Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E38 – The Last One
We’re back with the final episode of Season Seven: It’s Episode Thirty-eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore and Mark Johnson are all present with mince pies and brandy...
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Ronnie Tucker: Packt 5 Dollar Deal
Following the success of last year’s festive offer, Packt Publishing will be celebrating the holiday season with an even bigger $5 offer.From Thursday 18th December, every eBook and video will be...
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Costales: Dear Santa Claus...
I know, I know, you can't leave an awesome Ubuntu Phone yet... ;)But... What about a nice accessory now? Or maybe... could you return back this February? > : P
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Elive OS Is a Unique Debian and Enlightenment Combination
Elive, a Linux distribution based on Debian that uses the Enlightenment desktop environment to provide a unique user experience, is now at version 2.4.6 and the developers are getting closer to a...
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Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #6
You dutifully inform me that I have a voice message waiting. You carefully protect me from some unknown threat by forcing me to type in a voice mail password that I can never remember, *every* time....
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Year End Core Apps Hack Days Announced for Ubuntu Touch
Canonical is looking to improve the core apps that are already available for Ubuntu Touch and is organizing a new Core Apps Hack Days event that should galvanize the efforts of more developers towards...
View ArticleRiccardo Padovani: New blog
Hey all folks, after long time I return to write something about changes I made to my blog, and how I plan to use it in next months.From Wordpress to JekyllSo, first thing: I moved away from Wordpress!...
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Costales: Día U - 47. Evento de lanzamiento del primer móvil con Ubuntu
Quedan 47 días para que entre en la liga de las estrellas un nuevo equipo. Y seguro que esos días pasarán volando.Considero muy acertada la posición de Michael Hall, de que con sólo alcanzar un 1% del...
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Riccardo Padovani: Ubuntu Phone seen by my friends
Some days ago OMG!Ubuntu announced the date of the release of first Ubuntu Phone. That night I was in a pub with some friends, so I told them about the release and the price of the phone.All my friends...
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Colin King: Controlling data flow using sluice
Earlier this year I was instrumenting wifi power consumption and needed a way to produce and also consume data at a specific rate to pipe over netcat for my measurements. I had some older crufty code...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Dota 2 Runs Natively on Mir with the Same Performance as X11
Canonical has been working on the Mir display server for some time, although most of their efforts have been made towards the mobile platform. They are now looking to optimize it for desktop use and...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 397
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #397 for the week December 15 – 21, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Vivid Vervet Alpha 1 ReleasedUbuntu...
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Joe Liau: Dumb is Dead: Snappy is the New Smart
“bulletproof” (Source)Once thought to be a “smart” device, the dumb telephone is now a thing of the past. But, if we look closely we might see a hero arise from the...
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Ronnie Tucker: Dropbox 3 for Linux Goes Stable With New Qt UI, Setup Wizard
The “problem” with new releases of Dropbox is that most are virtually identical to the last. While good in that no senseless changes arrive solely for change’s sake, it’s bad in that it makes for very...
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Jonathan Riddell: What’s happened with Kubuntu recently?
Kubuntu Wire seems to be down due to a server move so here's a Wire post on my blog written by Ilya Kowalewski as part of Google Code in...Hey there, we’ve got some news for you, here in Kubuntu....
View ArticleJono Bacon: Happy Holidays
Just a quick note to wish all of you a happy, restful, and peaceful holidays, however and whoever you spend it with. Take care, folks, and I look forward to seeing you in 2015!
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Solstice greetings, happy Christmas, looking ahead to the...
Time to sum up 2014 and look ahead to 2015.I'll start with the bad in my personal life: I heard this week that my dear younger cousin has cancer in his lungs, brain, bones and lymph. This is very hard...
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Costales: Ubuntu Phone Countdown Banner for your blog/web
I made a countdown banner for the Ubuntu Phone presentation thisFebruary 6:HOW TO INSERT IN YOUR BLOG/WEBJust insert this HTML line in your web page:<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/phone"><img...
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Riccardo Padovani: Ubuntu Calculator App Reboot
With the word core apps, we define a collection of apps installed by default on Ubuntu for Phones. I’m involved in their development, mainly in Calculator and Reminders apps.In past few months some of...
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: Reluctantly Facing Change
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and...
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