Ubuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – January 13, 2015
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20150113 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
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Ian Weisser: Introducing Ubuntu Find-A-Task
The Ubuntu Community website has an awesome new service: Find-A-TaskIt's a referral service - it helps volunteers discover teams and tasks that match their interests.Link to it!Refer new enthusiasts...
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Ronnie Tucker: Ubuntu Phone Details
First details of the Ubuntu Phone emerge from Canonical:The user experience for smartphones has revolved around apps and its icon grid since the very first iPhone. Key mobile services on iOS and...
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Ronnie Tucker: First Details Of The Ubuntu Phone
Straight from the good people at Canonical:The user experience for smartphones has revolved around apps and its icon grid since the very first iPhone. Key mobile services on iOS and Android are...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: Silent data loss exposed
I was moving a large number of image files around and decided to compare checksums after putting them in their new home.Ouf of several thousand files, about 80GB of data, I found that seventeen of them...
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Benjamin Kerensa: Support Collab House Indiegogo Campaign
I wanted to quickly post a simple ask to Mozillians to please share this indiegogo campaign being ran by Mozillian Rockstar Vineel PindyA Mozilla event at Collab Housewho has been a contributor for...
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Oli Warner: Breaking the Internet won't stop terrorism
Governments want to intercept all terrorist communication but... they can't. You can talk online with perfect secrecy if you know what you're doing. Their solution to this is banning strong encryption....
View ArticleJorge Castro: Juju Quickstart 1.60 is out
Francesco Banconi has just announced Juju Quickstart 1.60.Too many improvements to list here, so just check out his blog post, available in ppa:juju/stable and Homebrew for your OSX users.
View ArticleBen Howard: Snappy images for Vagrant
I am pleased to announce initial Vagrant images [1, 2]. These images are bit-for-bit the same as the KVM images, but have a Cloud-init configuration that allows Snappy to work within the Vagrant...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Your new Community Manager Hire: 5 Areas to Focus on
So, you have just hired that new community manager into your organization. Their remit is simple: build a community that wraps around your product/technology/service. You have an idea of what success...
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Riccardo Padovani: Qt Day 2015, March 13-14th, Florence
Have you ever visited Florence? Next March 14th would be the ideal day, because there will be the Qt Day.What is it?As official site says:QtDay 2015 will be the fourth edition of the conference. In...
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Benjamin Kerensa: Call for Help: Mentors Wanted!
This is very last minute as I have not been able to find enough people interested by directly approaching folks, but I have a great mentoring opportunity for Mozillians. One of my friends is a...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Git Vulnerabiltiy Closed in Ubuntu OSes
Canonical published some details about a Git vulnerability that has been found and fixed in Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.Each new Git version usually lands...
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Valorie Zimmerman: Last chance to celebrate KDE 2014 fundraiser
Today is your last chance to get a KDE-branded exclusive postcards! Donate at the KDE End of Year 2014 Fundraising.https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2014/They are beautiful!
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Riccardo Padovani: Ubuntu Calculator App Reboot is in the store
Bartosz Kosiorek, Giulio Collura, Michael Zanetti, and I worked hard on Calculator Reboot in last month, and finally it is available in the Ubuntu Touch Store :-)This is possible also thanks to Alan...
View ArticleRobie Basak: What's in an Ubuntu package version string?
Here's a typical example:corosync2.3.3-1ubuntu1The part before the hyphen (2.3.3) is the "upstream version". This is the version of the release tarball from upstream that the package is based on.The...
View ArticleBen Howard: Snappy OVA images
Snappy LaunchesWhen we launched Snappy, we introduced it on Microsoft Azure [1], Google’s GCE [2], Amazon’s AWS [3] and our KVM images [4]. Immediately our developers were asking questions like,...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: Disk expansion
A persistent problem that I encounter with hard disks is the capacity limit. If only hard disks could expand like the Tardis.My current setup at home involves a HP Microserver. It has four drive bays...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Google rolling out Classroom mobile app for students, teachers
Google is launching a new Classroom-branded mobile app aimed at encouraging digital collaboration between teachers and students.Google Apps for Education counts more than 40 million students, teachers...
View ArticleRaphaël Hertzog: Freexian’s fitfth report about Debian Long Term Support
Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.Individual reportsIn December 46 work hours have been equally split among 4 paid contributors (note that Thorsten...
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