Jono Bacon: LoCo Council Goings On In 12.04
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando in November there were some great discussions about LoCo governance. The LoCo Council has a blueprint but these are some of the highlights: LoCo Twinning – the...
View ArticleUpstart Development Blog: Upstart 1.4 “Let them speak” released
Summary of changes: Improved console setting. New “log” argument to console stanza allowing a system jobs stdout/stderr to be captured to a file. New options added to support this feature:...
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Raphaël Hertzog: People behind Debian: Ben Hutchings, member of the kernel team
Ben Hutchings, photo by Andrew Mc Millan, license CC-BY-2.0 Ben Hutchings is a rather unassuming guy… but hiding behind his hat, there’s a real kernel hacker who backports new drivers for the kernel in...
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David Planella: Ubuntu Precise Open for Translation
I am pleased to announce that our current development release, Ubuntu Precise, is now open for translation: Some additional information that will be useful for translators: Translation schedule....
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – December 13, 2011
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20111213 Meeting Agenda ARM Status P/omap4: a new kernel (3.2.0-1402.2) based off 3.2 (Ubuntu-3.2.0-3.9) has been released, while a new...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: Announcement: YUI 3 Nightlies
I'd like to announce the general availability of a YUI 3 Nightly combo server. Each night, it will check out and create a new build of the YUI 3 source code, and serve it via a combo handler. In order...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Precise Open for Translation
I am pleased to announce that our current development release, Ubuntu Precise, is now open for translation: Some additional information that will be useful for translators: Translation schedule....
View ArticleAlan Bell: ERPpeek, a tool for browsing OpenERP data from the command line
We have been rather busy implementing OpenERP for a number of our customers and I have been tweaking and customising and extending it all over the place. It is a great fun product to work with, very...
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Brandon Perry: Finding all exploits with RPORT == X
This question comes up quite a bit in the IRC channel: How can I see all exploits for a given port? You can do it easily with IRBmsf > irb>> framework.exploits.each_module { |n,e| x=e.new;...
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Dustin Kirkland: Released ecryptfs-utils 94 and 95
Howdy!I've done quite a bit of work in the last few days to get on top of the eCryptfs bug backlog. I've managed to at least triage all of the upstream New/Undecided bugs, and managed to digest all of...
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Charlie Smotherman: Announcing OpenTeacher
Although this blog is mainly about Ampache I am taking this opportunity to let the community know about a recent piece of software that I have discovered and packaged for Debian/Ubuntu. I would like to...
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Leandro Gómez: Hello Planet Debian
I guess I have to do the customary Hello Planet post. I’m the team leader of the local DebConf12 team and I’ll try to keep you updated on all the cool things that are going on right now with the...
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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Software Centre app picks for December
As you will probably have noticed every time you open the Ubuntu Software Centre and watch those beautiful banners, each month we pick some of the best apps available to Ubuntu users and highlight them...
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The Fridge: Greg Grossmeier and Sergio Andrés Meneses appointed to the LoCo...
Paul Tagliamonte has announced his intent to step down from the Ubuntu LoCo Council. The Ubuntu Community Council would like to thank Paul for serving on the the LoCo Council. We would also like...
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Aurélien Gâteau: Announcing Gwenview Forum
Gwenview has had a mailing-list for a very long time now, but time changes. Nowadays I believe forums are more appropriate for end-users discussions than mailing-lists for a few reasons: Forum do not...
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Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, December 15
Ubuntu Hour is a chance to meet up for an hour and chat with other Ubuntu users. The meeting is open to anyone interested whether they use Ubuntu or not, and everyone's welcome with no commitments or...
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Mathieu Trudel: Enabling IPv6 Privacy Addresses
At the last UDS, we once again discussed the state of IPv6 support in Ubuntu. We're in the process of making Ubuntu really rock with IPv6, and this comes with decisions and hard work.One of these...
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Raphaël Hertzog: “3.0 (quilt)” is the most widely used Debian source package...
My goal with the “3.0 (quilt)” source format has always been to standardize the patch management in Debian source packages. This message seems to have been well understood. dbs and dpatch have been...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: I feel the power of i7
Lot of time passed since last time I upgraded my home computer. Yesterday I moved from P35 based mainboard and Core2Quad cpu to P67 and i7-2600K processor. And 16GB of memory.Main reason for change was...
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