Mark Shuttleworth: ACPI, firmware and your security
ACPI comes from an era when the operating system was proprietary and couldn’t be changed by the hardware manufacturer.We don’t live in that era any more.However, we DO live in an era where any firmware...
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Jorge Castro: Introducing Juju Bundles
“Rick, I want you to fire up an empty cloud deployment”, said no boss ever. The various teams who make up “The Ubuntu Server Team” work on various bits. Some work to make OpenStack easy to deploy, some...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 359
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #359 for the week March 10 – 16, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit March 2014...
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Benjamin Kerensa: Sponsor Debconf14
Debconf14 is just around the corner and although we are making progress on securing sponsorships there is still a lot of progress that needs to be made in order to reach our goal. I’m writing this blog...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: Hangouts Outage? Try WebRTC and JitMeet
With Hangouts being offline right now, it might be a good opportunity to catch up on some of the exciting, free and open alternatives:the Jitsi team have produced a pure browser-based video...
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Canonical Design Team: Making ubuntu.com responsive: making the rules a reality
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘.The rules document we drafted proved a useful and good guide for those few development days, and a proof of concept was created and...
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Daniel Holbach: Bringing Ubuntu App Dev Schools to YOUR LoCo
App development for Ubuntu is a hot topic and many have blogged and talked about this in the past months. Still I’d like to point out two things which never cease to amaze me:Writing the code of the...
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Colin King: Keeping cool with thermald
The push for higher performance desktops and laptops has inevitably lead to higher power dissipation. Laptops have also shrunk in size leading to increasing problems with removing excess heat and...
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Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Apps in China
The last weeks have been very exciting. New features have been added to the SDK (among other things these things were added: cross-compiling through ‘click chroot’ support, running the click reviewers...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – March 18, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140318 Meeting AgendaARM Status nothing new to report this weekRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Wherein Paul maligns the lack of proper GNU/Linux support...
It sucks.It annoys me to no end that I can’t run my own Linux kernel on an Android device. It’s very annoying that the android patches haven’t been upstreamed, and it’s even more annoying that I can’t...
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Duncan McGreggor: lfetool 0.2 Released
This release of lfetool has a bunch of new interesting features -- too much to cover in a tweet, so it's getting a little blog post ;-)Here are the high-level bits that should make users' lives...
View ArticleSam Hewitt: Pure HTML & CSS Buttons
I love when things are simple and I love when things are simple on the web development side of things.ButtonsMe on TwitterTo me a button is a glorified link (well, a glorified <div> within an...
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Ubuntu GNOME: It is Official, Ubuntu GNOME got the LTS Status
Hi everyone,Ubuntu GNOME Team is pleased to officially announce that Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) is going to be our first Long Term Support (LTS) Release. YES! You did read that correctly [AGREED]...
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Timo Jyrinki: Qt 5.2.1 in Ubuntu
Ubuntu running Qt 5.2.1Qt 5.2.1 landed in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS last Friday, hooray! Making it into a drop-in replacement for Qt 5.0.2 was not trivial. Because of the qreal change, it was decided to rebuild...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu Open Week for Trusty: Call for Instructors
So it’s this time of the year again! As the end of the current cycle approaches, the Ubuntu Classroom Team is starting the planning of the next Ubuntu Open Week, for the Trusty cycle.The Ubuntu Open...
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Duncan McGreggor: lfetool T-Shirts?!
So, yeah... waaaaay too early for a T-shirt; the code has just gone from 0.1.x to 0.2.x. But, how could we resist: the project logo is retro like woodblock prints!Earlier today, lfetool converted to...
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Canonical Design Team: Making ubuntu.com responsive: pilot projects (4)
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘.Making www.ubuntu.com responsive has been an ongoing goal of ours for a while, and we’ve been discussing and preparing for it for over a...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: xTuple consults community on best license options
xTuple, the makers of PostBooks, the compelling PostgreSQL-based accounting and CRM suite have started a discussion about how to move to a more recognised license.It is really good to see a company...
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Adam Stokes: juju: deploy to lxc AND kvm in the local provider
While messing around with juju 1.17.x I managed to stumble across a setup that allows me to deploy both LXC and KVM containers in a single environment.Pre-reqsJuju v1.17 or higherlibvirt-binlxcUbuntu...
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