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Brandon Perry: On Information Leakage/Disclosure and Responsibilty
I enjoy helping people. I enjoy helping them learn, and helping them not make mistakes. Sometimes, however, I find mistakes people have made and am told to walk away from them.Whenever I find a...
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Nick Barcet: Ubuntu, the only web server OS showing growth?
According to W3Techs, Ubuntu is the only web server OS showing a continuous growth rate for (at least) the last year. After passing Suse and Fedora last year, we passed in front of RHEL usage in July....
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Nick Barcet: Ubuntu, the only web server OS showing growth?
According to W3Techs, Ubuntu is the only web server OS showing a continuous growth rate for (at least) the last year. After passing Suse and Fedora last year, we passed in front of RHEL usage in July....
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Joel Leclerc: Relinux – A way to create a bootable ISO out of your system
Remastersys has been around for a long time, and though it hasn’t been updated in a long time (EDIT: It is now dead), many people still use it. Remastersys is quite closed in what you can do with it,...
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Sebastian Kügler: Plasma Active Perspectives: The App Story
Plasma Active brings a flexible, elegant, activity-driven user experience to a spectrum of devices. This article is part of a series of articles about different perspectives on Plasma Active. In the...
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Darcy Casselman: Ubuntu 11.10: Oneiric Ocelot Party in Kitchener!
Ubuntu 11.10–the Oneiric Ocelot–is set to release this week. As usual, we’re hosting a release party at Kwartzlab to celebrate. Join us Saturday, October 15th at 4pm (till late) and celebrate the...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 236
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #236 for the week October 3 -9, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: P is for… Community Council Nominations and...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Human Leaves Ubuntu
As the Community Manager for Ubuntu Vancouver, it saddens me when a member resigns: "When asked why he or she was leaving the group, "the member" answered: I really wanted Ubuntu to work out for me,...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Making Sure Ubuntu Works with Hardware
The Ubuntu Friendly program, much like the old Fedora data gathering and other similar programs, aims to find out what hardware Ubuntu works on and which hardware causes issues. This is a very...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Keeping The Feedback Train Rolling
Just a quick thank-you to everyone who has participated so far in the community feedback survey I sent out last week. So far 286 Ubuntu Members have responded to the survey, but I would like to...
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Canonical Design Team: So you’ve decided to make an Ubuntu promotional video
Some of you may have already seen our new 11.10 video. For those who haven’t, we’ll catch you once you’ve enjoyed it Made in Ubuntu using only open source tools – indeed only an open source font! –...
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Valorie Zimmerman: Life and Death, Love, Respect and Foolishness
Death clarifies a lot of issues. At least it did for Steve Jobs, as he so eloquently expressed at his famous Commencement address at Stanford (text, video). Personally, I wish he had made other...
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Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E17 – Chains of Misery
Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are back together in Studio A for episode 17 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Warning: This podcast contains use of the...
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John Baer: Lift Off with 11.10
My final wallpaper for Oneiric Ocelot is a branded design which leverages the Unie robot from my count down banner. Moving away from Ubuntu orange this illustration is brushed in purple and blends...
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Jonathan Carter: For that kind money…
“Damage Control” I just read an article on CNN about Americans complaining that their bank fees are too high. It’s not unique to them, the same thing is happening here in Canada. Last week I got...
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Paul Hummer: Confusing UX: Facebook's Lists
One thing I really like about Google+ is the ability to limit your posts to a "Circle" of people. Facebook recently added a similar feature. I decided to try it out and share a post with all my roller...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Ensemble renamed to juju
Just a note that the Ubuntu Ensemble suite of DevOps tools for Ubuntu Server has been renamed to juju. I’ll be updating previous posts to reflect the name changes so they’ll be up to date.
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Daniel Holbach: Getting involved with Ubuntu Development – how easy is it...
You were always interested in Ubuntu Development and gave it a try already? Perfect! With Ubuntu 11.10 almost out the door, we started the planning of the 12.04 (precise) development cycle and we would...
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Kubuntu: Kubuntu 11.10
We are proud to announce the release of Kubuntu 11.10, the Oneiric Ocelot: the latest release of our friendly OS, built on Ubuntu's core, polished with KDE’s applications and workspaces.
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Gerfried Fuchs: Global2000 Geburtstagsfest
No, my blog isn't dead, and neither is me. It's just that way too many things happened since this year's debconf that got me a bit off tracks. I managed to do daily business like keeping my packages in...
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