Ricardo Salveti: UDS-P/Linaro Connect Q4.11 and 11.11 cycle
During the end of October and beginning of November we had the last Linaro Connect for the year. This time we also had it together with the Ubuntu Developer Summit, giving us the opportunity to better...
View ArticleKees Cook: PGP key photo viewing
Handy command line arguments for gpg: gpg --list-options show-photos --fingerprint 0xdc6dc026 This is nice to examine someone’s PGP photo. You can also include it in --verify-options, depending on...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: Winter Travels in Seattle and Japan
Mika and I will be traveling this winter in the Seattle area and in Japan. The current plan is to be in Seattle December 19 through 28 and then in Japan from December 28 through January 12. After...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 244
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #244 for the week November 28 – December 4, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this Issue we cover: Precise Pangolin Alpha 1...
View ArticlePhilipp Kern: New Debian buildd at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
It took quite a lot of effort to persuade all decision makers to make this happen, but here it is: A new Debian buildd is being hosted at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, to support the s390(x)...
View ArticleKees Cook: EC2 instances in support of a BSP
On Sunday, I brought up EC2 instances to support the combined Debian Bug Squashing Party/Ubuntu Local Jam that took place at PuppetLabs in Portland, OR, USA. The intent was to provide each participant...
View ArticleSteve Langasek: Making jam from bugs
This weekend, we held a combined Debian Bug Squashing Party and Ubuntu Local Jam in Portland, OR. A big thank you to PuppetLabs for hosting! Thanks to a brilliant insight from Kees Cook, we were able...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Thanks Ubuntu Weekly News Team
I just want to say a huge thank-you to the Ubuntu Weekly News team for tirelessly bringing a weekly dose of fantastic Ubuntu news to our community. I know there is a lot of work involved, and while I...
View ArticleBodhi.Zazen: Intel GMA 500 psb_gfx
Acer Aspire One AO751 I have been one of the frustrated owners of an Intel GMA 500 card – see how kick your friends face gma500 for details. Support for this card in Linux has historically been poor,...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Creating Experience Teams
I want to use this entry as an opportunity to throw open the floor for discussion and brainstorming of a topic we first discussed at UDS in Orlando. I really welcome your comments, suggestions, and...
View ArticleMichael Hall: Unity Phone Mockups
I’ve been expanding on my earlier Unity TV mockups lately, which I will post more about later, but I’ve also been working on some Unity Phone mockups, and I wanted to put a couple of ideas out for...
View ArticleScott Lavender: News from the Front or 12.04 Post Alpha1 Status
Sing for me, my angel of music! I should note that Ubuntu Studio didn't officially publish and test the Alpha1 ISO image. But that isn't to say there weren't some stuffs going on :)What's...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – December 06, 2011
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20111206 Meeting Agenda ARM Status P/omap4: a new kernel (1402.3) based off O/omap4@1206.13 has been uploaded and it contains the large...
View ArticleUbuntu App Developer Blog: Top 10 Ubuntu Software Centre app downloads for...
November is over and we’re moving fast into the Christmas season. Time for a quick recap of the top 10 list of apps downloaded from the Ubuntu Software Centre last month! Top 10 commercial apps Braid –...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Custom bug listings – have your say
Our custom bug listings beta has been up and running for just over a week now – thanks to everyone in the Launchpad beta testers group that have tried it out, and thank you for all your valuable...
View ArticleDuncan McGreggor: OpenStack at DreamHost
So I guess this is old news now, but DreamHost is really into OpenStack :-) (In fact, during recess, DreamHost asked if I would pass a note to OpenStack. I didn't look inside the note, but we can all...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Full Circle is one of the top ten downloads in Nov. 2011!
Full Circle fills four of the ten spots in the Software Centre’s top downloads for November 2011. Software Centre Top10 Nov. 2011...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Cairo Composite Manager
Beautify your Lubuntu with this handy tool. Thanks to Sergey Davidoff, who shared his PPA. I've already recommended xcompmgr, but it's difficult to config because it's CLI (command line) only. This...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Lubuntu Software Center icon
Not too much to say. Just a new icon for the Lubuntu Software Center. Not using the Ubuntu standard anymore (not appropriate, we think). And so on, a possibly redesign for the wholñe application is...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Stupid Hacks: Colorizing files
Presenting another script from the useless script department — dog! It has an in-built (and rather quirky) state-machine style parser, which will emit the color defined on entering the new state. The...
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