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Matt Zimmerman: Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 10 for December 2010
As I mentioned recently, the Ubuntu Technical Board is reviewing the most popular topics in Ubuntu Brainstorm and coordinating official responses on behalf of the project. This means that the most...
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Raphaël Hertzog: People behind Debian: David Kalnischkies, an APT developer
The two first interviews were dedicated to long-time Debian developers. This time I took the opposite approach, I interviewed David Kalnischkies who is not (yet) a Debian developer. But he’s...
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Julian Andres Klode: sbuild on a tmpfs
As some already know, is that I use sbuild to build all my packages in clean chroot environments. For this, I use the ‘aufs’ “mode” of schroot, that allows you to setup a chroot with one read-only base...
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: Ubuntu Certified Hardware
Is your computer Ubuntu Certified? Find out by looking at Canonical maintained Ubuntu Certified Hardware list.
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David Planella: New Maverick language packs ready for testing
We’ve uploaded language packs in the maverick-proposed repository for everyone to test before they are released to all users. These should contain all the updates and fixes in translations done...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Full Circle Side-pod Episode #6: Just Filling In
Full Circle Side-pod Episode #6: Just Filling In In this episode, Ubuntu 11.04, Alpha-1, on trial. This is an extra, irregular, short-form podcast, which is intended to be a side-branch of the main...
View ArticleRalph Janke: Apache Software Foundation leaves JCP - Red Hat in alliance with...
As previously reported here the Apache Software Foundation threatened to leave the JCP if Oracle would not allow the ASF to use the TCK toolkit for usage for the open source project Harmony that is...
View ArticleRalph Janke: LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone...
he Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on December 11, 2010, 1400 UTC. Current agenda items: Support models and how to organise this on an international basis...
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: Ubuntu Technical Review Board Looks at Brainstorm Ideas
Ever wonder if Ubuntu Developers actually look at the ideas in Ubuntu Brainstorm? The answer is yes.
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Jorge Castro: Puppet cost me my other best friend.
Now it’s not deja vu. This happened to me before. My other best friend is now also moving to California this month to work for a large company who is deploying tons of Puppet. It’s a tremendous...
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Aurélien Gâteau: Common user interface mistakes in KDE applications, part 1:...
“It is very easy to recognize a KDE application: one always has to resize it to make it usable!”. That’s what a friend once told me. You may think “Why should I care? It is really easy to resize a...
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Elizabeth Krumbach: Computer Engineer Barbie has a penguin
I voted for it and I was pretty excited when I heard about Computer Engineer Barbie becoming a reality. I pre-ordered mine (product page here) as soon as I could and finally received it today!...
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Danny Piccirillo: Ubuntu Maverick Post-install Guide is late, but on the way.
I've felt bad about not having the post-install guide ready really early on, so i decided to not post anything until i do. It turns out this is an ineffective technique for pressuring myself into...
View ArticleColin Watson: libpipeline 1.1.0 released
I've released libpipeline 1.1.0, and uploaded it to Debian unstable. The changes are mostly just to add a few occasionally useful interfaces: Add pipecmd_exec to execute a single command, replacing the...
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Paul Tagliamonte: The RSA Algorithm, Humanized ( sorta )
The Rules So, we have some ground-rules before we start off on this venture. I’ll qualify them out below. I’m a computer scientist, not a strict mathematician. Yes, what I’m versed in is math, but I’m...
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Martin-Éric Racine: Adding default support for Airport remote sinks in...
In another case of "what were they thinking?" it has been my displeasure to find that support to discover remote Apple Airport audio sinks is not enabled by default in PulseAudio and, in practice,...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Basics of Bug Triaging
On Wednesday, December 15th 2010 at 17:00 UTC we welcome Bug Control member Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi (devildante) for a class on the Basics of Bug Triaging. In order to prepare for this class our...
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Jorge Castro: Application Menu making it's way to Firefox
Chris Coulson has been working on adding Application Menu support to Firefox for 11.04. Here’s the initial cut: The reason you still see the old menu inside the window is that for testing developers...
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Martin Owens: Britonaut Sez, Done in Ubuntu!
Hey weekenders, fancy cheering up after the week long roller coaster ride that was Coronation Street? Did you watch Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders impassioned fillerbuster against tax breaks for...
View ArticleShane Fagan: Help a Novacut developer
Just in case you missed it http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/12/help-novacut-buy-akshat-a-new-laptop/
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