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The Fridge: Ubuntu 12.04 to feature extended support period for desktop users

Five-year Long Term Support (LTS) makes Ubuntu a compelling choice for the business desktop London, October 21st, 2011: Canonical today announced it would be extending the support and maintenance...

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The Fridge: Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

Ubuntu Development Update It is always an exciting time when a new release opens. As a developer you get to finally merge the feature you would have liked to see in the last release already and you can...

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Elizabeth Krumbach: Northern California Ubuntu Hours and SF Release Dinner!

I was in Philadelphia for the actual release day of Ubuntu 11.10 so I went to the Pennsylvania team’s release party (congrats again on your reapproval!). In San Francisco I ended up postponing the...

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Martin Owens: More Issues Than You Can Shake a Kernel at

Today I made a video about my System76 laptop (COMPAL CL90) and it’s disastrous functioning with modern Linux kernels and the urgent need to get this bug fixed by the right expert. To help people...

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Valorie Zimmerman: New KDE book, Beginning KDE Development!

This week has been amazing! I'm not sure what I expected when I applied for the GSoC Doc Sprint, or when I became part of Karan's team, whichproposed creating a guide for new KDE developers. I know I...

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Clint Byrum (SpamapS): Juju ODS Demo – The Home Version

A few weeks ago I gave a live demo during Canonical CEO Jane Silber’s keynote at the Essex OpenStack Conference, which was held in Boston October 4-7 (See my previous post for details of the conference...

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Paul Tagliamonte: At the GSoC:MS

Anyone else who’s here feel free to send an e-fax or look for me :)

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Lionel Dricot: So long Ubuntu, and thanks for all the fish

Disclaimer: this is a long and boring story about my life. In the end of year 2003, under the Newtonmas tree, I found a new computer with a big flat screen. My heavily customized FVWM config being...

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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Survey Now Closed, Report In Progress

I just wanted to let you all know that the Ubuntu Community Survey I published earlier this month is now closed and today am writing the results up into a report. I closed it now so I can publish the...

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Rick Spencer: Stealthy, An App to Pause Desktop Logging

Here's a quick preview of an app I'm working on. It's called "Stealthy" because it provides a kind of "Stealth" mode by pausing Zeitgeist from logging while it's running. The upshot is that when you...

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Lubuntu Blog: ZevenOS Neptune 2.0 (LXDE)

Another release of ZevenOS, the Minimal Edition, that ships LXDE environment. Codenamed "Next Generation", this version comes with LXDE (obviously), PCManFM (along with LXDE), Viewnior, Iceweasel,...

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Lubuntu Blog: Lubuntu CD wallets

As Lubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has been released, and new bunch of marketing pieces should appear along the release. So here they are: a brand new CD cover wallet, a disc imprint and a Lightscribe...

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Michael Hall: If Linux was a car (Hater’s edition)

There have been several humorous variations of the “If Linux was a car…” theme, but a recent rant against Linux made me wonder, what would the stereotypical hater’s opinion be on our modern...

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Nobuto MURATA: Ubuntu “simple” business card

As you already know, Ubuntu Members have the right to print their business cards with the Ubuntu logo. Though you have to honor Ubuntu Brand Guidelines, you can freely design your cards.I have...

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Thorsten Wilms: MediaGoblin Logo 4

The MediaGoblin Team tried a few combinations and settled on the type from my previous design, but dropped the symbol or any alternative. They forgot to tell me until recently, but it’s all good I...

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Scott Lavender: The Delicate Art of Falling on your Sword or Find Your Way...

Ubuntu Studio 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" is released and I offer these simple, direct reflections about it and the future.  As usual, it seems my tenor is positive and upbeat, despite the somewhat dismal...

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Pasi Lallinaho: New Xubuntu Project Lead

By 9 votes, I am the new Xubuntu Project Lead. I’m looking forward to the next year and a half with lots of enthusiasm and interest. Thanks everybody for voting, and thanks for the kind words of...

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Benjamin Kerensa: UEFI Headaches Begin For Linux Users

Linux Boot Denied Due To UEFI As I was preparing to head out to the Ubuntu Oregon Ocelot 11.10 Release Party the other night I received a e-mail from a LoCo member in Salem, Oregon who passed on this...

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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Survey Results

Earlier this month some concerns were expressed in a Community Council meeting about some aspects of the Ubuntu community experience. Based on this feedback I released a survey that went out to all...

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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Cloudy prognosis for mainframes

The death of the mainframe is about as elusive as the year of the Linux desktop. But cloud computing might finally present a terminal opportunity, so to speak, to those stalwarts of big business...

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