Daniel Hahler: Handle X-Forwarded-Proto in backend nginx
When nginx is being used as backend server, it will talk plain "http" to the frontend server only (for performance reasons and to simplify setup). But web applications often need to know, if the...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 261
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #261 for the week April 9 – 15, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) end-of-life...
View ArticleClint Byrum (SpamapS): Juju constraints unbinds your machines
This week, William “I code more than you will ever be able to” Reade announced that Juju has a new feature called ‘Constraints’. This is really, really cool and brings juju into a new area of...
View ArticleMythbuntu: Help MythTV developers by submitting your hardware profiles
One of the new bells and whistles of MythTV 0.25 is the Setup Wizard. Here you can do video and audio tests, as well as submit your hardware profile.Why submit your hardware profile? Since a lot of...
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Grant Bowman: balug.org 12.04 LTS Presentation Tues, April 17th
Tomorrow at 8pm the unstoppable Elizabeth Krumbach and I will be presenting on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Please arrive at 6:30pm to eat dinner with us before the presentation. 12.04 is...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Developer Advisory Team Report 12.04: Feedback from new contributors
Over the past development cycle, the Ubuntu Developer Advisory Team reached out to many new contributors. As part of that work, we solicited feedback about our development process. We have summarized...
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Seif Lotfy: Zeitgeist 0.9 and more…
Since the Zeitgeist team is kinda recovering from last month, and no one really feels like blogging, I am here to sum up what has been up the last 2 months. (Also I think a blog post from my side is...
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Seif Lotfy: Zeitgeist: Hello Freedesktop.org
For as long as Zeitgeist has existed it has been hosted on Launchpad. We made use of almost every Launchpad feature and grew to love Bazaar. The tight integration between Bazaar and Launchpad should be...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Adopt An ISO
As we pull into the final stretch of the Ubuntu 12.04 release cycle all hands are on deck to ensure the quality of 12.04 is perfect. Fortunately this is something that everyone can help with to help us...
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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for March 2012
We’re ramping up to the release of Ubuntu 12.04 and new and cool apps keep being added to the Software Centre. Check out last month’s most downloaded free and paid apps. Top 10 paid apps 1. Steel...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – April 17, 2012
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20120417 Meeting Agenda ARM Status P/omap4: the video issue was resolved (lp963512), kernel was rebased on master (3.2.0-23.36) and...
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Jono Bacon: Severed Fifth Show The Weekend Before UDS
Just a quick note. As some of you know I play in a metal band called Severed Fifth that releases it’s music under a Creative Commons license. You can listen to and download our album Liberate and...
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The Fridge: Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for March 2012
We’re ramping up to the release of Ubuntu 12.04 and new and cool apps keep being added to the Software Centre. Check out last month’s most downloaded free and paid apps. Top 10 paid apps 1. Steel...
View ArticleGreg Grossmeier: Twitter & Patents & Trolls
Twitter just released a great little piece of legal hackery that is a great thing on its surface. Basically, it shows that Twitter promises not to use its patents for evil (ie: suing another company)...
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Aaron Toponce: Install ZFS on Debian GNU/Linux
Quick post on installing ZFS as a kernel module, not FUSE, on Debian GNU/Linux. The documents already exist for getting this going, I’m just hoping to spread this to a larger audience, in case you are...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Want to mess with SPDY easily? Come experiment with it via juju
(This is half broken and not ready, but it’s too cool to not tell you about right away.) The folks over at Google released a new snapshot of mod_spdy for use with Apache. Thinking this would be a cool...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Publishing a folder with Ubuntu One
Ubuntu One has the concept of publishing a file — that is, giving a file in your personal cloud a URL so that anyone can download it, if you tell them the URL — but you can't currently do that with a...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: Boot a USB Drive from GRUB.. or what to do when your computer...
I’ve ran into this situation before.. Had Linux installed on a machine and needed to reinstall/or install another distro. Fine, should be easy right? Load said distro on a USB stick and away we go....
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: gcc 4.7 patchathon part II
Another day, more patches. This time, it was to the rockn’ vibes of Chopped. Patch for: 667365 (s51dude) 667331 (prerex) 667328 (posterazor) 667313 (openmsx-debugger) 667308 (oggvideotools) In the...
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Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, April 19
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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