Jono Bacon: Ubuntu One for Application Developers
Most of you will be familiar with Ubuntu One as the personal cloud service in which you can sync your files, buy music, and more. While the Ubuntu One team has been working hard to expand the end-user...
View ArticleMichael Hall: Faces of Ubuntu: The non-Developers
It’s sometimes easy to talk about “Ubuntu developers” as if they are some faceless “others” who are separate from “Ubuntu users”. But the reality is that the line between user and developer isn’t...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: Updated cross toolchain for Ubuntu
During last two weeks I was working on updating PPA with cross toolchain for Ubuntu. Current development branch (12.04 ‘precise’) got gcc 4.6.2 and 4.5.3, binutils 2.22, eglibc 2.15 and linux 3.2...
View ArticleAlan Pope: Improved Unity Files Lens Call For Testing
We’ve got an enhancement to Ubuntu Unity in 12.04 which we’re looking for some community testing on. The Unity Files Lens has been improved so it’s more likely to find the things you’re looking for. In...
View ArticleSergio Meneses: Ubuntu-Co Yearly Report – 2011
– Versión en Español – Saludos compañeros! Es un placer para la comunidad de Ubuntu Colombia presentar su reporte oficial acerca de sus actividades realizadas durante el 2011. Aunque estamos ya...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – March 06, 2012
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20120306 Meeting Agenda ARM Status nothing new to report this week Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: Half the Battle Against DRM
As the free software and free culture movements have sat quietly by, DRM is now well on its way to becoming the norm in the electronic book publishing industry. The free culture movement has failed to...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Ubuntu Accomplishments – Install and have some fun
Back at UDS-P I was in a session with Jono Bacon discussing the merits of an accomplishment system and the benefits of it. I admit I was a little sceptical of it but thought when it’s live and I can...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: Ubuntu One: Cloud Storage for Human Beings
While on my weekly phone call with the rest of the Ubuntu One Web and Mobile team, my wife walked into my office and gestured for me to mute the phone so she could talk to me. "Hey, I'm uploading my...
View ArticlePaolo Sammicheli: Ubuntu Global Jam: Italy
It has been a great evening! Very productive and we had a lot of fun. For those whom Tuscany is not too far away, tomorrow in the city of PISA we’ll have an Ubuntu Testing Party. You will discover how...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Choosing, moving, wallpapers
All the way back in January we kicked off the submissions process for the next released of Ubuntu. We did this using Flickr and since then the group has been inundated with over 2,700 submissions! This...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Introspection Introspection
I’ve written a script which I can use to get information about gobject introspection modules for use in python. It’s written in python and allows you to look at actual function names, actual object...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: Byobu is Celebrating Piet Mondrian's 140th Birthday
A little while ago, I added a fun Easter Egg to Byobu, in honor of one of my favorite artists, Piet Mondrian.All day today, you'll be able to ssh into a shared Byobu session in HP's OpenStack cloud and...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Notes From Canonical Community Team Meeting
Sorry, folks, I forgot to blog these. See the notes from today’s team meeting.
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: Ubuntu Development: answering ALL your questions
As part of our Fix-It Fridays we saw many many new faces joining the #ubuntu-motu IRC channel which always has many helpful developers who are there to answer questions and help if you should get...
View ArticleTimo Jyrinki: GNOME 3.4 Finnish translation weekend
Just a quick note that the merry Finnish localization folks are organizing an (extended) localization weekend, starting today. As a nice step towards ease of use, they're utilizing the long developed,...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Bangladesh: We Jammed for the First Time. We Partied Too!
I find it inspiring when a local Ubuntu group hosts an event for the first time. It tells me Ubuntu is spreading! It tells me there are people out there willing to "be the change they want to see in...
View ArticleSebastian Kügler: Plasma Active 3 Sprint Ongoing
These days, the Plasma Active team (and a few people new to it) is meeting in Darmstadt, kindly hosted by basysKom to work on Plasma Active. Our topics range from closer integration of social networks...
View ArticleMatt Rudge: Touchpad Stops Working Shortly After Login – Ubuntu 11.10
It’s been a while since we last saw the Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat around here! For all new visitors – that’s a deerstalker hat. It’s the one that Sherlock Holmes famously wore. It is not an...
View ArticleNathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, March 8
Ubuntu Hour is a chance to meet up for an hour and chat with other Ubuntu users. The meeting is open to anyone interested whether they use Ubuntu or not, and everyone's welcome with no commitments or...
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