Pedro Villavicencio: Banshee Bug day rocked the house: Show me some green...
Last week we had an extraordinary Bug Day for the Operation Cleansweep and as you probably know yesterday we organized a Bug Day for Banshee the Multimedia Player and guess what happened…? it was...
View ArticleMaia Kozheva: "That Theme with the Orange"
Some people have asked about the GTK theme on the screenshot in my previous post, wondering if it’s the Radiance Maverick beta. It’s not. However, while I’ve been waiting for said beta, I applied the...
View ArticleRalph Janke: Why the two stackexchange sites Ubuntu and Unix should not be...
http://stackexchange.com, famous for http://stackoverflow.com, http://serverfault.com and http://superuser.com has recently decided to create community proposed and driven Q&A sites....
View ArticleSiegfried Gevatter: Experiments with image recognition
It’s summer, which means: I’ve got time for some crazy experiments! As you may know, two years ago I played around with voice recognition. My original idea for this summer was to do some robotics...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Application Menu Status for 19 August
Hear ye, hear ye,It’s been a while since the last application menu status. Since the last one the app menu developers have had a sprint, a bunch of other work in Unity, including some holidays as well...
View ArticleLydia Pintscher: KDE GSoC 2010 wrapup
Google Summer of Code 2010 finished. It’s been a blast again for KDE. Of our 50 students 46 completed the program successfully and one withdrew after successful midterm evaluation to start an...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Fluxboxen Love’n
Hello, World! So, I’ve been ( as most of you know ) working on Fluxbox for a while now. It’s finally back up to speed! With some fancy new themes, and new nightly git tree builds, things have never...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Helping people while on the go!
I am finding that Droidstack is a pretty great way to participate on the Ubuntu Stack Exchange and all the others if you’re on Android.
View ArticleUbuntu Server blog: Watch out for Maverick Glusters – Coming to a cloud...
GlusterFS is a nice flexible clustered filesystem for Linux servers, and (through several methods) a few different client OS’s. It is included in Debian, and so, we have it available in the Ubuntu...
View ArticleSeif Lotfy: OMG! Current Iteration
So to show you guys feedback on what we are doing in OMG! I would first like to introduce you to the “professional” alternative GNOME Achievements that is being developed by the project hamster guys....
View ArticleHarald Sitter: Ubuntu One – Technical Aspects
Following my post on Ubuntu One in KDE I would now like to take a closer look at how Ubuntu One works using KDE technologies and what the current state of affairs is. So be prepared for a lot of...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: A Glimpse of Ubuntu Desktops in the Financial World
I worked from Chicago today, meeting up with a good friend and doing my daily hacking from a Caribou Coffee shop with free WiFi on the river and at the foot of the Willis Tower (previously known as...
View ArticleMelissa Draper: Proposing a mentoring partnership framework for Ubuntu Women
Back in December while starting to scurry about to pull together the competitions framework which I was hoping would make a few splashes, I was already thinking ahead to after the competitions,...
View ArticleJim Campbell: Upcoming FLOSS-related Events in the Midwest
Here’s a quick rundown of some upcoming Free and Open-Source software events in the Chicagoland / greater-midwest area. This weekend: Barcamp Chicago Running all day and night this Saturday and Sunday...
View ArticleAndre Noel: Ubuntu-BR @ FISL 11
I should have written it before… But, finally I will write about what we did as Ubuntu-BR at FISL 11 (Free Software International Forum) in July, 2010. FISL 11 was very good, altough some technical...
View ArticleHarald Sitter: QtWebKit + Video = :-)
Kubuntu 10.10 is likely to come with a QtWebKit using browser (currently Rekonq is default) and QtWebKit allegedly does some HTML 5 magic. Most importantly from my POV audio and video playback without...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [debian] Belated happy 17th birthday to Debian
Between work and parenthood, I'm struggling to keep on top of things a bit at the moment, but so I'm a bit late to the party. Debian turned 17 during the week. I think the first thing that brought the...
View ArticleDiego Turcios: Problemas frecuentes al utilizar Oracle en Ubuntu
Algunos de los problemas que solemos tener cuando instalamos Oracle en ubuntu son: Que el usuario no a sido añadido al grupo dba, que la linea de comando sql no funcionan entre otros. Para poder...
View ArticleDiego Turcios: Frequently Problems when we use Oracle in Ubuntu
When we begin to work on Oracle in Ubuntu. We have some troubles to run Oracle. Some of the common mistakes it gives us is that the user is not part of the dba group, or similar errors.I am living a...
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