Lubuntu Blog: Unified Box theme
Unified means that Box is getting more complete and global. Now we included full support for Unity and Metacity. Now you can use it with Ubuntu and everything will work fine. Look how the Unity...
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Tony Whitmore: Another year over, a new one just begun
That’s right, it’s my end of year round up! I am running the risk that nothing significant or amazing will happen to me in the next 24 hours, I know. I’ve trawled through tweets and blogs and reminded...
View ArticleChuck Frain: Adding IR to Xbian
For Christmas one of the gifts-to-myself was a Logitech Harmony Smart Control. This was to replace an aging Harmony 550 with some button issues. In the course of setting things up I wanted to get IR...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: “When Free Software Isn’t Better” Talk
In late October, the FSF posted this video of a talk called When Free Software Isn’t (Practically) Better that I gave at LibrePlanet earlier in the year. I noticed it was public when, out of the blue,...
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Benjamin Kerensa: A New Year with More Connections
North America Mozilla RepsThis year has been wonderful for me; with many opportunities to connect with some of the most brilliant people in the world while having discussions surrounding moving the...
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Duncan McGreggor: Joe Armstrong's Favorite Erlang Program... in LFE
It kind of shocked me to discover recently that a new post hasn't been pushed out on this blog since April. Looking at the drafts I've got backlogged -- 30 and counting -- I also realized that none of...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Hy 0.9.12 released
Good morning all my hungover friends. New Hy release - sounds like the perfect thing to do while you’re waiting for your headaches to go away. Here’s a short-list of the changes (from NEWS) - enjoy!...
View ArticleStéphane Graber: LXC 1.0: Security features [6/10]
This is post 6 out of 10 in the LXC 1.0 blog post series.When talking about container security most people either consider containers as inherently insecure or inherently secure. The reality isn’t so...
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Charles Profitt: Ubuntu 13.10 Reboots Instead of Shutting Down
The last few days I was struggling to find the causes of a peculiar issue. Ubuntu 13.10, given the conditions detailed below, would reboot instead of shutting down.Suspend computer by closing lidResume...
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Stephan Adig: It never rains in Southern California...
… totally not truebut what is true…is that I am here for one month already and I am totally excited.As mentioned in one of my last posts, I am working now for Sony Europe, especially for a company...
View ArticleLuke Faraone: Unstandardized standards are the worst: sendmail
Implementing software to replace legacy systems is always a challenge, especially when you're dealing with a system with as much legacy as sendmail, which was first introduced as delivermail in...
View ArticleJorge Castro: nginx coming to main in 14.04
Right before the holidays Robie Basak filed a Main Inclusion Report for nginx in Ubuntu. What does this mean? This means that nginx will sit alongside Apache in 14.04 with full security updates over...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Announcing the new Technical Board Members
The poll has been completed an the following nominees have been elected to the Technical Board:Steve Langasek (slangasek)Martin Pitt (pitti) Kees Cook (kees) Adam Conrad (infinity) Stephane Graber...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Box now on XFCE!
I must confess that XFCE is my second favourite environment (you already know what's the first one), and after giving support for Unity (and some Ubuntu elements) now it's turn to give it to XFWM, the...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu In 2014
Happy new year, friends!2013 was a phenomenal year for Ubuntu. It is difficult to believe that it was just a year ago today that we announced Ubuntu for phones. Since then we have built and released...
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Eric Hammond: Default ssh Usernames For Connecting To EC2 Instances
Each AMI publisher on EC2 decides what user (or users) should have ssh access enabled by default and what ssh credentials should allow you to gain access as that user.For the second part, most AMIs...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Announcing the new Ubuntu IRC Council
The poll of Ubuntu IRC Members closed today and the following nominees have been elected to the Ubuntu IRC Council:Alan Bell (AlanBell)Benjamin Rubin (Pici)Jussi Kekkonen (Tm_T)Giovanni Chiazzese...
View ArticleNathan Haines: Which version of Ubuntu do I install?
Every two years, the Ubuntu community works really hard to produce a stable, solid version of Ubuntu that we can be really proud of. A bit conservative, but ready to be reliable for the next 5 years,...
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Eric Hammond: Changing The Default "ubuntu" Username On EC2 Instances
configure your own ssh username in user-dataThe official Ubuntu AMIs create a default user with the username ubuntu which is used for the initial ssh access, i.e.:ssh ubuntu@<HOST>You can create...
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Seif Lotfy: Bye Bye Wordpress! Hello Ghost
Finally managed to move away from Wordpress. One of the reasons I did less blogging is that I felt that Wordpress became more of a CMS and less of a blogging platform.I stumbled upon ghost which I must...
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