John Baer: GTK Impression – Nautilus Breadcrumbs
The term “breadcrumb” comes from the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale in which the children drop breadcrumbs to form a trail back to their home. Just like in the tale, breadcrumbs in real-world...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Synaptic Part Deux
Hello, World! So, I was pointed to this link this morning by some folks on IRC. Well, as open as I am about this stuff ( I don’t mind being quoted ) next time one of ya’ll redditors wants to quote me,...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: We are hiring: Design Engineer
Ladies and Gentlemen, We are looking for a Design Engineer with superb technical and communication skills to join the Design Team. Are you comfortable writing code in Python or Ruby, CSS, JavaScript...
View ArticleDirk Deimeke: Taskwarrior (3) ...
German text below. / Deutscher Text weiter unten. This new part of my mini series about Taskwarrior is about recurring tasks and priorities. - Installation and basic operation - Dates, dateformat, due...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Survey and Notifier
Reader Survey 2010 Hi folks, just a quick post to remind you that the Full Circle 2010 Reader Survey is still open! If you haven’t filled it in, it’s at: http://goo.gl/xMP0 – won’t take you more than...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Xubuntu Winning Artwork
AND THE WINNER IS … I want to thank all the artists that submitted artwork for Xubuntu Maverick Meerkat, soon to become Xubuntu 10.10. We certainly got some great images from you. The artwork was...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #209
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #209 for the week August 29th - September 4th, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: Farewell Ian Ubuntu 10.10 Beta (Maverick...
View ArticleAndres Rodriguez: Masters almost done! Job searching again!!
After a year of being a full time student of the MS in Telecommunications & Networking at Florida International University, and having successfully finished my Google Summer of Code project for...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Microsoft: Battle the Norm
When I ask Microsoft Windows users to try out Ubuntu should I be telling them that using Ubuntu is socially harder than using Windows? Sure Ubuntu is awesome technically, very easy to use and much...
View ArticleThorsten Wilms: Quickshot Icon and Logo
Quickshot’s goal is to streamline the process of taking a series of screenshots with specific setups and in varying languages for documentation purposes. It’s a spin-off of the Ubuntu Manual project...
View ArticleJoe Barker: He’s Waving….
I’m sure most of the people reading this will, at some point in time, have heard of Google Wave. The subject of discussions I’ve seen surrounding Wave have been…opinionated…to say the least. I’ve...
View ArticleSeif Lotfy: My sexy desktop II
Every couple of weeks I get sick of my desktop look and decide to got with a new one. This was my desktop 15 minutes ago… Now the only thing I kept the same besides the font and the panel transparency...
View ArticleBenjamin Humphrey: OMG! Ubuntu! interviews GNOME co-founder, Frederico Mena
The OMG! team sit down for an exclusive interview with Frederico Mena, one the founding fathers of GNOME. Federico along with Miguel de Icaza worked together in the late 90s to start the GNOME project...
View ArticleNathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, September 9th
As school starts and summer ends, many of our lives get busier. Amidst this bustle, there's no better reason to take a break Thursday night and join other Ubuntu fans for Ubuntu Hour!The next two...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: Who are your mentors?
Jorge and Allison blogged about their mentors and start into the Open Source world and I thought it would be a great way to thank at least some of the people who helped me get started. So I started...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Launchpad unavailable 9th September 2010 08.00 UTC
On Thursday the 9th of September we’re rolling out the latest Launchpad code to our servers. At the same time we’re taking the opportunity to carry out some server maintenance. This work will take...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Please Poach Our Users
As a member of the Ubuntu community I consider myself as much a part of the Free Software community as any member of any other distro. Each distro has it’s strengths and I have absolutely no problem...
View ArticleJorge Castro: UDS Sponsorship application deadline
Just a reminder that the sponsorship application deadline is 8th September if you haven’t already applied! For more information please see this page: http://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/sponsorship/...
View ArticleGerfried Fuchs: flattr
I started to give flattr a try, too. It is a social micropayment site and the similarity of its name to the verb flatter is on intention. It is meant to say thanks in small amounts month by month to...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: Selectricity Source
After a semi-recent thread on debian-devel, I poked around and realized that I'd never actually gotten around to formally announcing the release of source code for Selectricity, a piece of web-based...
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