Martin Pitt: autopkgtest 3.5: Reboot support, Perl/Ruby implicit tests
Last week’s autopkgtest 3.5 release (in Debian sid and Ubuntu Utopic) brings several new features which I’d like to announce.Tests that rebootFor testing low-level packages like init or the kernel it...
View ArticleMichael Hall: Public speaking for introverts
Last week I attended FOSSETCON, a new open source convention here in central Florida, and I had the opportunity to give a couple of presentations on Ubuntu phones and app development. Anybody who knows...
View ArticleThomas Ward: NGINX in Ubuntu, PPAs, and Debian: naxsi packages to be dropped...
Back in April, I upstreamed (that is, reported a bug to Debian) regarding the `nginx-naxsi` packages. The initial bug I upstreamed was about the outdated naxsi version in the naxsi packages. (see this...
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José Antonio Rey: 3 years and counting…
On a 15th September, 3 years ago, I got my Ubuntu Membership.There’s only thing I can say about it: it’s been the most wonderful and awesome 3 years I could have. I would’ve never thought that I would...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 383
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #383 for the week September 8 – 14, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Ubuntu StatsNew Loco contact in Ubuntu...
View ArticleUbuntu LoCo Council: New SubLoCo Policy
Hi, after a lot of work, thinking and talking about the problem of the LoCo Organization and the SubLoCos, we came up with the following policy:Each team will be a country (or state in the United...
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Elizabeth K. Joseph: Ubuntu at Fossetcon 2014
Last week I flew out to the east coast to attend the very first Fossetcon. The conference was on the smaller side, but I had a wonderful time meeting up with some old friends, meeting some new Ubuntu...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – September 16, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140916 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Torvalds says he has no strong opinions on systemd
Linux creator Linus Torvalds is well-known for his strong opinions on many technical things. But when it comes to systemd, the init system that has caused a fair degree of angst in the Linux world,...
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Mattia Migliorini: Windows: How to Solve Application Error 0xc0000142 and...
Windows applications sometimes fail to load. But why? It’ll not tell you, it will instead show a generic and pointless “Application Error” message. Inside this message you will read something like...
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Stuart Langridge: Responsive Dummies
After Remy “Remington” Sharp and Bruce “Bruce” Lawson published Introducing HTML5 in 2010, the web development community have been eager to see what they’ll turn their talents to next.1 Now their new...
View ArticleAyrton Araujo: Ubuntu shell overpowered
In order to have more productivity under my environment, as a command line centric guy, I started three years ago to use zsh as my defaul shell. And for who never tried it, I would like to share my...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Everything You Need to Know About Meizu MX4, the Upcoming...
The new Ubuntu Touch operating system from Canonical will power the new Meizu MX4 phone and it will be out in December, according to the latest information posted by the Chinese company. We now take a...
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Robbie Williamson: Priorities & Perseverance
This is a not a stock ticker, rather a health ticker…and unlike with a stock price, a downward trend is good. Over the last 3 years or so, I’ve been on a personal mission of improving my health. As...
View ArticleUbuntu LoCo Council: Call for nominations to the LoCo Council
Hello All,As you may know the LoCo council members are set with a two years term, due this situation we are facing the difficult task of replacing Bhavani. A special thanks to Bhavani for all of the...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Docker PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper
For the tl;dr: Docker FDW is a thing. Star it, hack it, try it out. File bugs, be happy. If you want to see what it's like to read, there's some example SQL down below.The question is first, what the...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Fundamentally connected
Aaron Gustafson recently wrote a very interesting monograph bemoaning a recent trend to view JavaScript as “a virtual machine in the browser”. I’ll quote fairly extensively, because Aaron makes some...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Curl Exploits Closed in All Supported Ubuntu OSes
Canonical has announced that a couple of curl vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in its Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.The developers have released a...
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Daniel Pocock: reSIProcate migration from SVN to Git completed
This week, the reSIProcate project completed the move from SVN to Git.With many people using the SIP stack in both open source and commercial projects, the migration was carefully planned and tested...
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Stephen Kelly: Grantlee 0.5.0 (codename Auf 2 Hochzeiten tanzen) now available
The Grantlee community is pleased to announce the release of Grantlee version 0.5 (Mirror). Source and binary compatibility are maintained as with all previous releases. Django is an implementation of...
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