Planet UbuntuPlanet Ubuntu - http://planet.ubuntu.com/Dustin Kirkland: Intrepid Call for Testing: Booting Degraded RAID- September 16, 2008 From the Ubuntu Server Team&8230; Ubuntu Intrepid is racing toward Beta Freeze, scheduled for 25 September 2008. I&8217;ve been working hard on getting software RAID to work a bit better on the Ubuntu Server. I&8217;d appreciate any testing assistance the Ubuntu Community can offer. This work focused on 3 main areas.. Enhancing the initramfs to allow booting on a degraded RAID. The user can now specify that preference in one of several ways: permanently in a configuration file, see:...http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/intrepid-call-for-testing-booting-degraded-... Lucas Nussbaum: New Debian Developers!- September 16, 2008 We got a lot of (= 10) new Debian developers recently. I&8217;m really happy to see that the bottlenecks in the New Maintainer process were (at least partially) solved. My first NM (actually my second, my first one is on hold) also became a DD today. So, how long does it take to become a DD Let&8217;s take 2 examples. Both are very active and skilled new contributors, that probably were quite close from being the faster you can be through NM: Name Applied AM assigned Approved by AM Account...http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=309 Dave Morley: ME ME naming- September 16, 2008 Ditto with Lord of the rings. However being dyslexic means I spelt the names more phonetically.stryder is my main laptop.gandelf is my server.smegal is my main machine.boromir and faramir are my test boxes.http://davmor2.blogspot.com/2008/09/me-me-naming.html Lucas Nussbaum: Is Mozilla the new XFree86 Could Ubuntu actually help- September 16, 2008 All the recent moves of Mozilla make me feel that they are really taking the XFree86 path. Reading the Launchpad bug log about the EULA shows that most of the posters agree on who is on the wrong side, and favor switching to IceWeasel or Epiphany+Webkit. Even if Mozilla is apparently going to back off on the EULA story, it looks like the harm was done. If they want to fix that, they will have to start listening to other players in the Free Software community. Or just watch Webkit eat their...http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=308 Sayak Banerjee: Photography and ubuntu- September 16, 2008 Since the first camera was invented by Ibn al-Haytham, photography has evolved, changed and developed to a great deal. Today's powerful digital cameras can compete with their film or reel counterparts. Photography is more of an addiction than a hobby. It's all about finding the beauty in anything. A glass of water may seem beautiful, or even a leaf lying on green grass. It's all about how we shape it and capture it, and finally, how we set it as our ubuntu wallpaper! (jk)I think there would be..http://sayakb.blogspot.com/2008/09/photography-and-ubuntu.html Jeff Waugh: Headless Dropbox- September 16, 2008 I have been playing around with the very impressive Dropbox, watching the surprisingly rapid syncing between my desktop and netbook, when I stumbled on a use case that would totally rock my socks off: I totally need a Dropbox on my Linode! So I copied .dropbox up to my Linode VM server, checked if it had any obvious references to the machine it was originally installed on, and ran .dropbox-distdropboxd (a quick ldd will show you that it is a simple daemon, and doesn&8217;t link to any of the...http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/09/16/headless-dropbox/ Jelmer Vernooij: Reconciling the Samba 3 and Samba 4 source code trees- September 15, 2008 While a few of us have been working very hard on Samba 4 to allow it to rock your socks off as an Active Directory Domain Controller, some of the other Samba developers have been working just as hard on improving the existing Samba 3 codebase and adding features to that. This situation has caused tension between developers as well as technical problems in the past - code with the same purpose is being developed in parallel, libraries diverge because features are only added in one branch and not.http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/blog/archives/223-Reconciling-the-Samba-3-and-Samba-4-source-cod... Launchpad News: Launchpad offline 22.00 - 23.59 UTC 17th September 2008- September 15, 2008 We&8217;re releasing Launchpad 2.1.9 on Wednesday (17th September). During the roll-out of the new code, we need to take Launchpad offline for a short while. We allow a window of two hours. Going offline: 22.00 UTC 17th September 2008 Expected back before: 23.59 UTC 17th September 2008 Keep reading this blog for the 2.1.9 release announcement!http://news.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-offline-2200-2359-utc-17th-september-200... Bryce Harrington: My Deb developer wishlist- September 15, 2008 It's great seeing all the new people joining the MOTU ranks. It's made me wonder, what tool improvements might make the process even easier Sounds like a decent topic for a blog post so here we go... 1. Quell unnecessary warnings: When learning packaging you run into a bewildering number of warnings. There's several that occur normally (like the one about 'user-defined field Original-Maintainer') that are completely innocuous - indeed for properly maintained Ubuntu packages the things they.http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/node/62 Mark Van den Borre: I need your poems for an artsociety project- September 15, 2008 I need some of your favorite poetry for my new project, telepoesis.org (site not ready yet):theme: money, greed, overpromising, "aren't you ashamed", ...in Englishout-of-copyrightAny suggestions welcomed!http://blog.markvdb.be/2008/09/i-need-your-poems-for-artsociety.html |