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John Baer: Ubuntu 12.04 “Don’t Forget” Count Down Banner
603 x 353 Send a friendly reminder not to forget April 26 is the launch of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS! Static Count Down Banner If your desire is to embed a static banner which reminds users of the release date,...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: This time, more than any other time
"Here lies Edmund Blackadder. And he's bloody annoyed." Tonight I went to see my daughter dance in a show. Also there with me was my ex-wife's mother, and the chap she married a couple of months ago....
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Benjamin Kerensa: WebFWD: A Path To Success In Open Source
I’m now into my second month on the Mozilla WebFWD Team and already I have been out in the local community trying to spread the word about the Mozilla Open Innovation Program. This month I also held a...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: juju contest entries now due, contest closed.
Ok pencils down everyone! The entries for the juju charm contest are now closed, we’ll have one week of review and then announce the winners!
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David Sugar: GNU Telephony begins public meetings
Yesterday we held our first regular IRC meeting for GNU Telephony. While it was not widely circulated, I was happy with the turnout and with those things we were able to accomplish. This is...
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Dustin Kirkland: Baby-buntu
As opposed to the traditional baby monitor, I've decided to put together something of my own system, in that Linux hacker do-it-yourself sort of way :-)Here was my check-list:Cobble together a little...
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Launchpad News: Parallelising the Unparallelisable
Launchpad has a lot of tests, almost 20,000. There are tests that make sure the internals work as expected, that verify the Javascript works in web browsers, and everything in between. In a perfect...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Holistic UI is smarter UX
In the open source community, we celebrate having pieces that “do one thing well”, with lots of orthogonal tools compounding to give great flexibility. But that same philosophy leads to shortcomings on...
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Dustin Kirkland: Some Statistics on mondrian.byobu.co (as a honeypot)
Just following up on my recent post about Piet Mondrian and Byobu...I had planned on running the guest@mondrian.byobu.co HP/OpenStack instance for just one day, but I've actually kept it running for 3...
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Canonical: Ubuntu Survey Part 3!
So as promised let’s take a look a the next set of results from the Ubuntu Survey. I am going to bundle together the broader world of Ubuntu looking at other OSes people use, Ubuntu One usage, whether...
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Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Speedup Firefox's Mouse Scroll
If you are using firefox in Ubuntu Linux, you might have wondered how you can change mouse scroll speed.To do that, you should roll up your sleeves and go to the hidden firefox settings. In address bar...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-20.33 uploaded
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. The most notable change is as follows: * ASPM: Fix pcie devices with non-pcie children (LP:961482) The full changelog can be seen at:...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – March 27, 2012
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20120327 Meeting Agenda ARM Status P/omap4: since a critical bug (lp963512 – “Latest kernel updates broke video on omap4″) was affecting...
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Timo Jyrinki: On brands, marketing and technical details
I have a few thoughts based on the yet another round of debate where marketing clashes with free software advocation and technical details. Nothing new in the debate itself, but I'm adding a couple of...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Bug corrections
According the QA team, some important bugs affecting Ubuntu core that reflected on Lubuntu images has been corrected. For testing just go to the QA builds and seelct Lubuntu. Here's the message: Hi...
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Nick Ali: Harry Potter eBooks Have No DRM
The Harry Potter ebooks aren’t going to have any DRM. From a gigaom article: But by far the biggest break with tradition for Pottermore is that all the books will be sold without DRM restrictions…the...
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Oli Warner: How to fix the 100% CPU issue in XBMC
Long time users of XBMC and Boxee on Linux will probably be aware of a very annoying bug that essentially uses an entire CPU when just sitting at menus. The problem is the UI is constantly refreshing...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Lubuntu countdown!
Thanks to Corbin Davenport from Georgia (USA), I've made this modified version of the Ubuntu countdown widget using his code. Only one file! No image, no lags, no delays on loading!...
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Richard Johnson: Linux: “We’re not GNU”
My quick response, besides the 2 other responses I already did, to Ubuntu: “We’re not Linux”. Don’t think I need to say anything more here. I think I am starting to get over my 1990s Linux User...
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Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S05E03 – True to His Colours
Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen are back for the third episode of the new season of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and...
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