Launchpad News: Improved filtering options for Gmail users
Users of some email clients, particularly Gmail, have long had a problem filtering mail from Launchpad effectively. We put lots of useful information into our message headers so that heavy users of...
View ArticleNicholas Skaggs: Opportunity: Automated Installer Testing
I wanted to share a unique opportunity to get invovled with ubuntu and testing. Last cycle, as part of a datacenter shuffle, the automated installer testing that was occurring for ubuntu flavors...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Nóirín Plunkett: Remembering Them
Nóirín and IToday I learned of some of the worst kind of news, my friend and a valuable contributor to the great open source community Nóirín Plunkett passed away. They (this is their preferred pronoun...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: Free Real-time Communications (RTC) at DebConf15, Heidelberg
The DebConf team have just published the first list of events scheduled for DebConf15 in Heidelberg, Germany, from 15 - 22 August 2015.There are two specific events related to free real-time...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Akademy Day Trip
The GCC 5 Transition caused the apocalypse so we went out to see the world while it still existedNo Soy Líder, Ahora Soy El CapitánSee HoarseEl TorreWe will climb this!David reached the topFin de la...
View ArticleCharles Butler: The power of components
While dogfooding my own work, I decided it was time to upgrade my distributed docker services into the shiny Kubernetes charms now that 1.0 landed last week. I've been running my own "production" (I...
View ArticleMiley: Goodness Gracious Me
Here I was worrying attendance would be poor, Fool me,Our first AfricanTeams meeting was a rip roaring success even though I struggled to keep up at times. Attendance peeked at 54 at times. Special...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Wily Werewolf Alpha 2 Released
"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of he brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food,...
View ArticleKubuntu: Kubuntu Wily Alpha 2
The Second Alpha of Wily (to become 15.10) has now been released! The Alpha-2 images can be downloaded from: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/wily/alpha-2/ More information on Kubuntu Alpha-2...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Lubuntu 15.10 alpha 2 released
The Alpha 2 of Lubuntu 15.10 is now released. Check out all about it at the wiki.
View ArticleChris J Arges: linux make deb-pkg speedup
Because I've run make deb-pkg so many times, I've started to see exactly where it starts to slow down even with really large machines. Observing cpu usage, I noticed that many parts of the build were...
View ArticleAyrton Araujo: Ubuntu shell overpowered
In order to have more productivity under my environment, as a command line centric guy, I started three years ago to use zsh as my default shell. And for who never tried it, I would like to share my...
View ArticleKubuntu Wire: Plasma Mobile References Images by Kubuntu
We launched Plasma Mobile at KDE’s Akademy conference, a free, open and community made mobile platform.Kubuntu has made some reference images which can be installed on a Nexus 5 phone.More information...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Unnecessary Finger Pointing
I just wanted to pen quickly that I found Chris Beard’s open letter to Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft) to be a bit hypocritical. In the letter he said:“I am writing to you about a very disturbing...
View ArticleEric Hammond: AWS SNS Outage: Effects On The Unreliable Town Clock
It took a while, but the Unreliable Town Clock finally lived up to its name. Surprisingly, the fault was not mine, but Amazon’s.For several hours tonight, a number of AWS services in us-east-1,...
View ArticleRaphaël Hertzog: My Free Software Activities in July 2015
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Paddleboard Club
I always say the best way to tour a city is from the waterby
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: FCM#100-1 is OUT!
Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our ninety-ninth issue.This month:* Command & Conquer* How-To : LaTeX, LibreOffice, and...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E21 – United Passions - Ubuntu Podcast
It’s Episode Twenty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are all together again!In this week’s show:We look at what’s been going on in...
View ArticleUbuntu GNOME: Help needed to test 14.04.3
Hi,Time for Trusty Tahr, yet again As you know, Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 was our first LTS release. Thus, there are point of releases. Ubuntu GNOME 14.04.1 and 14.04.2 have been released already. Now, it is...
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