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Jonathan Carter: Some personal thoughts on the Ubuntu Application Review System

The Story So Far At the last UDS, it was discussed how new applications could be released on stable Ubuntu systems post-release. Yesterday Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu community manager announced the new...

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Raphaël Hertzog: Everything you need to know about conffiles: configuration...

The Debian policy dictates that package upgrades must take care of preserving user changes to configuration files. This article will explain you how most packages ensure this. This is important...

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Laura Czajkowski: 10.10.10 – DUBLIN

Ubuntu Ireland will be having at least two release parties for Maverick.  On 10.10.10 we will be having it in Dublin. Our day will kick off at Jimmy Chung’s Chinese Buffet, 8 Eden Quay, Dublin 1 at...

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Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, September 23rd

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...

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Jorge Castro: PDFMod

I always do my presentations in PDF because it’s a common format. Sometimes however I want to add in a slide or remove a slide when I find out I messed something up but don’t have time to go edit the...

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Paolo Sammicheli: Debian-Ubuntu Community Conference, ITA 2010

During UDS Maverick, in Bruxelles, I met the Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli. Being both Italians we spoke often during the coffee breaks and we discussed further about his keynote’s topic:...

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Aaron Toponce: Password Cards

I’m actually surprised that I haven’t blogged this already. This is a topic that is right up my alley, so it definitely belongs here.How many times have you been told that you need to use secure...

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Ubuntu Server blog: Server Team 20100921 meeting minutes

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with the irc logs here. Meeting Actions Everyone to update Daily bug triage blueprint when done. ttx to add link to server-mrs tag...

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Aurélien Gâteau: Got published

No, I haven’t written a book, but I was pleased to see articles from me published in issue 61 of Linux Pratique and issue 15 of Linux Pratique Essentiel, two French magazines from Diamond Editions. In...

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Eric Lake: We are (re)approved \o/

This month the Kentucky LoCo team was up for renewal. We had 5 of our members present for the meeting. All in all it went well. The only negative against us that I saw was that we have not been doing...

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Jorge Castro: Test your might!

Think you’re an Ubuntu pro? Here’s are some unanswered questions sorted by vote. 

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Shane Fagan: Building building oh building……

Well as I blogged before I am making a Quickly template in Vala and it is going along nicely. I dont think its particularly ready for widespread use but ping me on IRC and ill walk you through how to...

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Jordan Mantha: Edubuntu makeover

I haven’t been involved with Edubuntu development for a year now. While I miss the work and especially the great people, I’ve come to see that the project is in great hands (better than mine for...

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Chuck Frain: Its A Geeknic In Maryland

Its a picnic! Its a Ubuntu Release Party!! Its a birthday party for Brian!!! Its the first Maryland Geeknic!!!! That’s right, the first Maryland Geeknic is being organized now! And we want YOU to be a...

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Tony Yarusso: Drivel lives!

I discovered today that the GTK blogging client Drivel is apparently seeing active development again. Nifty! See http://drivel.sourceforge.net/

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Charlie Smotherman: Alternative to Ubuntu One’s Music Streaming Solution

I found Martin Albisetti’s blog announcing the new music streaming features for Ubuntu One’s music store to be some what funny. The streaming feature will be part of Ubuntu Ones payed plan. So I ask...

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The Fridge: Behind the Circle: Gerfried Fuchs (Rhonda)

Avatar Desktop Age: 37 Location: Austria (no Kanagaroos) IRC Nick: Rhonda How long have you been using Linux, and which distributions have you used? My first contact with Linux was on the computer of...

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John Baer: GTK Impression – Stealth Menus

Flickr Preview A core design element of the Impression themes is dark desktop and menu panels which displays well with the Ubuntu default wallpaper. A specific design element of the menu is the...

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Seif Lotfy: Experimenting with a quick-access feature for the Activity Journal

On the Zeitgeist and Activity Journal side we have been brainstorming a bit on how to have quicker and direct access to the journal. The best idea was to have it appear upon a mouse gesture of just...

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Jorge Castro: How do we get more developers?

Did you know that stackoverflow.com offers free advertising to open source projects? Every project can always use some more new blood. And if you don’t think that’s a good enough reason, as of this...

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