Canonical Design Team: #10 Ubuntu is built on IAAS for IAAS users
Every detail matters, and building great software means taking time to remove the papercuts. Ubuntu has over the past 5 years been refined in many ways to feel amazingly comfortable on the cloud. In...
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Serge Hallyn: Nested lxc
One of the core features of cgmanager is to easily, safely, and transparently support the cgroup requirements of container nesting. Processes can administer cgroups exactly the same way whether inside...
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Nicholas Skaggs: Time to test trusty!
Say that three times fast. Time to test trusty,time to test trusty, time to test trusty!Ahh it's my favorite time of the cycle. This is the part were we all get serious, go a little bit crazy, and end...
View ArticleZygmunt Krynicki: PlainBox Providers for Everyone
With the imminent release of PlainBox 0.5.2 providers with native executables (read: compiled code) are a reality.Have a look at https://github.com/plainbox-providers/ for two very simple examples....
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Svetlana Belkin: OLF 2014 Planning Meeting Summary
Ubuntu Ohio held an IRC meeting planning for the Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) 2014, which set for October 26-28 2014. This was an initial meeting to begin planning for the event later this year.If money is an...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: On the Mozilla CEO…
It[1] has already been demotivating and distracting from Mozilla’s mission. How he responds to this is going to determine how really qualified he is to be CEO. I think it could end up affecting...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 361
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #361 for the week March 24 – 30, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta...
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José Antonio Rey: Taking The Next Step In Life
Goodbye March, hello April. This first three months of the year went pretty quickly, and that also means that my ‘vacation’ is over. No more going to bed at 4:30am and waking up at 11am, because now I...
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Sam Hewitt: Boeuf Bourguignon (a.k.a. Beef Stew)
Boeuf Bourguignon (essentially, beef stewed in red wine), like most braising dishes is really quite easy and, in my opinion, borderline idiotproof –provided that idiot knows how to use a knife. Not to...
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Sam Hewitt: Vanilla Ice Cream
Every now and then I do make ice cream from scratch, and I find it's always better than that bought in the store, because you know what goes into it –seriously, what the hell is carrageenan and why is...
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Tony Whitmore: Ubuntu Podcast – Season 7 starts tomorrow!
Tomorrow evening we’ll be bringing a brand new season of the Ubuntu Podcast to your ears. After an extended winter break, we’re ready to dust off our microphones and mixers, fire up our laptops and...
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Zygmunt Krynicki: PlainBox Target Device
The plainbox-0.6 milestone is full of content but one thing I want to point out is the CEP-4 blueprint. In short, you will be able to run PlainBox on a desktop or laptop computer but execute tests on a...
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Canonical Design Team: Making ubuntu.com responsive: lessons learned (5)
This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘.At this point in time, once the pilot projects were either completed or underway, we had already:Created an initial responsive prototype...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Box theme 0.45
Only two for the forthcoming Trusty Tahr release, and as I promised, I uploaded Box 0.45 with full support for dark panels, including icons for both panels, themes for dark and light panels, and a...
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Daniel Holbach: Got any plans for the weekend?
This weekend (4-6 April) the Ubuntu community is celebrating another Ubuntu Global Jam! The goal, as always, is to get together as a team and make Ubuntu better, get people involved and have fun. In...
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Duncan McGreggor: Hash Maps in LFE: Request for Comment
As you may have heard, hash maps are coming to Erlang in R17. We're all pretty excited about this. The LFE community (yes, we have one... hey, being headquartered on Gutland keeps us lean!) has been...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – April 01, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140402 Meeting AgendaARM Status Nothing new to report this weekRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Ubuntu One shutting down
Ubuntu One is about to close. Canonical can't continue offering this service anymore. This is really annoying to all of us, who trusted in their (excellent, by the way) service, the high transfer ratio...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu Online Summit Dates
At the last Ubuntu Developer Summit we discussed the idea of making our regular online summit serve more than just developers. We are interested in showcasing not just the developer-orientated...
View ArticleUbuntu GNOME: Canonical is Shutting Down Ubuntu One File Services
Hi,“No, unfortunately it’s not an April Fools joke.”Said Jane Silber from Canonical.Sad but true. Canonical is shutting down Ubuntu One file services.“Today we are announcing plans to shut down the...
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