UDS is over! And in the customary wrap-up I stood up and told the audience what the Foundations team have been discussing all week. One of the items is almost certainly going to get a little bit of publicity.
We are going to be doing the work to have btrfs as an installation option, [...]
I’m sure you’ve all by now read the announcement of systemd, and have probably come running to my blog to see what the reaction of Ubuntu and the Upstart author is!
As you know, improvements to the boot process has been something that Ubuntu have been working on for a few years now and this led [...]
Graphics cards from different manufacturers are very different beasts, in fact, often different generations of graphics cards from the same manufacturer can be pretty different too. While there’s a great deal of standardisation for things such as resolutions, colour depths and talking to monitors; the software side has almost no standardisation whatsoever.
In fact, one [...]
As you probably know by now, even if you’re not following the karmic development closely, Ubuntu has gained new splash screen software called xsplash. This is the hard work of Cody Russell and Ken VanDine of the Ubuntu Desktop Experience team.
There’s been some press coverage of this already, and various comments from different people raising [...]
The great thing about the Ubuntu distro team development sprints is that you get to sit around a table and share your knowledge about workarounds for all of the broken things in the current release:
To get the machine to resume from suspend, boot an older kernel
To get X to start, disable usplash
To get a useful [...]
The Ubuntu QA community have put together an awesome new resource for Ubuntu users and developers – Ubuntu Brainstorm. This allows you to suggest ideas for improvements, and to vote on the ideas others have suggested.
We have of course been inspired by the IdeaStorm site from our good friends at Dell but modified the concept [...]
The last release (Ubuntu 7.10) was the first in which we shipped Tracker enabled by default; this service runs in the background and indexes all of your files, storing information about them in a metadatabase which can subsequently be searched. The two main ways of searching are through the deskbar-applet (press Alt+F3) and within [...]
Continuing my mission to put together a kick-ass team to develop the Ubuntu Desktop, the following position is now up on the website:
Posting Date & ID: September 2007 UDD
Job Location: Your home with broadband. Some international travel will be required.
Job Summary: To adapt and develop the GNOME desktop to improve the Ubuntu user experience.
Key responsibilities [...]
According to the current issue (#93) of Linux Format, Ubuntu 7.04 (“Feisty Fawn”) is “…a dull release for Ubuntu, leaving Fedora to storm ahead…” (p. 23) whilst “shaping up to be one of the most innovative Linux distro releases of the year.” (p. 38)
Especially amusing for myself is that, with Upstart, they “seldom notice any [...]
For the last couple of months, both at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mountain View and on the #upstart IRC channel, we’ve been discussing the changes we want to make to upstart for the Feisty Fawn release of Ubuntu.
This will ship with a version of upstart based on the 0.3 series (it may end up [...]
