Lucas Nussbaum: Windows dynamic disks and debian installer ?
Windows has a feature called Dynamic Disks, which makes it ignore the DOS partition table and manage partitions its own ways. gparted is supposed to detect that, and warn the user that it can’t deal...
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The Fridge: Call for Testing – Ubuntu Friendly
Hello all, As weeks go by, we are getting closer and closer to Ubuntu 11.10 release and, therefore, to Ubuntu Friendly beta release. An alpha version of the site is now public for testing:...
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Serge Hallyn: Sharing mounts with a container
Sometimes you might want to mount a device or directory tree into a running container. Since the container is in its own mounts namespace, you can’t just mount it under /var/lib/lxc/container/rootfs –...
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Kubuntu: Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 Released
We’re preparing to release Kubuntu 11.10, the Oneiric Ocelot, in October 2011. With this beta pre-release, you can see where we are with our bug fixing and polishing of the official release. Read here...
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Xubuntu: Xubuntu Oneiric Ocelot beta2 released
There are a few times when, through hard work and diligence, we get things right. The developers and contributors of Xubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” believe they have it right. They are proud to...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2. Codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”, 11.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a...
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Jani Monoses: Lightspark 0.5.1 released
After over two months of work since 0.5.0 by a handful of developers, there's finally a new release of Lightspark, the (other) open source Flash player. Unlike Gnash, Lightspark supports the AVM2...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Tablets, Free Software, and You
Tablets are the current 'big thing' in computing devices -- so much so, in fact, that many believe tablets will replace most of the uses of laptops and desktops. This aligns closely with the trend to...
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Jono Bacon: Represent
On Saturday my band, Severed Fifth will be supporting Exodus, Heathen, and Attitude Adjustment at Gary Holt’s (Exodus guitarist and currently playing with Slayer) wedding reception. I will be there...
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Philippe Cortez: Ubuntu Party in Paris in November
Everyone has already heard about our little Ubuntu Party in Paris (France) organized every 6 months to celebrate the new release of Ubuntu.We are always trying to do more, and for the Ubuntu 11.10...
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Philippe Cortez: Ubuntu Party in Paris in November
Everyone has already heard about our little Ubuntu Party in Paris (France) organized every 6 months to celebrate the new release of Ubuntu.We are always trying to do more, and for the Ubuntu 11.10...
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Aurélien Gâteau: Make Skype a bit less shy
I already wrote some time ago about sni-qt, a Qt plugin which turns old-school systemtray icons from Qt applications into shiny StatusNotifierItem | AppIndicators. Last week I was busy debugging a...
View ArticleHajime MIZUNO: [PlanetUbuntu]Update gimp-painter- package for Oneiric
This post serves as the post test to Planet Ubuntu ;) I uploaded the gimp-painter- package (for Oneiric) to my PPA and gimp-painter PPA. What is gimp-painter- ? Patch added MixBrush,G-Pen tool and the...
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Elizabeth Krumbach: User Days tomorrow!
I’ve been prepping for several weeks with Nigel Babu and this week we wrapped up the last loose ends for Ubuntu User Days tomorrow, Saturday 24th (and a couple hours into Sunday the 25th UTC)! User...
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Clay Weber: Slim it down!
An almost-overlooked addition to the upcoming Kubuntu 11.10 is the new Kubuntu Low-Fat Settings package. With this set of new default settings for various KDE bits, it is quite possible to reduce...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Oneiric server, Deploy Server fleets p2
Welcome to the second installment of this article series. In the first part of this article we installed an Ubuntu server instance, made sure it became an orchestra installation server. If this is new...
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Andre Noel: Falling Skies
Boss: Hey, I’m worried about this satellite thing… I need a program that will calculate where it will fall… Programmer: Ok. I can deliver it by Monday. Boss: But it will fall before Monday!...
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Jono Bacon: Unity Lenses and Books
One key focus of work in the Ubuntu 11.10 cycle was getting the lenses functionality in Unity in shape. 11.10 brings a series of stability and usability improvements to the lenses functionality. One...
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Jose Ernesto Davila Pantoja: See you @ Software Freedom Day Nicaragua
In a couple of hours the Nicaraguan Free Software Community will gather together to celebrate the Software Freedom Day 2011. The activities starts early in the morning with a "collaborative" breakfast...
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Laura Czajkowski: Annoying bug reports
Running Oneiric, so I know I expect to have bugs and I do try my best to report them when and if possible, poor folks in #ubuntu-desktop have been extremely patient with me and helped me report and add...
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