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Scott Moser: Using Ubuntu Images on AWS "Free Tier"
Amazon AWS recently announced an AWS Free Usage Tier. The summary of which is that new AWS customers can run a t1.micro instance 24x7 for the next year and pay nothing (or at least very little).There...
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Mario Limonciello: Updating the squashfs with an external rootfs
If it ain't broke don't fix itWe've all heard the phrase at least a dozen times in our life. Yet knowingly it's disobeyed over and over because of shiny new features that we don't need.It was brought...
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Ralph Janke: LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone...
The minutes for the Document Foundation's steering committee's public phone conference on 3-Nov-2010 are now available Some of the decision that were made: The first stable of LibreOffice will be 3.3...
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Jonathan Thomas: QApt/Muon 1.1 alpha released
Hi all, I’m proud to announce 1.1 alpha releases of both the QApt package management framework as well as the Muon Package Manager suite, based on the former. Muon is a powerful package manager built...
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Maia Grotepass: Geeks love pizza part I: Oct Ubuntu Hour lunch at Ginos
Thanks for the pics, Dewald. I couldn't make this one, but there will be another Ubuntu Hour at Gino's this coming Saturday. We meet at 12:30. See the even at...
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Jorge Castro: Unity Status update
Neil Patel has posted a status update of how Unity is coming along; for those of you chomping at the bit for compiz-powered goodness.
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Paul Tagliamonte: LoCo Lint — Lint checker for LoCo Teams
Hello, World! While everyone was at UDS, I had nothing to do. I know, right? I spent my time writing a small tool to help make the LoCo Council’s life easier. It’s called “locolint”, and you can find...
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Canonical Design Team: Of hinting and tables
I hope regular readers of the design blogs don’t think that we have abandoned our programme of telling you all about the font development – I know it’s been a while since the last post. The 10.10...
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Dustin Kirkland: Meeting your Childhood Hero
Who was your sports hero when you were 8 years old?Mine was, without question, Chicago Cubs right fielder, Andre Dawson. He had a tremendous swing, a laser rocket arm, a golden glove, and an intensity...
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Ahmed Kamal: PointnClick guide to running Ubuntu in the cloud
My previous post about running uec on ec2, drew some comments as being a fairly complex process. That may be true because essentially you're attempting to hack together a configuration which is not...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Unity on Wayland
The next major transition for Unity will be to deliver it on Wayland, the OpenGL-based display management system. We’d like to embrace Wayland early, as much of the work we’re doing on uTouch and...
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The Fridge: Unity on Wayland
The next major transition for Unity will be to deliver it on Wayland, the OpenGL-based display management system. We’d like to embrace Wayland early, as much of the work we’re doing on uTouch and...
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Seif Lotfy: Taking some time off!
I think I reached a point where I feel burned out! It has been a long year. I am constantly jumping between Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist related projects in terms of hacking management and hyping. I am...
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Valorie Zimmerman: Help the Graner Family
As many of may of heard, Amber Graner, Ubuntu community member extraordinaire, and Peter Graner received horrible news this week while at UDS: their house caught on fire.Thankfully their children and...
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Paul Tagliamonte: LoCo Lint Feature — File an issue for the LoCo...
Hello, World In response to my last post, I’ve added a new feature — report-issue. This will let any Launchpad user file a ( private ) bug against a project just for LoCo issues. This will also...
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Russell John: #Linux on Twitter
To everyone who’s reading this, let’s try to make #Linux a trending topic on Twitter. Please go ahead and write a line about Linux and use the #Linux hash tag. Thank you, and let’s give it a shot for...
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Jono Bacon: Making Our World More Respectful
Something has been bothering me a little recently, and I have been trying to think about the best way of solving it. This is a problem that is not specific to Ubuntu or my world, but one that I...
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Dave Murphy: My friend Alan Pope (who many in the Ubuntu community should...
My friend Alan Pope (who many in the Ubuntu community should know) has kicked off a new screencast project focussing on Ubuntu that he’s calling UCasts: http://ucasts.tv As you would expect, it’s 100%...
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Rick Spencer: 1 Week In
Back from UDS for a week now. Here's a progress update on some of the happenings in Ubuntu that I am tracking. There are, of course, myriad other aspects to the product that I care about, but that I...
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Raphaël Hertzog: Managing distribution-specific patches with a common source...
In the comments of the article explaining how to generate different dependencies on Debian and Ubuntu with a common source package, I got asked if it was possible to apply a patch only in some...
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