Ubuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – May 13, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140513 Meeting AgendaARM Status nothing new to report this weekRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can...
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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing Ubuntu Pioneers
Ubuntu has always been about breaking new ground. We broke the ground with the desktop back in 2004, we have broken the ground with cloud orchestration across multiple clouds and providers, and we are...
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Jonathan Riddell: Next Generation Edges Closer
KDE Project: D-BusToday I released the Plasma Next Beta.It's the first major user of KDE Frameworks 5 and tidies up the internal and the externals of the Plasma desktop.At the Kubuntu meeting yesterday...
View ArticleUbuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing Ubuntu Dual Boot with enhanced upgrades...
We’re thrilled to announce a new release of Ubuntu Dual boot, now supporting enhanced Ubuntu upgrades either from the Android or Ubuntu side.The new Ubuntu Dualboot release, codenamed M9, enables...
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Costales: Apps for Human Beings (pyGTK with Glade)
I really believe in the Ubuntu Promise,"Ubuntu is [...] accessible to all".I think this is one of the awesome things in this OS and community. A few years ago, I received a bug in Gufw:THE PROBLEMBy...
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Svetlana Belkin: Evernote Workflow Design
Evernote is what I was looking for since December 2012. Before it, I looked at note-taking programs like KeepNote and Cherry Tree but they didn’t have multimedia (such as hand-written and audio...
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Joel Leclerc: About the Orchestral Tutorial Series, and other things
Okay, first, I’m very sorry. I promised a person I’d finish it, and I didn’t.Why? Well, the explanation is rather complicated, but simply put, I had issues with making universal instructions for...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Linode pv-grub chaining
I've been using Linode since 2010, and many of my friends have heard me talk about how big a fan I am of linode. I've used Debian unstable on all my Linodes, since I often use them as a remote shell...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Linode pv-grub chaining
I've been using Linode since 2010, and many of my friends have heard me talk about how big a fan I am of linode. I've used Debian unstable on all my Linodes, since I often use them as a remote shell...
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Benjamin Kerensa: On DRM and Firefox
There has been a lot of criticism of Mozilla’s decision to move forward in implementing W3C EME, a web standard that the standards body has been working on for some time. While it is understandable...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Mozilla add HTML5 DRM, sadly but inevitably
“If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?” “Oh jeez. Probably.” “What!? Why!?” “Because all my friends did.”— xkcd, BridgeMozilla have decided to implement the HTML5EMEDRM for...
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Canonical Design Team: The browser is dead. Long live the browser!
With the unstoppable rise of mobile apps, some pundits within the tech industry have hastily demoted the mobile web to a second-class citizen, or even dismissed it as ‘dead’. Who cares about websites...
View ArticleMartin Albisetti: A story on finding an elusive security bug and managing it...
Now that all the responsible disclosure processes have been followed through, I’d like to tell everyone a story of my very bad week last week. Don’t worry, it has a happy ending. Part 1: ExpositionOn...
View ArticleLuis de Bethencourt: GStreamer and emacs
Debug logs are an extremely helpful tool in the GStreamer developer's toolbox. Most will say you can't live without them. Something I've always missed when reading them is a convenient way to jump back...
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Svetlana Belkin: Stuck With Ubuntu Touch!
As I said in this post, I installed Ubuntu Touch 14.04 on my Nexus 7 and today I tried to restore my tablet back to Google Nexus 7 stock (factory) image but it failed on me. I asked a question on...
View ArticleAnte Karamatić: Dell XPS 13 cracking sound – solution
Few days ago I made a switch from Lenovo x200s to Dell XPS 13. I was always a ThinkPad fan. I really think these were the best laptops ever. Again, were. Unfortunately, Lenovo joined a mindless hype of...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Today's catch-up meeting with the Ubuntu Community Council
The Kubuntu team has been thinking about what to bring up to the CC for a few weeks, and at our Mumble meeting, discussed it there as well. Rohan Garg, Scott Kitterman, and Philip Muscovac...
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Jorge Castro: Vagrant boxes with Juju now available
For those of you using Vagrant we are now listing our Juju Vagrant boxes here:https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/precise64-jujuhttps://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/precise32-jujuFor those of you on OSX and...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E07 – The One with the Jellyfish
Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Seven of the Ubuntu Podcast! Download OGG Download MP3Play in PopupIn this week’s show:-We take a look...
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Kubuntu Wire: Univention Corporate Client 2.0 – First milestone released
Univention Corporate Client is a derivative of Kubuntu for commercial customers. It comes with a bunch of advanced administrative tools to make configuration easier for say Samba.Version 2.0 has just...
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