The Fridge: Interview with John Lenton
John Lenton: Photo by mpb In this continuing Ubuntu One interview series, Amber Graner talks to John Lenton, Senior Engineering Manager for Ubuntu One. Lenton give a little about his history with FOSS...
View ArticleJoe Liau: Ubuntu: Challenged Chicken
Ubuntu (pronounced /ˈlɪnəks/ lin-əks, also pronounced /ˈlɪnʊks/ lin-uuks) is an ancient creature that has survived to modern times, but has only been spotted out in the wild by a select few. It is...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Full Circle issue 53 is here!
This month: * Command and Conquer. * How-To : Program in Python – Part 27, LibreOffice – Part 8, Backup Strategy – Part 1, GRAMPS – Part 2, and Ubuntu For Business & Education – Part 2. * Linux Lab...
View ArticleTony Whitmore: Michelle and Simon
Michelle and Simon are a great couple who have been together for seven years. I photographed their wedding earlier this year. Michelle is a bundle of energy, there’s never a quiet moment when she’s...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Diaspora. Join Us!
In a previous post, I declared the site that likes to throw BOOKs at people's FACEs to be dead. Though that may be a premature statement, I think we've got a shot. Just like Ubuntu has a Bug #1 that...
View ArticleJacob Peddicord: Programming, Projects, and Packaging Problems
It's time for some long-overdue updates on some software projects of mine. I'm posting this not only to show some things I've got planned, but also to motivate myself to do something about them. When...
View ArticleJohn Baer: Counting Down Oneiric With Unie
Robots with large smiling eyes make excellent mascots as exhibited by Pixar’s Wall-e. I decided to create a similar mascot for a Ubuntu 11.10 countdown banner which I affectionately named Unie. Dynamic...
View ArticleManish Sinha: Zeitgeist User Survey 2011 Fall Results
Hello everyone, As I announced earlier we had opened User Survey for Zeitgeist for general feedback and assessment of our own work. It was also to help us understand what are the user requirements....
View ArticleBryan Quigley: The Debian Desktop is Unprofessional; Mozilla made the right...
For more background check out the wikipedia page. Back story: Mozilla owns the Firefox trademark and wants to ensure that when the Firefox name is used the program is up to their standards. This means...
View ArticleGrant Bowman: Kenya Ubuntu Hour
Jambo wote, (hello everyone) I am working with the Kenyan Team to host an Ubuntu Hour in Nairobi, Kenya this Thursday from 17:00-18:00 EAT at iHub. iHub is an Open Space for hackers, technologists,...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Ask the Ubuntu Server team
Ubuntu server 11.10 is shaping up to be a fantabulous release! Tons of hot new features are landing the biggest of which would be juju Ubuntu’s new orchestration and service management framework,...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Interview with John Lenton
John Lenton: Photo by mbp In this continuing Ubuntu One interview series, Amber Graner talks to John Lenton, Senior Engineering Manager for Ubuntu One. Lenton give a little about his history with FOSS...
View ArticleTimo Jyrinki: From MeeGo to Tizen, Debian, ...?
The MeeGo community is frustrated with the news of the MeeGo brand being abandoned. Some are understandably angry or otherwise not happy about how Linux Foundation, Intel handled the Tizen announcement...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: Apologies to all, especially Debian
I recently posted something very accusingly that has been brought to my attention that my premise was completely false and baseless. There is no excuse for me not doing my due diligence. I assumed...
View ArticleBrandon Perry: DerbyCon CTF Results and Notes
This weekend I attended DerbyCon, a hacker convention being held for its first time in Louisville, Kentucky. It had great talks by industry heavyweights in security, and a really awesome and fun CTF...
View ArticleJason Gerard DeRose: Signal propagation with CouchDB
I've said that by using CouchDB, Novacut gets real-time collaborative editing "for free". I've often gotten flack for saying this, but almost by definition CouchDB does do a real-time sync between...
View ArticleAdnan Quaium: The Ubuntu Countdown Site
I’ve not notice this site earlier. The site contains a huge countdown timer for the latest Ubuntu release (right now it is showing the count down for the upcoming release Oneiric Ocelot aka Ubuntu...
View ArticleLydia Pintscher: Teaching the next Adas – join KDE for Ada Lovelace Day...
October 7th is Ada Lovelace Day, a day where people write about women who influenced them in their science, technology, engineering or math career. KDE wants to celebrate the day a bit differently this...
View ArticleDavid Planella: Making Ubuntu available in 50 languages
Quoting the Ubuntu philosophy, one of our core values is to provide the ability for every computer user to use Ubuntu in their language of choice. This in turn is made possible by an army of...
View ArticleVictor Tuson Palau: What Phone To Buy Next?
I don’t believe I am saying this, but I am no longer interested on the phone industry.. The thing is that I have been paying attention to the gadget news all this year and I am pretty interested on...
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