Raphaël Hertzog: Review of my Debian related goals for 2010
Last year I shared my “Debian related goals for 2010”. I announced that I would not be able to complete them all and indeed I have not, but I have still done more than what I expected. Let’s have a...
View ArticlePasi Lallinaho: Two Books Apart
Here comes two book recommendations from a guy from whom you don’t expect book recommendations from. HTML5 For Web Designers and CSS3 For Web Designers are fabulous books, especially the former. (HTML5...
View ArticlePasi Lallinaho: Xfce 4.8 released
As the Xfce team announced yesterday, Xfce 4.8 is released. Congratulations and thanks to all contributors. I hope Xfce will have a bright future. The Xfce team has also created a new website theme for...
View ArticleSebastian Kügler: open-slx end-user platform announced
A couple of months ago at open-slx, when we (like so many times before and after) talked about how we can make the lives of Linux users easier, an idea was sparked. While there’s huge amounts of...
View ArticleAhmed Kamal: Help Ubuntu Server, Voice your Opinion
Hello Ubuntu Cloud and Server communities. Now is your chance to voice your opinion about Ubuntu server, as well as help make it better! The Ubuntu marketing team would like more insight into why your...
View ArticleDuda Nogueira: This blog is on again! Blog ativo!
pt-br Sim, sei que estou há muito tempo sem postar nada por aqui. Acho que “microblogging” e redes sociais meio que minam minha vontade de blogar… mas vou retomar este blog. Aguardem! enquanto isso,...
View ArticleBenjamin Drung: libkibi 0.1 released
The first version of libkibi is released. This library is designed for formatting sizes in bytes for display. The user can configure a preferred prefix style. Packages for Debian unstable and Ubuntu...
View ArticleBenjamin Drung: Poll: libkibi VS libbyteprefix (or: How to call the library? 2)
Dear lazy web, thanks for voting the best name for the library that helps implementing the Units Policy of Ubuntu. The winner with the most votes has been libkibi. There was one suggestion that got my...
View ArticleBenjamin Drung: Poll: How to call the library?
Dear lazy web, I am writing a library that implements the Units Policy of Ubuntu. This library can be used to format sizes (of files, disks, memory, etc.) for displaying them and the other way around....
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 219
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #219 for the week January 04- 17, 2011 and is available here.In this issue we cover: Council Updates.Translations Interviews: Daniel Nylander...
View ArticleDiego Turcios: Trying Firefox 4-Beta
Well Firefox4 Beta is here. Want to try it on ubuntu? Don’t know how? Well it is not dificult. Lets open the terminal and lets add this: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa After this...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: Ubuntu Server Survey 2011
Take advantage of your voice in the direction of the Ubuntu Server!We invite your comments and opinions in the 2011 edition of the Ubuntu Server Survey. What do you need from your Linux servers? What...
View ArticleBrian Burger: Appreciating Ubuntu Even More
Want to learn to appreciate the power of a modern desktop Linux install? Spend a week at your folk’s place, swearing at your stepmother’s WinXP box. Shockingly crippled… how do Windows users victims...
View ArticleMark Shuttleworth: Qt apps on Ubuntu
As part of our planning for Natty+1, we’ll need to find some space on the CD for Qt libraries, and we will evaluate applications developed with Qt for inclusion on the CD and default install of Ubuntu....
View ArticleVincent Untz: Cross-distribution meeting on application installer
Back in October, at the openSUSE Conference, many people were interested in the whole app store/market place/software center topic for openSUSE: we had a session about that, and several hallway...
View ArticleAndrea Gasparini: About presentations
From a long time I wanted to post something about presentations, but I felt somewhat embarassed, and thought that my project wont be an interesting argument; by the way, given that a post about...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Qt apps on Ubuntu
As part of our planning for Natty+1, we’ll need to find some space on the CD for Qt libraries, and we will evaluate applications developed with Qt for inclusion on the CD and default install of...
View ArticleBodhi.Zazen: Technical difficulties with the Ubuntu Forums
The Ubuntu forums is having some technical difficulties resulting in a number of intermittent problems including a slow response time, proxy errors, and at times problems in posting or duplicate posts....
View ArticleJono Bacon: Some Further Notes On Qt In Ubuntu
Mark recently blogged about plans to make Qt a first-class citizen alongside GTK in Ubuntu. He outlined the reason for the plan in the opening few paragraphs: As part of our planning for Natty+1, we’ll...
View ArticleJonathan Thomas: The Muon Suite has moved to git.kde.org
Now that things have settled down a bit from the 1.1.0 release, I’ve decided to move the Muon Suite and QApt project’s to KDE’s Git infrastructure. I’d like to thank all the sysadmins that helped with...
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