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Serge Hallyn: The linux command line (book)
“The linux command line”, published by the No Starch Press, sells itself to people who are new to linux, and have been enjoying its gui goodness, but who now want to experience some of the famed power...
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Serge Hallyn: Kvm performance runs under way
I’ve finally gotten the kvm performance tests rolling. I’m hoping to have the first set of results some time next week. I installed a new precise server image on a laptop with 100M for rootfs (ext4),...
View ArticleJim Kielman: Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu +1 update for April 20/2012
Things are winding down, as the Precise final release gets closer. There are still a few threads of interest showing up among the repeat questions, for instance: Only one CPU shows on P-4 dual core...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: gcc 4.7 patchathon part III
S’more days, s’more patches: Hacked out a few over the last few days, this time, to some good eats. I’m making a habit of this tv-hack-time thing. patch for 667194 (gsmartcontrol) patch for 667177...
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Philippe Cortez: It's time to party
Only a few days to wait before the release of the expected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS code name Precise Pangolin, which at first glance seems very neat and erase a lot of the past "defects" in Unity. I just...
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Elizabeth Krumbach: The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You
Back in August I wrote a post “News is hard, but we’re making it easier” regarding improvements to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. At the time I defined some todo list items, which I now have updates on:...
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Aurélien Gâteau: LightDM KDE 0.1.0 released
During this Ubuntu cycle I have been working on-and-off on LightDM, mainly helping out David Edmundson on liblightdm-qt (the Qt wrapper for LightDM library), and the LightDM KDE greeter. The initial,...
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Robert Collins: Reading list
I’ve recently caught up on a bunch of reading some of which are worth commending. Switch – documents the factors that cause changes to fail (both in organisations and personal stuff), and provides a...
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David Sugar: GNU Telephony IRC Meeting for 4/23
This monday (04/23) at 21:30 GMT we are having our second GNU Telephony public meeting on IRC freenode.net, in #friendica.I had moderated the first meeting last month, and I am thinking we will rotate...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Trisquel Mini 5.5 Brigantia
Celtic power arrives to our computers! It has been released Trisquel 5.5 Mini edition, with LXDE environment, and based on Linux-Libre (under the GNU Free Software Foundation); sorry, only Gnome...
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Mark Shuttleworth: From the “One thing that scares you, every day” dept
It may not be riding rockets, but bee-keeping has a certain edge to it when you’re allergic to their stings. Last autumn we set up three hives on a corner of the garden. Andrew and the botanical team...
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Julian Andres Klode: Reference Counting and Tail Calls
One thing I thought about today is reference counting in combination with tail calls. Imagine a function like this: function f(x) { return g(x+1); } Now consider that x is a reference counted object...
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Jorge Castro: The Eiffel Tower is in London. EDIT: I mean Paris. EDIT:...
If you went on Wikipedia and saw this on the page you would wonder “Why don’t they just fix the page to say where it is instead of leaving the wrong location on the page?” And then you would fix it....
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Stuart Langridge: Decades
I've been writing this blog for ten years, as of this weekend. In that decade, I've written 510,216 words here, which is about the same length as War and Peace or Les Miserables although it's a little...
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: Looking Ahead To Quantal Quetzal
The Q-cycle is about to begin throughout the Ubuntu realm. Quantal Quetzal is the name of the game. Quetzal refers to a bird that is found in Mexico while Quantal refers to an on-off state. A quantal...
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David Sugar: Kubuntu remains healthy
While my own interest in KDE is waning presently, that has nothing to do with Kubuntu itself, or what I feel was entirely needless panic by some over its continued status and development. I continue to...
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Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle 68
This week's episode is a reading of the announced draft of a new Code of Conduct. Download here (MP3) (ogg), or subscribe to the podcast (MP3) to have episodes delivered to your media player. Although...
View ArticlePasi Lallinaho: Call for feedback on the WordPress-plugins
In January 2012, I finally released three of my WordPress-plugins for the general public and planned releasing three more later. Now in the end of April, the repository consists of eight plugins and at...
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Matt Rudge: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is 30 years old
It’s time for a little break in our regular programming. Today, April 23rd, marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum – Britain’s largest selling home computer of the 1980′s....
View ArticleLuis de Bethencourt: the real enjoyment is in the doing
I like the *process*. I like writing software. I like trying to make things work better. In many ways, the end result is unimportant – it’s really just the excuse for the whole experience. It’s why I...
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