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Andres Rodriguez: TestDrive: Testing an Ubuntu ISO in real Hardware??

So, last month I was reading the “Unity Desktop and maverick backport” thread at the ubuntu-devel list. The discussion at some point became about How to Test Natty (Unity Compiz specifically) in real...

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Raphaël Hertzog: Librement: a new way to help people who want to contribut to...

I have this project in my head, I want to work on it but I always lack the time. In order to go forward, I thought I could write about it, at least it would let me clarify my ideas and the core goals....

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Thierry Carrez: Bleeding edge OpenStack Nova on Maverick

Want to test the latest cloud goodness ? Thanks to the new Nova trunk PPA, it’s really easy to run the freshest code from OpenStack Compute (Nova) on Ubuntu 10.10. Here is how. We will install...

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Jamie Bennett: Linaro 11.05 Alpha-1 Released

Hi, The Linaro team is pleased to announce the availability of the 11.05 Alpha-1 images. These very early developer images build on the great work done during the 10.11 cycle and can be downloaded from...

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Sridhar Dhanapalan: OLPC Australia documentary on the teevee

OLPC Australia has a documentary airing on Channel 7 this Sunday, 5 December at 11.00am (AEST), entitled “Ideas for Good – the One Laptop per Child initiative”. The documentary showcases our reach into...

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Ahmed Kamal: Ubuntu Cloud Forums a great place

The Ubuntu Cloud Forum is a great place to be in. We launched the forum about 3 months ago, thinking it may not see much activity. However surprisingly (in a positive sense) we're getting tens of...

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David Planella: After the first translations videocast

So, after having done the first translations videocast on the Ubuntu Translations channel yesterday, I can just say it was great fun, and from the feedback I got after the show it seems people liked it...

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The Fridge: Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Timo Jyrinki (Finnish Translation...

Ubuntu is brought to users in their own language by a large community of dedicated volunteer translators, who tirelessly work on localizing every part of the Operating System release after release.In...

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David Planella: Ubuntu Natty open for translation

After the new Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 pre-release, I am pleased to announce that Natty is now open for translation: Translation caveats. Remember that according to the release schedule translatable...

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Paul Tagliamonte: Myth Busted #3: Unity is "Lock-in"

The Myth Now, most of you know by now that I really don’t like Unity. At all. I think that it’s very buggy, and really kludged in. My views, however, are not what this is about. Unity has been called...

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Kubuntu: KDE Platform 4.6 Beta 1 Available

Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.6 Beta 1 are available for Kubuntu 10.10 and Natty. These are beta packages for beta software, expect bugs. Bugs in packaging should be...

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Ahmed Kamal: Announcing Ubuntu Cloud Portal

Another rocking day for the Ubuntu Cloud community! The Ubuntu Cloud Portal has just been launched hurray. The portal helps new-comers to the Ubuntu cloud community quickly find interesting information...

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Duane Hinnen: Help add screenshots to the Software Center

alsamixergui missing a screenshot I am always looking for ways that Ubuntu users, who do not know Python, C, or some other programming language, can contribute to Ubuntu. As Ubuntu grows in popularity...

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Harald Sitter: Kubuntu 11.04 Sneak Peek [UDS Cookie]

At every Ubuntu Developer Summit, the Ubuntu project comes together and tries to find new and exiting ways of breaking their own systems. So it also happened about a month ago in Orlando, FL. But let...

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Jorge Castro: Getting Started working on Unity

Now that Alpha 1 is out the door the different bits are starting to come together. We’ve got the compiz-based Unity in people’s hands, now it’s time to start the feature work and testing. The Desktop...

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Kenneth Wimer: Dream Job

Carrera Slot Racing - Testing and Design(It's not just for the Christmas holidays any more)

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Jonathan Thomas: “Muon” is now the Muon Package Management Suite

Starting with version 1.1, “Muon” is now the “Muon Package Management Suite”. (Don’t worry, I won’t try everybody try to say that for the sake of branding ) The Muon suite is made up of the following...

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Seif Lotfy: Revisiting: GNOME Shell + Zeitgeist = ?

I took more time today to play with GNOME Shell… Now this is just a dirty dirty dirty hack, I will look into cleaning up by the next week (I have some other things I need to take care of) So the...

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Zach Kriesse: An interview with xaphir

Just the other day I had the great pleasure of conducting an interview with Hal Davis, the project lead and inspiration behind an up and coming project, MilSpecLinux. He’s a really cool guy who I’ve...

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Brian Burger: “… rhetoric from reality…”

“Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit in order to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these...

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