Ubuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – June 30, 2015
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20150630 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following link:–...
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Serge Hallyn: Tiling windows in Unity
Using the compiz grid plugin, Unity supports placing windows, one at a time, in a tiled-like fashion. However, there is no support for tilling a workspace in one fell stroke. That is something which...
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Costales: Review Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition - The beast!
Un móvil que lo defino con sólo una palabra: IMPRESIONANTE.Meixu MX4 Ubuntu EditionEn una sobria caja blanca se presenta el móvil más potente gobernado por Ubuntu: El Meizu MX4.CajaLa primera vez que...
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Kubuntu Wire: The Kubuntu Podcast Team is on a roll
Building on their UOS Hangout, the Kubuntu Podcast Team has created their second Hangout, featuring Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan, Aaron Honeycutt, and Rick Timmis, discussing What is Kubuntu?
View ArticleSebastian Kügler: Convergence through Divergence
It’s that time of the year again, it seems: I’m working on KPluginMetaData improvements. In this article, I am describing a new feature that allows developers to filter applications and plugins...
View ArticleNicholas Skaggs: Snappy Open House!
Introducing Snappy Open Houses! Snappy represents some new and exciting possibilities for ubuntu. A snappy open house is your chance to get familiar with the technology while helping test and break...
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Nicholas Skaggs: Have you tried writing a testsuite?
It's never been easier to write tests for your application! I wanted to share some details on the new documentation and other tidbits that will help you ensure your application has a nice testsuite. If...
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Joe Liau: What Happens When: Deranged DIYs and Humbled How-Tos
dah-di-dah what?Whiskey Hotel WhiskeyYou have just downed a bottle of whiskey. You go to hotel, and then you have some more whiskey. These steps, while extremely repeatable, will have drastically...
View ArticleRiccardo Padovani: My opensource contributions in Jun 15
June has been a great month. A new Ubuntu device, the Meizu MX4, reached the market. I wrote a little review about it, and now I use it as mainly phone.Also, I went to the Hello Tomorrow Conference. An...
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Costales: BQ E4.5 | BQ E5 | Meizu MX4 - ¿Cual comprar?
Cada vez disponemos de más móviles para comprar con Ubuntu Phone.He tenido la suerte de poder probar los 3 modelos. Dispones de las reviews correspondientes aquí: BQ E4.5, BQ E5 y Meizu MX4.Con esta...
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Colin King: Firmware Related Blogs
More often than not, I'm looking at ACPI and UEFI related issues, so I was glad to see that Vincent Zimmer has collected up various useful links to blogs that are Firmware Related. Very useful,...
View ArticleUbuntu App Developer Blog: Add a C++ backend to your QML UI
Whether you are creating a new app or porting an existing one from another ecosystem, you may need more backend power than the QML + JavaScript duo proposed in the QML app tutorial.Let's have a peek at...
View ArticleBrendan Perrine: lxrandr new dual screen options
One new update in Lubuntu 15.04 that hasn't got much attention is there was an update in lxrandr to 0.3.0 Has improved multiple montior support with quick options to allow you to show different screens...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E17 – Gigli - Ubuntu Podcast
It’s Episode Seventeen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are all together again and speaking to your brain.In this week’s show:We look at...
View ArticleMattia Migliorini: Install Balsamiq Mockups in Debian/Ubuntu
TweetBalsamiq is one of the best tools for quick wireframes creation. It allows you to efficiently and quickly create mockups that give you an idea of how design elements fit in the page.Some years ago...
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Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Announcing the MX4 Challenge Winner
Hello everyone, I am thrilled to announce the winner of the Meizu MX4 Challenge! In the interest of being open, I thought I would share a bit on how we arrived at the winner. We received 10 submissions...
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Kubuntu Wire: Looks as if Wily got Plasma 5.3.2.
No backports PPA required.Plasma 5.3.2.Daily Wily Images.
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Sam Hewitt: Aeropress: My New Coffee Brewing Favourite
The Aeropress is rather a cult coffee brewer and few non-coffee-nuts know about it. But from the first cup of coffee I brewed with it, I was hooked. I now use it regularly for making coffee and my...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) reaches End of Life on July 23, 2015
Ubuntu announced its 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) release almost 9 months ago, on October 23, 2014. As a non-LTS release, 14.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now...
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Sam Hewitt: Some Thoughts on Apple Music
Yes, I'm going to talk about Apple Music, like literally everyone else online these days.So I cancelled my premium Spotify subscription after using Apple Music for literally a few days, mainly for one...
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