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	<title>Maia Grotepass: Ubuntu Hour in Rondebosch this Saturday</title>
	<link>http://my-ubuntu-day.blogspot.com/2012/02/ubuntu-hour-in-rondebosch-this-saturday.html</link>
	<content:encoded>superfly says: &quot; Ubuntu Hour will be this Saturday at 2pm, at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lyras.co.za/contact.html&quot;&gt;Lyra's in Rondebosch&lt;/a&gt;. It's close to the station, and it apparently has free WiFi.I'll try to get there a little before 2, and I'll be sporting one of these:&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/ODkErh&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;335&quot; src=&quot;http://is.gd/ODkErh&quot; width=&quot;485&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Go superfly! The first Southern Suburbs ubuntu Hour!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ubuntu Hour Saturday 11 Feb 14:00 UTC+2 Lyra's in Rondebosch, Western Cape&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4291931784993905823-9079010661170531011?l=my-ubuntu-day.blogspot.com&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-09T06:33:00+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>maiatoday</dc:creator>
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	<title>Jonathan Thomas: Muon Suite 1.2.3 Released</title>
	<link>http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/muon-suite-1-2-3-released/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I am glad to announce the third bugfix release for Muon Suite 1.2. The Muon Suite is a set of package management utilities for Debian-based Linux distributions built on KDE technologies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The third bugfix release fixes several crashes found with previous versions of the Muon Suite, including a rather severe crash in the Muon Software Center caused by default repository changes in Kubuntu. Additionally, hangs experienced during long/large upgrades have been fixed, and issues with the update notifier not always notifying of updates have been fixed. All fixes have been included in the recently-released release candidate of the Muon Suite 1.3.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Packages for Kubuntu 11.10 are from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~echidnaman/+archive/qapt/&quot;&gt;QApt repository&lt;/a&gt;. I will try to get 1.2.3 pushed as an official update for Kubuntu 11.10 over the next week or so using the Ubuntu Stable Release Update process. Since this has a more rigorous testing process than my unofficial PPA, regression testing from users will be required. Stay tuned for more info about that if you’d like to help! This did not happen with the 1.2.2 release due to a severe lack of time on my part due to final exams and work, but I will try to make it happen this time as this release does fix several serious issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Further technical information about the release, including source tarball downloads and a detailed changelog, can be found at the project pages &lt;a href=&quot;https://projects.kde.org/news/121&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://projects.kde.org/news/122&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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	<dc:date>2012-02-09T00:05:05+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Eric Hammond: ec2-consistent-snapshot on GitHub and v0.43 Released</title>
	<link>http://feeds.alestic.com/~r/alestic-planetubuntu/~3/_5N_YOEMmSw/ec2-consistent-snapshot-on-github</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The source for &lt;a href=&quot;http://alestic.com/2009/09/ec2-consistent-snapshot&quot;&gt;ec2-conssitent-snapshot&lt;/a&gt; has historically been available here:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://code.launchpad.net/~alestic/ec2-consistent-snapshot/trunk&quot;&gt;ec2-consistent-snapshot on Launchpad.net using Bazaar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For your convenience, it is now also available here:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/alestic/ec2-consistent-snapshot&quot;&gt;ec2-consistent-snapshot on GitHub using Git&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are welcome to fork ec2-consistent snapshot under the liberal terms of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0&quot;&gt;Apache License, Version 2.0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I welcome patch submissions, especially if:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The patch accomplishes a single enhancement or bug fix, changing as little as possible to accomplish the goals, while still performing appropriate error checks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The patch includes relevant updates to the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The patch does not add functionality outside of the narrow goal of ec2-consistent-snapshot (initiate EBS snapshots with consistent filesystems and application data).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The patch is created against the latest version of the source.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I also recommend submitting a bug/feature in Launchpad.net to track adding the patch to ec2-consistent-snapshot:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ec2-consistent-snapshot/+filebug&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not all patches will be accepted, but you are encouraged to maintain forks on GitHub so that others can include your patches if they find them useful.