Cesar Sevilla: Pequeños TIPS para Postgresql
Antes de comenzar a leer los pequeños tips de Postgresql es necesario saber que la distribución que estoy utilizando es el Ubuntu 10.04 LTS pero que puedes utilizar en cualquier distribución si solo si...
View ArticleThierry Carrez: About collaboration
In recent years, as open source becomes more ubiquitous, I’ve seen a new breed of participants appearing. They push their code to GitHub like you would wear a very visible good behavior marketing...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: La Cabine Téléphonique Aquarium
Because inspiration can come in many ways… I thought you might enjoy this peculiar installation. The fact that it is situated in a public place, and still attracts people after 5 years, makes it worth...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu Q+A Videocast Today
Today (1st Feb 2012) I will be doing my live Ubuntu Q+A session at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm UK / 9pm Europe. You can join the videocast here (anyone can view, but if you want to ask a question...
View ArticleMarco Ceppi: Bugs are not questions
It’s been a long standing policy that bugs are off-topic for Ask Ubuntu and for good reason, we have Launchpad which is the best place for bugs in Ubuntu to end up. Before I dive too deeply into the...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: bootmail encryption and shutdown messages now supported
I've made two pretty cool changes to the bootmail utility...Bootmail now sends a message on both boot, and shutdown, using an upstart job. Big thanks to Clint Byrum for a bit of help on that...
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: Any recommendations for a Linux/BSD based community Spambox?
I'm looking for an integrated distribution/VM appliance to do virus and SPAM filtering, much in the way that spamtitan does it. Having a GUI for users would be a huge plus. So far, I only found...
View ArticleUbuntu Classroom: Developer Week: Summary Day 2, Outlook Day 3
Day 2 of Ubuntu Developer Week is over and it was awesome! Logs up are up at the UDW page, so go and check them out if you couldn’t make it yesterday. Let’s take a look at what happened yesterday:...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
Development Update It is the week of Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 which is to be released in just a few hours. Everybody has been getting their good work into Ubuntu, so it is a great opportunity for everyone...
View ArticleMarco Ceppi: Free Advertisement for Open Source Projects and Events!
One of the great things Stack Exchange provides the community with is free advertising for projects and events that affect the Ubuntu community. The ads are rotated though and displayed on Ask Ubuntu...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Taking a different tack when it comes to growth.
One of the “good problems” I think we have is there’s always things to do. As Charlie Kravetz points out, this can be a bad thing too. I wanted to post this on Planet to get a better feel for what...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: How to do Juju – Charming oops-tools
Recently the Launchpad Red Squad and Product Team started working on a new cloud project. As part of that project we’ll be using Juju, a tool that helps you easily deploy services on the cloud. As an...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: juju can help your development team speed up iteration
In this blog post the Launchpad team uses juju to deploy oops-tool, a Django-based tool that aggregates bug reports for the Launchpad project. We typically talk about services that people commonly...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released!
Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 12.04. Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable...
View ArticleUbuntu Release blog: Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 available
12.04 (Precise Pangolin) Alpha 2 is now available for those developers and testers interested in helping find and fix bugs before we beta. More details can be found at:...
View ArticleKubuntu: Precise Alpha Released
The alpha release for our development version, codenamed Precise, is available for download. Early testers can try it to provide feedback and bug reports. This is the first alpha for Kubuntu in the...
View ArticleJim Campbell: Configure gedit for documentation
I’ve been maintaining the gedit documentation since the run-up to the gedit 3.0 release, and doing so has helped me to get to know some of the ins-and-outs of the program. What can I say, it’s one of...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-13.22 uploaded (ABI Bump)
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. Please note the ABI bump. The most notable changes are as follows: * Fixes for radeon issues on MacBook Pro 8,2 * Nouveau: nvidia optimus vga_switcheroo...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: PackageKit/aptdaemon what-provides plugin support
PackageKit has a “WhatProvides” API for mapping distribution independent concepts to particular package names. For example, you could ask “which packages provide a decoder for AC3 audio files? $ pkcon...
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: Why does the upgrade-manager in precise insist on removing...
After upgrading to Precise, I noticed that Skype was uninstalled. But it was easily fixed by downloading the deb from Skype's site. But now, at each update via-update manager, it says the skype...
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