Alexander Sack: Canonical, GENIVI, HP, LiMo and MontaVista become Advisors to...
Canonical, GENIVI, HP, LiMo and MontaVista become Advisors to LinaroTM: Great to see how more and more key software players from the ARM space step up and start actively contributing to Linaro …...
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Scott Moser: Ubuntu Natty Narwhal Cluster Compute Instances
Some time ago, Amazon announced two new instance types aimed at high performance computing. The new types differ from Amazon's previous offerings in thatThey use Xen "hvm" (Hardware Virtualization...
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Jorge Castro: Unity Status Report for 14 December
Another week, another set of bitesize bugs! But first off we’d like to welcome Matthew Rasmus to the growing list of new Unity Contributors. Matthew has been working on Bug 686182: “Unity launchers run...
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Dustin Kirkland: So Many Passwords...
Courtesy: http://xkcd.com/792/Yesterday, there was an announcement that hashes Gawker Media's account passwords had been compromised and published on the internet. I had never heard of Gawker...
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Ubuntu Server blog: Ubuntu Server Meeting Minutes from 2010-12-07
Agenda Review ACTION points from previous meeting ALL: please check the SRU tracker http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html for ‘needs-verification’ bugs robbiew to review...
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Stephan Adig: New DC² Qooxdoo Frontend in Action
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View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Surveying contributions
If you have ever contributed to an open source project or wish you had got round to it then please can you fill in this survey? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/36WWXCF It isn’t a quick one, but if you...
View ArticleJacob Peddicord: Chrome OS discoveries
All right, so I've had a chance to play around with things on this Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook, and have discovered some interesting details and features. There is an ambient light sensor to the right of...
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Scott Kitterman: Current KDE Software Collection (SC) development release...
This is a bigger thing than it might appear to the casual bystander. There was no Kubuntu or Kubuntu Mobile on armel for Natty Alpha 1 due to compiler issues. These same issues pushed back our plans to...
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Richard Johnson: Promise me you won’t fail like this
UPDATE: after just over 2 days, all of my whining may have paid off. I woke up 12/15 to find my GMail working again. I would like to think a Google employee who contacted me on Twitter got it fixed or...
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Bodhi.Zazen: Zen Koans
I have been using display-dhammapada for some time now but I have always wanted a similar program for zen koans. I came across a perl module on CPAN , “Zen Koans” and it was a nice start. From there I...
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Raphaël Hertzog: Howto to rebuild Debian packages
Being able to rebuild an existing Debian package is a very useful skill. It’s a prerequisite for many tasks that an admin might want to perform at some point: enable a feature that is disabled in the...
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Daniel Holbach: Video cast Christmas special
Normally I would’ve done the next video cast next week, but with slowly approaching Christmas everybody has probably better things to do than watching Daniel rambling on about Ubuntu Development. So...
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Fabián Rodríguez: I just donated to Wikipedia. Have you ?
It just took a few minutes. Considering the massive amount of time Wikipedia saves me every day explaining technical terms and providing historical references to many projects and products I work...
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David Planella: New Translations Videocast: First Steps Translating Ubuntu
After the first Ubuntu Translations videocast two weeks ago, join me tomorrow in a new edition where I’ll talk about the first steps to get you started translating Ubuntu. So if are either: new to...
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Ahmed Kamal: Ubuntu Cloud Community Meeting
Just a quick update, the weekly cloud community meeting time has been changed to 6pm-UTC, so that the US is awake. Everyone is invited, it's a free party! Once in the meeting, we'll all be helping each...
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Jorge Castro: Pithos and Pianobar, for the win.
Lifehacker had an article on pianobar, a command line client for Pandora. I found it nicer to use than the web Flash player, but I just had to have my Last.fm scrobbling. DoR answered my question on...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Changing how we track Launchpad’s bugs, questions and blueprints
From today, all Launchpad bugs, code, questions and blueprints are tracked under the one launchpad project. We’ve already moved everything from the individual projects over to the parent launchpad...
View ArticleRalph Janke: AskUbuntu reaches 5000 questions - 11000 answers - 7000 users -...
9 weeks after the successful launch as permanent Q&A site in our new Ubuntu design, we have reached the 5000 question threshold. Those 5000 questions have been asked and answered to 93% with 11800...
View ArticleUpstart Development Blog: Upstart 0.6.7 “Return of the Mole” Released
Support for disabling a job without deleting the file or commenting out the “start on” stanza; some new D-Bus properties and signals and documentation improvements. 0.6.7 2010-12-14 ”Return of the...
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