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;New Release&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Two user-contributed patches have been incorporated (with minor adjustments) into ec2-consistent-snapshot with the latest release of version 0.43:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ability to freeze multiple file systems by specifying &amp;#8212;freeze-filesystem multiple times (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ec2-consistent-snapshot/+bug/922068&quot;&gt;Bobb Crosbie&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ability to specify commands to run just before freezing the file system(s) and just after thawing the file systems (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ec2-consistent-snapshot/+bug/925725&quot;&gt;Craig Tracey&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The new release of ec2-consistent-snapshot is available in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~alestic/+archive/ppa&quot;&gt;Alestic PPA&lt;/a&gt; for easy installation and upgrading in Ubuntu.  You can install it on Ubuntu using:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alestic &amp;amp;&amp;amp;
sudo apt-get update &amp;amp;&amp;amp;
sudo apt-get install -y ec2-consistent-snapshot
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;ec2-consistent-snapshot is usable on other Linux distros as long as you install dependencies like xfsprogs, perl, libnet-amazon-ec2-perl, libfile-slurp-perl, libwww-perl, libdigest-hmac-perl, libparams-validate-perl, libxml-simple-perl, libmoose-perl, libcrypt-ssleay-perl.&lt;/p&gt;

        

&lt;p&gt;
Original article:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://alestic.com/2012/02/ec2-consistent-snapshot-on-github&quot;&gt;http://alestic.com/2012/02/ec2-consistent-snapshot-on-github&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
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	<dc:date>2012-02-08T23:46:37+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>Eric Hammond</dc:creator>
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	<title>Harald Sitter: How Kubuntu Did Not Change</title>
	<link>http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/how-kubuntu-did-not-change/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;There appears to be some confusion regarding the meaning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.kde.org/node/4531&quot;&gt;yesterday&amp;#8217;s announcement &lt;/a&gt;that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kubuntu.org&quot;&gt;Kubuntu&lt;/a&gt; 11.10 is going to be the last release &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.canonical.com&quot;&gt;Canonical&lt;/a&gt; is offering commercial support for.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kubuntu.org&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-376&quot; title=&quot;kubuntu-logo&quot; src=&quot;http://apachelog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/kubuntu-logo.png?w=640&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For those who have not yet read about it, let me quickly recap the situation. Up until now Kubuntu was a Canonical supported flavor of Ubuntu. This essentially means that you can buy a support contract from Canonical to help you with your Kubuntu infrastructure. Every once in a while Canonical would stamp &amp;#8216;LTS&amp;#8217; on a Kubuntu release to indicate that they would support this release for 3 or 5 of years to come (delivering security and major bug fixes primarily). The 11.10 release is the last release for which Canonical offers these services. As a direct consequence &lt;a href=&quot;http://jriddell.org/&quot;&gt;Jonathan Riddell&lt;/a&gt;, a good friend of mine and fearless leader of Kubuntu, will work on other technology during work hours.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You might have noticed that I was writing a lot about Canonical just now, and the reason for this is that the change mostly is about Canonical and not Kubuntu.&lt;br /&gt;
Kubuntu is and always has been a mostly community driven project. To give you an idea what mostly means in this case: out of the 25 people who notably contributed in the past year, 1 person was employed by Canonical to do so (i.e. 4% of general Kubuntu work was financed by Canonical). Please do not get me wrong though. Jonathan is a great developer and does a considerable amount of work, particularly in those areas where the community currently lacks motivation, hence some workflow revision is in order to make the &amp;#8216;new&amp;#8217; Kubuntu equally efficient.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what changes for real?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;No commercial support from Canonical for future releases.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Riddell will work on non-Kubuntu stuff during work hours.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alignment of Kubuntu with other siblings like Edubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu.&lt;br /&gt;
For those who care: on a technical level this means that a considerable amount of Kubuntu maintained software will be moved from the main to the universe archive.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Probably some workflow changes that are yet to be discussed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this bad?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
