Jonathan Riddell: Ubuntu Policy Complies With GPL But Fails To Address Other...
Today Canonical published an update to their IP Policy by adding in a “trump clause” paragraph saying that “where any other licence grants rights, this policy does not modify or reduce those rights...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: What the Ubuntu IP Announcement means
The announcement by the FSF and Software Freedom Conservancy has a lot of jargon in it so to help people better understand I am going to do an analysis. Mind you, back in 2012, I reached out to the FSF...
View ArticleCharles Butler: Continuous Integration with Juju and Drone CI
PreambleDelivering your Charms to the community can seem like an uphill climb when you have minimal and manual testing around your project. The ~charmer review process is pretty rigerous and as anyone...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: The monochromatic makeover
We have given our monochromatic icons a small facelift to make them more elegant, lighter and consistent across the platform by incorporating our Suru language and font style.The rationale behind the...
View ArticleElizabeth K. Joseph: Ubuntu at the upcoming Community Leadership Summit
This weekend I have the opportunity to attend the Community Leadership Summit. While there, I’ll be able to take advantage of an opportunity that’s rare now: meeting up with my fellow Ubuntu Community...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E19 – The Creeping Terror - Ubuntu Podcast
It’s Episode Nineteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are together with guest presenter Joe Ressington and speaking to your brain.In this week’s...
View ArticleWalter Lapchynski: Unicode ate swiftly
Unicode 8 has arrived at last. Yes, folks, you may now use the unicorn as much as you want. Well, kinda. Unicode 7 took forever to be widely implemented, even on the mobile devices we most expect emoji...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: UbuContest 2015
Canonical Ltd., the Ubucon Germany 2015 team, and the UbuContest 2015 team, are happy to announce the first UbuContest today! We are excited to bring you an engaging, enlightening, community-organised...
View ArticleCharles Butler: ClementineBox - An ARMHF fueled OrangeBox alternative
The name "Clementine Box" is a bit of a namegrab. Let me lead with that. This is in no way affiliated with an official Canonical project, just something I'm doing in my spare time to experiment with...
View ArticleCarla Sella: UbuContest 2015
Canonical Ltd., the Ubucon Germany 2015 team, and the UbuContest 2015 team, are happy to announce the first UbuContest! We are excited to bring you an engaging, enlightening, community-organised...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: Canonical’s Revised Intellectual Property Policy
I would like to add my own, personal, thoughts to the new IP policy released by Canonical on July 15th 2015. The first thing I keep in mind is that Canonical is trying to balance the needs of a...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition On Pause
I noticed a thread on Reddit today where people were speculating about why the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition was no longer available on the store. There are some rather wild guesses, but I wanted to...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Microsoft adds limited support for Linux on Azure cloud
Microsoft has done the previously unthinkable and said it will now provide “limited support for major Linux distributions, third-party and open-source technologies” on its Azure cloud.To get the ball...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Voy a ir Akademy-ES
Voy a ir Akademy-ES el jueves para dar una charla se llama “Plugfest Conferencia Protocolos”. Es un revisión de esta conferencia an Marzo y un corto versión de mi charla se llama “interoperabilidad del...
View ArticleEric Hammond: TimerCheck.io - Countdown Timer Microservice Built On Amazon...
deceptively simple web service with super powersTimerCheck.io is a fully functional, fully scalable microservice built on the just-released Amazon API Gateway and increasingly popular AWS Lambda...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: RTC status on Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora
Zoltan (Zoltanh721) recently blogged about WebRTC for the Fedora community and Fedora desktop.https://fedrtc.org has been running for a while now and this has given many people a chance to get a taste...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Wireless File Transfer on Ubuntu phones
Using KDE Plasma 5 is awesome. What’s not so awesome is when it’s kio-MTP keeps crashing on me. This means I can’t connect any phone to my desktop PC. Hence, why I always use AirDroid/Dukto on my...
View ArticleZygmunt Krynicki: Using Snappy Ubuntu Core to test-boot anything
Lab-As-A-Service Inception OSToday morning I realized that it is quite possible to use chain-loading to boot into a test OS from within a Snappy Ubuntu Core system. I've decided to try to implement...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: Prime Time: Docker, Juju, and Snappy Ubuntu Core
As you probably remember from grade school math class, primes are numbers that are only divisible by 1 and themselves. 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 are the first 5 prime numbers, for example.Many computer...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Canonical and Free Software Foundation come to open-source...
For years, Canonical and Ubuntu have been accused of playing fast and loose with Linux-related licenses. Now, Canonical and the FSF have reached a common understanding over Ubuntu licensing.Canonical,...
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