Randall Ross: Raging About Things in Non-Constructive Ways
This blog post is the third 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. --- Today's theme is rage....
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: 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...
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Seif Lotfy: Help us get some user statistics on gedit
I am working on a dashboard (start page) for gedit… My initial idea looks something like this (the thumbnails will view some parts of the content of the file) We are not sure that for gedit that...
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: OMG! Ubuntu!: The Interview!
Amber Graner talks to talk to Joey-Elijah Sneddon and Benjamin Humphrey of OMG! Ubuntu! to see what they've been up to, what they are working on, and why they do what they do! OMG! Ubuntu! seems to be...
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Cesar Sevilla: Turpial en los repositorios oficiales de Ubuntu
Click to view slideshow. Como era de esperarse turpial 1.5 ya se encuentra en los repositorios oficiales de Ubuntu (Universe), solo necesitas tener instalado Ubuntu 11.10 y desde la consola o desde el...
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Benjamin Kerensa: Forrester Analyst Prematurely Calls “Game Over” On Linux
Mike Gualtieri, Forrester Mike Gualtieri a Technology Research Analyst at Forrester recently posted on the Forrester Research blog suggesting that “Linux” dominating the world is game over. It is...
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Raphaël Hertzog: Debian joins Dropbox’s officially supported platforms along...
If you checkout Dropbox’s Linux download page, you will see that Debian packages are provided. Up to a few days ago, they only provided packages for Ubuntu and Fedora. I’m glad to see that packaging...
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Victor Tuson Palau: Red Hat and Canonical agree on Secure Boot
If you follow the Canonical blog, you would have seen that a new white paper has been published on how to implement UEFI Secure Boot in a manner that can be used by all users, including Linux. The...
View ArticleJonathan Carter: On the road again
Some updates form the world of Jonathan… LTSP BTS2011: Yesterday Marc, Stéphane and myself drove down to Southwest Harbour in Maine for the LTSP By The Sea 2011 hackfest. It wasn’t a long road trip,...
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Serge Hallyn: Personalizing yubikeys for passphrase management
Yubikeys are small hardware tokens supporting 2-factor authentication. ykpersonalize is a very powerful tool for personalizing yubikeys. However it’s always challenging figuring out how to use it. I...
View ArticleJames Gifford: Shoes.rb PPA Now Available
Today, I’m happy to announce that the amazing Ruby GUI toolkit Shoes.rb is now available in a PPA for Oneiric! Right now, the packaging for shoes in the PPA isn’t really stable, so proceed with...
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The Fridge: Interview with Joey-Elijah Sneddon and Benjamin Humphrey
Screenshot OMG! Ubuntu! October 2011 Screenshot OMG! Ubuntu! June 2010 OMG! Ubuntu! seems to be a community within a community! It has a life of its own and people often refer to it as only “OMG!”....
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: To the Cloud!
In a previous post a commentator was explaining his typical web-stack deployment, and boasting about how he “can roll this out on Debian in less than 4 hours”. Now he’s talking about provisioning,...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.1.0-2.3 uploaded
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. The most notable change is: * Add postinit and postrm scripts to the extras package The full changelog can be found at:...
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Ronnie Tucker: Full Circle 54 – Closing Windows
Full Circle Issue #54 This month: * Command and Conquer. * How-To : Program in Python – Part 28, FreeMind, Backup Strategy – Part 2, Apt-Cache NG, and Ubuntu For Business & Education – Part 3. *...
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Seif Lotfy: Gedit – Zeitgeist Dash revisited
Last February during the Zeitgeist hackfest my former GSoC student Michal Hruby convinced me to hack a dash for gedit (it was for gedit 2 sadly) that looked like this… Today based on the mockups of my...
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Thorsten Wilms: Ubuntu Unity Experience
I started out rather skeptical of Unity, since it clashes with my habits. But it wouldn’t be the first time I modified them … I’ve come to enjoy launching and switching between applications via the...
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The Fridge: End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook and ARM –...
Ubuntu announced the 10.04 Netbook Edition and Ubuntu for ARM products 18 months ago, on April 29, 2010. At that time, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Fluxbox 1.3.2 Released!
Package uploaded to Debian, and a few oneiric builds into my PPA Get it while it’s hot - report your bugs!
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Benjamin Kerensa: Canonical and Redhat Release Joint “Secure Boot” Whitepaper
How will UEFI impact Linux users? Yesterday I was reading my Google Reader and noticed the Canonical blog had released a joint whitepaper with Redhat on “Secure Boot” as someone who is interested in...
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