It probably is if you wanted to adopt Kubuntu in your company and were counting on a Canonical support contract. However this is probably more of Canonical&amp;#8217;s loss than your&amp;#8217;s. As noted earlier there is a pool of more than 25 people one could employ directly to get the same result, perhaps even better. It is certainly sad that Jonathan will not be able to continue getting payed for working on his baby though.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this good?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Moving to universe bares a great deal of opportunities for Kubuntu. Primarily it gives the community yet bigger control over what the distribution looks like as we do not need to get software approved to be worthy of Canonical&amp;#8217;s support. At the same time it also reduces the policy overhead (main inclusion for those who have heared of it). The detanglement allows us to move even closer to KDE without having to worry about conflicting interests, as what is good for KDE is not necessarily what is good for Canonical.&lt;br /&gt;
All in all I expect Kubuntu to become more agile and continue to regularly deliver an easy to use Linux distribution featuring the latest and greatest KDE software.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is an occasional and not very amusing urban myth that Kubuntu is a stepchild of Ubuntu based on the idea that Canonical is not giving the same amount of care to Kubuntu as other flavors of Ubuntu. It&amp;#8217;s not true because Canonical has given much more care to Kubuntu than many other flavours. But all those who believe in this myth may now rejoice as the stepchild is moving out and going to share a flat with its much loved siblings \o/&lt;/p&gt;
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	<dc:date>2012-02-08T23:10:17+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>apachelogger</dc:creator>
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	<title>Robert Ancell: So You Want to Write a LightDM Greeter…</title>
	<link>http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2012/02/so-you-want-to-write-lightdm-greeter.html</link>
	<content:encoded>Matt Fischer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattfischer.com/blog/?p=5&quot;&gt;wrote a great post&lt;/a&gt; about writing a greeter for LightDM.&amp;nbsp; Runs through an example of a Python greeter and how it works.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20155916-3675391604974169531?l=bobthegnome.blogspot.com&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T23:03:00+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>Robert Ancell</dc:creator>
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	<title>Shane Fagan: New blog</title>
	<link>http://shanefagan.com/node/5</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey all,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Been really quiet over the past few months mainly because I changed my blog over to drupal and never bother to change the rss for planet so didn't blog. Anyway ill be blogging more now and should have some cool announcements about what ive been doing in a few weeks. As for what ive been doing since I left ive been reading a lot ill post my book list because most of them are really interesting and ive only gotten through about half. Oh and my comments might not be working properly I have them working with openid but I haven't actually tested it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So hopefully ill be more active again after the break :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edit: does anyone know how to remove the tags thing from drupal it looks pretty annoying on the rss to have the tags included.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;Tags: &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;links&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-0&quot; rel=&quot;dc:subject&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shanefagan.com/ubuntu&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T23:01:41+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Jono Bacon: Blogging Tips</title>
	<link>http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/02/08/blogging-tips/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Today I had a call with another team at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.canonical.com&quot;&gt;Canonical&lt;/a&gt; who were wanting to ask for guidance on (a) how to write good blog entries that people want to read and (b) how to regularly get into the habit of blogging and get more eyeballs on your posts.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I thought this could be of general interest to the community, so I figured I would write these things down into a blog entry. So meta. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif&quot; alt=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;wp-smiley&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some tips:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep it concise&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; your blog should get the point and talk through the topic you are presenting. Now&amp;#8230;seasoned readers of my own work will know I tend to ramble from time to time, so I myself always need to try and keep this in check. Few people will want to commit to a huge block of text, so keep it concise.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Format it&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; the web has many wonderful things, and this includes formatting such as &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt;, different heading sizes and more. Use them to help add emphasis to your posts.