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Leo Iannacone: Use GTK-3.0 Dark variant theme for your GTK-2 terminal emulator
This is a workaround to force you preferred terminal emulator to use the Dark variant of Adwaita theme in GNOME>= 3.12 (maybe less, but untested).Just add these lines to you ~/.bashrc file:# set...
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Jorge Castro: Juju Ecosystem Team Sprint Report
Greetings folks,The Juju Ecosystem team at Canonical (joined remotely by community members) recently had a developer sprint in beautiful Dillon, Colorado to Get Things Done(™).Here are the...
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John Baer: The Promise of a Broadwell Chromebook
There were many announcements made at the 2014 Intel Developers Conference, but a Broadwell powered Chromebook was not on the list. That is not to say it’s not coming.The Intel Broadwell Core M 5Y70...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Mozilla Thunderbird 31.1.1 Lands in Ubuntu
Canonical has shared some details about a number of Thunderbird vulnerabilities identified in its Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems, and the devs have pushed a new version into...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E25 – The One Where the Monkey Gets Away
Just Laura Cowen and Alan Pope are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Five of the Ubuntu Podcast!Apologies for the terrible audio quality in this episode. It turns out one of the channels on...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Stephen Hawking Talks About the Linux-Based Intel Connected...
Intel has revealed a new, interesting concept called the Connected Wheelchair, which takes data from users and allows people to share that info with the community and is powered by Linux.When people...
View ArticleZygmunt Krynicki: Announcing Morris 1.0
Earlier today I've released the first standalone version of Morris (source, documentation). Morris is named after Gabriel Morris, the inventor of Colonne Morris aka the advertisement column. Morris is...
View ArticleRobert Ancell: Using EGL with GTK+
I recently needed to port some code from GTK+ OpenGL code from GLX to EGL and I couldn't find any examples of how to do this. So to seed the Internet here is what I found out.This is the simplest...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Reconnecting
After I took issue with some thoughts of Aaron Gustafson regarding JavaScript, Aaron has clarified his thoughts elegantly.His key issue here is summed up by one sentence from his post: “The fact is...
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Stephen Kelly: Grantlee 5.0.0 release candidate available for testing
I have tagged, pushed and tarball‘d a release candidate for Grantlee 5.0.0, based on Qt 5. Please go ahead and test it, and port your software to it, because some things have changed.Also, following...
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Charles Butler: Juju + Digital Ocean = Awesome!
Syndicators, there is a video above that may not have made it into syndication. Visit the source link to view the video.Juju on Digital Ocean, WOW! That's all I have to say. Digital Ocean is one of the...
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Luis de Bethencourt: Now Samsung @ London
I just moved back to Europe, this time to foggy London town, to join the Open Source Group at Samsung. Where I will be contributing upstream to GStreamer and WebKit/Blink during the day and ironically...
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Jono Bacon: Bringing Literacy to Millions of Kids With Open Source
Today we are launching the Global Learning XPRIZE complete with Indigogo crowdfunding campaign.This is a $15 million competition in which teams are challenged to create Open Source software that will...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 384
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #384 for the week September 15 – 21, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Call for nominations to the LoCo...
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Dustin Kirkland: An Elegant Weapon, for a More Civilized Age...
Before Greedo shot first...Before a troubled young Darth Vader braided his hair...Before midiclorians offered to explain the inexplicably perfect and perfectly inexplicable...And before Jar Jar Binks...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – September 23, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140923 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
View ArticleNicholas Skaggs: Final Beta testing for Utopic
Can you believe final beta is here for utopic already? Where has the summer gone? The milestone and images are already prepared for the final beta testing. This is the first round of image testing for...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Final Beta
Testing has begun for the Final Beta (Beta 2) of Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn. Head on over to the ISO tracker to download images, view testcases, and report results. If you're new to testing, anyone...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Candor and trust
Catmull uses the term candor in his book Creativity, Inc., because honesty is overloaded with moral overtones. It means forthrightness, frankness, and also indicates a lack of reserve. Of course...
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Robert Collins: what-poles-for-the-tent
So Monty and Sean have recently blogged about about the structures (1, 2) they think may work better for OpenStack. I like the thrust of their thinking but had some mumblings of my own to add.Firstly,...
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