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Jonathan Riddell: KDE's 4.6 Release Day
Today is KDE's 4.6 release day. Shiny new versions of KDE Platform, KDE Applications, Plasma Workspaces plus Digikam and KDevelop are available for installing. See kubuntu announcement for details....
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Valorie Zimmerman: KDE 4.6 - Elegance!
It's here! Beta was great, and I expect even more from the full release! See more at KDE.org. I love all the artwork accompanying 4.6, which shows the beauty and elegance we want from great software.
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Seif Lotfy: Apologies to GNOME
It has been a very bumpy road for Zeitgeist with GNOME. I really don’t feel like going into details and history since this won’t help us proceed. I admit my part of the problem. While I might not be...
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Christopher Denter: Non-Photorealistic Fiber Rendering
I recently wrote an interesting little GLSL shader program for a course at my university. I was given the topic Non-Photorealistic Fiber Rendering. What we call ‘Fibers’ are the nerve pathways that go...
View ArticleChristopher Denter: Markerless Object Recognition & Tracking (Movid)
At the end of 2010 I went to Paris (France) for an internship at a local company that produces multitouch hardware. I chose the job myself because I thought it would be interesting. What I implemented...
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Benjamin Drung: Symptoms of a dying graphic card
All started in December last year. I saw a red and a green pixel on my monitor. Moving the window containing the wrong-colors pixels corrected them. The wrong-colored pixels reappear from time to time...
View ArticleJorge Castro: User Days: Unity Q+A and other sessions
Got nothing better to do this weekend? Well, you could check out Ubuntu User Days. A full day of user-related tutorials this Friday and some sessions on Saturday night too. At 0300UTC (10pm EST) on...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Full Circle – Special Edition #01 – The Perfect Server
That’s right folks, we (ie: Robin Catling) managed to get all the pages from the Perfect Server articles into one handy dandy PDF! Yes, the cover looks familiar, but don’t worry, inside are many pages...
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Jonathan Riddell: 4.6 Release Supper
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the desktop-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Coder, tester, or usability expert: 4.6 Release Supper in Edinburgh tonight had haggis, neeps,...
View ArticleShane Fagan: Creating an Ayatana for streamlining development?
I had an idea today and I think its important enough for sharing with everyone. In Ubuntu we seem to be trying to move to make development as streamlined as possible, the note id like to stress is its...
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TurnKey Linux: TurnKey Linux 11 released (part one)
Ladies and gentlemen, part 1 of the TurnKey Linux 11 release is now officially out, including 45 new images based on Ubuntu 10.04.1. We pushed out the 11.0 release candidates 3 months ago, and with...
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The Fridge: Becoming an Ubuntu Developer: a short guide
I’ve heard and/or read a number of complaints over the past while about how the process of becoming an Ubuntu Developer is difficult, so I thought I’d write up a short guide to one of the many paths to...
View ArticleAron Xu: Ubuntu 里的 ibus-pinyin
前面写的《Ubuntu 中文拼音输入法小结》中说 ibus-pinyin 是 Python 写的，存在一些谬误。ibus-pinyin 已经用 C++ 重写，并且做了很多改进。 可能有些用 Ubuntu 的朋友要问为什么现在还会有那些崩溃的现象，其实这是发行版的问题，迟迟没有能将新版推送到用户手中。 感谢 Shawn P Huang，Shellexy 和 BYBird 的提醒，博客上的那篇文章也做了更新。
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Dylan McCall: Digital locks invading libraries
Canada's House of Commons resumes next week with continued hearings on the new copyright bill, C-32.Some elements of it make me smile, others make me frown. I won't go into the stupidity of protecting...
View ArticleRalph Janke: February 2011 Ubuntu Hour in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
The February 2011 Ubuntu Hour for the Waterloo Region in has been announced. read more
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Stephan Adig: Fun with HP Support Europe
Disclaimer: We are happy customers of HP Hardware.The HP hardware is great, no complains here, but what about the quality of the HP Support Department?It's a disaster.Here's the story:In November 2010...
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The Fridge: Xubuntu Project Lead approved
In a Xubuntu Community Meeting attended by nine people, a vote was taken to confirm Charlie Kravetz as Xubuntu Project Lead. This was the culmination of many months of Xubuntu operating with an interim...
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Seif Lotfy: Gnome Activity Journal 0.6.0 Pink Unicorns dont exist released
GNOME Activity Journal 0.6.0 is out! Stefano Candori rocked the release and GNOME Activity Journal is packed with fixes and awesome stuff like… - Added drag and drop support to the three views - Added...
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Sebastian Kügler: Slicing up the Web
The Webslice applet has been in Plasma (kdeplasma-addons, to be precise) since 4.4 already. It allows the user to display a part of a webpage on the desktop. This can be useful for monitoring only a...
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Paul Hummer: Book Report: Universal Design for Web Applications
Note: For every book I read this year, I'm going to write a good old-fashioned book report about it. Since I don't have to worry about grades, it won't necessarily be anything long or detailed, but...
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