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make it visual&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; pictures say a thousand words, and so do videos. Break up your content with images illustrating what you are discussing, or just amusing images to make a joke (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/04/01/i-am-jef-spaleta/&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). If you want to display images, I recommend you upload them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt; and then link directly to the images. For videos you can usually embed them directly from YouTube or other video sharing sites, but aggregators such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonobacon.org/feed/&quot;&gt;Planet Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; often strip out the embedded videos, so be sure to provide a direct link underneathe the embedded video (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/02/07/ubuntu-global-jam-call-for-events-2/&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link to interesting things&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; if you are discussing something online, always provide a link to it. This helps the user get access to the information quickly and easy.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be professional&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; always keep your posts professional and thorough. Ensure your writing is clear and that you have spell and grammar checked it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be fun&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; being professional doesn&amp;#8217;t mean you can&amp;#8217;t be fun. Writing in a fun and amusing way is a great way to keep your readers interested.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Invite discussion&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; if your blog has a comments feature, always end your posts and ask for input and opinions from your readers. This provides a wonderful way to trigger some discussion around your post.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In terms of blogging more and getting more eyeballs on your posts, here are some tips:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get into the habit&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; to become a regular blogger you need to get into the habit of thinking &amp;#8220;&lt;em&gt;this is cool, I should blog about this&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8220;. This can take a while to get used to. If you are in a team, it is helpful to suggest to others when they should blog about something; this keeps us all regularly posting. If you are struggling with getting into the habit, put a reminder in your calendar to remind you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ensure you are aggregated&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; if you are an Ubuntu Member, be sure to add your post to &lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.ubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Planet Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;. Add your post to other appropriate aggregators (e.g. Canonical staff should add their blogs to &lt;a href=&quot;http://voices.canonical.com&quot;&gt;voices.canonical.com&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use social media&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; post a link to your post on Twitter, Google+, Facebook and other social media accounts.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am sure there are plenty of other suggestions from you folks; please add them to the comments!&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T22:02:22+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Costales: Install SAP GUI on Ubuntu 11.10</title>
	<link>http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2012/02/install-sap-gui-on-ubuntu-1110.html</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;b&gt;1. Download SAPGUI&lt;/b&gt; for java &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.4shared.com/file/grmzvX5o/PlatinGUI-Linux-710r10.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Install Java JRE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open a Terminal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java&lt;br /&gt;sudo apt-get update&lt;br /&gt;sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will install these packages: gsfonts-x11 java-common odbcinst odbcinst1debian2 sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unixodbc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. Install SAP GUI:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;java -jar PlatinGUI-Linux-700.jar&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow installation steps (in graphic mode).&lt;br /&gt;You have now an entry in Unity :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ajty_U7GdV8/TzKQSDKZc1I/AAAAAAAAAm4/piXuInx6j4s/s1600/Screenshot+at+2012-02-08+16:05:16.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ajty_U7GdV8/TzKQSDKZc1I/AAAAAAAAAm4/piXuInx6j4s/s1600/Screenshot+at+2012-02-08+16:05:16.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot;&gt;SAP GUI on Ubuntu 11.10&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. Create a server in the SAP GUI&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;New | Advanced | Expert mode checked. Use this format:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;conn=/H/url_to_sap_system/S/32xx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;By example, for the SAP server &lt;i&gt;10.1.1.6&lt;/i&gt; with system number &lt;i&gt;01&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;code&gt;conn=/H/&lt;i&gt;10.1.1.6&lt;/i&gt;/S/32&lt;i&gt;01&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QKPbjL9eEsY/TzKQh32Ps_I/AAAAAAAAAnA/ovMagMrUjl8/s1600/Screenshot+at+2012-02-08+16%253A07%253A04.