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Didier Roche: Unity 5.2 is now released!
Phew! It's been a crazy ride to release Unity 5.2 once ubuntu precise released its alpha 2, but we finally get there! Thanks a lot for all the community participation, we actually got 27 testers...
View ArticleAlexander Sack: Developer Platform & Ubuntu sessions at Linaro Connect Q1.12
Ubuntu our LEB and the overall Developer Experience on ARM are hot topics again for Linaro Platform Team this Connect (http://connect.linaro.org). Be sure that you have checked and subscribed to your...
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Launchpad News: Faster deployments
Back in September, we announced our first fastdowntime deployment. That was a new way to do deployment involving DB changes. This meannt less downtime for you the user, but we were also hoping that it...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Developer Week: Summary Day 3
It’s sad news, yes – Ubuntu Developer Week for the 12.04 cycle is over. It’s been three fantastic days full of action-packed sessions. If you couldn’t attend, check out the logs of the sessions, all of...
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Victor Tuson Palau: Going Agile: Scrum or Kanban?
I have been using Scrum for a while. Back at my previous role, we tried using Scrum within the integration team that was creating the nightly builds and our bi-weekly releases. It brought good results,...
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Stephen M. Webb: Getting A Package Sponsored in Debian
I recently had the pleasure of being among the first to use the new sponsorship system in Debian. For a non-insider (that is, someone who is not an official Debian Developer), getting a package into...
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Aurélien Gâteau: PyQt+WebKit experiments part 2: debugging
(This is part 2 of the PyQt+WebKit experiments series) In Part 1 I described how to embed WebKit in a PyQt application and how to expose PyQt objects in WebKit and manipulate them with JavaScript. Even...
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Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman: Ubuntu-my Collaboration with Federal of...
Last month i get a call and email from FOMCA representative asking community to support their national program Access to Knowledge- National Campaign on A2K Policies , Campaign to promote Open...
View ArticleStéphane Graber: Ever wanted an armhf container on your x86 machine?...
It took a while to get some apt resolver bugs fixed, a few packages marked for multi-arch and some changes in the Ubuntu LXC template, but since yesterday, you can now run (using up to date Precise):...
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Martin Albisetti: Support open source games, donate to 0 A.D.
0 A.D. is an awesome cross-platform game that is fun, has stunning graphics and is completely open source. There's even a PPA for Ubuntu. It works wonderfully on both my laptops. They are looking for...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: LxScreenshot
A new great tool ready for using with our beloved Lubuntu: LxScreenshot! This is another brilliant creation from the Stefano, the same author of LxFind. You can imagine what's its purpose, creating...
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Jani Monoses: Recent misc likes
Even though some of these tools have been around for years, I have only recently started using them.* byobu - nicer than plain screen with good defaults, for example key binding for scrolling is like...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-14.23 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 upstream stable v3.2.3 and essentially v3.2.4 The full changelog can be seen...
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Brandon Perry: What browsers support @import in their CSS?
I prefer the following CSS:<html><body><head><style type="text/css"> @import url(/css/style.css); </style></head></body></html>But not all browsers...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: It's cold outside
You're gonna catch a cold From the ice inside your soul Christina Perri — Jar of Hearts I bet at four o'clock this morning you weren't in a police station. Or, at least, if you were I bet you were...
View ArticleJim Kielman: Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu +1 update for February 3/2012
It’s that time again. Alpha 2 was released yesterday, here is one members experience: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1919854 There have also been several threads on kernel panics with the 3.2...
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Lydia Pintscher: Open Advice
I have been passionate about Free Software for a long time now. My contributions have always revolved around helping people make amazing things happen and realize what they are really capable of. I’ve...
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Ronnie Tucker: Another Special Edition – this time, Scribus!
FCM reader Brian has pulled together my Scribus tutorials from the early issues of FCM and even added updated screenshots to it. So, if you’re thinking of creating a publication of any kind, you might...
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Tony Whitmore: Ubuntu Podcast, Season 5
We’re going out for the Planning Curry for season five of the Ubuntu Podcast this week. Over the years, it has become a tradition for all the presenters to go out for a curry before the start of the...
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Paul Tagliamonte: Mapping the Ubuntu Community
In playing with some tools I’ve run into at $work, I’ve tried loading in some Ubuntu datasets in some fun and interesting ways. Today, I’ve chosen to map all Ubuntu Members with a public lat/lon, sized...
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