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Rhonda D'Vine: Queer-Positive Songs
Just recently I stumbled upon one of these songs again and thought to myself: Are there more out there? With these songs I mean songs that could from its lyrics be considered queer-positive. Lyrics...
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Andrea Corbellini: Are LXC and Docker secure?
Since its initial release in 2008, LXC has become widespread among servers. Today, it is becoming the preferred deployment strategy in many contexts, also thanks to Docker and, more recently, LXD.LXC...
View ArticleBrian Murray: Automatic crash reporting
Now that apport-noui, a package to automatically report crashes to the Ubuntu Error Tracker without user interaction, has been proven to work well on Ubuntu devices I was wondering what it would take...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS released
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Lubuntu 14.04.2 available
Lubuntu developers are proud to announce that (with a delay of two weeks) version 14.04.2 of the fast and lightweight operating system is now available for download via this link.Release Manager Walter...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Unofficial Ubuntu Store for Phones Now Available on PCs
Ubuntu for phones doesn’t have an official online store for the applications accessible from the PC, but that doesn’t mean someone didn’t manage to put one together. It’s not official, but it works...
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Sean Davis: Xfce 4.12, One Week Away
After what seems like an eternity, a new release of Xfce is finally just around the corner. Xfce 4.10 was released in 2012, and since then development has happened in small bursts for each project....
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Oliver Grawert: Meet node-snapper a helper to easily create .snap packages of...
When I created the “Snappy Chatroom” package for WebRTC Video chat on snappy I used node.js to provide the necessary server bits. During building the snap I noticed how hard it is to actually put the...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Fed up with systemd and Linux? Why not try PC-BSD?
With the growing adoption of systemd, dissatisfaction with Linux has reached proportions not seen in recent years, to the extent that people have started talking of switching to FreeBSD.Talk is all...
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Robert Ancell: I wrote some more apps for Ubuntu Phone
In a previous post I talked about the experiences of writing my first five applications for Ubuntu Phone. Since then, I've written three more.As before, all these apps are GPL 3 licensed and available...
View ArticleXubuntu: Xubuntu at Mexican collection agencies
The Xubuntu team hears stories about how it is used in organizations all over the world. In this “Xubuntu at..” series of interviews, we seek to interview organizations who wish to share their stories....
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Riccardo Padovani: New Bacon2D API
Hi all, six months ago I wrote a blogpost to explain how to create your first game with Bacon2D. Since there developers implemented a lot of new things, and changed API. So it’s time to rewrite the...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Facebook, Stripe pledge funds for GnuPG development
Two companies, Stripe and Facebook, have pledged an annual donation of $US100,000 to aid in the development of GNU Privacy Guard, the encryption software that has been created by a single German...
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Serge Hallyn: Introducing lxcfs
Last year around this time, we were announcing the availability of cgmanager, a daemon allowing users and programs to easily administer and delegate cgroups over a dbus interface. It was key to...
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Colin King: fnotifystat - a tool to show file system activity
Over the past year or more I was focused on identifying power consuming processes on various mobile devices. One of many strategies to reducing power is to remove unnecessary file system activity,...
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: When Work Gets Messy
I hate getting anywhere close to asking for help. In January I was required by work to step down from Xubuntu Team due to the nature of work duties. Missing too many IRC meetings for months and months...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 405
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #405 for the week February 16 – 22, 2015, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS releasedUbuntu...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Cut the Rope Is the First Major Game Ported for Ubuntu Phones
ZeptoLab, the studio that made the famous “Cut the Rope” game a couple of years back, has officially ported the title for the Ubuntu platform and is now available in the store.Cut the Rope is a game...
View ArticleUbuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing the Ubuntu Porting guide 2.0
In the last few weeks, Ubuntu has reached a major milestone with the first flash sales of the BQ Aquarius - Ubuntu Edition. This is only the beginning of seeing Ubuntu on a wider selection of phones...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2015
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20150224 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
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