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David Mandala: Hello world!
Well, I’m finally joining the blogging world and have finally opened a blog. I’ll mostly be talking about ARM hardware and Linux, some personal BS will pop up from time to time I’m sure also. No real...
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Jamie Strandboge: Compiz vs Ubuntu Classic Desktop
I am running the development version of Ubuntu (the Natty Narwhal). I’ve tried the Unity desktop (and will continue to do so) but for reasons I won’t go into here, I need to use the Ubuntu Classic...
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David Planella: Translations on the telly
The plan for the community team to dominate social media first and the world afterwards goes on unabated. First it was At Home with Jono Bacon, then Ubuntu Development with Daniel Holbach. This time...
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David Mandala: Progress on an ARM cluster server box.
Top and Side view of Panda Board/ daughter card 10 stack I dummied up a cluster of Texas Instruments Panda boards and a daughter card that will control secure booting. I wanted to test the size and...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Myth Busted #1: Ubuntu Hackers are Canonical Employees
The Myth Ubuntu Hackers are just Canonical Employees. Ubuntu is ( therefore ) Canonical. People assume that Canonical guys and gals are the only ones who work on Ubuntu. When people talk about the...
View ArticleSebastian Kügler: Running for the openSUSE Board.
I’ve just sent off an email, in which I’m announcing my availability as candidate for the openSUSE board, which will be elected in early 2011. Here’s what I wrote: Hey openSUSE community, valued...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Launchpad read-only 10.00 UTC 8th December 2010
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for up to 90 minutes from 10.00 UTC on the 8th December. Starts: 10.00 UTC 8th December 2010. Expected back by: 11.30 UTC 8th...
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Harald Sitter: Phonon VLC 0.3 Rock Solid
Quite a while ago a project was started to combine the awesomeness and beauty of VLC with the awesomeness and beauty of Phonon in order to achieve world peace through world domination. Today the...
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Lionel Dricot: Joining Lanedo
Today is a new step in my life : I'm starting to work for Lanedo, an European GNOME company. Each change in a life is a somewhat sad. I'm leaving an innovative usability job with a bunch of very good...
View ArticleAlexander Sack: Video Texture streaming interface for gstreamer might help...
Video Texture streaming interface for gstreamer might help Linaros eglsink effort: Some spec for a eglsink where this interface would come handy:...
View ArticleJono Bacon: You Know What We Need In The Ubuntu Community?
This real-time contributions map shown in the Drupal website. It kicks the llama’s ass. Anyone want to make the love happen?
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Some really rough planet.ubuntu stats
After waking up today, I said to myself: “Hey. Today seems like a good day to run useless statistics that may just be totally off base.” Well. Here’s what I did. I got a copy of the planet.ubuntu...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Have we run out of easy fixes?
Way, way back in the history of Ubuntu I remember hearing a speech by Mark Shuttleworth about how Ubuntu can invest small amounts in key places to cause large changes for the better. I thought it was...
View ArticleBrian Burger: Tim Minchin Can So Do Mellow…
A surprisingly nice Christmas song from Australian genius Tim Minchin: He does get a few classic Minchin digs in (“the lyrics are dodgy” is a personal favourite) but it’s mostly a very nice song about...
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Robert Collins: justworks-hardware-vendors
Ok, so micro rant time: this is the effect of not taking things upstream: hardware doesn’t work Out Of The Box. Very briefly, I purchased a Vodafone prepaid mobile broadband package today, which comes...
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Ryan Macnish: Custom indicator applet icon
Recently, I have been helping out many, many people in #ubuntu-app-devel on Freenode with getting a their application indicator to use a custom icon. I recently went through a lot of hassle trying to...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: We need Harvest data sources
I blogged about the new Harvest a couple of times already. Yesterday we released 0.2.4 which fixed a bug which was filed more than a cycle ago… it merely said: “import json”. The way Harvest works is...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Myth Busted #2: You need to program to contribute to Ubuntu
The Myth In the second installment of “Myth Busted”, I’m going to cover the common perception that the only way to contribute to Ubuntu is by programming. Personally, when I ask someone about why they...
View ArticleColin Watson: man-db on Fedora
I just found out by chance that Fedora 14 switched from their old man package to man-db. This is great news: it should now be the beginning of the end of the divergence of man implementations that...
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