Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E01 – Breaking Wind Part 1 - Ubuntu Podcast
We’re back with the first episode of Season Eight!It’s Episode One of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson are connected and speaking to your brain.Please update your podcast...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: GNOME Shell 3.15.92 Improves GNOME’s Classic Theme
GNOME Shell 3.15.92 was released today (17 March 2015) and among other minor enhancements it improves the GNOME classic theme.Florian Müllner announced the GNOME Shell 3.15.92 release today and among...
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Michael Zanetti: The reward of a loooong journey
Those who know me, and probably also those who followed this blog in the past, will know that I’ve been working in the mobile phone area for a long time now. Even before my time at Canonical, which is...
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Alan Pope: FOSDEM 2015 Field Report
A little late, but here’s my report from attending FOSDEM 2015 back at the start of February.I’ve been to FOSDEM a few times in the past, but not for the last few years. It happened to co-incide with...
View ArticleZygmunt Krynicki: Crowdsourcing help needed! Share your /sys/class/backlight...
I'm working on a little mini-project that deals with back-light.I've read the kernel documentation I could find [1], [2], [3], [4] and I poked all my systems to see what values are produced. I only...
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Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu 15.04 Heating up
Kubuntu 15.04 development is in full swing and it’s looking like our 10th anniversary edition will be a classic. We’re the first distribution to ship a stable version with Plasma 5, the desktop which...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: Packaging Notes
I’ve done easy fixes (debdiffs) in Ubuntu and find I need to look up exactly how I want to do a debdiff every time. Last time I had to look at 5 different docs to get all the commands I needed. The...
View ArticleMattia Migliorini: How to: Varnish listen port 80 with systemd
TweetThis simple tutorial guides you in the setup of Varnish Cache in order to make it work properly with systemd, on Debian Jessie for example.The Varnish documentation is pretty clear and easy to...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) reaches End of Life on April 30 2015
Ubuntu announced its 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) release almost 5 years ago, on April 29, 2010. As with the earlier LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years....
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Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu 15.04 Heating up
JR announces that we are getting close the the final beta for Kubuntu Vivid (soon to be 15.04). This is an exciting release, with big changes, including a transition from LightDM to SDDM; Upstart to...
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Adam Stokes: OpenStack Installer: Customizing the Single Install constraints
Sometimes our default constraints for a Single Installation isn’t enough. With our latest release it is possible to now configure the service placements with custom constraints.Below is a fully working...
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Adam Stokes: Configuring VLANs in MAAS node deployment
Since Debian installer doesn’t have the ability to configure vlans we need to make any additional network modifications within the preseed/late_command stage. If you aren’t familiar with vlan or would...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: GTK+ Wayland Now Supports HiDPI Cursors
Matthias Clasen has released the latest GTK+ 3.15 development release that’s near final and about ready to be named GTK+ 3.16.Yesterday’s GTK+ 3.15.12 release brings improvements to the...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E02 – The Oasis of the Living Dead -...
We’re back with the second episode of Season Eight!It’s Episode Two of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson are connected and speaking to your brain.Please update your podcast...
View ArticleJani Monoses: Docker image for cross compiling go-qml apps
Cross compiling Go packages to ARM is easy unless they rely on C libraries via cgo, in which case C cross-compilers and libraries built for the target are required on the host, and the invocation is...
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Carla Sella: Planet Ubuntu-it has it's own Ubuntu Phone webapp
Planet Ubuntu-itPlanet Ubuntu-itThis is simply awesome!I cannot believe how simple it is to create your webapp for Ubuntu Phone.You just have to go to this web site:...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: State of VoIP in Linux
Like most people, I find myself using the same VoIP options everyone else is using. Thankfully, these days there are far more options available than what we might think.One of the popular VoIP...
View ArticleBrian Murray: Stable Release Update for apport-noui
As I hinted at in my last post, apport-noui, which will enable automatic crash reporting, is now available in the -proposed repository for Trusty. If you want to test it follow the instructions in the...
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The Fridge: Interview with Daniel Holbach of the Ubuntu Community Council
The Ubuntu Community Council is the primary community (i.e., non-technical) governance body for the Ubuntu project. In this series of 7 interviews, we go behind the scenes with the community members...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Save and Recover Data From Crashed Disks With ddrescue Command...
Horrible event that really want to avoided is data loss because of broken harddisks. But, you still can do something with your harddisks if that event occurs. By utilizing ddrescue, a good tools for...
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