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Rick Spencer: Log those Unity Crash Reports!
Natty Alpha 1 is baked and available!This alpha is exciting to me because the Unity Launcher is already pretty usable. I'm using it daily, and am already addicted. The move to the new compiz has really...
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Ryan Macnish: New Pytask release!
I am very pleased to announce the latest version of an application of mine called Pytask, I hinted in a blog post a while ago that it was nearing release, but I was set back by both bugs in the code...
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Nigel Babu: Cleansweep Stats
Total bugs with patches: 2389 (-6) Reviewed patches: 423 (-5) — Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 99 (0) Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-upstream’: 187 (-5) Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-debian’: 63 (0) Bugs with...
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The Fridge: Announcing Ubuntu IRC Membership
I am pleased to announce that the Ubuntu IRC Council is now ready to start accepting applications for Ubuntu IRC Membership. The Ubuntu IRC Members team represents the people who have made a...
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Daniel T Chen: Low-hanging fruit? We have plenty!
Martin asks whether we've exhausted the low-hanging fruit. From my myopic lens, emphatically no. Despite dwindling available resources for Ubuntu (and FOSS, generally) development, I've continued to...
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Matt Zimmerman: Breathing information
I’ve written previously about my reading habits, online and offline, and the patterns I extrapolate to content consumption in general. I’ve been talking with other people about this as well, and am...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Release Day 4.5.4
Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4 are available for Kubuntu 10.10. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Um... is it just me or is tumblr sending passwords in...
The Problem before you read this, know there’s a solution, and a secure way to login! I’m playing with some tumblr stuff, when I saw that you had to POST to a non-HTTPs URL. Curious, I checked the web...
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Belinda Lopez: Ubuntu Developer Manual project
Just wanted to set the record straight that the project I’m working on this cycle is the “Ubuntu Developer Manual” and not the Ubuntu Manual Project. Confusing, I know, but two completely different...
View ArticleRalph Janke: Ubuntu LoCo Team's Website Moved to New Server
The Ubuntu LoCo Team has moved its website to a new server. This allows more flexibility for the future of what the website will be able to offer to Canadian Ubuntu users and other interested parties....
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Mario Limonciello: The Nov 30th break of Asterisk 1.8 w/ GV
On November 30th, Asterisk GV outbound dialing started breaking for people. The cause was unknown, and it became more prevalent the next two days.The symptoms are a continuous ringing for the outbound...
View ArticleKurt von Finck: MariaDB And Trademark
I’d like to wish Henrik Ingo well now that he has publicly announced his resignation from Monty Program. Henrik, I especially wish you all the best with the new member of your family. I know you put a...
View ArticleJono Bacon: The LoCo Council Optimizes LoCo Teams For Success
For those of you who are interested in Ubuntu, you may be familiar with LoCo Teams. These are Ubuntu user groups based all over the world that advocate Ubuntu, help people with their Ubuntu questions...
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Edubuntu: Edubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1 Released
New Development Release Edubuntu 11.04 (codenamed: Natty Narwhal) is the next version of Edubuntu due for release in April 2011. Development on the system is already in full swing and today marks the...
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Seif Lotfy: GNOME Shell + Zeitgeist = ?
Unity has it. KDE is getting it. So I took the liberty of hacking on Shell (thanks to the guys on #gnome-shell) After 2 days (no JS experiece) I wrote the JS DBus bindings around Zeitgeist and did...
View ArticleKubuntu: Natty Alpha 1 Available
The first alpha release for natty is available for the brave early testers. It features KDE Platform 4.6 Beta 1, Qt's Raster graphics engine and GStreamer multimedia.
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The Fridge: Natty Alpha 1 Released
defn Spy Hopping: “A form of cetacean behavior that consists of rising vertically out of the water, head first, and scanning the entire surrounding area while rotating.” (Source: Dor)Natty Narwhal is...
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1 Released: Time To Test!
I have talked before how important the Natty cycle is for Ubuntu, particularly with the move to Unity on the desktop. This is an important cycle for us to pull together and hammer on Unity and make...
View ArticleScott James Remnant: Event matching in Upstart
A little while ago I was asked to solve a problem that somebody was having with Upstart, and I realised that people weren’t understanding how things were actually working and were just muddling along...
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