
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