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Raphaël Hertzog: How to use multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source...
Since the introduction of the “3.0 (quilt)” source format, it is now possible to integrate multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages. This article will show you how to do the same with your...
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Christopher Denter: PyMT 0.5.1 Bugfix Release
OK, small news very quick: We released PyMT version 0.5.1 which addresses quite a bunch of problems that were discovered since the release of PyMT 0.5. See the changelog and the website.
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Ubuntu QA blog: Announcing the Next Ubuntu Bug Day! - 2010-09-09
Fellow Ubuntu Triagers! This week's Bug Day target is *drum roll please* apt! * 100 New bugs need a hug * 43 Incomplete bugs need a status check * 100 Confirmed bugs need a review apt is not the...
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Kees Cook: cross-distro default security protection review
The recent work by MWR Labs does a reasonable job showing Debian’s poor pro-active security and why I am so frustrated about it: we have not been able to move very quickly at getting it enabled. While...
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Joe Barker: iPhone 4 – HDR Photo Feature
I’m sure that, to a lot of the people reading this on Planet Ubuntu, this post will be of little interest. If you’re one of these people, I apologise, please glance over this post To everybody else,...
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Maia Kozheva: A Tale of Two Houses
Once upon a time, there were two houses standing across a street. They looked quite different, and their residents didn’t meet each other much — only a few times a year did they meet on the Freedom...
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Canonical Design Team: Exciting things in the post!
A couple of months back Marcus and I got a call from a magazine in Japan who wanted to produce stickers for Ubuntu. We’d _just_ signed off the new logo and word mark and so we collaborated back and...
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Aaron Toponce: An Open Letter To Pastor Terry Jones
Dear Pastor Terry Jones-I understand that on September 11th, you plan on carrying out the act of burning Qur’ans with your local church. Do you seriously realize the significance of the act you’re...
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TurnKey Linux: TKLBAM: a new kind of smart backup/restore system that just works
Drum roll please... Today, I'm proud to officially unveil TKLBAM (AKA TurnKey Linux Backup and Migration): the easiest, most powerful system-level backup anyone has ever seen. Skeptical? I would be...
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Thierry Carrez: The 6 dimensions of Open Source
Why do people choose to participate in Open Source ? It’s always a mix of various reasons, so let’s try to explore and classify them. Technical The first dimension is technical. People like open...
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Jordan Mantha: from the crimsun files
Going through my “scratch” note I found the following quote: C is beautiful. C++ makes me weep. Java stabs me in the gut. Python pours me wine. That is all.
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Aaron Toponce: Create Your Own Graphical Web of Trust
I created my GnuPG key back in 2004, and I’ve been very active with it since (thank you Glen). I have also seen graphical representations of the Web of Trust for a specific public keyring, and I’ve...
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Jorge Castro: Some progress on Daily Builds
We’ve been working with the Launchpad team to give upstream projects the ability to spin up daily builds. It’s pretty straightforward to make a recipe, the one I use for shotwell is: # bzr-builder...
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Ralph Janke: Ubuntu.stackexchange has passed the 1000 question milestone
After only 41 days, the Ubuntu stackexchange site has reached a new milstone - 1000 questions. Thanks for everybody who has participated so far. Please continue on to make sure we will reach more than...
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Ralph Janke: Evolution does not follow a path guided by scientific categories
Some of the discussions about the divergence or convergence of the two stackexchanges sites Ubuntu and Unix/Linux shows that the discussion is lead not on the same dimension, but on two different...
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Martin Meredith: Mini Rant: Emails
Please, those of you who send me emails, remember the following:- An email has a subject line – use it If you put a proper description in your subject line, it’s easier for me to find the email again...
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Bilal Akhtar: Looking forward to Launchpad’s downtime
As we all know, Launchpad (aka LP) will be down today from 8:00 AM UTC to 9:30 AM UTC and read-only from then until 11:00 AM. I am looking forward to this disruption. Why? The reason is, when LP goes...
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Canonical Design Team: Meerkats like the sun?!
Today I got another e-mail from a statue. There’s a perfectly normal sentence … This time from a beach where Rick says he’s having an amazing time relaxing after his conference! So what have we...
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Scott Moser: running Ubuntu on an Amazon "micro" instance
Amazon announced today a new instance type. The "micro" instance type (t1.micro) has 613 MB of memory and will AMIs of either x86 or x86_64. The cost is only $0.02 per hour.That means that you can try...
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Raphaël Hertzog: Can Debian achieve world domination without being on Facebook?
Facebook is not very popular among free software hackers. When I announced my Facebook page on identi.ca (see here) I got a few replies suggesting it was odd for me to use Facebook. Indeed there are...
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