Posted in Collaboration, Documentation, Website, Xubuntu on Jun 8th, 2008
Cody Somerville has been writing quite a bit lately about what’s going on with Xubuntu, focusing a lot on the strategy document and some technical goals for the next release, but we also have a couple of other things in the works - some items that are kind of on the fringes of the distro, [...]
Posted in Desktop Linux, Xubuntu on Mar 27th, 2008
With the successful Beta release of Xubuntu 8.04, I got to thinking of some of the qualities that have always drawn me back to using Xubuntu. I know that people have spirited feelings about their desktops of choice in the Linux world, but I thought I’d present a few reasons (8.04 reasons, to be exact) [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Desktop Linux, Documentation, Teamwork, Xubuntu on Mar 25th, 2008
The Xubuntu documentation for 8.04 is done, and the doc-centered folks are now working on updating the wiki. There are still quite a few holes in it for now, but we’re working fairly quickly. I like the new menu bar. It makes it easy to get around.
Also, I know it’s not much notice, but tomorrow [...]
Posted in Documentation, Learning, Packaging, Xubuntu on Dec 12th, 2007
Fellow Chicagolander, nixternal, provided the Ubuntu-Chicago local community team with a few links to packaging-related articles that are available from some Debian and Kubuntu websites:
1) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy
2) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#devref
3) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide
4) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide
5) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PbuilderHowto
6) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide/Lists/DocumentationResources
He sent them out to the mailing list in advance of a packaging session that’s being held this Sunday at the [...]
Posted in Documentation, Licensing, Release Notes, Xubuntu on Nov 14th, 2007
Both this article and this article note how Ubuntu’s documentation needs to be better than it is. The first article describes (in the last point on the second page) that we should do more content scraping from the unofficial documentation (with permission) to improve our docs. We receive lots of requests for mentorship, [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Documentation, Xubuntu on Oct 30th, 2007
The Ubuntu documentation team has recently migrated all flavors of *Ubuntu documentation from Subversion over to Bazaar. There are now separate branch repositories for each of the flavors, and instructions on how to download the repositories (and how to submit your changes) are up on the Ubuntu wiki. Thanks to Matthew East and a few [...]
I have been coordinating the ISO testing for Xubuntu since February of this year, and while it has really helped me to learn more about the release cycle, I am going to be changing jobs soon, and will not have as much free time. I’m also trying to contribute more to Xubuntu documentation, and [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Documentation, Xubuntu on Aug 15th, 2007
After thinking things through for a while, I finally got around to making a few updates to j1m.net. Previously I had everything over on j1m.net/chi-ubuntu, but I’m moving my posting activities over to the root page of my site. I’m still working on Xubuntu (quite a bit), and I’m still a member of [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Documentation, Xubuntu on Jun 22nd, 2007
Things have been pretty hectic lately. It seems like there’s always too much to do in Chicago in the summertime. I’m excited about what is in store, though. Freddy Martinez and I have been working on Xubuntu documentation, basing it largely off of Ubuntu’s Feisty documentation, and we have to submit our first set of [...]
Posted in Bugs, Hardware, Installation, Testing, Xubuntu on Jun 4th, 2007
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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