Shane Fagan: New blog
Hey all, Been really quiet over the past few months mainly because I changed my blog over to drupal and never bother to change the rss for planet so didn't blog. Anyway ill be blogging more now and...
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Robert Ancell: So You Want to Write a LightDM Greeter…
Matt Fischer wrote a great post about writing a greeter for LightDM. Runs through an example of a Python greeter and how it works.
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Harald Sitter: How Kubuntu Did Not Change
There appears to be some confusion regarding the meaning of yesterday’s announcement that Kubuntu 11.10 is going to be the last release Canonical is offering commercial support for. For those who have...
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Eric Hammond: ec2-consistent-snapshot on GitHub and v0.43 Released
The source for ec2-conssitent-snapshot has historically been available here: ec2-consistent-snapshot on Launchpad.net using Bazaar For your convenience, it is now also available here:...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: On vendor prefixes in CSS and vendors implementing them
On Monday at the CSS Working Group, Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera announced that each are considering supporting some -webkit- prefixed CSS properties. I include here Bruce Lawson's excellent summary:...
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Jonathan Thomas: Muon Suite 1.2.3 Released
I am glad to announce the third bugfix release for Muon Suite 1.2. The Muon Suite is a set of package management utilities for Debian-based Linux distributions built on KDE technologies. The third...
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Maia Grotepass: Ubuntu Hour in Rondebosch this Saturday
superfly says: " Ubuntu Hour will be this Saturday at 2pm, at Lyra's in Rondebosch. It's close to the station, and it apparently has free WiFi.I'll try to get there a little before 2, and I'll be...
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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for January 2012
Top 10 commercial apps 1. TRAUMA TRAUMA is a game that tells a story of a young woman who survives a car accident. Recovering at the hospital, she has dreams that shed light on different aspects of...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
Development Update Ubuntu 12.04 is shaping up nicely. Last week Alpha 2 got released, which means you should be testing by now. Next week we will hit Feature Freeze, by which time we “stop introducing...
View ArticleUbuntu Release blog: Precise daily image issue: nvidia hardware owners please...
An issue has been noticed due to interaction between a recent libc upgrade and the nvidia graphics driver. If you have nvidia hardware, please avoid upgrading until this has been resolved....
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Benjamin Kerensa: Mozilla WebFWD: I’m in
I was recently selected to be a part of the Mozilla WebFWD Scout Team where I will put to good use my never-ending advocacy for Free Open Source Software. I’m really excited to have an opportunity to...
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Benjamin Kerensa: TweetDeck 0.38.2 on Ubuntu 12.04
Lets be precise on the fact that TweetDeck’s new HTML5 client is horrible and is a stripped down version of the client we love so much. I have frequently fancied the idea of finding an Open Source...
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Randall Ross: Following Good Blogging Advice
Yesterday on Planet Ubuntu, Jono blogged about how to make your blog more compelling, professional and popular. Great advice! One of Jono's tips that caught my eye, and admittedly one that I...
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The Fridge: Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for January 2012
Top 10 commercial apps 1. TRAUMA TRAUMA is a game that tells a story of a young woman who survives a car accident. Recovering at the hospital, she has dreams that shed light on different aspects of...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Shipping best practice with juju charms
Check out Why I don’t host my own blog anymore. I mentioned it to a friend and he immediately piped in “Oh that guy did it wrong, he shouldn’t care about KeepAlive, he needs FastCGI”. Ok so the guy...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Shipping best practice with juju charms
Check out Why I don’t host my own blog anymore. I mentioned it to a friend and he immediately piped in “Oh that guy did it wrong, he shouldn’t care about KeepAlive, he needs FastCGI”. Ok so the guy...
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Paul Tagliamonte: mario-mbta mashup
A few weeks back, I blogged about python-charlie, a python lib to get at Boston MBTA data. I’ve since re-factored the code and mashed it up with “Super MBTA World”, by Adam Summerville of Circle Cat...
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Matthew Revell: Goodbye Geoff Stevens
As a teenager, I ran a small poetry and short story magazine. It had a suitably overwrought title, was lots of fun and put me in touch with a whole load of people who’ve influenced who I am today. One...
View ArticleJim Campbell: Documentation and gedit snippets
As I mentioned in a recent post, gedit snippets can help you write code more quickly, and with fewer errors, than writing all of your code manually. Snippets work by expanding small chunks of text into...
View ArticleKen VanDine: Gwibber logo concepts, opinions?
I’ve had a number of people suggest Gwibber could use a new logo, but nobody has actually stepped up and designed anything. Recently I had the good fortune to chat with Abi Rasheed on IRC who...
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