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Canonical Design Team: Allow me to introduce myself…
My name’s Inayaili (most people call me either Yaili or Lily though) and I’m the new web designer in the Canonical’s design team — just started last Tuesday. It was a busy and exciting week: lots of...
View ArticleChase Douglas: Magic Trackpad drivers land in Ubuntu Maverick and Upstream!
If you’ve read some of my previous posts, you’ll note that I’ve been spending some time adding Magic Trackpad functionality to the current Magic Mouse driver in the kernel. I’m pleased to report that...
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Canonical Design Team: Charactersets
In this latest post discussing development of the Ubuntu family of fonts, Bruno discusses scope, charactersets and what’s coming as part of the Ubuntu typeface. Where do you begin, where do you stop?...
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Jorge Castro: Dear broadcom,
Thank you, and welcome! EDIT: I’ve asked if the driver might be coming to Lucid and got a response from someone on the kernel team, let’s hope for the best!
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Ante Karamatić: 1%?
There have been many people claiming Linux didn’t pass 1% market share. There have been many people claiming Linux users are geeks that don’t go out. That green over there is - Linux. Website is about...
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Martin Owens: Ubuntu Insurance?
This idea popped up in a completely different conversation and I haven’t explored the full dynamics of the idea and how it would play out legally but: What if Ubuntu users paid into an insurance fund....
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Jorge Castro: No need to complicate your life...
For some reason people always think that having seperate / and /home partitions is necessary to having a healthy Ubuntu system. I don’t know why people keep recommending this but I am doing my best to...
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Siegfried Gevatter: Zeitgeist 0.5.1 released!
On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zeitgeist 0.5.1. What is Zeitgeist? Zeitgeist is an event-logging framework for desktop and mobile...
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John Baer: GTK Impression – Progress Bars
The gnome progress bar is the visual method used to display activity. I usually think of the progress bar displayed during a large file copy. Impression progress bars follow the same design as the...
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Aaron Toponce: Ramadan – Week 4
My third second week of experiencing Ramadan is already documented, this is week four.Ramadan has come to a close. It’s the end of an old month and the beginning of a new. At the beginning of the new...
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Bilal Akhtar: FOSS libraries should learn from PHP
PHP is the golden scripting language that powers more than half of the world’s websites (probably much more). It is quick, fast, simple and robust. However, the main thing that I like about it is its...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Daily dose of Scribus trunk
We’ll be using Scribus for much of the DTP internal to Canonical. Our templates etc will be published in Scribus, so folks who need to knock up a flyer or brochure have the pieces they need ready to...
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Christophe Sauthier: Free Banner for approved LoCo teams !
If you are involved in a Loco Team this post, might interest you ! Following a work that has been lead by the LoCo Council, Canonical agreed to provide some gifts to each approved teams, including a...
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Canonical Design Team: dConstruct 2010
Once again Brighton-based Clearleft prepared something special for those who attended this year’s dConstruct conference. Ivanka and myself had the pleasure to be amongst the lucky ones who managed to...
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Liel Fridman: Great Hoborg is under control – version 2
Hello everybody, it's the first time I write in English, so please send me language corrections in the comments. However, in today's post I am going to tell you about the Israeli Ubuntu LoCo's IRC...
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Steve Stalcup: I Will Not Forget September 12 Either …
We could stand united as a people, love our neighbor, and mourn our wounded and lost. It was a day of hope, and maybe one day we’ll be those same great people.
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Steve Conklin: Calibrating the softrock RX/TX Ensemble on Ubuntu
Continuing my exploration of SDR and the Softrock RX/TX Ensemble … You can catch the beginning of those posts here. The programmable oscillator on the softrock runs (in my case) at four times the...
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Belinda Lopez: Getting to the ‘aha’ moments for kids and computers
I had the privilege last week of visiting with Anthony Borrow, the Moodle Contrib coordinator. Moodle is a great success story for open source in Education as its adoption continues to grow among...
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Robert Collins: What do I do @ work?
I recently moved withing Canonical from being a paid developer of Bazaar to take on a larger challenge Technical Architect for Launchpad. Its been two months now, and its time to put my head up out...
View ArticleAron Xu: Convert man page to PDF
It’s fairly easy: $ man -t bash | ps2pdf - bash.pdf “man -t” uses groff -mandoc to format the manual page to stdout. “ps2pdf – bash.pdf” means the input is from stdin and output to bash.pdf. We use a...
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