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;307&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QKPbjL9eEsY/TzKQh32Ps_I/AAAAAAAAAnA/ovMagMrUjl8/s400/Screenshot+at+2012-02-08+16%253A07%253A04.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot;&gt;Creating a server entry in SAP GUI&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;The result :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9KdxjKnW8NM/TzKjw6lWm7I/AAAAAAAAAnI/fq1ommBlzEY/s1600/Screenshot+at+2012-02-08+17:31:08.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;331&quot; src=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9KdxjKnW8NM/TzKjw6lWm7I/AAAAAAAAAnI/fq1ommBlzEY/s400/Screenshot+at+2012-02-08+17:31:08.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot;&gt;SAP GUI running under Ubuntu 11.10&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/HOW_TO_Run_SAP_GUI_On_LINUX_To_Connect_SAP_R3_Systems&quot;&gt;LinuxQuestions&lt;/a&gt; and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.erki.net/node/85&quot;&gt;erki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2815405804906508978-4355943408006464587?l=thinkonbytes.blogspot.com&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T19:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>Marcos Alvarez Costales</dc:creator>
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<item rdf:about="http://anthonyrhook.com/blog/?p=566">
	<title>Anthony Hook: Old, lazy, and buggy latency test</title>
	<link>http://anthonyrhook.com/blog/2012/02/08/old-lazy-and-buggy-latency-test/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;On my &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubuntu.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; laptop at work, I resurrected one of my old, lazy, and buggy method to check latency to some network device. Perhaps it may be useful to someone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;#!/usr/bin/env bash
limit_ms=150
sleep_duration=1
while [ true ]; do
pong_res=$(ping -c 1 10.0.0.30 | sed -n 's/.*time=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p')
echo &quot;$(date +%s): pong response is $pong_res&quot;
if [ &quot;$pong_res&quot; -gt &quot;$limit_ms&quot; ]; then
/usr/bin/notify-send -u critical -t 30000 &quot;Ping Alert&quot; &quot;Above Threshhold: $pong_res&quot;;
fi
sleep &quot;$sleep_duration&quot;
done&lt;/pre&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T19:10:32+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Matthew Helmke: Fixing a broken Ubuntu upgrade</title>
	<link>http://matthewhelmke.net/2012/02/fixing-a-broken-ubuntu-upgrade/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itworld.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.itworld.com/sites/all/themes/itworld/images/itw-logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itworld.com/open-source/247988/fixing-broken-ubuntu-upgrade&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ITWorld just posted an article I wrote&lt;/a&gt; outlining how I fixed a broken wireless card driver after an Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T17:39:44+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Randall Ross: Dealing With Hate Precisely</title>
	<link>http://randall.executiv.es/thankyouforyourgift</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Those of us who blog about Ubuntu, or participate in Ubuntu forums, mailing lists, and other aspects of the &quot;Ubuntu Online Community&quot; all have something in common: We are subjected to &lt;strong&gt;hatred&lt;/strong&gt; from time-to-time. Recently these are &lt;cite&gt;roughly&lt;/cite&gt; of the form:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;

&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;cite&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;inline inline-center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://randall.executiv.es/sites/default/files/images/4427515943_9b72d247a0_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;Unity sucks and you are an Ubuntu fanboy for liking it.&amp;quot;&quot; title=&quot;&amp;quot;Unity sucks and you are an Ubuntu fanboy for liking it.&amp;quot;&quot; class=&quot;image image-_original &quot; width=&quot;187&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Unity sucks and you are an Ubuntu fanboy for liking it.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;

&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;
The Ubuntu Code of Conduct has a guideline that we can use when we encounter &quot;haters&quot;. It says: &lt;cite&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be respectful.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is simple in concept, but I've always sought something more concrete: a clean, efficient and effective way of &quot;agreeing to disagree&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then the other day while doing some research, I stumbled upon this *gem* from Darren Rowse (who was quoting a Buddhist monk) over at ProBlogger:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;

     When someone attacks you with anger and hatred
     say to them:

     &lt;strong&gt;“thank you for your ‘gift’ – but I think you can
     keep it for yourself.”&lt;/strong&gt;

     It is easy to take on the anger of other people and
     to wear it as a burden of your own but it is usually
     unhealthy to do so.

