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Ddorda: Fluxbox users team in Launchpad
Hello there, Actually I've never wrote anything about it, but it's been a long while I'm using Fluxbox, and I must say that I love it very much. it's fast, customizable and easy to use. – however, new...
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Benjamin Mako Hill: Doppelgänger
It's funny, I don't remember donning a cape and making an apperance on the food network.
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Raphaël Hertzog: How to find the right Debian packages: high-level search...
The Debian archive is known to be one of the largest software collections available in the free software world. With more than 16,000 source packages and 30,000 binary packages, users sometimes have...
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Stephan Hermann: Countdown Started: T-4
When this counter hits 0 something's really changingStay Tuned.
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Thorsten Wilms: Migration
Northern hemisphere summer 2017: Ada walks into an electronics store to buy a new, larger pad, as she earned more than enough credits with her free-software contributions, recently. Instead of giving...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Upstream related videos from UDS
Along with the last set, here are more videos from UDS that might be interesting to upstream projects: Thunderbird on Ubuntu Launchpad and Upstreams OpenStack Packaging Thunderbird in Message Indicator...
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Rick Spencer: Unity in Natty Evaluation 1
Today I am finally finding Natty to be usably stable. So long as I stay away from Open Office, it seems to be running quite fine. So, I updated my maverick spider diagram in an attempt to capture where...
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Thierry Carrez: My desktop backup solution
I was inspired by a good blogpost by Martin Pitt to setup my own desktop backup solution. I liked the idea of not requiring the computer to be on all the time, and having the backup pushed from the...
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Martin-Éric Racine: New GPG key released - signatures welcome
Having rediscovered the wonders of GPG, I finally got around generating myself a 4096R key, signing it with my old key and issuing a transition statement. Given this, if You happen to have signed my...
View ArticleRalph Janke: Are Open Source Contributors in Risk of Being Prosecuted for...
US Representative (and incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee) Peter King has requested the US State Department to classify Wikileaks as a terrorist organization. While the topic of...
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Seif Lotfy: Zeitgeist coming to KDE
The KDE desktop has taken the lead to bring the semantic desktop to users with their KDE 4.0 release. Although it had a rough start back then, IMHO Nepomuk always stood out as a major and remarkable...
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Duane Hinnen: CLI Companion 1.0rc2 Released
Command List expanded and contracted. I was planning on this release being the final release for CLI Companion 1.0. However there were some bugs and features I felt we needed to address sooner rather...
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Jono Bacon: Natty: Off To a Great Start!
A little while back I blogged about the work planned for Natty in the community team. I just wanted to provide a quick status update to summarize progress so far in the cycle. I am pleased to report...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: OpenRespect
Hello, World! I was checking out OpenRespect.org, and I have to say, I’m impressed. It’s about time. I’m going to be sure to conduct all my projects in this way, and I think you should too. Take a...
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Jono Bacon: Testing Natty and Unity Safely With a USB Stick
There is quite the buzz in the community about the new Compiz-driven Unity, and I know many of you are keen to play with it. Of course, do remember that it is incredibly early in the cycle and more...
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Bryan Quigley: Scribus, How close is it to replacing Adobe Acrobat Pro?
For my specific use case of making PDF fill-able forms. If you remember I previously posted about showing support for the Adobe suite on Linux. In this post I look into how Scribus is progressing on...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Hello, Tumblr!
Welp, I’ve decided to move to Tumblr. I’m sorry if this messes up datestamps. I really hope this does not bork everyone’s timelines. I used a migration script ( found a few bugs in it, while I was at...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Firefox Extensions
I currently use Firefox as my primary browser predominantly because of the number of extensions I regularly use in my work in Information Security & Web Development. I also like Chrome and am...
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Robert Collins: testrepository iteration for python projects
Tesetrepository has a really nice workflow for fixing a set of failing tests: Tell it about the failing tests (e.g. by doing a full test run, or running a single known failing test) Run just the known...
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Dustin Kirkland: These aren't the droids you're looking for
I recently inherited a disused Linksys wireless router. The previous owner had long since forgotten the WEP passphrase. Of course, it's trivial to reset a Linksys router back to the factory defaults,...
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