Neil Oosthuizen: Beer is not free
Technology is expensive. It is easy today to download an operating system and supporting software that is free (as in price and liberties) if you have the means to connect to the internet, as well as...
View ArticleUbuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #249
NB: Cross-posted from LISNews.org for the educational benefit of Ubuntu OhioThis special edition deals with the Groklaw shutdown announced on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Groklaw is hosted at ibiblio...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 330
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #330 for the week August 12 – 18, 2013, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Ubuntu Edge breaks crowd-sourcing...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu In a Nutshell Series
There is some really awesome work going on right now in Ubuntu, and much of it is fixing and resolving issues and bottlenecks that have been an issue in Ubuntu for many years. Not only are we building...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu In a Nutshell: App Upload Process
This article is part of a series of blog posts covering the many different areas of work going on in Ubuntu right now. See the introduction post here that links to all the articles.In this article I am...
View ArticleJames Page: OpenvSwitch for Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Supporting the OpenvSwitch datapath kernel module packages on Ubuntu 12.04 whilst ensuring compatibility with the hardware enablement kernels that we push out for each point release has been...
View ArticleDaniel Silverstone: Yakking…
Myself, Lars Wirzenius and Richard Maw have been working on an idea for a while now to have a website where we post articles to help new free-software hackers get started.We called this idea “Yakking”...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Juju Charm Ecosystem Status for 21 August
General Info:PadStatus BoardJuju.u.c Meeting SiteVideo of MeetingHighlightsCharm Contest about 50% through, (ends Oct 1.)Juju in OSX client officially in Homebrew (Thanks Rodrigo)also be able to get...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: On Leaving Ubuntu
My last day as a contributor to Ubuntu in the various areas that I contribute will be September 30th.Wow, that was hard to say…So yeah, I have made the difficult decision of leaving the Ubuntu...
View ArticleAdolfo Jayme Barrientos: On NOT leaving Ubuntu
I think we must stop confusing Ubuntu the Product and Ubuntu the Project.Some ex-contributors to Ubuntu cite the alleged “change of direction” of Canonical. With due respect, that is rubbish. If you...
View ArticleMattia Migliorini: Melany WordPress Theme 0.5 Stable
Hi everybody out there! Today I am excited to announce the first stable release of Melany. As I told you before, this comes after the theme reviewers accepted it for being uploaded and published on the...
View ArticleJorge Castro: I am speaking at the Ohio LinuxFest!
I’ve been fortunate to be selected as a speaker for the Ohio LinuxFest 2013!On Friday I will be participating in the UbuCon. There’s a ton of great talks lined up, mine will be “How to Use Ask Ubuntu...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Onwards and Upwards
As many of you will have seen, unfortunately the Ubuntu Edge campaign did not reach our goal of $32million. The final total reached was $12,812,776. I am hugely proud and thankful to everyone who...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: Ubuntu Developer Summit coming up next week
The next Ubuntu Developer Summit is coming up next week (27-29 August 2013) and you can already see a nice set of topics coming together in Launchpad. The schedule will, as always, be available at...
View ArticlePasi Lallinaho: Xubuntu team: No Mir for 13.10
The Xubuntu team has decided today that Xubuntu 13.10 will not have Mir installed by default. The decision was based on the testing and evaluation Xubuntu team did with Mir before.On behalf of the...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E26 – Raging Ubuntu
We’re back with the twenty-sixth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and (sort of) Laura Cowen are back in Studio A with carrot...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!
Mark kicked this Ubuntu Edge campaign off a month ago with an analogy that's near and dear to my heart, as an avid auto race fan. He talked about how the Ubuntu Edge could be a platform like Formula 1...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu In a Nutshell: The Ubuntu SDK and Developer Story
This article is part of a series of blog posts covering the many different areas of work going on in Ubuntu right now. See the introduction post here that links to all the articles.In my last article I...
View ArticleSam Hewitt: Arbitrary Moka Update
As you very well know I develop/design the Moka icon set & it’s arbitrary announcement time!Major RevisionsJust a quick list of the notable changes & additions to Moka:Nearly all known folder...
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