Kubuntu: KDE Applications and Development Platform February Updates Available
Packages for the release of KDE SC 4.12.2 are available for Kubuntu 12.04LTS, 13.10 and our development release. You can get them from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. It includes an update of kde-workspace...
View ArticleCostales: Install transmission daemon in Ubuntu Server and avoid write...
The tip: Change the user who runs the daemon for your user ;)sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stopsudo nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon # Change...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Mozilla at Southern California Linux Expo
From Wednesday through Sunday, I was in Los Angeles for the Southern California Linux Expo (Scale12x) held at the Hilton LAX. This was my first Scale12x and this was the second year that Mozilla had...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: GSoC Organisations announced, Ganglia selected for 2014
Google has just published the list of organisations for Google Summer of Code 2014It is no surprise that big projects like Debian and Fedora are all back again.On the other hand, I am delighted to...
View ArticleSøren Bredlund Caspersen: Attention Ubuntu One administrators / Canonical...
When your service over a period of several days is unavailable (or at least very flacky) for a number of users, it would really be appreciated if you would at least give some kind of acknowledgement of...
View ArticleTony Whitmore: I think we’re going to need torches
I spent nearly 7 hours in the same cinema seat this weekend. The BBC and the BFI were celebrating the return of several missing episodes of Doctor Who to the archives by holding a marathon screening at...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 356
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #356 for the week February 17 – 23, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Canonical announces first partners to ship...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu Development Update Presentation
This last weekend I was in LA at SCALE12x and gave a presentation providing a detailed update of much of the work going on as we build a convergent Ubuntu. As I have mentioned before, there is lots of...
View ArticleMichael Hall: There is no “Touch”, only “Ubuntu”
There’s been a lot of talk about Ubuntu’s phone and tablet development over the last year, and it’s great that it’s getting so much attention, but people have been getting the name of it all wrong....
View ArticleHarald Sitter: Gwenview Plugins!
Next in Kubuntu:On-demand kipi plugin installation for Gwenview
View ArticleHarald Sitter: Localization
Next in Kubuntu:Improved on-demand installation and notifications for localization, as well as improved internal handling to increase reliability of things.Click to view slideshow.
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Box 0.44
We're very close to the final release of Lubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. In the meanwhile you can test (or use daily) the new and revamped theme. The controls have been updated to match (a branch merge) the...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – February 25, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140225 Meeting AgendaARM Status T/master: support for the Beaglebone/Beaglebone black boards was added to the armhf generic multiplatform...
View ArticleDavid Murphy: Using Ubuntu Core with Docker
I came across this tidbit the other day for using Ubuntu cloud images with Docker, and I thought that Ubuntu Core might be a better starting point for your own base containers:curl -O...
View ArticleUbuntu GNOME: Call for Testing Trusty Tahr Beta 1 Candidate
Hi,It is the Beta 1 week for Trusty Tahr and now, we do need your help to test this build of Ubuntu GNOME Trusty Tahr urgently so that we could release the Beta 1.This is a call for testing for all...
View ArticleSerge Hallyn: Upcoming Qemu changes for 14.04
Qemu 2.0 is looking to be released on April 4. Ubuntu 14.04 closes on April 10, with release on April 17. How’s that for timing. Currently the qemu package in trusty has hundreds of patches, the...
View ArticleMichael Hall: New roof, new developer portal, new scopes, what a week!
It’s been a crazy busy week, and it’s only Tuesday (as of this writing)! Because I’m exhausted, this is going to be a short post listing the things that are new.New RoofI wrote earlierthat I was...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: Free communications software takes another big jump
One of the most exciting demonstrations at FOSDEM this year was the new JitMeet web application from the Jitsi team.JitMeet takes the power of the traditional Jitsi Videobridge and makes it accessible...
View ArticleUbuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing the latest Ubuntu App Showdown contest!
Announcing the latest Ubuntu App Showdown contest!用ä¸ć–‡čŻťčż™çŻ‡ć–‡çŤ Today we are announcing our third Ubuntu App Showdown! Contestants will have six weeks to build and publish their apps using...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: There WILL be only one Ubuntu
Michael Hall declares that there is no “Touch”, only “Ubuntu”. And he’s absolutely correct. Sadly for the rest of us, though, he’s writing that post from the future. There will be One Ubuntu, but we’re...
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