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Jonathan Riddell: 12.04 Feature Freeze This Week

This week is feature freeze in Ubuntu land and the Kubuntu community have been working hard to get in as many as possible before the deadline. Telepathy-KDE is working nicely. We're still deciding if...

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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments Lens

Click here for full size. Thanks to the always amazing David Callé who has created this lens for the Ubuntu Accomplishments system. David was also the first person to brave running the Ubuntu...

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Charlene Tessier: Ubuntu Software Center 11.10 – A New Guide

  After a relatively long hiatus, I’ve return to my blog! My new year gift to you is…… Apps for the Masses! A new (and free) community - driven guide reflects the new look and features present in...

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Benjamin Kerensa: Users Want AIM Client for Ubuntu… AOL Says No!

One of the most popular feature requests on AOL’s AIM UserVoice forum was for AIM to have a client available through the Ubuntu Software Center and although this feature request received hundreds more...

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Canonical Design Team: Sound theme update

Thank you everyone for all your effort, overall it’s an impressive set from such a short deadline! We’ve been busy listening to all your submissions, it’s been a challenge, but the sound samples have...

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Launchpad News: Reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad (part 2)

We are reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad. The goal of the disclosure feature is to introduce true private projects, and we are reconciling the contradictory implementations of privacy in...

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Jorge Castro: Twitter's bootstrap plus bootswatch

I’ve been a fan of Twitter’s Bootstrap project since it was announced. It’s basically a set of HTML, CSS, and Javascript that is good looking and ready to be molded into something you want. Today I ran...

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Kees Cook: discard, hole-punching, and TRIM

Under Linux, there are a number of related features around marking areas of a file, filesystem, or block device as “no longer allocated”. In the standard view, here’s what happens if you fill a file to...

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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: juju Charm School Webinar, March 8th

Please join us on 8th March at 5.00pm GMT for a live juju Charm School webinar: To sign up click here: Juju charm school webinar. This charm school will cover how to create charms and use them with...

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Greg Grossmeier: GNOME Shell + Ambiance tweaks for screen maximization

I’m a fan of how GNOME Shell is working out (mostly). At least enough for me to use it full time. I also am afflicted with the same vertical pixel issue on my x220 many of us are complaining about. To...

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Benjamin Kerensa: Spotify Bash Script for Improved Stability

So if you have used Spotify on Linux you will notice that there are often times where it will crash on start or act very broken after a launch and that seems to be primarily due to unwanted data being...

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Sebastian Kügler: Submerged on Koh Tao

Dived Japanese Garden and White Rock yesterday, after refreshing my Scuba diving skills. I’m doing that at New Heaven Diving on Koh Tao, Thailand, a smallness diving operation who do a lot of work in...

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Paul Tagliamonte: How is there no ncurses toolkit yet?

How is it that in 2000-frickn’-12 that it’s actually more complex to write an ncurses UI then GTK or Qt? I mean, c’mon. I want a full-blown toolkit with tons of baked in goodies for hacking up simple...

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Michael Hall: Singlet + Quickly: Better, Faster, Simpler

One of the most requesting things since I first introduced Singlet was to have a Quickly template for creating Unity Lenses with it.  After weeks of waiting, and after upgrading Singlet to work in...

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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments Update

The last time I posted about my little project I shared a video demo of the work so far. I am pleased to report that I have made some further progress. A key part of the design of the accomplishments...

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Jorge Castro: Putting their own money where your mouth is.

Two weeks ago I posted this call to remove ccsm from the Ubuntu repositories. Three things precipitated this posting. I was sick of a tool that said it did one thing but didn’t really do that being...

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Dustin Kirkland: Gazzang Bang and the SXSW Startup Pub Crawl

The Gazzang office at 502 Baylor Street in Austin, Texas is one of the destinations of the 2012 SXSW Startup Pub Crawl, on Thursday, March 8th.Join us between 4 and 10 pm for an open house, drum...

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The Fridge: Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages,...

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Canonical Design Team: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part...

How is Unity designed?  How can I contribute to this process?  Why did you make thus and such decision? The Unity Design Team is frequently asked these questions, and this article aims to de-mystify...

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Costales: ¡Relanzando Ubuntu España!

Participa, colabora, comparte, disfruta...Comunidad Española de Ubuntu¿Dónde? En http://ubuntu-españa.org :)

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