Bryan Quigley: 1 Week with Opera follow-up
A follow up to my 1 week with Opera Unfortunately I didn’t make it. I’m used to an unstable browser (I run Firefox Aurora normally), but recurring crashes are never fun. In fact while writing this...
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Joel Pickett: proof-reading en_AU translations
A lot of work was done in these past couple of cycles to get the en_AU locale into shape. We were hovering around ~43% translated (around 185,000 strings to go) at the natty Ubuntu Global Jam —...
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Kees Cook: fixing vulnerabilities with systemtap
Recently the upstream Linux kernel released a fix for a serious security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0056) without coordinating with Linux distributions, leaving a window of vulnerability open for end...
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Jono Bacon: Hacking On Accomplishments
A little while back I blogged about an accomplishments system that Stuart Langridge and I designed when he came to visit a while back. The idea was simple: a de-centralized system in which we can...
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Jonathan Jesse: Ubuntu and take your device to work
This week I attended through work a presentation about Endpoint Management with a focus around the whole “bring your device to work” megatrend the experts are talking about. In case you haven’t heard...
View ArticleAlexander Sack: Linaro Multimedia WG samplemedia repository
Linaro Multimedia WG samplemedia repository: Couldn’t remember the URL for the open-source multimedia test repository maintained by Linaro’s Multimedia WG for a while now. Google didn’t come up with a...
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Launchpad News: New feature – Customise your bug listings
Custom Bug Listings Over the past few months the Launchpad Orange Squad has been working to make it easier to get the information that matters to you from bug listings. A lot of you have said in the...
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Alexander Sack: The screenshots in this post capture a preview of raw results...
Ubuntu Middleware Smoke:: X11/unity Ubuntu Middleware Smoke: WIFI The screenshots in this post capture a preview of raw results coming out of LAVA for the basic WIFI and X11 smoke tests currently...
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Canonical Design Team: Precisely how we’re going to make the wallpapers in...
As developers all over the world sink their teeth into the new features for the next release of Ubuntu it’s time to get out our cameras, brushes and pencils out and start creating the images that will...
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Ayrton Araujo: Achievement Unlocked: Ubuntu-BR Council
Regardless of the circumstances, now I'm part of Ubuntu-BR council.I really hope that I can accomplish great things in this new phase of the Brazilian community.I expected to be part of it board one...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications Updates for 11.10 - KDE SC...
The previously announced KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.7.4 updates have completed QA testing and have been released to all users in the oneiric-updates repository. This is the last...
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The Fridge: Looking for PHP Developers to assist with forums upgrade
The Ubuntu Community is looking for a PHP/OpenID hero to help us in a bit of a bind we have on the forums. The forums need a branding update, as well as an update to the vbulletin software we are...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Nicholas Skaggs QA Blog
A little while back I mentioned that Nicholas Skaggs would be joining the Community Team at Canonical. Nick is now on board but is not an Ubuntu Member yet, so his blog is not appearing on Planet...
View ArticleGreg Grossmeier: Looking for a CTO at CC
Creative Commons is looking for a new CTO. Come work with me! Do you know anyone good? Yourself? From the announcement: This is a fun job that offers technical, management, and communications...
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Paul Tagliamonte: Hey look! Openstates data!
npr’s site is using some OpenStates data, the project I’m currently working on at sunlight labs. If you feel like affecting change in US politics, and know Python, we could use some help (it’s a F/OSS...
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Juanje Ojeda: New cycle
Lot of time without write a single post… too bad… The thing is I was thinking about my live these last months… And after awhile I decided to make a big change: leave my job and move back to Canaries...
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Jono Bacon: From Old To New Python GTK
I am a pretty terrible programmer. Anyone who has read my code can see that. Unfortunately, I tend to have lots of ideas about how we can use technology in different ways, hence why I write some code....
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Raphaël Hertzog: Answering questions of Debian users on various support channels
When you start your journey with Debian, you tend to have lots of questions. You’ll find some answers in various documentations but there always are remaining questions. Those can be asked on various...
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Julian Andres Klode: Managing system package selections using custom meta...
Over the last years, I have developed a variety of metapackages for managing the package selections of the systems I administrate. The meta packages are organized like this: jak-standard Standard...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.
The desktop remains central to our everyday work and play, despite all the excitement around tablets, TV’s and phones. So it’s exciting for us to innovate in the desktop too, especially when we find...
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