&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;
I'll be using that line from now on. :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can read the whole article here. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/16/what-a-buddhist-monk-taught-me-about-blogging/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/16/what-a-buddhist-monk-taught-me-about-blogging/&quot;&gt;http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/16/what-a-buddhist-monk-taugh...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;
image by Andrew Senay (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/senay7/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/senay7/&quot;&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/senay7/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T16:57:58+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Thierry Carrez: FOSDEM 2012 feedback</title>
	<link>http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/fosdem-2012-feedback/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m back from Brussels, where happened the coldest FOSDEM ever. It started on Friday night with the traditional beer event. Since the Delirium was a bit small to host those thousands of frozen geeks, the FOSDEM organizers had enlisted the whole block as approved bars !&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the Saturday, I spent most of my time in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/virtualization_and_cloud_devroom&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cloud and Virtualization devroom&lt;/a&gt;, which I escaped only to see Simon Phipps announce the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/02/a-new-osi-for-a-new-decade/index.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;new membership-based OSI&lt;/a&gt;, and Paolo Bonzini talking about the KVM ecosystem (in a not technical enough way, IMO). My own &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/8NaehBzT&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;OpenStack talk&lt;/a&gt; was made a bit difficult due to the absence of mike to cover the 550-seat Chavanne auditorium&amp;#8230; but the next talks got one. The highlight of the day was Ryan Lane&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;infrastructure as an open source project&amp;#8221; presentation, about how Wikimedia Labs &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/aARDOAvY&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;uses Git, Gerrit, Jenkins and OpenStack&lt;/a&gt; to handle its infrastructure like a contributor-driven open source project. The day ended with a good and frank &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/lkmsAYFU&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;discussion between OpenStack developers&lt;/a&gt;, with upstream projects and downstream distributions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Sunday I tried to hop between devrooms, but in a lot of cases the room was full and I couldn&amp;#8217;t enter, so I spent more time in the hallway track. I enjoyed Soren&amp;#8217;s talk about using more prediction algorithms (instead of simple thresholds) in monitoring systems, introducing his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.surveilr.net/2011/09/15/announcing-surveilr-not-your-average-monitoring-system/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Surveilr project&lt;/a&gt;. The highlight of the day was Dan Berrangé&amp;#8217;s  talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://berrange.com/posts/2012/01/17/building-application-sandboxes-with-libvirt-lxc-kvm/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;using libvirt to run sandboxed applications&lt;/a&gt;, using virt-sandbox. There are quite a few interesting uses for this, and the performance penalty sounds more than acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Overall it was a great pleasure for me to attend FOSDEM this year. Congratulations to the organizers again. I&amp;#8217;ll be back next year, hopefully it will be warmer &lt;img src=&quot;http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif&quot; alt=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;wp-smiley&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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	<dc:date>2012-02-08T14:49:26+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>Thierry Carrez</dc:creator>
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	<title>Jonathan Carter: Turning 30</title>
	<link>http://jonathancarter.org/2012/02/08/turning-30/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve always heard people complaining about turning 30 before and wondered what it would be like for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m thrilled to turn 30. I feel like I&amp;#8217;m 20. I think I&amp;#8217;m some kind of late bloomer, my 20&amp;#8242;s were probably more like what teens are like for most and while I still feel young and restless, I&amp;#8217;m slowly but surely growing more confident, more relaxed, more content, more independent and I&amp;#8217;m becoming more and more ME.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve overcome quite a lot of personal problems in the past, and I&amp;#8217;m glad to be at a point where all my current problems are solvable without much help from anyone else (even though that means I had to mark some things as &amp;#8216;wontfix&amp;#8217;). Having said that, I&amp;#8217;m really happy having the people in my life that I do. The people that are always there for me, whether I&amp;#8217;m in SA or in Canada (my support network!) THANK YOU! I&amp;#8217;m grateful for every moment we get to spend together!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have a good feeling for this year and the future, there&amp;#8217;s some great things on the way!&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T13:59:27+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Mirco Müller: notify-osd 0.9.33 released</title>
