Ubuntu LoCo Council: Call for LoCo Council Nominations
Thanks to the great work Alan Pope, Christophe Sauthier, Chris Crisafulli and Laura Czajkowski have done in the Ubuntu LoCo Council, in November their term comes to an end. We’d like to thank them for...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Is This the World We Created?
This blog post is inspired by "Is This The World We Created" by Queen. --- Ubuntu (the project) is collaborative. We all make it what it is. Many of you know that, but I still encounter people on a...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: Skeleton Jump is out!
Last night, Skeleton Jump got published to the App Store. Download it! I've been working on this game for about a month, having had no previous iPhone development experience (outside of tinkering,...
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Stephan Adig: [20111025] Ubuntu 12.04 Merge/Sync Report
Todays merges and syncs:libunwind (merge, uploaded)fai (nosync, nomerge, waiting for 4.0 release)abiword (sync)agave (merge, uploaded)gnome-mousetrap (sync)hoichess (sync)lasso (sync)libgwenhywfar...
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Benjamin Kerensa: Tango Down: Upstream Fixes Bad Signature Bug On Boinc-Client
BugSquad I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 now for quite a while but had been running i386 and recently decided to try out 11.10 on x86_64 and shortly after I did a fresh install I moved quickly (apt-get...
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Daniel Holbach: Planning Ubuntu 12.04
I love planning a new Ubuntu release. It’s a great experience to take a few steps back and look at the biggest challenges and opportunities in your area of interest and try to identify the most...
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Survey Next Steps: Enhancing Recognition and Credit
This post is part of a series of posts discussing next steps based upon findings in the Ubuntu Community Survey Report that was released recently. The goal of these posts is to focus on solutions, and...
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Randall Ross: Blueprints Can Change the World
This blog post is the second in a series of many that I will be posting about UDS, the Ubuntu Developer Summit. It is inspired by "Is This The World We Created" by Queen. --- Yesterday, I challenged...
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Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E18 – Age of Innocence
Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 18 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We chat about installing Oneiric...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.1.0-2.2 uploaded (ABI Bump)
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. Please note the ABI bump. The most notable change is: * rebase to v3.1 The full changelog can be found at: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.1.0-2.2
View ArticleBryan Quigley: 1 Week with Opera
I’ve been testing Firefox Aurora almost since the new release cycle. This release seems quite stable and fast.. So I need something different… I’ve decided to try Opera (stable) for 1 week. I’m on...
View ArticleBrian Burger: Disunited
My opinion on Unity, reduced to two sentences and with all profanity removed with a crowbar: If you want a shiny barely-customizable straitjacket as a desktop environment, go buy a Mac. Please stop...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Automated deployment of Ubuntu with Orchestra
Orchestra is one of the most exciting new capabilities in 11.10. It provides automated installation of Ubuntu across sets of machines. Typically, it’s used by people bringing up a cluster or farm of...
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: Stupid ISP (Mobistar) tech support
I complained about the long responsetime and subsequent downtime of my interne connection for almost a month earlier. It got fixed eventually and after very painfull and long talks to customer...
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Dustin Kirkland: Getting Started with Ubuntu Orchestra -- Servers in Concert!
Servers in Concert!Ubuntu Orchestra is one of the most exciting features of the Ubuntu 11.10 Server release, and we're already improving upon it for the big 12.04 LTS!I've previously given an...
View ArticleAmber Graner: You Matter – 1st Annual Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day
The 1st Annual Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day is scheduled for November 20th, 2011. Mark your calendars and think about how you can let people or the whole community know they matter. How do you...
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Joel Leclerc: purgeconfig – A safer way to reset configuration files
Many people try purging packages and reinstalling them to reset them, but it sometimes removes other packages with it, so it becomes a headache (especially when you are trying to reset the X11...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
Ubuntu Development Update Wow, one week into the release cycle and already and by the time of writing, we had 921 uploads to precise coming in already. This is very exciting, because a bunch of things...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: How To Mount Box.net Securely On Ubuntu 11.10
I recently got one of the Free Lifetime 50GB accounts that Box.net is giving away and I wanted to be able to efficiently use that account on Ubuntu without having to access their website. As such I...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Happy Halloween!
I'd like to thank to the people who downloaded the distro, because now Lubuntu hits the list with an incredible 7th score position! (see that on DistroWatch). And of course, I'd like to thank the...
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