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Jonathan Carter: Happy Birthday, Debian!
Today, Debian turns 17. It’s great to see how one of the first GNU/Linux distributions out there still manages to be important and relevant. Happy birthday, Debian! This may also be a good time to say...
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Benjamin Drung: Daily builds rock, but bzr imports suck
Ubuntu‘s development platform Launchpad recently gained the ability to create daily builds. BzrBuilder is used for creating source tarballs and PPAs are used for building the source tarballs....
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Nathan Handler: Ubuntu Chicago Global Jam
The Ubuntu Chicago LoCo is getting ready for the upcoming Global Jam. We are trying a new venue for this event. We will be meeting at the Barnes and Noble at 728 North Waukegan Road in Deerfield on...
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Scott Kitterman: Misunderstood
Based on the number and passion of comments generated by my last post, it was one of my most “popular” ever. It even got referenced in someone else’s blog post. Many (probably most, but I didn’t...
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Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu at the Creative Arts Charter School
One of the schools Partimus has been working with over the years is the Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco. Today I finally had the opportunity to visit the school. I arrived around 12:30...
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Vincent Untz: Want to join Novell?
I've been at Novell for two years and a half now, and it's been an interesting ride. I must say I've had two amazing bosses who understand the way I work and who have been really supportive, so that...
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Canonical Design Team: Gone for a walk?!
When I posted on Friday about my new friend I received a bunch of messages and a couple of comments from people who were excited to see I had at least one friend Sadly, I came in this morning to find...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10
Multitouch is just as useful on a desktop as it is on a phone or tablet, so I’m delighted that the first cut of Canonical’s UTouch framework has landed in Maverick and will be there for its release on...
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Gerfried Fuchs: Happy 17th Birthday, Debian!
Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! You kept me busy for the last 10 years and I am really looking forward to what the next 10 years might bring for our relationship. Thanks also to all the people who also...
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Canonical Design Team: Get your photos on millions of computers!
It’s that time again! We’ve been accepting submissions on the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr group for a while now but with the deadline fast approaching for Beta we need to get together a shortlist and...
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The Fridge: Multi-touch Support Lands in Maverick
Canonical is pleased to announce the release of uTouch 1.0, Ubuntu’s multi-touch and gesture stack. With Ubuntu 10.10 (the Maverick Meerkat), users and developers will have an end-to-end touch-screen...
View ArticleChase Douglas: The Canonical Multitouch And Gestures Project
A little over two months ago, a “skunkworks” type project inside Canonical was started. The goal is to enable gestures and multitouch support throughout Ubuntu and the software that comprises it. The...
View ArticleChase Douglas: Thoughts on the Architecture of Multitouch in Ubuntu
Introduction We have been working to introduce a full multitouch and gesture solution for Ubuntu, and we’ve targetted Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) Netbook Edition as an initial test and integration...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Ricardo Pérez (Spanish...
Ubuntu is brought to users in their own language by a large community of volunteer translators, who tirelessly work on localizing every part of the operating system on every release. In this series of...
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David Planella: Join the fun at the Ubuntu Global Jam
Getting ready for the Jam It’s less than two weeks before our ever amazing community joins around the globe to have a good time while improving the incoming Ubuntu release, 10.10, codenamed the...
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Christopher Denter: End of my PyMT GSoC 2010
Google’s Summer of Code 2010 comes to an end for me today. It has been a great time working on awesome projects like PyMT and Movid. My task was to enhance PyMT’s text input methods. One of the joys...
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Christopher Denter: Python Multitouch: PyMT 0.5 released!
I’m sure you’ve sensed all the buzz about Ubuntu going multitouch. I truly think that this is some great news, being the multitouch and HCI enthusiast that I am. But what if you want to test your...
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Jim Campbell: Thanks, Debian!
Today is Debian’s 17th birthday*, and with that comes Debian Appreciation day! Do you want to give them some thanks for the super work that they do? Just head over to thank.debian.net, and leave...
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You In Ubuntu: AppArmor makes it into the 2.6.36 Upstream Kernel
Want to know more about AppArmor? Amber Graner talks to Matt Zimmer, Pete Graner and interviews John Johansen, Upstream AppArmor Maintainer and member of the Canonical Kernel Team.
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You In Ubuntu: Ubuntu's growing plans to add more Cloud contributors to the...
Want to know more about the Ubuntu Cloud Community? In this interview Amber Graner talks to the newest member of the Ubuntu Community Team - Ahmed Kamal, Cloud Community Liaison.
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