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Ubuntu Classroom: Call for Instructors: Ubuntu User Days on January 14-15th 2012
We’ll be hosting our next Ubuntu User Days on January Saturday the 14th – Sunday the 15th 2012. “User Days was created to be a set of courses offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or...
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Benjamin Mako Hill: The Influence of the Ecstasy of Influence
Back in 2007, Harpers Magazine published The Ecstasy of Influence: a beautiful article by Jonathan Lethem on reuse in art and literature. Like Lewis Hyde in The Gift (quite like Hyde, as readers...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-6.12 uploaded (ABI Bump)
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. Please note the ABI bump. The most notable changes are as follows: * rebase to mainline v3.2-rc6 The full changelog can be seen at:...
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Mahyuddin Susanto: My Debian/Ubuntu activity this week
Inspired from RC bugs 2011/50, Here is my Debian activity: 652371, [CVE-2011-4824] SQL injection issue in auth_login.php. Committed in git and forwarded to Sean and Security Team via RT #3538 624516,...
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Chuck Short: Openstack on the Pangolin and beyond
It has been a while since I posted anything OpenStack related on my blog, so I just want to let people know what is happening with OpenStack on Ubuntu. A sort of development update if you will. At UDS...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 246
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #246 for the week December 12 – 18, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this Issue we cover: Ubuntu Precise Open for Translation...
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Eric Hammond: Retrieve Public ssh Key From EC2
A serverfault poster had a problem that I thought was a cool challenge. I had so much fun coming up with this answer, I figured I’d share it here as it demonstrates a few handy features of EC2....
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Raphaël Hertzog: 300 EUR for Debian
It’s the amount of the wire transfer that I made to ffis e.V., the German association that works together with Software in the Public Interest to hold Debian’s monetary assets. This amount includes the...
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Canonical Design Team: Improving the Multi-Monitor Experience in Ubuntu
Over the past few months we have been working on improving the multi-monitor experience in Ubuntu. We took the opportunity at UDS in November to get some feedback on a prototype, which shows how we...
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Scott Kitterman: Using Kontact/Kmail Again
I’ve used Kontact or it’s email client component, Kmail, as my main mail client since, I think, 2005. That was until I upgraded my main laptop to 11.10 with KDE 4.7 (and Kmail2). I tried, but I just...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Retrieve Public ssh Key From EC2
A serverfault poster had a problem that I thought was a cool challenge. I had so much fun coming up with this answer, I figured I’d share it here as it demonstrates a few handy features of EC2....
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Chris Coulson: New addition coming to the family
So, it seems that we’re getting a new addition to our family, and Ruby is going to have a little brother or sister: I actually found this out whilst I was at UDS in Orlando (perfect timing!), and have...
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Thierry Carrez: Ending the year well: OpenStack Essex-2 milestone
2011 is almost finished, and what a year it has been. We started it with two core projects and one release behind us. During 2011, we got three releases out of the door, grew from 60 code contributors...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – December 20, 2011
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20111220 Meeting Agenda ARM Status P/omap4: a new kernel (3.2.0-1403.3) based off 3.2-rc5 (Ubuntu-3.2.0-4.10) has been released. SRU...
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Aaron Toponce: A Note About Removing Files With find(1)
I’ve seen on the internet, and elsewhere, that when there are too many arguments for rm(1) to handle, that the following command will suffice: % find /path -exec rm -rf {} \; While certainly...
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Philip Ballew
In this installment of We Are Ubuntu; Community members at large, I interview Benjamin Kerensa. This indivuidal has, and is doing many great things for Ubuntu . I have worked with him on the...
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Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E22 – The Unbeliever
Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope drink hot mulled cordial and tea, eat mince pies and chocolate yule log with brandy butter, and bring you the final episode of season 4 of the...
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Jono Bacon: Quality In Ubuntu
Quality has always been an important value in the Ubuntu community, but over the last few releases we have faced some challenges in how we can assure and deliver quality. There have been various...
View ArticlePasi Lallinaho: Last updates before Christmas
With Xubuntu, we are currently finalizing the specifications for those roadmap items that need community approval. I discussed those briefly in my blog, in the Roadmap closed -article. All...
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Randall Ross: Making Community Very Obvious on the Desktop - An Update
This blog post is a follow-up to a session I hosted at UDS-P, the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando. The original post is here. The main idea of the session and the resulting blueprint was to make...
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