Posted in Bugs, Desktop Linux on Jan 28th, 2010
Dear Yahoo!
Welcome to Ubuntu! As a regular contributor to the Ubuntu project, I think it’s great that you are partnering with Canonical. Because of the agreement you signed, Canonical will be able to hire more people to work on Free software. Also, your contributions will help Ubuntu continue offering their OS at no cost to [...]
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Posted in Bugs, Collaboration, LoCo Teams on Jan 27th, 2009
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 us [...]
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I volunteered at Free Geek Chicago again on Sunday, and spent much of my day trying to get Xubuntu Feisty Fawn to install on some rather unique hardware. It didn’t go so well.
The machine in question was a PII with 256mb of RAM, and two SCSI hard drives – one 8gb and one 4gb in [...]
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Posted in Bugs, Testing, Xubuntu on Mar 13th, 2007
Ubuntu Illinois / Chicago member Freddy Martinez had given me some brief pointers on filing bugs during one of our more recent Ubuntu-Chicago loco meetings, but my involvement with the ISO testing has really started to give me a taste for what bug reporting and triaging involves. Now that Xubuntu ISO testing is at [...]
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