Tag: ubuntu
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So long and thanks for all the fish
I’ve been an Ubuntu member since 2006 and was actively involved for a year before that. In years gone by I’ve enjoyed spending time with the bugsquad, the doc team, #ubuntu support and a couple of small packaging fixes. Despite my best intentions, I’ve not managed to stay involved since my last renewal, my interests…
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First impressions of gnome-shell
GNOME Shell is the proposed interface for Gnome 3, it replaces the window manager, the panels at the top and bottom of the screen and everything that sits on them. It’s in the repositories for Karmic, install gnome-shell and then run gnome-shell –replace to give it a try. You should note that it’s still under heavy development and…
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Ubuntu One
The fact of the matter is there are proprietary drives in Ubuntu and you choose whether to use them or not, why should this service be any different? Dave I think the difference is that this is proprietary software (or at least the back end is) that is branded as Ubuntu. Personally I don’t have…
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My recent free software involvement
I should really write in this thing more, spending time on my final year project, and free software things takes up most of my time though. Recently I’ve been toying with a Gnome applet for the Twitter API – that notifies you when your friends twitter. I’m struggling to get it to work with the gnome-panel, it…
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Ubuntu membership
Last Tuesday I was present at the Ubuntu Community Council meeting where my application for Ubuntu membership was under consideration. Thankfully I was near the front of a rather large queue of applicants, so I did not have to wait too long to be considered. I nominated myself for membership on the basis of my contributions with the bugsquad and my…
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Joining the bugsquad
I’ve been using (unstable) Ubuntu as my full-time operating system for the last 18 months and one of my new years resolutions was to try and help out with open source software a bit more. So I’ve been volunteering some time to help out with testing and bug triaging amongst other things. Anyway Tuesday night sfflaw made me member of the Ubuntu quality…
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Ubuntu
I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux‘s Breezy Badger development version as my desktop for the last two days. This is because I’ve had a linux programming assignment to do and rather than ssh into the universities unix server and struggle with small windows and copy and paste failure, I thought I’d simply do it all in linux and use open…
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Ubuntu
I’ve installed the Ubuntu “Warty” release and played around with it for a couple of days, configuring and exploring it. I quite like it, it has a nice, ungimmicky default theme, has firefox as the default browser and uses the very nice gnome 2.8. It seemed really easy to use, kind of ‘clean’ and well,…
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Ubuntu Linux
I’ve decided to give Ubuntu Linux a try, seeing as I’ve not ran a linux distro properly in a few months. The cd I downloaded was corrupted so I thought, that with the aid of Knoppix and chroot I’d do an install over the internet. I’ve got problems running depmod however and so my system…
Dean Sas 