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Michael Lustfield: Blog With Pelican and Nginx

I used to be a big lover of Drupal as a blogging platform. It's incredibly easy and trivial to deploy a new site with it and it comes with everything needed to write a blog. It's also incredibly easy...

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Joel Leclerc: Creating an orchestral track under Ubuntu – Part 1: Setting up...

In my previous post, I was talking about (okay, fine, advertising) a track I made under linux, using LMMS, and I said I would write a tutorial on setting up an audio studio, and creating a track with...

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Rick Spencer: The Big Rocks of August

Have you ever heard the phrase "If you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all"? It's from an oft repeated parable about life and also project management.Last week I met with...

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Daniel Holbach: Want to try Ubuntu Touch on your phone? We’re almost there!

In the last weeks I blogged a couple of times about how we want to get Ubuntu out to more and more users in a much much easier way. It would be great if we could have gotten all images built in the...

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Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E24 – Glengarry Glen Ubuntu

We’re back with the twenty-fourth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back in Studio A with carrot cake, tea,...

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Joel Leclerc: Creating an orchestral track under Ubuntu – Part 2: Setting up...

This post is the second part of a tutorial series I’m writing. First part is available here.First, to address the question: “Why LMMS?” I’m actually not a huge fan of it, but, IMHO, it’s the best way...

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Daniel Holbach: Surprising stats

Sébastien Bacher told me I was a bit obsessed with Ubuntu Packaging Guidetranslations and maybe I am, but I do believe that we’re thus eliminating one blocker on the way of people becoming Ubuntu...

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Matthew Helmke: Nginx HTTP Server, Second Edition

I reviewed the first edition of this book back in 2010 (see: Nginx HTTP Server). To be honest, that review was lukewarm and one of the reasons I started thinking about whether I would continue to...

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Mattia Migliorini: Melany WordPress Theme 0.5.14 RC3

Hi everybody out there, I’m here to talk about a new pre-release of Melany, my beloved WordPress Theme.This is a huge release as it includes quite a lot of fixes and aims to be the last Release...

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Joel Leclerc: Creating an orchestral track under Ubuntu – Part 3: Setting up...

Part 2:Setting up LMMSPart 4: UpcomingThis part isn’t really hard, but it takes a lot of time to find good orchestral samples, so I’ll simply list some that I’ve used, or heard good reviews about (and...

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Scott Moser: Using Ubuntu cloud images on VirtualBox

A few months ago, I wrote an article on "Using Ubuntu cloud-images without a cloud".  That article showed how to do this with kvm.  Virtualbox is another virtualiztion technology that is especially...

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James Hunt: procenv 0.25 now builds on Android

Procenv 0.25 now builds natively under Android:https://launchpad.net/procenv/ It also fixes an interesting issue that was causing it to fail to generate FreeBSD build logs. However, that is now fixed...

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James Hunt: Upstart Cookbook now updated for Upstart in Debian

I've started a long-overdue update to the Upstart Cookbook for Upstart on Debian. Look out for the Debian swirl! :-)http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook

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Stephan Adig: mod-wsgi segfault fix...

…or how to improve your Google-Foothis morning I was doing some coding on a simple wsgi app with web.py and mod-wsgi under Ubuntu Saucy. So, now Saucy has Apache 2.4 on board, and somehow after...

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Stephan Adig: Some ideas for relaxation

I bought a couple of weeks back an Amazon Kindle eBook-Reader and I am a huge fan of it.Since I bought it, I was reading like hell a lot of my favorite authors.So, to give you a glimpse of what I am...

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Jhosman Lizarazo: Bogota will have its Linux platform (#Ubuntu) and use free...

By: Edwin Villamizar *Bogota is in the midst of a migration to Linux and free software. Mayor Gustavo Petro is leveraging the existing legal framework ( Agreement 279 of 2007 ), to advance the process...

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Randall Ross: IT's Innovation Opportunity: Ubuntu Edge

My front-row seat in the internal (to companies) Information Technology (IT) world provides an interesting vantage point, one that is at times disappointing. In the past few years, internal IT has...

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Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Ubuntu App Developer Showdown

There has been quite a lot of activity in the Ubuntu Touch land following the recent announcement of the Ubuntu App Developer Showdown (More info here). These are interesting times since these...

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José Antonio Rey: Model UN Weekend!

During the last weekend I have participated in a Model United Nations conference. For those who don’t know what that is, let me quote:“A MUN (Model United Nations) is a debate competition which looks...

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Sergio Meneses: How to Get New Members in Our Local Communities?

Some time ago I heard a friend of mine say: “The problem is that currently our communities have few members”… and it’s something I’ve had the opportunity to see from the loco-council.The main reason...

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