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Charles Profitt: Custom Wallpaper
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 and wanted to adorn my desktop with some new wallpapers. Usually, I find several suitable wallpapers on the web, but this time I did not. I then decided to make my...
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Jonathan Riddell: KDE Promo Idea
New seasonal KDE marketing campaign. Use Kubuntu to get off the naughty list. by
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Jonathan Riddell: Junior Job: Breeze Icon theme for LibreOffice
Here’s a nice project if you’re bored and wanting to help make a very visual difference to KDE, port the Breeze icon theme to LibreOffice.Wiki page up at...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E34 – The One with Unagi
We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Thirty-four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Just Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson here again. Download OGG Download MP3Play in PopupIn this week’s show:We discuss the Ind.ie...
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Sam Hewitt: Totally Not Weird Cheese Gel (Made with Science!)
A significant part of cooking is chemical science, but few people think of it in this way, but when combining cooking with what people consider stereotypical chemistry –using & mixing things with...
View ArticleOvidiu-Florin Bogdan: Awesome BSP in München
An awesome BSP just took place in München where teams from Kubuntu, Kolab, KDE PIM, Debian and LibreOffice came and planned the future and fixed bugs. This is my second year participating at this BSP...
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Dimitri John Ledkov: Analyzing public OpenPGP keys
OpenPGP Message Format (RFC 4880) well defines key structure and wire formats (openpgp packets). Thus when I looked for public key network (SKS) server setup, I quickly found pointers to dump files in...
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: Our Tools: MORE POWER
Once the blog post by Jono Bacon hit about seeking a reboot in community governance, multiple threads bloomed in several directions. Things have wandered away from the original topic of governance...
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Daniel Holbach: I Am Who I Am Because Of Who We All Are
I read the “We Are Not Loco” post a few days ago. I could understand that Randall wanted to further liberate his team in terms of creativity and everything else, but to me it looks feels the wrong...
View ArticleDidier Roche: Ubuntu Developer Tools needs you for its new name!
We’ve been talking about the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center for a few months now. We’ve seen a lot of people testing it out & contributing and we had a good session at the Ubuntu Online Summit about...
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Dustin Kirkland: USENIX LISA14 Talk: Deploy and Scale OpenStack
I had the great pleasure to deliver a 90 minute talk at the USENIX LISA14 conference, in Seattle, Washington.During the course of the talk, we managed to:Deploy OpenStack Juno across 6 physical nodes,...
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Colin King: Measuring stalled instructions with perf stat
Recently I was playing around with CPU loading and was trying to estimate the number of compute operations being executed on my machine. In particular, I was interested to see how many instructions...
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Governance Reboot: Five Proposals
Sorry, this is long, but hang in there.A little while back I wrote a blog post that seemed to inspire some people and ruffle the feathers of some others. It was designed as a conversation-starter for...
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: Verifying Verification
Please remember that this is written by myself alone. Any reference to "we" below either refers to the five human beings that currently comprise the LoCo Council that I am part of or to the Ubuntu...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 393
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #393 for the week November 17 – 23, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:The Ubuntu Online Summit: A Community...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 392
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #392 for the week November 10 – 16, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Ubuntu Online Summit – November 2014Ubuntu...
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Dustin Kirkland: Try These 7 Tips in Your Next Blog Post
In a presentation to my colleagues last week, I shared a few tips I've learned over the past 8 years, maintaining a reasonably active and read blog. I'm delighted to share these with you now!1. Keep...
View ArticlePasi Lallinaho: Preparing responsive design for Xubuntu
As some of you might know, I was appointed as the Xubuntu website lead after taking a 6-month break from leadership in Xubuntu.Since this position was passed on from Lyz (who is by the way doing...
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Matthew Helmke: Ubuntu Books I Wrote in 2014
Just in time for the end of the year holidays…I have a new edition of Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition (affiliate link), now available for preorder. This book is intended for intermediate to advanced...
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Scott Kitterman: On being excellent to each other
There has been a lot of discussion recently where there is strong disagreement, even about how to discuss the disagreement. Here’s a few thoughts on the matter.The thing I personally find the most...
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