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Matt Zimmerman: A diversity statement for Ubuntu
The Ubuntu website states that “we aim to make Ubuntu a wonderful place to participate”. We developed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct to set a standard for participants to accept each other in the spirit of...
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Daniel Holbach: Feedback from Ubuntu Dev first timers
Jono sort of stole my thunder on this one, but here’s a bit more detail about what I’m doing and why it’s really exciting. At our last sprint in Dallas, after some discussion Jono gave me the advice to...
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: Greg Taylor Discusses Media Nommer with Ubuntu's Ahmed Kamal
Ahmed Kamal, the Ubuntu cloud community liaison interviews Greg Taylor to discuss “media-nommer” an open-source cloud based distributed media encoding system that runs over the Ubuntu server platform...
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Matthew Helmke: Video interview with InformIT
I don’t really enjoy watching myself on film, but you might. I was recently interviewed by informIT and this short video is the result. I talk about Ubuntu, my books, and more. Ubuntu Unleashed 2011...
View ArticleNathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, February 10th
Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 is out now, and we can see Unity taking shape. SCaLE9X is coming up soon and you should definitely be attending if you can make it!. Let's talk about this and more on Thursday, and...
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Eric Hammond: A Simpler Way To Replace Instance Hardware on EC2
A while back I wrote an article describing a way to move the root EBS volume from one running instance to another. I pitched this as a way to replace the hardware for your instance in the event of...
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Aurélien Gâteau: January 2011 wrap-up
This month was not as productive as I expected. I spent one week at the Platform Rally for Ubuntu Natty, and the next one taking care of ill daughter, son and wife… Looks like everyone waited for me to...
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Aaron Toponce: Frustrated with Last.fm
First, get yourself caught up here, so the rest of my post will make sense: http://blog.last.fm/2011/02/07/lastfm-radio-becomes-a-premium-feature-on-mobile-and-home-entertainment-devices I joined...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: apc.stat=0 and Updating Software
When you're running APC on PHP and you have apc.stat=0, it's sometimes easy to forget that when you update software (WordPress) the code running on your server remains unchanged until you flush the APC...
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: You're Invited: Community Leadership Summit
Invitation to attended the Community Leadership Summit (CLS) in conjunction with OSCON 2011 in Portland, OR.
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: You're Invited: This Week's Ubuntu Bug Day - LibreOffice and...
If Want to help squash some LibreOffice and OpenOffice Bugs in Ubuntu then mark you calendars and help out on February 10, 2011.
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Dax Solomon Umaming: WP Super Cache saves the day
It’s the time of the month where I check the sites and workstations I manage. It’s when I purge the log files (which I review weekly), delete old backup files, run fsck, update my admin scripts, and go...
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Brandon Perry: OpenVAS 4 has landed in UNSTABLE in OBS
Add this to your sources.lst:deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v4/xUbuntu_10.10/ ./Then you need to get the key and add it to apt:wget...
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Valorie Zimmerman: GSoC 2011 - Start your engines!
It is time, right now, developers, and students -- craft your ideas for Google Summer of Code! Students, please drop into the IRC channels of the projects you are interested to work with, and talk...
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Scott Lavender: Amicable Antidisestablishmentarianism
Kicking some knowledge about Ubuntu Studio and talking about where Ubuntu Studio is heading with Natty.Ubuntu Studio Fun FactsI think there are a lot of misconceptions and generally an anemic amount of...
View ArticleJoe Barker: Selecting A Planet
I’ve decided to go back to the setup I used to have with my blog and Planet Ubuntu posts. The planet should now only pick up any posts in the ‘Ubuntu’ category on my blog. What this means is that...
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Aaron Toponce: The Three Laws Robots Can Read
Since first discovering QR codes, I’ve always been a fan. I think they’re a lot of fun, and I totally dig that they are effectively open and free- meaning that anyone can generate and use QR codes...
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Jorge Castro: Unity Bitesize Report for 8 Feb
Welcome to another edition of the Unity bitesize report! New Stuff Cando’s been working on two fixes (which are under review). The first is being able to middle click on a maximized window title in the...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Bug expiry reactivated
As we foreshadowed last October, bug expiry is now active again. Bugs that are marked Incomplete and that haven’t been touched for 60 days will now start moving to the Expired state. If it turns out...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Should launchpadlib default to staging?
Launchpad API client developers: have your say in bug 714043 on whether launchpadlib should connect by default to Launchpad’s staging server (so data is discarded), or to real Launchpad.
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