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Benjamin Drung: libkibi ready for testing
Yes, the library is finally called libkibi. The second poll ended with a tie between libbyteprefix (48 votes) and libkibi (45 votes). Then I decided to call the library libkibi. libkibi is hosted on...
View ArticleMartin Owens: No Business Like Bad FOSS Business
In response to Bruce Byfield’s article on how We shouldn’t feel bad when businesses have no morals. I feel compelled to point out the flaw in his logic and hopefully add some sense to why moral outrage...
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Jorge Castro: Integrating with web apps
Call for Help and Ideas! Everyone knows I love web apps. You have two extremes. Old school “native apps and in control of my data” and then the other which is basically ChromeOS; No local state, all...
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Fabien Tassin: More Chromium translations landed upstream
Good news! yesterday, a new batch of translations from the Ubuntu Translators (or should I say, from the Community) landed upstream in Chromium Trunk. That’s all we had 2 days ago for the...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Planet Eats Video. Yum!
Dear Lazyweb, I've seen a few Ubuntu members try to embed video in their Ubuntu Planet posts only to have them evaporate here. Ahmed's recent post (just below this one) being the latest "victim". Why...
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Jono Bacon: Making Ubuntu More Personal
Community is a deeply personal experience. While write communities such as Open Source get together to make things (as opposed to read communities who consume content together), the attraction and...
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Nigel Babu: User Days
Its that time of the year again! We’re having the Ubuntu User Days! And this time we have a shiny new logo thanks to lyz We’re still looking for instructors or interesting topics to teach. So far we...
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Scott Moser: Using euca2ools rather than ec2-api-tools with EC2
The Ubuntu UEC Images that Ubuntu produces on EC2 are in every way fully supported, "Official Ubuntu". As with other official releases, access to source code for security and maintenance reasons...
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Raphaël Hertzog: How to create custom RSS feeds with WordPress
WordPress has many alternate built-in feeds: per category, per tag, per author, per search-keyword. But in some cases, you want feeds built with some more advanced logic. Let’s look at the available...
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Siegfried Gevatter: A list of some commercial GNU/Linux games
I thought I’d be nice to make a little list of some of the GNU/Linux games I’ve tried out this past year. I’ve tried to keep the list heterogeneous (different game genres, all from different producers,...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.6 RC 2 Available
Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.6 RC 2 are available for Kubuntu 10.10 and Natty. These are beta packages for beta software, expect bugs. Bugs in packaging should be reported...
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Ahmed Kamal: Cloud LAMP Stack in 60 seconds
Need to setup a LAMP development or test environment ? on the cloud ? Ubuntu server ? Think it's hard ? Think again! See me setup a LAMP stack, get wordpress up and running in less seconds than most...
View ArticleAlexander Sack: less bugs for me
almighty pitti was so nice to free me from the load of another 70 assigned launchpad bugs … together with the mozilla bugs i got rid the other day I finally got down to a bug list that i can actually...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Speaking at FOSDEM
In a moment of madness I submitted a talk for the lightning talk room at FOSDEM. The talk title was “Is the UK Government backing Free Software?” I found out the other morning it was accepted. So I’m...
View ArticleRalph Janke: LibreOffice Now Available in ppa for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04
Libreoffice is now available and installed easily for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 by adding the libreoffice ppa. The following steps allow the addition of the ppa and the installation of LibreOffice: read more
View ArticleMartin Owens: GPF – He who must not be named… Bill Gates?
The comic General Protection Fault has been doing a special story based around the Harry Potter book series but converting the story from magic to computer geekery called Harry Barker. GPF is now doing...
View ArticleSteve Stalcup: Skype
Anyone Skype? If you do, let me know your info. You can email me to stay sekrit. vorian@ubuntu.com
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Fabien Tassin: Chromium translations explained: part 1
This is the first part of a series of posts about the Chromium translations. This part explains how the upstream translations work, next parts will cover the interaction with Launchpad, the machinery...
View ArticleSteven Harms: Live Each Day Like It’s Your Last
“Live Each Day Like It’s Your Last” is a popular phrase thrown about, and it is hard to imagine why it ever became so popular. Surely, if today was actually your last day, you would not procreate and...
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Martin Owens: It’s only a tool!
Perceptions are a funny thing, this isn’t true: But plenty of people think it is.
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