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Dylan McCall: Why isn’t Ubuntu Forums in the installer slideshow?
Or: Why is Ubuntu’s installer slideshow unimportant? Observe as Dylan ernestly makes a completely unimportant thing sound important, then desperately backpedals in an effort to not sound like a...
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Jono Bacon: Web Design Help Needed
As part of Ubuntu Accomplishments you can read information about each accomplishment to find out more about how to participate. This is an important piece of the system: being able to provide useful,...
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Benjamin Kerensa: HP Cloud Services Brings Nothing Special
So there is a bit of buzz surrounding HP’s most recent endeavor that being it entering into the Cloud Business and attempting to compete with Amazon Web Services. As we all know HP has not been very...
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Duncan McGreggor: OpenStack at PyCon 2012 Sprints!
This is just a short post to give a shout out to some folks who are sprinting for OpenStack this year at PyCon. It's a small group, since the Folsom Design Summit and Conference is coming up in a few...
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Randall Ross: Yet More Precise Jams
The great quest for photos of the Ubuntu Global Jam (Precise) continues. Even though there are some who would chastise the effort to find and to present photos of people having fun and generally...
View ArticleDidier Roche: New, shiny, Unity 5.6 released!
Phew! it's been a long road to release the next unity, but I'm more than happy to finally announce the release of 5.6. Unity components (dee, libunity, bamf, lenses, nux) and unity itself, plus some...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: I joined MOTU team in Ubuntu
I applied for MOTU (Masters Of The Universe) membership few days ago and today during Developer Membership Board meeting my application was part of agenda.Becoming MOTU is more complicated than gaining...
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Tony Whitmore: Expressing a Pinterest
Pin It “You have to be on Pinterest!” said Amy, over a roast potato. “I’ll send you an invite.” I nodded sagely and pretended I knew what she was talking about. You see, Amy is social. Not just in the...
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments Design: Update!
Last night I posted a call for a web designer to help design the accomplishment information inside the app. Fortunately, Brandon Holtsclaw responded and sent over some CSS and HTML that was ready for...
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Nizar Kerkeni: A tribute to Zouhair Yahyaoui
A tribute will be paid next March 13 to Zouhair Yahyaoui (alias Ettounsi : the Tunisian), famous Tunisian cyber-dissident, on the commemoration of the 7th anniversary of his death. Moreover, March 13...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 256
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #256 for the week March 5 – 11, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update Ubuntu User...
View ArticleJono Bacon: DirecTV Charge You To Fix Their Service Issues
I don’t write a lot on my blog about issues with companies, service providers, and otherwise, but yesterday my wife and I discovered something which I wanted to make people aware of as I don’t want you...
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Ubuntu Classroom: IRC Operator Class: IRC Basics & Working with Network...
This afternoon Myrtti (Miia Ranta) on behalf of Ubuntu IRC Team instructed a class focusing on IRC basics for Ubuntu IRC Operators. Myrtti taught attendees the basics of IRC and how to work with...
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Nick Ali: How to Fail
Sooo…say you are trying out a new online newsletter app. You assume that you can prune the list of email addresses once they are uploaded. You upload a boat load of contacts. App decides to...
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John Baer: UN5 GTK3 Theme for Ubuntu
Unleash the power of your desktop with the advanced engineering of Gnome 3 and the modern style of UN5. I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of the UN5 GTK3 theme for Ubuntu and other...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [precise] linux kernel-ti-omap 3.2.0-1408.11 uploaded...
We have uploaded a new Precise linux-ti-omap4 kernel. The most notable changes are as follows: * rebased on master branch 3.2.0-18.29 * a number of CVE fixes The full changelog can be seen at:...
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Martin-Éric Racine: Ubuntu: LTS to LTS+1 upgrade leaves cruft
Over the past few weeks, I upgraded my Ubuntu hosts to the Precise release due to be published next month. While the upgrade on my desktops from Oneiric to Precise went mostly well, the upgrade of my...
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Randall Ross: Last Call for Precise Jam Photos
We're near the end of the Ubuntu Global Jam Photo Round-up Extravaganza! Meanwhile, here is another contender for "Best of Jam" photo, retrieved from a photo sharing site: Mexico City: "Intense jamming...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – March 13, 2012
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20120313 Meeting Agenda ARM Status P/omap4: a new kernel (3.2.0-1408.11) is out – it contains a buch of CVE fixes and it has been rebased...
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Dustin Kirkland: Gazzang the Thang: Big Data
I'm thrilled to see Gazzang's next big thang is now out of the gate...We announced today our comprehensive, turnkey encryption platform for Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL, and several other cloud workloads....
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