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Clay Weber: Kubuntuforums is asking for your help
If you are a frequent visitor to kubuntuforums , you probably have noticed the increasing amount of downtime lately. Unfortunately, this is exacerbated by the fact that the site’s owner, Zack Brantley,...
View ArticleThe Fridge: LoCo Council Restaffing
Following a resignation and end of term at the LoCo Council, the Community Council would like to announce 2 new members and 1 returning member to the LoCo Council.In no particular order they are:luna...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 416
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #416 , and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Announcing the “wily werewolf”Welcome New Members and DevelopersUbuntu...
View ArticleVincent Untz: Deploying Docker for OpenStack with Crowbar
A couple of months ago, I was meeting colleagues of mine working on Docker and discussing about how much effort it would be to add support for it to SUSE OpenStack Cloud. It's been something that had...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – May 12, 2015
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20150512 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following link:...
View ArticleMichael Terry: Nonogram Database
I am working on a nonogram (aka griddler, paint by number, picross, hanjie, etc) app for Ubuntu Touch.Along the way, I’ve discovered that there are very few freely distributable puzzles floating...
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Matthew Helmke: Teach Your Kids to Code
Teach Your Kids to Code: A Parent-Friendly Guide to Python Programming is a unique and welcome addition to the recent trend of programming books with a focus on teaching children. Unlike books that are...
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Charles Profitt: Ubuntu Trash Bug
Ubuntu has always had bugs. All software does. Ubuntu 15.04 is the first version of Ubuntu that I will not upgrade too because of a bug. The bug that annoys so much is a minor one, but it impacts me...
View ArticleLucas Nussbaum: systemd: Type=simple and avoiding forking considered harmful?
(This came up in a discussion on debian-user-french@l.d.o)When converting from sysvinit scripts to systemd init files, the default practice seems to be to start services without forking, and to use...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [tech] LWN Chrome extension published
I finally got around to finishing off and publishing the LWN Chrome extension that I wrote a couple of months ago. I received one piece of feedback from someone who read my blog via Planet Debian, but...
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Stuart Langridge: Things that are perfect
Dan Bull asked on twitter: Link me something you consider to be perfect. And I had a few things, which I felt should be recorded for posterity. There’s a lot of stuff I don’t like. But equally there’s...
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James Page: OpenStack 2015.1.0 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04
The Ubuntu OpenStack team is pleased to announce the general availability of OpenStack 2015.1.0 (Kilo) release in Ubuntu 15.04 and for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS via the Ubuntu Cloud Archive.Ubuntu 14.04 LTSYou...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Your periodic reminder that
Here are things, according to Twitter people, of which you need to be periodically reminded.unless you have gender specific bathrooms in your home, you use gender neutral bathrooms on the regone can...
View ArticleSebastian Dröge: PTP network clock support in GStreamer
In the last days I was working at Centricular on adding PTP clock support to GStreamer. This is now mostly done, and the results of this work are public but not yet merged into the GStreamer code base....
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E10 – The Beast of Yucca Flats - Ubuntu...
It’s Episode Ten of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.In this week’s show:We discuss Mark...
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Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu: Make Wonderful Things Possible!
In November of 2006, Canonical held an "all hands" event, which included a team building exercise. Several teams recorded "Ubuntu commercials".On one of the teams, Mark "Borat" Shuttleworth amusingly...
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Elizabeth K. Joseph: Xubuntu sweatshirt, Wily, & Debian Jessie Release
People like shirts, stickers and goodies to show support of their favorite operation system, and though the Xubuntu project has been slower than our friends over at Kubuntu at offering them, we now...
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Andrea Corbellini: Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction
Those of you who know what public-key cryptography is may have already heard of ECC, ECDH or ECDSA. The first is an acronym for Elliptic Curve Cryptography, the others are names for algorithms based on...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [debian] Fixing some issues with changelogs.debian.net
I got an email last year pointing out a cosmetic issue with changelogs.debian.net. I think at the time of the email, the only problem was some bitrot in PHP's built-in server variables making some...
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