Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 266

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #266 for the week May 14 – 20, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: A UDS retrospective Ubuntu Stats LoCo News Launchpad News Ubuntu Forums News Jono Bacon: Precision and Reliability in Ubuntu Accomplishments Martin Pitt: Debian/Ubuntu Packages for [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 266

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #266 for the week May 14 – 20, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: A UDS retrospective Ubuntu Stats LoCo News Launchpad News Ubuntu Forums News Jono Bacon: Precision and Reliability in Ubuntu Accomplishments Martin Pitt: Debian/Ubuntu Packages for [...]

Interview with Nothingspecial

Nothingspecial is perhaps one of the friendliest and most helpful people I know in the Ubuntu community.  My main contact with him has been via the Ubuntu Forums, where he serves as a moderator. Read on… 1. Tell as much as you’re willing about your “real life” like name, age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, [...]

Interview with Nothingspecial

Nothingspecial is perhaps one of the friendliest and most helpful people I know in the Ubuntu community.  My main contact with him has been via the Ubuntu Forums, where he serves as a moderator. Read on… 1. Tell as much as you’re willing about your “real life” like name, age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, [...]

Ubuntu more “commercial”, but always free …

Anyone who knows the world Linux will surely heard of Ubuntu. A distribution that has done so much for Linux and the Open Source world itself! In fact, thanks to the hard work of Canonical, Ubuntu is one of the first user-friendly distributions that have brought many people in the Linux world. Especially those most [...]

How to dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7

Now that you know what the overall goal is, how do you get from here to there? First, understand that if you have a computer running Windows 7, that Windows 7?s boot manager is responsible for making sure that the system boots. Installing Ubuntu on the same hard drive throws another boot manager into the [...]

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Canonical announced last evening, May 17th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system is now available, fixing three security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers. Read more ….

Ubuntu Zombies

I honestly doubt that Canonical has helped so greatly the Linux DE, that people have to promote Ubuntu so much. I also don’t believe popularity of Linux helps proportional the open source ecosystem outside of strictly Desktop.I want to ask all people that write on public view to stop using Ubuntu Defaults and show to [...]

Ubuntu IRC Council Position

There is currently an empty virtual seat on the IRC Council and we are now accepting nominations to fill it. If you are an Ubuntu Member with a competent technical knowledge of IRC, a passion for IRC and a willingness to help maintain effective governance of our IRC community then you could be the leader [...]

Ubuntu IRC Council Position

There is currently an empty virtual seat on the IRC Council and we are now accepting nominations to fill it. If you are an Ubuntu Member with a competent technical knowledge of IRC, a passion for IRC and a willingness to help maintain effective governance of our IRC community then you could be the leader [...]