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...
View ArticleRaphaël 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...
View ArticleLaura 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...
View ArticleNathan 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...
View ArticleJorge 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...
View ArticlePaolo 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:...
View ArticleAaron 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...
View ArticleUbuntu 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...
View ArticleAurélien 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...
View ArticleEric 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...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Test your might!
Think you’re an Ubuntu pro? Here’s are some unanswered questions sorted by vote.
View ArticleShane 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...
View ArticleJordan 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...
View ArticleChuck 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...
View ArticleTony Yarusso: Drivel lives!
I discovered today that the GTK blogging client Drivel is apparently seeing active development again. Nifty! See http://drivel.sourceforge.net/
View ArticleCharlie 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleSeif 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...
View ArticleJorge 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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