Jordi Mallach: Installing GNOME 3 in Debian
The following is a quick HOWTO for the brave Debian users who want to upgrade to GNOME 3. Assuming you have an up to date system running sid, and experimental listed in your APT sources, perform the...
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Richard Johnson: Burglar Googled Your Expensive Crib
OK, this is a bit of a rant. I couldn’t let this one go. As many of you know, I live in Chicago. We typically have really good local news, however tonight, they failed at the good part. My favorite...
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John Baer: Ubuntu Branded Orange Kitty – Take 2
I liked the original concept of orange kitty but it lacked the refinement I was yearning to see. As time permitted these past days I added additional polish to the earlier effort which has resulted in...
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The Fridge: Interview with Daniel Bray (Lupine)
In this interview Daniel Bray (Lupine) of the Ubuntu Florida LoCo Team explains how he was able to use Ubuntu instead of Microsoft to complete his college degree. In an era when almost all schools in...
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Aaron Toponce: Salt Packaged For Debian/Ubuntu
I created a Debian package for Salt, doing my best to adhere to the Debian Policy. You can find it at http://mentors.debian.net/package/salt. If you’re not familiar with Salt, head over to...
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David Henningsson: Independent volume for headphones and speakers
If you take Ubuntu Brainstorm’s word for it, one of the more popular wishes for Ubuntu, is to avoid having to adjust the volume slider up and down as you plug and unplug your headphones, but instead...
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Nigel Babu: User Days Poll
User Days were created to be sets of classes offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or intermediate Ubuntu user the basics in order to get them started using Ubuntu. User Days were born...
View ArticleJuha Siltala: Jukka Ehto is the Linux Contributor of the Year 2011 in Finland
The Finnish Linux User Group FLUG has awarded Jukka Ehto, the IT chief of the city of Kankaanpää with the Linux Contributor of the Year Prize. Lehto managed a large virtualization and desktop...
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Jono Bacon: Get Your App In Ubuntu
Here in the Ubuntu family we have a burning ambition to create Operating Systems for Desktop and Server that is simple, easy to use, available in your language, and entirely free. We believe in...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu One now works on Windows!
It’s been a long time coming but today we are thrilled to tell you that the much anticipated Ubuntu One official client for Windows is now available for download. A question we get asked a lot is…..why...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Font Family 0.80 released – with Ubuntu Mono
Hello all, Ubuntu Font Family version 0.80 has been released, download the .zip from: http://font.ubuntu.com/ This is made available under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0, you are expressly encourage to...
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Charlene Tessier: Part 2 – My Email Wish List
There are certainly days that I wish we could all go back to when email didn’t exist! However, email is here to stay – so let’s get it under control! After sketching out my ideas and thoughts on paper...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu 11.10 Development update
Ubuntu Development Update These are the days where the release team is awake for 24 hour per day. Every issue that comes up on their radar has to be evaluated and checked if it warrants re-spinning all...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Deployment reports are now public
Steve Kowalik writes: For a while now Launchpad has been using deployment reports that tell us what state our QA is in, which revisions are safe to deploy to production, or which revisions are not safe...
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Danny Piccirillo: Join the FSF Now for a New Membership Benefit: Credit Union...
During my 2010 summer internship at the Free Software Foundation I was able to bring lots of new ideas to the table, get involved with campaigns and publicity, and take on leadership roles like...
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Dave Murphy: Ubuntu One for Windows
Ubuntu One for Windows: The personal cloud that brings your digital life together. For Windows XP, Vista and 7. A significant accomplishment for the Ubuntu One team.
View ArticleAmber Graner: Banners and Table Covers – What I See.
If you’ve been to any open source events lately chances are good you’ve seen the new Canonical and Ubuntu Banner and Table covers. I like them. Purple, okay aubergine, and orange are two of my most...
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Aaron Toponce: Why Firefox Is My Browser Of Choice
Posted to my Google Plus account (https://plus.google.com/115784859563110525602/posts/cwwMBdh4iPL): Let’s talk browsers. Specifically, Opera 11.51, Firefox 7.0.1, Safari 5.1 and Chrome 14.0.835.163. I...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Launchpad now accepts mail commands from gmail
If you use gmail, you should now be able to send commands to Launchpad without gpg-signing. gmail puts a DKIM cryptographic signature on outgoing mail, which is a cryptographic signature that proves...
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