The VRMS program does a nice job of listing the non-free components on your system. Let’s see what my VRMS report shows: ———— jwc@tereska:~$ vrms Non-free packages installed on tereska linux-generic Complete Generic Linux kernel linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels Contrib packages installed on tereska flashplugin-installer [...]
Read all »Xfce Documentation Licensing
Greetings! I hope everyone has been enjoying their summers, and that things are progressing along smoothly with the 9.10 release cycle. I want to share a brief note regarding Xfce documentation licensing with the hopes that others could provide some additional points for us to consider. Before I do that, though, let me pause to [...]
Read all »International Color Guide
I came across Xerox’s International Color Guide while reading through the items on my feed reader this evening. Because Ubuntu is developed for an international audience, I thought this color guide might be interesting to some of the artwork and desktop-UI folks in the Ubuntu community. The guide also includes a link to a “color [...]
Read all »Notes on UbuntuOne
I recently posted a couple of ‘dents onto identi.ca regarding UbuntuOne, but wanted to follow-up with some more complete thoughts. In thinking about UbuntuOne, there are a number of factors involved; it involves the need to build a sustainable business, trademark issues, and the level of one’s own comfort with using non-free software. To me, [...]
Read all »Ubuntu-Chicago 9.04 Release Party
Hello Chicagoland folks. : -) The Ubuntu-Chicago Local Community Team has organized our Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope, release party, and we want you to be there. : -) You can check out the details on our team wiki page, but here is the short of it: Date: Saturday, April 25th Time: 2:00pm to [...]
Read all »Apt-urls – Now available on the Ubuntu wiki
Good news on the wiki front. : -) As of this morning, apt-urls are enabled on the Ubuntu Wiki. What does this mean? In simple terms, this feature provides a simple, wiki-based interface for apt, the base of our software management system. It means that we can now insert clickable links on the wiki that [...]
Read all »Making Strides Toward Xubuntu 9.04
As I’m sure is the case with other Ubuntu-related development groups, the Xubuntu team has been quite active as of late. We spent some time this weekend testing out configurations of system settings now that we have migrated to Xfce 4.6 for the 9.04 release, and have completed the transition to the new artwork for [...]
Read all »Xfce 4.6 is released!
Hot off of the presses comes a release announcement marking the final release of Xfce 4.6! from Stephan Arts <stephan@xfce.org> date Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM subject Xfce 4.6.0 Released!!! After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.6.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.6 features a new configuration backend, a new [...]
Read all »Ubuntu Chicago and the Global Bug Jam
Per Daniel Holbach’s recent blog post about the Global Bug Jam, I thought I’d add my two cents (or give you a penny for my thoughts, and donate the additional penny to charity) about what the Ubuntu-Chicago Local Community Team is planning for the Global Bug Jam. There are still quite a few details for [...]
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