Matt Rudge: BADSIG or Software Center errors on Ubuntu 11.10
Oh the fun of general and non-specific error messages. The package management system is usually quite well behaved, but when it fails, you can get a series of errors each bewilderingly unhelpful. For...
View ArticleStéphane Graber: Booting an Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine in an LXC...
One thing that we’ve been working on for LXC in 12.04 is getting rid of any remaining LXC specific hack in our templates. This means that you can now run a perfectly clean Ubuntu system in a container...
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Benjamin Mako Hill: Unhappy Birthday Hall of Shame
I roll my eyes a little when I think that Unhappy Birthday is the document I have written that has been read by the most people. The page -- basically a website encouraging people to rat on their...
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments Updates
Work has been continuing on the Ubuntu Accomplishments system. Befor e I go on, I want to encourage any of you who are interested in the project and who would like to help to join our new mailing list....
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Steven Harms: Ubuntu 12.04 and the HP Envy 15
The HP Envy 15 (HP Envy 15-3033L) was released in late 2011 as a competitor to the MacBook Pro. When comparing against new models, I chose the envy over others that I was considering: Model Notes Asus...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: I am tired of Raspberry/Pi
Please people… stop asking me about Raspberry/Pi. I do not want it, do not plan to buy one (when they will be finally available for normal people) and for sure do not plan to support it.Raspberry/Pi...
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Mark Shuttleworth: … for human beings
Our mission with Ubuntu is to deliver, in the cleanest, most economical and most reliable form, all the goodness that engineers love about free software to the widest possible audience (including...
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Daniel Holbach: Welcoming Monday
Welcoming Monday is a lot easier if you have a great weekend to look back to. 32 LoCo teams in 23 countries definitely had a great time at Ubuntu Global Jam. The Fix-It Friday activity continued for...
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Randall Ross: Jam-o-Meter's Precise Tally
The Ubuntu Global Jam (Precise Pangolin edition) is over. We jammed in 23 countries, in style, for the most important free software project in the world. I have begun to see photos of the Jam posted...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Charm Contest, Week One!
Lots going on in juju land. We’ve got two new official charms in the charm store. The first is Stackmobile, which allows you to host your own mobile site for the Stack Exchange family of websites. The...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Reddit would be a cool charm
We had alienth from Reddit hanging out during one of the Ubuntu Global Jams and he took a moment to hang out with us in #juju and tell us a little bit about how they deploy Reddit. I started with the...
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Tony Whitmore: A Wonderful Woodland Wedding
“I was wondering about making a video too.” Emma Lappin, florist extraordinaire, was telling me about the woodland scheme she was working on for the wedding of Kayleigh and Jack at the magnificent...
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Canonical Design Team: Notes from the Mobile World Congress 2012
Ubuntu and Canonical had a very strong presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The main attraction was our Ubuntu for Android prototype that was published just a week earlier. The...
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Matt Rudge: Ubuntu 11.10 – Change Default Login Sound
I quite like the jungle sound when Ubuntu starts up. For some reason it reminds me of the sounds I heard at nighttime when we camped in the Serengeti, and – more importantly – reminds me that I’m not...
View ArticleSebastian Kügler: KDAB Signs FLA en masse
At KDE, we take licensing of our software very seriously. In order to make licensing code more straight-forward for developers, and easier to evaluate for third parties, we’ve created the licensing...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 255
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #255 for the week February 27 – March 4, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise...
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Aaron Toponce: Tighten the Security of “Security Questions”
Some of you may remember the email hack of Sarah Palin’s email by David Kernell in 2008. The Wikipedia article describes how this was done: The hacker, David Kernell, had obtained access to Palin’s...
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Amber Graner: Registration for Linaro Connect Q2.12 in Hong Kong Now Open
Join Linaro at Linaro Connect Q2.12! Registration for Linaro Connect Q2.12 to be held at the Gold Coast Hotel in Hong Kong on 28 May -1 June is now open. How is Linaro Connect organized and who can...
View ArticleAmber Graner: Live with akgraner: Interviews with Dave Pigott and Jono Bacon...
Interviews with Dave Pigott and Jono Bacon now available On February 24, 2012 I kicked off my new video interview series when I interviewed Dave Pigott of the Linaro LAVA Validation Team. I...
View ArticleTed Gould: 2GB is enough for anyone
It has become popular (at least in the US) to start to put bandwidth caps on customers. Technologists are upset, they've seen Star Trek and they know that everyone is going to start video conferencing...
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