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- Ubuntu 12.10 Renaming 'Update Manager' to 'Software Updater'5
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Category Archives: Interview
Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu 12.10 Plans, Netflix & What He Thinks of Windows 8
He’s the founder of Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical, and is the creative force behind not on the Unity desktop but its expansion to new form factors. So he’s a very busy man. But every six months Mark Shuttleworth sets aside 1 hour to answer questions from the community. And today was the first [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update
Development Update We are only five weeks away from the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Next week we expect the Beta 2 release to go out and afterwards only important fixes will go in. 26th April will be the day when we all can celebrate our hard work and enjoy this fine piece of work [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update
Development Update Only seven weeks until release. If you are excited, you’re not the only one. We still have two weeks until Beta 2 Freeze and three weeks until Beta 2 Release and if you have a look at the release list of the Beta 2 milestone, you can see that a huge number of [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update
Development Update Today marks the transition of Ubuntu 12.04 from Alpha Testing into the first phase of Beta Testing as Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 is released. Nicholas Skaggs has a number of items you can help out with by simply doing a bit of testing. We still have eight weeks until release, so let’s take [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update
Development Update Nine weeks until release and one thing is clear already: 12.04 will be a kick-arse release. Thanks everyone for your hard work on it! Still there’s a few things which still need to get done. Today User Interface Freeze and Beta Freeze will kick in, next week we will do a test rebuild [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update
Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release. Today marks the end of a couple of very busy [...]
OMG Interviews Valorie Zimmerman, Ubuntu women, Linux Grandma and Kubuntu Extraordinaire
Valorie has been a valuable contributor to the Kubuntu community and overall Free Open Source Software community for quite awhile and I had the privilege of meeting her last year at Community Leadership Summit and ever since meeting her I have wanted to interview her because I know that she inspires many women in FOSS [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 13
Development Update Ubuntu 12.04 is shaping up nicely. Last week Alpha 2 got released, which means you should be testing by now. Next week we will hit Feature Freeze, by which time we “stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release”. This also means that new upstream [...]
“We’re Going to be Building Awesome Things” – Ubuntu TV Interview with Canonical’s Will Cooke
Ubuntu TV captured the attention and imaginations of the technology press after its reveal at CES 2012. And rightly so. The demo of Ubuntu TV shown off at the event proved that not only are Canonical serious about a multi-device future for Ubuntu and its Unity interface, but also have the engineering and design expertise to pull it [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 12
(Brought to you by the Ubuntu Development News team and first posted here.) Development Update It is the week of Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 which is to be released in just a few hours. Everybody has been getting their good work into Ubuntu, so it is a great opportunity for everyone to go check it [...]
Meet HUD: The New Way of Using App Menus in Ubuntu
A brand new way of using application menus in Unity interface is coming to Ubuntu. HUD – Heads UP Display – uses an intelligent search-based approach to finding and accessing menu items you need. It’s smart too; HUD is capable of remembering what items you use most often and prioritising them in the results. The goal is [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 10
Welcome back everyone after the holiday break. Since we spoke the last time, there has lots been happening. By now we only have 14 weeks left until Ubuntu 12.04 a.k.a. Precise Pangolin, another LTS release gets out the door.
Leading GNOME Theme Designer Talks Tools and Trials of Working on Linux
If you’ve downloaded a good-looking GNOME-Shell theme in the past year then there’s a good chance that the following 25-year-old Algerian designer was the hands behind it.
Reda Lazri, or 0rax0 as he is better known online, is a prolific designer. GTK, Metacity and GNOME-Shell themes; application icons, wallpapers and a multitude of mock-ups line the walls of his DeviantArt Gallery.
But it’s not the quantity and variety that makes Reda’s work so notable – it’s the sheer quality.
Mark Shuttleworth Talks New Icon Theme, Criticisms, GNOME-Shell & Ubuntu on TVs, Phones…
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth holds a 1 hour Q&A session following each release of Ubuntu.
And today was the first chance many have had to ask Mark questions about upcoming changes, plans and more following the release of Ubuntu 11.10.
The most interesting questions asked during the session are presented inside…
Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 3
(This is a guest post from Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Daniel Holbach, which was originally posted here.) Ubuntu Development Update Ubuntu Developer Summit is over and around 300 blueprints are being filled out with notes from the conversations of the summit. If you subscribed to a few blueprints, you might see updates over updates [...]