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Didier Roche: Ubuntu Developer Tools Center: how do we run tests?
We are starting to see multipleawesomecodecontributions and suggestions on our Ubuntu Loves Developers effort and we are eagerly waiting on yours! As a consequence, the spectrum of supported tools is...
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Stephen Kelly: Grantlee 5.0.0 (codename Umstraßen) now available
The Grantlee community is pleased to announce the release of Grantlee version 5.0 (Mirror). Grantlee contains an implementation of the Django template system in Qt.I invented the word ‘umstraßen’ about...
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Julian Andres Klode: APT 1.1~exp3 released to experimental: First step to...
Today, we worked, with the help of ioerror on IRC, on reducing the attack surface in our fetcher methods.There are three things that we looked at:Reducing privileges by setting a new user and...
View ArticleMark Shuttleworth: What Western media and polititians fail to mention about...
Be careful of headlines, they appeal to our sense of the obvious and the familiar, they entrench rather than challenge established stereotypes and memes. What one doesn’t read about every day is...
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Julian Andres Klode: hardlink 0.3.0 released; xattr support
Today I not only submitted my bachelor thesis to the printing company, I also released a new version of hardlink, my file deduplication tool.hardlink 0.3 now features support for xattr support,...
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Scarlett Clark: My first Akademy: My confrontation with my Shyness and my...
KDE Akademy 2014 in Brno, Czech RepublicA few weeks ago I was blessed with the opportunity to attend KDE’s Akademy Conference for the first time. (Thank you Ubuntu Donors for sponsoring me!). Akademy...
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Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: Frameworks 5.2.0 Released and Plasma 5.0.2 is ready...
Kubuntu 14.10 with KDE Plasma 5.0.2KDE Frameworks 5.2.0 Has been released to Utopic archive! (Actually a few days ago, we are playing catch up since Akademy)Also, I have finished packaging Plasma...
View ArticleMike Rushton: Here’s how to patch Ubuntu 8.04 or anything where you have to...
Just a quick post to help those who might be running older/unsupported distributions of linux, mainly Ubuntu 8.04 who need to patch their version of bash due to the recent exploit here:...
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Costales: Lubuntu 14.04 for Cubieboard 2
Cubieboard2 (CPU A20)I bought a Cubieboard2 and I made a Lubuntu 14.04 image! Now, it's really fast and easy to deploy that image in a cubieboard2 with a NAND = 4GB.Download the Lubuntu 14.04 image for...
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Eric Hammond: AWS Community Heroes Program
Amazon Web Services recently announced an AWS Community Heroes Program where they are starting to recognize publicly some of the many individuals around the world who contribute in so many ways to the...
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Eric Hammond: Throw Away The Password To Your AWS Account
reduce the risk of losing control of your AWS account by not knowing the root account passwordAs Amazon states, one of the best practices for using AWS isDon’t use your AWS root account credentials to...
View ArticleXubuntu: Xubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 is released!
The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 14.10 Beta 2. This is the final beta towards the release in October. Before this beta we have landed various of enhancements and...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Overcoming fear
In the last few posts, I've been exploring ideas expressed by Ed Catmull in Creativity, Inc. Everyone likes good ideas! But putting them into practice can be both difficult, and frightening. Change is...
View ArticleKubuntu: 14.10 Beta 2
Kubuntu 14.10 beta 2 is out now for testing by early adopters. This release comes with the stable Plasma 4 we know and love. It also adds another flavour - Kubuntu Plasma 5 Tech Preview.
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Matthew Helmke: Ubuntu Unleashed is InformIT’s Deal of the Day
If you are interested in the eBook, take a look. Valid only on 26 September 2014.InformIT eBook Deal of the Day
View ArticleThomas Ward: NGINX in Ubuntu, PPAs, and Debian: naxsi packages dropped as of...
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...
View ArticleNekhelesh Ramananthan: A Core App Dev's Workflow
BackstoryMany a times I get asked which version of Ubuntu I use to develop and test Ubuntu Touch apps or even which device I run my stuff on. So I figured that it would be interesting to share how I...
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Matthew Helmke: The LEGO Neighborhood Book
LEGO. There, now I have your attention.The LEGO Neighborhood Book is another addition to the series of cool LEGO books published by No Starch Press. In it, you find a set of instructions for building...
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Ronnie Tucker: Grab your scrubs, here comes FCM#89!
This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Install Oracle, LibreOffice, and dmc4che. * Graphics : GIMP Perspective Clone Tool and Inkscape. * Linux Labs: Kodi/XBMC, and Compiling a Kernel Pt.2 *...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) Final Beta released
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 14.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.Codenamed "Utopic Unicorn", 14.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of...
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