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Julian Andres Klode: A weekend with the Acer Chromebook 13 FHD (AKA nyan-big)
I spent the weekend using almost exclusively my Chromebook 13, on a single charge Saturday and Sunday.KeyboardI think I like the keyboard better now than I used to when I first tried it. It gets...
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Svetlana Belkin: Start Planning For 14.11 UOS
As it was stated some months ago, the next Ubuntu Online Summit (UOS) is in (almost) a month on November 12th to the 14th. There will be five (5) tracks: app development, cloud development, community,...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 386
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #386 for the week September 29 – October 5, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Nominations open for two positions...
View ArticleRandall Ross: I'm Back!
Greetings Planet! First, I'd like to apologize for not posting in a long while. Life has been, shall we say, interesting! Up until the end of August, my focus has been on (non-Ubuntu-related) client...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Discount Offer for Ubuntu Members - Get Certified!
Are you an Ubuntu Member? Have you ever wanted to get a technical certification?My buddy Jorge Castro has an offer for you! Please take a look at this page over on Ubuntu...
View ArticleAndrea Veri: The GNOME Infrastructure is now powered by FreeIPA!
As preannounced here the GNOME Infrastructure switched to a new Account Management System which is reachable at https://account.gnome.org. All the details will follow.IntroductionIt’s been a while...
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Michael Hall: The Open Source community is wonderful
But it isn’t perfect. And that, in my opinion, is okay. I’m not perfect, and neither are you, but you are still wonderful too.I was asked, not too long ago, what I hated about the community. The...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E27 – The One with Five Steaks and an...
The full team assemble (that’s Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson and Alan Pope, joined by a returning Tony Whitmore) in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Seven of the Ubuntu Podcast! Download OGG...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – October 07, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20141007 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
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Scott Kitterman: Thanks Canonical (reallly)
Some of you might recall seeing this insights article about Ubuntu and the City of Munich. What you may not know is that the desktop in question is the Kubuntu flavor of Ubuntu. This wasn’t clear in...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: 2 years of AArch64 work
I do not remember exactly when I started working on ARMv8 stuff. Checked old emails from Linaro times and found that we discussed AArch64 bootstrap using OpenEmbedded during Linaro Connect Asia (June...
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Kubuntu Wire: Weta Uses Kubuntu for Hobbit
Top open source news website TheMukt has an article headlined KDE’s Plasma used in Hobbit movies. Long time fans of Kubuntu will know of previous boasts that they use a 35,000-Core Ubuntu Farm to...
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Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 Now released to archive.
Frameworks 5.3.0 has finished uploading to archive! apt-get update is all that is required to upgrade. We are currently finishing up Plasma 5.1.0 ! The problems encountered during beta have been resolved
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Forums Council: Happy Birthday Ubuntu Forums
Somewhere roundabout 10 years ago Ryan Troy started what we all know and love – Ubuntu Forums.The look and feel has gone through several iterations, matching the Ubuntu colour scheme evolutions. Each...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: Running autopkgtests in the cloud
It’s great to see more and more packages in Debian and Ubuntu getting an autopkgtest. We now have some 660, and soon we’ll get another ~ 4000 from Perl and Ruby packages. Both Debian’s and Ubuntu’s...
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Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E28 – The One with the List
We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Tony Whitmore! We ate this carrot cake from the Co-op. It’s very tasty. Download Ogg...
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Michael Hall: 1.0: The deadliest milestone
So it’s finally happened, one of my first Ubuntu SDK apps has reached an official 1.0 release. And I think we all know what that means. Yup, it’s time to scrap the code and start over.It’s a well...
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Diego Turcios: In the Encuentro Centroamericano de Software Libre!
Currently I'm on the city of Chitre in Panama for the VI Encuentro Centroamericano de Software Libre. This has been an excelent experience. I met several friends and community members I meet on the...
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Diego Turcios: Central America is discovering BeagleBoard!
The title is clear enough! I was on the VI Encuentro Centroamericano of Software Libre and gave a presentation about what is Beagleboard.org and showing some small demos of the BeagleBone...
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Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Clock App Reboot Backstory
This week while reading Michael Hall's blog post about 1.0 being the deadliest milestone I couldn't help but grin when I read, 1.0 isn’t the milestone of success, it’s the crossing of the Rubicon, the...
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