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Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’
More Open Week
Posted in 1, tagged openweek, ubuntu on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Open Week starting today ….
Posted in 1, tagged openweek, ubuntu on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Come join us!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
X Happenings …
Posted in 1, tagged intel, ubuntu, x on April 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a nice little gift from the X team, an updated drivers PPA for those of you who want stable releases of drivers without bleeding too much. Having been one of the folks bitten by Intel X driver bugs this cycle I am glad we have this option available. I have been wondering the past [...]
Support your LoCo(l) economy….
Posted in 1, tagged loco, ubuntu on April 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Some things just don’t scale. Like say … #ubuntu. It can be frustrating for people who are looking for help during release as everyone floods this channel, everyone is overworked, there are more people that need help that can provide help, it’s a huge channel so you get a bunch of the bad things that [...]
Announcing Ubuntu Open Week
Posted in 1, tagged openweek, ubuntu on April 15, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I am pleased to announce that this cycle’s Ubuntu Open Week will be held the week after Ubuntu 9.04’s release, from 27 April to 1 May on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. The sessions take place from 1500UTC to 2100UTC (With a special session on Monday night after-hours)
Ubuntu Open Week is a week full of IRC tutorial [...]
Didn’t you know, Jackalopes are fast?
Posted in 1, tagged boot, intel, samsung, ssd, ubuntu on April 13, 2009 | 19 Comments »
It seems people are noticing how much faster 9.04 is at booting.
I happen to have 2 SSD disks, one in my desktop and one in the laptop. I measured both my machines with bootchart, the laptop is set to autologin (I am unsure when bootchart stops measuring or if that matters).
The desktop is [...]
Induction time …
Posted in 1, tagged community, ubuntu on April 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Aha! You probably thought I was going to blog about Metallica’s impending Hall of Fame induction this weekend, but I’m not!
I want to talk about the Ubuntu Hall of Fame. This is the place where you can nominate people from around the community who have done great work. It’s not just tied to developers, it [...]
Patches, patches, patches … mushrooms!
Posted in blog, tagged patches, ubuntu, upstream on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s Friday, so what better way than to start the weekend than to talk about patches!
I have been working on consolidating patch information from around the wiki and talking to folks and have put all this information on this patches page in the Ubuntu Development namespace.
This page is an amalgamation of tips I’ve been [...]
Desktop Deployments and Stuff
Posted in blog, tagged active directory, dumb people, dumb unix people, dumb windows people, puppet, server, ubuntu on March 10, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I wonder why people ask for advice in all the wrong places. Let me save this guy some time, and anyone else who may be asking, because this can get complicated and people are always giving out wrong advice.
Jorge’s Guide to Deploying Awesome Linux Desktops
Stupid Things People Need to Learn:
The terms “LDAP” and “Active Directory” [...]
A long road, not over yet.
Posted in blog, tagged gwibber, identi.ca, ubuntu on February 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Gwibber, the microblogging client of kings, is now ready to go for Ubuntu 9.04. Ryan Paul has put up a Roadmap of what’s to come. Right now the team is focused on bugfixing, bugfixing, and bugfixing. Thanks to Fabien Tassin, Alexander Sack, and Sebastian Bacher for working to get this in in time for Jaunty.
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Great job everyone!
Posted in blog, tagged gbj, loco, ubuntu on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a great weekend watching people post their Global Bug Jam Stories and watching the activity buzz all over Launchpad.
I’d like to do a special shout out to the LoCo from Rochester, New York. I met some of these guys at the Ontario Linuxfest (which btw, just opened their call for papers). I am [...]
New tool for opening upstream tasks
Posted in blog, tagged bugs, ubuntu, upstream on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have just announced the first cut of Graham Binns’ upstream-task-opening tool. This should be useful for triagers and package maintainers. I plan to use it during the Global Bug Jam. Please leave feedback in the thread or drop me a mail.
Reminder: Tonight at midnight UTC (aka. 7pm EST) I will be giving a tutorial how to run a Bug Jam on freenode IRC, #ubuntu-classroom. I encourage LoCo people to attend to get a better idea on how to run a more efficient Global Bug Jam.
etckeeper and bzr
Posted in blog, tagged bzr, ubuntu on January 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
etckeeper is a great little tool for keeping your /etc in revision control so if you fat finger something you’re only a revert away from your known state. It’s now using bzr by default in Ubuntu.
Thanks Mark A. Hershberger, Jelmer Vernooij, Daniel Hahler, and others!
And you’re an idiot too!
Posted in blog, tagged miliant, ubuntu on January 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
So yesterday/today Jill’s car was making a noise so we took it into the mechanic. I don’t like seeing mechanics because my Dad is a “car guy” and while I love cars as a whole, I don’t love cars as in I love to work on them all the time. I can appreciate a 67 [...]
ubuntu-michigan!
Posted in blog, tagged loco, michigan, ubuntu on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MonoDevelop rockstar needed, inquire within
Posted in blog, tagged hero, mono, ppa, ubuntu on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’re looking for a volunteer to do for MonoDevelop what the launchpad Banshee Team did for Banshee. That is, we’re looking for someone to maintain a PPA with the latest pre-2.0 snapshots for multiple versions of Ubuntu, as well as feeding fixes back into the released versions already in Ubuntu.
The ideal person will be working [...]
ssherminator lives…
Posted in blog, tagged hotssh, terminator, ubuntu on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
David Futcher (aka bobbo) has, on his neverending quest for beer, hacked up ssherminator, which I mentioned in this blog post. Terminator and hotssh coming together. You can snag the tarball here and the code here. Feel free to branch and hack on it and give David feedback. UI help would be especially welcome!
I told [...]
Building a better lifestream
Posted in blog, tagged ubuntu, uds on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For this Ubuntu Developer Summit we tried a bit of an experiment; using whoisi to make a lifestream of what was happening at UDS. It is available here. Unfortunately some people found it difficult to use and didn’t really “get” how it worked. I was getting pretty good at it by midweek, I had been [...]
Oh man….
Posted in blog, tagged hotssh, terminator, ubuntu on December 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
So I’ve always thought that someone should take terminator and put it together with hotssh. What I didn’t realize until now is the awesome name of this hypothetical terminal of doom.
ssherminator
Case of beer to the person who makes this happen.
What this means to me.
Posted in blog, tagged community, emo, ubuntu on December 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I had this long response to Jono’s call for what Ubuntu means to me but as I read it over and over again it read like some long manifesto or other political document that no one wants to read so I think I’ll just sum it up without some hand-wavy thing.
Ubuntu to me means a [...]
Just in time for the holidays …
Posted in blog, tagged ubuntu on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Time to fire up some Ubuntu bread!!
Followups ….
Posted in blog, tagged fosscamp, songbird, ubuntu, uds, upstream on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Lau has posted a nice summary of Songbird/Mozilla/Ubuntu discussions held during FOSSCamp and UDS.
Announcing the next Ubuntu Global Bug Jam
Posted in blog, tagged bug, jam, ubuntu on December 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
And here comes the train! I am happy to announce the second Ubuntu Global Bug Jam which will take place from 20 to 22 February 2009.
So, what is the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam? Jono explains it as “a world-wide online and face-to-face event to get people together to fix Ubuntu bugs – we want to [...]
Fences and Bridges
Posted in blog, tagged bugzilla, launchpad, ubuntu, upstream on December 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Dag Wieers has some comments about when bug tracking systems become fences instead of bridges. I wish it were so simple to solve this problem, but as Dag and the comments point out, it is more complicated than you would think. Some upstreams want every bug no matter how trivial, some want the distro to [...]
