Laura Czajkowski: Why I love to meet more Ubuntu People
Last Thursday and even again last night I got to meet and hang out with people who use, develop, and advocate Ubuntu. It was really interesting to put the faces to the names sit down and talk to them....
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Why the CC
May as well come straight out and say it, I’ll be looking for nomination and support as I would like to take a place on the CC. No I’m not mad (although I am Irish), I love being on the LoCo Council...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Rebooting vs. Stop/Start of Amazon EC2 Instance
When you reboot a physical computer at your desk it is very similar to shutting down the system, and booting it back up. With Amazon EC2, rebooting an instance is much the same as with a local physical...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Oneiric] linux kernel 3.0.0-12.19 uploaded (ABI Bump)
We have uploaded a new Oneiric linux kernel. Please note the ABI bump. The most notable changes are as follows: * rt2x00: Serialize TX operations on a queue. * net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c: fix...
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Martin-Éric Racine: Proposed updates for CUPS-PDF packages at Ubuntu
For those who use CUPS-PDF on Ubuntu, I have pushed some updated packages into Lucid-proposed, Maverick-proposed and Natty-proposed, mainly to make the package's post-install actions bulletproof, so...
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Jacob Peddicord: Your Move, Valve
Remember a year back when those Linux Steam builds leaked, everyone went crazy, and then nothing happened? Yeah. Well, it's happening again, except this time with Desura, and the Linux client actually...
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Laura Czajkowski: Rugby Rantings and Ravings pays off on iphone app
Who knew people read my tweets, I got told my tweet made it on to the official Iphone app as I had tagged it #RWC2011. I’ve had to take my twitter account off private so people can either search or...
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Jonathan Ernst: GPG Key Transition
For a number of reasons, I’ve recently set up a new OpenPGP key, and will be transitioning away from my old one. The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but I prefer all future...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu 11.10 Development update
Ubuntu Development Update Sticking exactly to the plan, we are quickly moving towards the release of 11.10, and it’s only three weeks until then. If you like partying, start organising your local...
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Tony Whitmore: Jorgenson Album Designer on Ubuntu
Jorgenson supply beautiful, customised photo albums and I’ve selected them for my wedding photography. Not only is the variety of albums wide and the quality very high, but they have album design...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up
On September 24th and into the 25th the Classroom team hosted the 4th Ubuntu User Days! Logs from all sessions are now available: Ubuntu Q&A by pleia2 and nigelb Introduction to User Day by pleia2...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Framework, Applications and Workspace 4.7.1
Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.7.1 are available for Kubuntu 11.04. Packages for oneiric have been available for a while, but the backports for 11.04 took longer than...
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David Sugar: Have desktop--will teach
Hau mitakolapi (hello my friends),while I know some in our community have been working on things like unity or gnome-3, I choose recently to play with icewm. I had wanted to create a self contained...
View ArticleManish Sinha: Zeitgeist User Survey 2011 Fall
Hi everyone, The Zeitgeist project has created a survey to understand and prioritize user expectations. The survey can be found here Please spread the word. You can use Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook,...
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Stéphane Graber: Using Arkose for development and packaging
Since I last reinstalled my laptop, I try to keep my usually insanely long list of installed packages to a bare minimum. I’d usually have hundreds if not thousands of libraries and development packages...
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Serge Hallyn: Temperature indicator
I have a sony vaio f11 laptop. It’s pretty quick for a laptop, but it also runs pretty hot. (Sony has a bios update that supposedly cools it down a bit – by some reports at the expense of performance –...
View ArticleAmber Graner: What is a Leader? What Motivates People?
What Is a Leader? A common definition of a leader is “A leader is a person who influences a group of people towards the achievement of a goal.” In the Ubuntu Community we have many wonderful people who...
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Aaron Toponce: Avoid Using which(1)
This post comes from BashFAQ/081 on Greg’s Wiki. He argues why you should not be using which(1) to determine if a command is in your $PATH at the end of the page. I’ll put that argument at the front:...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Juju in 11.10 beta2, LXC and OpenStack improvements
A new version of juju has been merged in Ubuntu 11.10 beta-2, if you’re not already running Oneiric beta, you can download the beta-2 ISO and start experimenting. Let’s checkout the latest happenings...
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Randall Ross: Facebook is Dead
This has been a long time coming. Good riddance Facebook. You will not be missed. Join Diaspora. Liberate Your Social Network Credits
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