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Raphaël Hertzog: Go2Linux interviewed me: the biggest problem of Debian
Guillermo Garron of Go2Linux enjoys a lot the “People behind Debian” interviews that I make. That’s why he interviewed me (with somewhat similar questions) and published the result on his blog. Click...
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Jussi Schultink: A little shout out…
Hi All!! I don’t write often, but this time I wanted to give a little shout out to someone who is doing a great job in the background that nobody is seeing yet, but will make a lot of things easier for...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Myth Busted #4: By pandering to non-technical users, they...
The Myth To quote a friend of mine: I don’t know that “people who want a free OS that just works” is niche, but these people aren’t really potential linux contributors, so it makes life worse for us...
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Maciej Danielski: Tried Ubuntu 10.10 for a week and now back on #! CrunchBang...
Last week I decided to give Ubuntu 10.10 codenamed “Maverick Meerkat” a try. I have to say that this version looks absolutely amazing and everything worked out of the box but it felt very heavy and...
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Paolo Sammicheli: Italian LoCo Testing Team Survey
At last UDS we discussed about The LoCo Testing, and about what we made in the Italian LoCo Team. Most of the info already passed through the mailing lists so I don’t need to put all the data here....
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Stephan Hermann: 2010-12-03: Life's Changing
Without further notice:This was the first surprise.
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Charles Profitt: UDS: Improving Diversity
The Ubuntu community embraces and encourages diversity. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. We expect members of the...
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Risto H. Kurppa: Get what’s your own. Facebook data download test.
In October Facebook announced that they will make all user data downloadable. This means that you now can download a single .zip file with all your status updates, messages, photos and profile...
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Greg Grossmeier: Open Data Day Hackathon – CitySpender
Today was the International Open Data Day Hackathon and I helped coordinate a group of people in Ann Arbor, MI to participate pretty last minute. There was a post to the School of Information’s (my...
View ArticleSteve Stalcup: I’m FREEEEE!!!!
no more facebook for me! If you have made the choice not to use facebook, speak up. If you love fanbook, I’d love to hear from you too!
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Aaron Toponce: SSH Known Hosts Fingerprints and Hostnames
i just came across this today, so I thought I’d share. It’s been more than a month since my last post (which is really out of my element), so I’m definitely due. However, I make no promises about...
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Martin Owens: Doing Mockups like DoctorMO
Hey all, several people have now asked me how I do the mock-ups like this one on the wiki: These are great because they’re wire-frames which show what is a part of the design (blue) and what is a...
View ArticleSteve Stalcup: Quote of the day: ” Patience is for Laz…
Quote of the day: ” Patience is for Lazy People”
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Stephan Hermann: My Son
Just for rememberance:Daddy and Son, the same color, worshipping Mommy...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [tech] A cleaner puppet manifest
Jon Downland is tinkering with Puppet, and wrote a class with a package resource to install a bunch of packages, but didn't quite like the way it was written. The way that I'd achieve the same thing,...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [tech] If you're trying to use a USB serial adapter as your...
Seriously, the amount of yak shaving I'm doing these days... So I discover this CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE config option. I proceed to edit my .config, throw it in there and rebuild my kernel. (For the...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [tech] And if only I'd read Planet Debian first...
Argh. So of course there's a difference between CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=y and CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m, and that would explain the behavior I'm seeing. Thanks Ben Hutchings. I guess I'm recompiling my kernel...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [tech] If you're trying to use a USB serial adapter as your...
The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y Debian kernels do not appear to be. Somewhat strangely, the config option doesn't even wind up in the config file in the typical...
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Stéphane Graber: sandbox 0.2 released and packaged !
Yesterday, while enjoying the snow falling outside (finally!) I went through my TODO list for sandbox and implemented most of what was on it. Ext4 support for the copy-on-write partition You can now...
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Belinda Lopez: How to give away computers with Ubuntu and Edubuntu
Just in time for the holidays; your guide to giving away computers with Ubuntu and Edubuntu or your favorite *buntu. In the past few weeks I’ve been contacted by several organisations who are giving...
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