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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments Video Demo

Recently I have been blogging about a project I have been hacking on called Ubuntu Accomplishments. This is an accomplishments system that can be used to identify when people have accomplished various...

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Benjamin Kerensa: Are you a Rockstar?

The Original Redhat Ad on LinkedIn: The Ubuntu Remix featuring me:You decide by letting it be known right here. Originally Posted At: Benjamin Kerensa dot Com

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Mark Shuttleworth: Remixing Ubuntu for the Enterprise Desktop

We’re publishing an initial version of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix today, based on Ubuntu 11.10. Deployment teams have long been modifying their Ubuntu installs to remove features like music...

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Caspar Clemens Mierau: How to log history and logins from multiple ssh-keys...

Many times your managed server has only one user account into wich every admin logs in with his personal ssh-key. Most times it’s done with the root account, but that’s a nother topic As a result of...

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Daniel Holbach: New Ubuntu developers in the making

Ubuntu has always tried to attract more developers making Ubuntu even better. In doing so it’s always good to try to cover the following points: Outreach – you want many people to fully realise they...

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Raphaël Hertzog: People behind Debian: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López, member of...

If you met Ana, you’ll easily remember her. She has a great and pronounced Spanish accent… I’m glad that the existence of the Debian Women project helped her to join Debian because she has been doing...

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Kees Cook: kvm and product_uuid

Quick note: KVM supports the “-uuid” option to set the value of /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid. Looks like libvirt supports this under capabilities / host / uuid in the XML, too. host# kvm...

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Jim Kielman: Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu +1 update for February 10/2012

It’s been an interesting week in the sub-forum, there was a lot of discussion on the dropping of Dodge Windows from Unity. The thread didn’t end well, so I won’t link to it here. There was also quite a...

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Jeremy Bicha: Ubuntu Classic, Now With Indicators

I’m happy to announce that indicators have been ported to gnome-panel 3, thanks to Jason Conti for the patch and Ted Gould for merging it.  I’ve taken the opportunity to update gnome-panel’s default...

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Maia Grotepass: Feb Ubuntu Hour Rondebosch

Thank you superfly for organising this one.

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Tony Whitmore: A man, a cupcake, a photobooth

“You have to have your photograph taken in the photobooth, so it can go in the album.” Those were the instructions from Abi and Lisa, the two lovely ladies behind Marry Me in Somerset. The website’s...

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Jorge Castro: New blog powered by Octopress and AWS

I’ve been happily using tumblr as my personal blog for quite some time, even when they were going through all their reliability problems. Before then I had hosted on Wordpress.com. Wordpress was great,...

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Ronnie Tucker: Ubuntu 11.10 and Unity Special Edition

Something of an unusual Special Edition this time, it really is special in that little of this material has appeared in Full Circle Magazine before. For this one, we’re out on a limb, running new...

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Paul Tagliamonte: Introducing "Practically Me" - F/OSS about.me style homepage

I’ve spent my caturday hacking on a simple shared homepage platform, similar (but not quite like about.me) - it’s not going to be as commercial or full-featured, and I doubt it’ll be as polished, but...

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Omer Akram: Planet Ubuntu should do better

doesn’t look good

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Joe Liau: A Day in the Life of Ubuntu

How do you use Ubuntu in your daily life? I thought of capturing a few moments of how I use Ubuntu and putting it to some music. Simple right? Except if your me, then you’ll inevitably make things a...

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Stéphane Graber: Upcoming pastebinit 1.3 release

Every year, I try to set a few hours aside to work on one of my upstream projects, pastebinit. This is one of these projects which mostly “just works” with quite a lot of users and quite a few of them...

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Michael Hall: A new way to Jam

We’re coming up on the next Ubuntu Global Jam, the point in every cycle where the community gets together for a weekend of contributing to the next release of Ubuntu.  And this time we’re shaking...

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Charles Profitt: Ubuntu Global Jam: 2 – 4 March 2012

When I first started using Ubuntu I heard about Global Jams and was under the impression that they were for Developers, but the truth is they are for everyone that wants to contribute to the Ubuntu...

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Siegfried Gevatter: eSpeak GUI 0.4 is out!

A few of you may remember espeak-gui, a graphical user interface for eSpeak I did release two years ago. While I haven’t been dedicating much time to it, it’s still alive and I’m happy to announce its...

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