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Luis de Bethencourt: 1.0 > vlc > 0.10 > mplayer
Completely unscientific benchmark, just to get you salivating for GStreamer 1.0 X = time, Y = CPU% gst 0.10 and 0.11 from git, vlc 1.1.12, vlc 2.0.1-0-gf432547, mplayer SVN-r33713-4.6.1 test file:...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: My Setup
The Setup is an awesome blog that posts of interviews with nerdy people that ask the same four questions: Who are you, and what do you do? What hardware are you using? And what software? What would be...
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Didier Roche: Precise Pangolin has now its finale Unity release (5.10)
Most of the time, after an Unity release, I look like that: Well, ok, not really, but in fact, this is after doing some exercice after an unity release, so it's exactly the same, isn't it? This...
View ArticleMarco Ceppi: Deploying OMG! Ubuntu! to the cloud with Juju!
For the last month we’ve been working on getting the perfect charm setup for the OMG! Ubuntu! website. Today we deploy the final version of the charm just in time for the 12.04 release. It’s been a...
View ArticleVincent Untz: Submit your talk for GUADEC 2012 now!
If you want to give a talk at GUADEC 2012 in A Coruña (Spain), hurry up: the deadline for the GUADEC CfP is tomorrow. Don't think twice, just go ahead and submit your talk!
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Teams
The Ubuntu Teams page just received a major makeover and it should be much easier to read and find information in there. Thanks a lot to everyone involved in this! If you should talk to anyone who...
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Launchpad News: An introduction to our new sharing feature
Launchpad can now show you all the people that your project is sharing private bugs and branches with. This new sharing feature is a few weeks away from being in beta, but the UI is informative, so...
View ArticleLucas Nussbaum: Update of Debian Packaging Tutorial
I’ve just updated the Debian Packaging Tutorial. This new version addresses a few comments and questions I received over the past months. Note that there are also french and spanish versions of the...
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Marcus Moeller: Ubucon 12 and Release Party ‘Precise Pangolin’
Please join us at the 28th of April 2012 for the first Ubucon in Switzerland. Enjoy Ubuntu related talks and Workshops for novice and experienced users. At the evening there will be a party with...
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Xubuntu: Window resizing in Xubuntu (and Xfce)
For quite a while now there has been questions about resizing windows in Xfce, especially with theme with narrow window-borders. Usually people would ask for wider window-borders, but there are several...
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Canonical Design Team: System status menu refinements in Ubuntu 12.10
Over the past two years, Ubuntu has introduced a suite of status menus — known to Ubuntu geeks as “indicators” — in the top corner of the screen. In Ubuntu 12.10, we plan to refine these menus to...
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Ronnie Tucker: Python Special Edition Volume 04
Full Circle Magazine – Python Special Edition Volume 04 The single-topic Special Editions continue with a reprint of the Python articles parts 22 through 26 Go get it from:...
View ArticleMonty Taylor: AWSOME has the potential to be really awesome
Earlier today, Canonical announced AWSOMEI'm honestly pretty stoked about it. At the last UDS, Mark Shuttleworth expressed his concern over the state of AWS compatibility and how important it was. As...
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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: How to create a Wikipedia Unity lens for Ubuntu
The Unity Dash provides a lightweight, instant and easy means to browse and retrieve interesting content. Through the use of lenses, it enables the user to search for information both locally and...
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Dustin Kirkland: Kirkland 12.04 LTS Released -- Hello World!
AUSTIN, Texas -- Kirkland Family Life Enterprises are thrilled to announce the timely release of the first product of its next generation -- Kirkland 12.04 Ultra LTS (code name: Camille).Chief...
View ArticleJim Kielman: Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu +1 update for April 13/2012
With the impending release of Precise Pangolin in two weeks, activity in the +1 sub-forum has mostly been the same questions we see in the other support sub-forums. We are slowly stopping the movement...
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David Henningsson: Audio over HDMI and DisplayPort in Ubuntu 12.04
Ok, for those of you who just want it up and working, I’m including a quickstart section before we dive into the details: Quickstart 1) If you have an ATI/AMD or NVidia card, you need proprietary...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: gcc 4.7 patchathon
For no reason other then I had some time, I went on a patchathon against gcc-4.7 ftbfss while watching frasier This log is really for my own use :) Blocked 667409, 667394 and 667393 with newly filed...
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Ubuntu Women: Career Days! April 18th!
On Wednesday April 18th, we are having our next Career Days session. I am very excited to announce that Emma Marshall (System76Chick) will be presenting about being a Media Liaison. She’ll be talking...
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Thorsten Wilms: LinuxMaya
José Luis Romero L. asked me for a Logo for LinuxMaya, the honduran Linux users group. I said yes, mainly because it was an interesting opportunity, stylistically, and a welcome break from my currently...
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