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Jon Sackett joined the Launchpad Registry team a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a quick run-down of who he is. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jon: I’m part of the Registry team; we maintain the people, teams and projects bits and pieces used by all the other parts of Launchpad. Right now I’m mostly helping pay down technical debt, but I’m also helping with features that help those core objects be smarter about the way they use other applications. Matthew: Can we see something that you’ve worked on? Jon: Almost everything I’ve done has been internal without a real UI component. Matthew: Where do you work? Jon: I work in my home office in an apartment in downtown Durham, NC. Sometimes I change it up and work from my porch. Elegant Gnome Theme Pack, one of the best dark themes was updated today and it now automatically installs a Firefox theme to match Elegant Gnome. But that’s not all, there are a lot of changes in the latest Elegant Gnome Pack 0.7: * New GTK+ theme version Equinox is a new GTK2 engine already used by themes such as Elementary. The relatively new GTK2 engine has been recently added to the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat official repositories and has it’s own Ubuntu PPA which, besides the Equinox GTK engine also holds a few great themes (click for screenshots). Yesterday, a new version of the Equinox GTK2 engine has been released – 1.30, and with it, 2 new themes called “Equinox Evolution” and “Equinox Evolution Light” (they are complete with GTK and Metacity themes) are available in the PPA: The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.10 Codenamed “Maverick Meerkat”, 10.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition and Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition continue Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition provides even better integration of the Ubuntu 10.10 Server for UEC and EC2 brings the power and stability of The Ubuntu 10.10 family of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Estobuntu 10.09 is out. A new version based on a stable and long-term support version of Ubuntu 10.04. For the first time, Estobuntu users can choose the KDE environment instead of the current (or next) in another popular environment – GNOME. Other innovations would be worth highlighting a better mobile Internet connectivity and higher availability of wireless network encryption, as well as the accompanying software, the latest KDE, which is still far from stable. The new version is already installed more than 100 machine in Estonian Schools. Finally, after a hiatus of over a year, the Ubuntu derivative tailored for Romanian and Hungarian Linux beginners is having a new release! Of course English is still available on the CD Here is the iso (700M)
Its focus is to provide much of the commonly needed software conveniently installed by default but without straying away from Ubuntu in looks or by forming a separate community. These two decisions were made in order to keep those that see or use both distributions on a familiar ground.
Kiwi Linux 10.08 is based on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS and as always it only comes in GNOME x86 Desktop CD edition.
The main differences from Ubuntu are in the default application lineup. The decision to switch out some components are based on my own usage and on input from a subset of the Ubuntu-RO community.
The rest are small changes – custom liveCD boot screen and plymouth theme just to make it clear this is not 100% Ubuntu and no confusion arises in case of support issues.
The Launchpad PPAs are a great help, I copied VLC and Shotwell from Nate Muench’s and Yorba’s PPAs to the Kiwi release PPA where the custom packages are kept as well (Ubiquity slideshow and Plymouth theme only).
Thanks to all who tested release candidate images and helped with graphics!
Download here
The Element Team is pleased to finally bring you Element OS v 1.4 after a two week delay. We had been experiencing some problems that were introduced in the build cycle such as HDMI Audio failure in Firefox, but that has now been alleviated. Notable changes from 1.3 to 1.4 include: ~ Firefox Web Browser has been updated to version 3.6.8 and as usual configured for ten foot interfaces. Many people suggested we switch to Chromium, which unfortunately would need major UI rewrites so for now we are continuing to rely on Firefox, simply because from a usability standpoint it is much more friendly in a 10′ interface environment. E-Bar Editor has undergone a minor revision of its toolbar and some usability changes. You no longer have to remember to refresh before closing, if you’ve made changes to the bar it will now prompt you to refresh before exiting the editor. HDMI Audio Switch has underwent minor revisions and now displays your current settings and configurations. Remember you still have to enable your switches in the XFCE Mixer however. Element Slim Settings, labeled Login Settings in the menu is a new utility that includes the ability to switch between several login themes and enable AutoLogin functionality through a GUI. This is a feature our users have been asking for. Numerous orphaned and un-needed packages that may have been dependent on software that were in earlier Element versions has been removed. So even though the iso is still around 625MB the removed packages freed up space on for the above mentioned updates. To download Element OS 1.4 visit the following link: As a side note we would like to thank Podnutz.com for sponorsing Element this month, so please checkout podnutz.com and browse their selection of amazing Tech oriented podcasts. We’ve also received a grateful thank you from the XFCE project who have been so kind as to post links to Element on their website and distribution pages. We have been donating money over that last several months to aid XFCE in their hosting expenses. It’s the least we could do without XFCE, then Element wouldn’t be possible, so head over to XFCE.org and do some beta testing and coding for these guys they need the help as they gear up for XFCE 4.8. The Ubuntu kernel team has prepared a new proposed kernel for Lucid (2.6.32-25.43), containing a large number of fixes. This is a larger number of updates than we would usually push at one time, but processing of the upstream stable updates was delayed by a couple of security updates. This kernel should fix a lot of issues, including this one that people have been asking about a lot. You will get this automatically if you have updates from lucid-proposed enabled. Note that if it breaks you get to keep all the pieces, so don’t try this on production machines. Please test against your favorite bugs in the changelog and provide feedback. This Month we have profiled a member of the Canonical family, who has been with us almost from the start *Henrik Omma* Read on to see his recollection of what Canonical was like in the early days and why he enjoys working here. *Take 60 seconds with Henrik Omma* Henrik works as the Enterprise Applications Team Manager and has been with Canonical for 6 years. *In layman’s terms what do you do?* I manage a small team that develops & maintains in-house systems used for sales, finance and HR. *What did you do before joining Canonical?* I was doing a Doctorate in Astrophysics at Oxford. I actually started with Canonical part-time while I was still writing up my thesis. It was good to balance the two activities because thesis writing can be a long and monotonous process. I moved to full time in May 2005, after completing the thesis. I had been using Linux for fluid dynamics simulations on super computers for my thesis research, which then introduced me to the world of Open Source. I became interested in the philosophy and the world changing potential of Open Source and started my own project called the OpenCD. Later I also co-founded ‘Software Freedom Day’. Both these projects were about spreading the message of Open Source and increasing adoption. I found three new Ubuntu wallpapers at WebUpd8 They looks good Original sources: http://pr09studio.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-10-10-176780911 http://pr09studio.deviantart.com/art/Fantasy-167248510 |
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