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Jonathan Riddell: Cloud Packaging, CD Download Page Bling, Texas Weather,...
Upstream KDE used to give distros a week to package releases, including beta releases. This ment we had plenty of time to package and test and find problems in releases before they go to users. These...
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Ahmed Kamal: Upgrade Lucid to Maverick on EC2
So you're running Ubuntu server Lucid on EC2 cloud EBS root, and decide you don't really want to wait till the next LTS release (12.04)! You want to upgrade your server to Maverick, well, wait no...
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Dustin Kirkland: Working toward Ubuntu 11.04 Server
Ahmed Kamal and I had a discussion on camera here at the Ubuntu Developer Rally in Dallas, Texas. We talked a bit about the Ubuntu Server's road map this development cycle toward the upcoming Ubuntu...
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Canonical Design Team: Bright, light and beautiful!
That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some fantastic photography sourced from our Flickr...
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Myriam Schweingruber: Last week in Amarok
The last days working towards a release We plan to release Amarok 2.4 at the end of this week and our developers have concentrated their efforts on fixing release blockers and eventual regressions. A...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Can We Appropriate Design?
’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the philosophy of opensource, because openness...
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Jorge Castro: Firefox application menu coming along....
Chris Coulson has the Firefox application menu extension working and in PPA for Natty testers: Instructions here. Please note, this is fast moving, so if your going to blog or retweet it please link to...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Full Circle Podcast 15: I’m in the Mood for Dancing
Full Circle Podcast #15: I'm in the Mood for Dancing In this episode, Brainstorms, FUD and Media Players Feeds for both MP3 and OGG: RSS feed, MP3: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/category/podcast/feed...
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David Planella: New Launchpad Rollout: Please Put Translations on Hold for a Bit
NOTE: this notice affects only translations for upstream projects in Launchpad, and not the translations of Ubuntu packages. Yesterday’s Launchpad rollout came with lots of translation goodness, such...
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Ahmed Kamal: Ubuntu Server news storm
Check out my interview with Dustin Kirkland. Take a sneak peak into Ubuntu Server's future directions. The server team is working on some pretty exciting technologies for the natty release and later....
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Net Neutrality: Why It Matters
The discussion about Net Neutrality continues to heat up. Over at LifeHacker, they asked "What Would You Miss Most if the Net Wasn't Neutral Anymore?" One user responded with a comment that compared...
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Fabien Tassin: New Chromium security update and translations news
I’ve just submitted a security update of Chromium to Ubuntu Natty and to my fellow security sponsor Jamie for Maverick and Lucid. It’s a minor update of Chromium version 8, namely 8.0.552.237~r70801....
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Collin Pruitt: Ubuntu Hardware Issues Poll – Results
So, I’ve let the poll that I was running in my previous post run for 13 days, and since the major voting period is over I have closed it and generated a graph of the results for your viewing pleasure:...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: fbautostart -- the Fluxbox XDG Autostart Daemon
Well, I don’t know how I’ve forgotten to blog about this, but I’ve written a tool a while back called fbautostart fbautostart is an XDG autostart ( It’s a freedesktop spec ) app for Fluxbox. All you...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: New tool to check support status of dependencies
A common source of unnoticed depwaits or uninstallability are main packages which introduce new build or binary dependencies from universe. These either require fixing, or filing a main inclusion...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: WordPress and APC 3.1.3p1
In order to improve performance on my blog (it is on a light-weight Linode after all), I use APC as both an opcode cache and an object cache. On Ubuntu Server 10.04, you get APC 3.1.3p1 if you install...
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Jonathan Riddell: Burns Supper and KDE Release Party
Me and Colin and Tomas are having a Burns supper to celebrate 4.6, let me know if you want to come
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Efrain Valles: Alive and kicking
It’s been a while since my last post. I have really been super active in other aspects of life, mostly family as me and my family continue to grow. My son is almost 2 years old and he is a shipment of...
View ArticleJo Shields: The phantom fifth freedom
Not for the first time, I’ve seen the suggestion in the echo chamber that Mono packages should be moved from Debian into the non-free repository, which is not formally part of Debian. The reason, as it...
View ArticleSoren Hansen: It only took me 20 years..
tl;dr: I now have daily backups of my laptop, powered by Rackspace Cloud Files (powered by Openstack), Deja-Dup, and Duplicity. I’ve been using computers for a long time. If memory serves, I got my...
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