Sense Hofstede: Ubuntu NL Release Party 2010
The Ubuntu NL boot at the Ubuntu NL release party 2010 with demo computers of OS4Free can be seen in the background. The table in the front is the table of one of the many HCC! groups present....
View ArticleSense Hofstede: GUADEC starting next week
As I’m writing this the first activities of GUADEC are already underway: on the schedule overview you can see today and tomorrow there are GNU Hackers’ Meetings in ‘hackerspace’ RevSpace in The Hague....
View ArticleSense Hofstede: Monday: first day on #GUADEC in The Hague
The famous GNOME banner in the foyer of the Haagse Hogeschool, as seen from next to the registration desk. Today we kicked off the pre-conference of GUADEC 2010 with the GNOME Open Desktop Day and...
View ArticleSense Hofstede: Tuesday: the second day of #GUADEC in The Hague
The free GNOME stickers in the shape of the logo of our beloved desktop environment, at the information and registration desk. This was probably the calmest day of the whole GUADEC conference. At the...
View ArticleSense Hofstede: Wednesday: the first day of the #GUADEC core conference in...
Several buildings, including the Maison de Bonneterie as seen from the tram stop 'Gravenstraat', near the 'Le Paris' cafe of the Canonical party. Today was the first day of the main GUADEC conference...
View ArticleSense Hofstede: The last day of #GUADEC is over
A close-up of the top section of the 'love' side of the GUADEC 2010 Hate/Love Wall. GUADEC 2010 has ended! It feels strange after all those months of preparation, but now it really is over. After a...
View ArticleSense Hofstede: Ubuntu Developer Summit Natty, Monday
I’m writing this blog post in a chair in the ‘Grand Caribe Convention Center’, at the end of the first day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit in preparation of the 11.04 Natty Narwhal release. It’s been a...
View ArticleSense Hofstede: Ubuntu Developer Summit Natty, Thursday and Friday
The Ubuntu Developer Summit is over! I’m sitting at home now, and after a day of recovery tomorrow the regular life of school and homework will start again. And how it will start! Next week is a...
View ArticleCesar Sevilla: Ubuntu Hour in Maracaibo
The Ubuntu Hour was carried out with a surprising assist in Maracaibo were made 3 “Ubuntu Hour” in which we have had assistance not so busy as of this day. The call was made through the services it...
View ArticleTony Yarusso: An Opportunity to Do What is Both Right and Fiscally Sound
In politics, as in much of life, it is common to have to decide between what is right and what is easy. Usually the just and morally preferable option is also the difficult and expensive one, and the...
View ArticleSridhar Dhanapalan: Speaking at linux.conf.au about OLPC Australia
I will be speaking at linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane about OLPC Australia, with a focus on the technical side. We have been doing some amazing stuff, but thus far we have been very quiet about it in...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Application menu support update for Thunderbird
Due to the work done on Firefox support, it wasn’t long before Thunderbird would follow… (Original picture) This is from Chris’ laptop, not PPAable or uploaded yet. I thought it would be a nice weekend...
View ArticleManish Sinha: Techrights/Boycottnovell Bane or boon? An experience
Yesterday I was browsing through the internet when I came across this link with the quote “Microsoft has pushed DirectX into Intel’s silicon,” explained to us a reader Can there be a limit on...
View ArticleJohn Baer: Design Concept – Software Centre App Store
Before you jump to any conclusions about the image above this mock up does not represent (“AFAIK”) what the Natty Software Centre will look like. Some information about development is available from...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Bashing Identi.ca
I was going to post this as a comment, but I was replying to such a small part of the original article that I wanted to make a new article to hold my thoughts. This relates to Techrights/Boycottnovell...
View ArticleJonathan Thomas: Muon Suite 1.1.0 released
After six months of development, I’m proud to announce the release of the Muon Suite, version 1.1.0. The main focus of this release has been to add additional package management utilities to help...
View ArticleDiego Turcios: Some small tricks of Qt
Long time with out writing in my blog. But here comes some things I discover when I was playing with QT. Some things I discover (Reading the Documentation!!!) I will like to share with you. First How...
View ArticleDiego Turcios: Dia del Usuario Ubuntu
Buena hispanoamericana/España a llegado una nueva edición del Día del Usuario Ubuntu. Estamos buscando expositores para que se pueda efectuar dicho evento. ¿Que necesitamos? Sabes algo de ubuntu, que...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: WebCott Automatic Boycotting
I just started writing my first Firefox Extension (you can try it - but warning - it has just been written by me and this is my first extension). It’s designed to automatically help you boycott...
View ArticleScott Moser: Failsafe and manual management of kernels on using grub2
When working with kernels on EC2 or really, any remote system, a 'reboot' can be quite nerve wrecking. In my previous post, I discussed how you can manually manage your kernels on EC2 instances that...
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