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Elizabeth Krumbach: UDS-P Orlando: Day 5
The last day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit! This was a very good UDS for me, an excellent mix of work, socialization and rest, the last of which means that, while tired, I am not ready to go into a...
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Miia Ranta: Ubuntu 11.10 on an ExoPC/Wetab, or how I found some use for my...
I attended an event in the spring that ended with a miraculous incident of being given an ExoPC to use. The operating system that it came installed with was a bit painful to use (and I’m not talking...
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Iain Lane: Goodbye Orlando
After a tiring UDS in which I very nearly achieved my goal of mentioning Debian in every session and conversation, I ventured out to a nearby outlet mall. Imagine my surprise when this little chap...
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Laura Czajkowski: UDS-P Day 5
It’s a sad day, it’s the last day, and I’m still running around like a headless chicken trying to get to meet people I’ve not seen or need to resolve some issues which have come up during the week with...
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David Tomaschik: Martian Packet Messages
Occasionally, you might see messages like the following in your Linux kernel messages: martian source 192.168.1.1 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth1<br /> ll header:...
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Maia Grotepass: nullPointerException - it's not what you think
I am a few days away from my practical exhibition for my Masters in Digital Art. The show is titled nullPointerException. Why am I posting this on my ubuntu blog? Because it was made in ubuntu using...
View ArticleLucas Nussbaum: dash as /bin/sh, and now ld –as-needed. Pattern?
I must admit that I’ve never been a big fan of the dash as /bin/sh change. I have three main problems with the switch: POSIX compliance as an argument Complying to standards is a really good thing. But...
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Jonathan Carter: LTSP By The Sea 2011
Last weekend I spent some time with the LTSP folks at the annual LTSP hackfest called “By The Sea” (or BTS for short). This was my second BTS. It was well attended and these were some of the items that...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.7.3
Packages for the release of the KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.7.3 are available for Kubuntu 11.10 and precise. Users of 11.10 can get it from the Kubuntu Updates PPA until the packages...
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Lionel Dricot: What happened during GSoC 2011?
I know I'm very late, but I really wanted to talk about this year Google Summer of Code. For the third year in a row, I was a mentor. And this year I have a huge deception to share. I'm really sad....
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Philip Ballew: Ubuntu Developer Summit Remote Participation Day Five
Today, I helped out in the Community Roundtable. Here we talked about a big topic that has been on my mind as of late. Making people feel appreciated for their efforts. I see that the tireless efforts...
View ArticleAmber Graner: UDS Video Interviews
For those who haven’t seen the UDS Interviews that were added this week here is a list of the ones that have already been added. There will be 6 more added next week. I’ll post links to those once...
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Clay Weber: UDS Notes. part 2
As I sit here and wait for Oneiric to install on this amazingly small Freescale i.MX53 dev board (I won it at UDS! yay!), I though it would be a good time to finish my second report about my time at...
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Martin Pitt: 12.04: Testing FTW
I arrived back home in Augsburg, from last week’s Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL. As this is a quality/LTS cycle, we pretty much already knew in advance what to do (bug fixing, bug fixing, some...
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Timo Jyrinki: Free software mobile phone galore
Almost forgot to post this. My mobile phones running free software in photos. From left to right:Neo FreeRunner (GTA02a5) running QtMokoNeo FreeRunner (GTA02a7) running DebianNokia N900 running MeeGo...
View ArticleJo Shields: Bansheegeddon
It’s seeming increasingly likely that reports regarding the future of Banshee, Tomboy, and the rest of the Mono stack in the default Ubuntu desktop install are accurate. Ubuntu 12.04 will likely be the...
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Scott Lavender: UDS-P: Day 4 and 5 or Efficacy is an Eight Letter Word
A confession, a transformation, and a few words of thanks all in this rapid fire post.Is This Thing On?This is a tricky bit here, trying to explain some personal feelings and stuff without getting...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Hadoop cluster with Ubuntu server and Juju
A while back I started experimenting with Juju and was intrigued by the notion of services instead of machines. A bit of background on Juju from their website:Formerly called Ensemble, juju is DevOps...
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu: More Than The Default Install
In the Ubuntu world (and I am sure in other distributions as well), the choice of what apps we ship in the default install has always garnered much debate and discussion. With each UDS there is a...
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Rick Spencer: Some Rock Hard things are Quite Beautiful
I mentioned at the closing session of UDS last week, that it was remarkable UDS due to the amount of time spent discussing how we build Ubuntu, not just what we will build. As a community, we have...
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