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The Fridge: 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...
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Seif Lotfy: Release Announcements: Zeitgeist 0.7 and libQZeitgeist 0.1
I will make this short so I can start kissing some @$$ We released Zeitgeist 0.7 “All I have is this woodchuck” today, which comes with major performance improvements. Fetching events is AT LEAST twice...
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Fabien Tassin: HTML5 logo
The W3C unveiled a logo for HTML5 today. You can find all sorts of goods there, logos in various sizes and formats, badges, get free stickers, buy tee-shirts.. If you’re into this kind of stuff, enjoy.
View ArticleMartin Owens: If it sounds mad
I’ve just been reading Glyn Moody’s article on the defence of hackers and open source. And no doubt I fully disagree with any notion that Free and Open Source is as relatable to some mass anarchistic...
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Chuck Short: A rally in Dallas..
Last week the server team along with members of the Canonical OEM server team, members of the Landscape team, and the rest of the Ubuntu platform team sprinted/rallyed in Dallas. Some of you might know...
View ArticleChuck Frain: Ubuntu Maryland Team Meeting Jan 20th!
We’ll be having our monthly Ubuntu MD meeting this Thursday, Jan 20th. Among the things we’ll be discussing is the future of the Ubuntu MD team. What do we want to do over the next few months and the...
View ArticleBrian Burger: Excellent Little Apps: PDF-Shuffler
Rummaging through my blogposts related to Ubuntu, too many of them are grumbling or complaining posts. We forget about the awesome stuff in Ubuntu because it Just Works; it’s the stuff that’s broken or...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: An Only Slightly Fictionalized Story
Before heading back to graduate school, my brother worked full-time as a personal fitness and strength trainer. Like many trainers, he started out in an established gym and then struck out on his own...
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David Tomaschik: Is 25 Old?
I've begun to feel... restless. Periodically, I feel that I haven't done anything significant, made contributions, achieved anything. Tonight I couldn't sleep, so I decided to do a little browsing to...
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Bodhi.Zazen: How to install Slitaz with ext4 and grub2
If you are not familiar with Slitaz, it is a light weight Linux distribution. The iso is about 30 Mb but do not let that fool you, it is packed with features. Post installation there is a reasonable...
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Stephan Adig: 8 Months of Hard Work -> Success
First of all great news:we are running now with round about 350 hosts on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04 LTS) Server Flavour on Bare Metal (HP Rackmounts DL360/DL365/DL380/DL385 from G5 via G5P, G6 and G7 , HP...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDevelop 4.2 RC 1 Released
Packages for the release of the KDevelop 4.2 RC 1 are available for Kubuntu 10.10 and Natty. These are beta packages for beta software, expect bugs. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa...
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Ahmed Kamal: Hack on Ubuntu Cloud Utils
Want a chance to hack on the cloud? Yes Ubuntu cloud code? What could possibly be cooler! For us cloud geeks, almost nothing! So, here's the deal. Ubuntu aims to be the best operating system for the...
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Raphaël Hertzog: What I publish on Planet Debian and Planet Ubuntu
Up to now, Planet Debian and Planet Ubuntu were syndicating the main feed of my blog. I changed this recently (remember, I explained how I created my custom WordPress feed). Read on to learn why and...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Unity Bitesize Bug Status for 19 January
I’m a day late due to being sick yesterday, now things are back on track. The team is now back from Dallas, Texas, and as OMG!Ubuntu! points out, much has landed after the sprint, a culmination of a...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Request for Help: Lintco
Howdy! How are you? Well? Good. I’m well, thanks for asking. I’ve been working on a tool for the past few months called “lintco”. It’s a nifty tool to help with Ubuntu Local Community teams. I have no...
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Chuck Short: Using Cobbler on Ubuntu
As I mentioned in a previous post, the server team has been working on getting cobbler into shape and usuable in the Ubuntu archive. Well that day has finally happened and cobbler has been accepted...
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The Fridge: Call for Nominations for the Developer Membership Board
Call for Nominations for the Developer Membership BoardThe terms of 6 of the 7 members of the Developer Membership Board shall soon expire, and new members must be selected.The DMB is responsible for...
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Fabien Tassin: Chromium release management explained
Some people seem to be confused about the Chromium release management, the weird x.y.z.t versions, the channels, the PPAs… I often receive questions about those subjects from end-users, but also from...
View ArticleSoren Hansen: Moving duplicity (and Deja-Dup) backups
In my last blog post I said that I had moved my backups from an external disk to Rackspace Cloud Files and promised I’d explain how. Ok, so why bother? I had about 100 GB of data that was being backed...
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