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David Sugar: Back to releasing freedom
After a strategic pause, we are, with the release of GNU uCommon 5.0.6 tonight, formally back in the business of building freedom.This is also our first package released since internally migrating to a...
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Seif Lotfy: Working on some visuals for the GNOME Shell Zeitgeist extensions
Now that functionally thing are looking more stable with the extensions, I took some time to improve the visuals based on feedback by the one and only Hylke Bons… This iteration was about making the...
View ArticleUbuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Month of Making: Flavia Weisghizzi
Hi! I’m Flavia, Deindre on Forum and IRC. I’m part of Italian Community LoCo Council and I founded with Silvia Bindelli (Dolasilla) the Italian branch of Ubuntu Women project. I’m the spokeswomen of...
View ArticleSteve Langasek: Free as in flickers
Ubuntu has had an explicit goal for several cycles now to achieve flicker-free booting: smooth graphical boot all the way through from bootloader to the desktop, with no messy modeswitches or cuts...
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Ubuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Month of Making: Stefanie Lück
My name is Stefanie. For nine years, I’ve worked as a technical assistant in a plant researcher lab in Germany. About three years ago, I started to learn Python (under Windows). Just for fun because I...
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Seif Lotfy: Zeitgeist history retrieval script and additional loggers
Zeitgeist starts logging from the time its installed. It can not dig into the past. However we have a workaround to retrieve the history out of a folder and inform Zeitgeist about it. Simply download...
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Philip Ballew: I just Upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10
Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 last night was easy with a simple “sudo do-release-upgrade -d” allowing me to be able to be able to simply upgrade from the shell and still use my laptop while it updated. It...
View ArticleClint Byrum (SpamapS): OpenStack – an amoeba on a mission
According to NASA, 70% of the earth is covered by clouds. Apparently, at least 70% of our computing needs can be covered by clouds as well. That seems to be the shared belief by the rather large crowd...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.7.2
Packages for the release of the KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.7.2 are available for Kubuntu oneiric. You can get it from the Kubuntu Updates PPA until the packages are available in the...
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Chuck Short: Boston Tea Party
Friday night I returned from Boston where I was attending the Openstack Design Summit and Conference hosted by Rackspace. The Design Summit is a UDS like where developers come together and hammer out a...
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Sergio Meneses: Ubuntu-Co tiene nueva wiki – Ubuntu-Co has a new wiki
Saludos compañeros! Es un gusto para mí como líder y fundador de este proyecto mostrar a la comunidad ya buena parte de nuestro trabajo finalizado. El sistema de wikis que se maneja en la comunidad ha...
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Jeremy Bicha: How to Sync Packages from Debian to your PPA
If you’re a PPA maintainer, what do you do when you have the cool app (or a newer version of that cool app) you want to use has already been packaged in Debian but isn’t available in the Ubuntu...
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Andrew SB: Fun with graphs
For awhile now, I’ve felt like the ubuntu-motu mailing list has been a shadow of its former self. It turns out that empirical data backs up this feeling. I produced a histogram of mailinglist volume...
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Richard Johnson: Download Photos From Picasa
So, I was tasked to download a bunch of images from another person’s Picasa gallery. At first this looked to be a pain in the rear, but I had noticed that on the right hand side of the person’s gallery...
View ArticleScott James Remnant: Halloween
Readers of this blog will mostly know me for the software I’ve written, most likely Upstart or my work on Ubuntu, but there’s another kind of writing I enjoy doing and it’s something I haven’t taken...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Oneiric] linux kernel 3.0.0-12.20 uploaded
Last Friday we uploaded a new Oneiric linux kernel. The only change was as follows: * Resolve linux-image-extra’s install dependency The full changelog can be found at:...
View ArticleMichael Terry: Vala Autotool Tricks
If you have a project that uses Vala and autotools, you are probably using automake 1.11′s native support for the language. Overall, automake’s support is great. But there are a few oddities that I’ve...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Welcome to BerliOS projects
It’s sad to read that BerliOS will close in December, after nearly twelve years of serving open source projects. One fewer project hosting site means that the open source world is that bit poorer. If...
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Laura Czajkowski: Encouraging Membership
Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to work out how best to get people motivated to go for membership. There seems to be something lacking as to: A) Why the should go for it ? B) Do they deserve...
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