	<link>http://macslow.net/?p=545</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I just made the &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/notify-osd/precise/0.9.33&quot;&gt;0.9.33 release&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://macslow.net/?feed=rss2&quot;&gt;NotifyOSD&lt;/a&gt;. The main changes are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Logging to ~/.cache/notify-osd.log is off by default. You have to start it with the environment-variable &amp;#8220;LOG&amp;#8221; being defined (see LP: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/904835&quot;&gt;#904835&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When notify-osd 0.9.33 is running under unity &gt;= 5.4.0 it&amp;#8217;ll pick up the average color from the selected desktop-wallpaper, computed and exported by unity, to tint the notifications background. This is to provide more visual consistency with the Dash and HUD (see LP: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/810325&quot;&gt;#810325&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This tinted background looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.canonical.com/~mmueller/notify-osd-avgerage-bg-color-3.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;http://people.canonical.com/~mmueller/notify-osd-avgerage-bg-color-3.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.canonical.com/~mmueller/notify-osd-avgerage-bg-color-5.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;http://people.canonical.com/~mmueller/notify-osd-avgerage-bg-color-5.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.canonical.com/~mmueller/notify-osd-avgerage-bg-color-7.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;http://people.canonical.com/~mmueller/notify-osd-avgerage-bg-color-7.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Big thanks for patches/branches/contributions go out to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~seb128&quot;&gt;Sebastien Bacher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~themuso&quot;&gt;Luke Yelavich&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~pitti&quot;&gt;Martin Pitt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~vuntz&quot;&gt;Vincent Untz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~ken-vandine&quot;&gt;Ken VanDine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fixed bugs/features:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/810325&quot;&gt;#810325&lt;/a&gt; change background colour to use the same median colour used in the unity dash&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/827897&quot;&gt;#827897&lt;/a&gt; should migrate the user gconf keys values to gsettings&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/856071&quot;&gt;#856071&lt;/a&gt; accessibility broken due to recent GTK3 changes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/904835&quot;&gt;#904835&lt;/a&gt; keeps on writing to .cache/notify-osd.log and waking up my drive&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/notify-osd/+bug/915389&quot;&gt;#915389&lt;/a&gt; wakes up for every key/focus event after showing the first bubble&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/notify-osd/precise/0.9.33&quot;&gt;release page&lt;/a&gt; also holds all the needed information about 0.9.33 and &lt;a href=&quot;http://launchpad.net/notify-osd/precise/0.9.33/+download/notify-osd-0.9.33.tar.gz&quot;&gt;a source-tarball&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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	<title>Dustin Kirkland: Gazzang Presents: Sh*t IT Security Guys Say</title>
	<link>http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2012/02/gazzang-presents-sht-it-security-guys.html</link>
	<content:encoded>We had a &lt;i&gt;blast&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gazzang.com/&quot;&gt;Gazzang&lt;/a&gt; offices last week shooting this fun video,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sh*t IT Security Guys Say&lt;/i&gt;. &amp;nbsp;What a great way to kick back and have a little fun on a Friday afternoon ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We worked with Austin filmmaker &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenforme.com/&quot;&gt;Brandon Stephens&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;who took some time away from work on his feature film, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://enemyofthemind.com/&quot;&gt;Enemy of the Mind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, to hack on this little project. &amp;nbsp;Our CEO &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.gazzang.com/?Author=Larry+Warnock&quot;&gt;Larry Warnock&lt;/a&gt; (Mr. Backdoor) called the shots and our new Marketing Director, David Tishgart (Mr. Redbull) handled the script. &amp;nbsp;Also featured in the short: Ben First (Marketing, aka Mr. Ruby), Liz Britain (Marketing, aka Ms. Slashdot), Rob Balena (Sales, aka Mr.&amp;nbsp;Millennium&amp;nbsp;Falcon), Sergio Pena (Mr. $*&amp;amp;%!#), Eddie Garcia (Engineering, aka Mr. IT), and I guess I'm Mr. Wingdings ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many of my fellow hackers, I predictably &lt;i&gt;cringe&lt;/i&gt; when I watch a movie or a tv show and the hapless IT characters attempt to interface with a computer or discuss technology. &amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;The Matrix&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Net&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Swordfish,&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;whatever, it's all painful to hear. &amp;nbsp;And funny enough, our little video is no different, and this time I actually share the blame :-) &amp;nbsp;Most of our one-liners make no IT sense whatsoever. &amp;nbsp;And while some of the one-liners I proposed made perfect IT/Security sense, but they just didn't play well on the screen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In any case, for my hacker/dev/IT peeps, here's my full list of one-liners I proposed for our project:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Right, RSA 4096 is definitely the way to go&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Ubuntu or Fedora?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Did you read Bruce Schneier's post today?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Wow, check Slashdot!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Open a new terminal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Emacs or Vi?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Grab my public key&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- apt-get dist-upgrade&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Sure, I encrypt my home directory&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Hang on, I'm recompiling my kernel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- PC Load letter???? &amp;nbsp;The f*ck does that mean?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Yeah, I need to merge those changes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- We're moving from MD5 to SHA512 hashes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Of course I've rooted my Android!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Chef or Puppet?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- There's an XKCD about that :-)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Users, I swear...add it to the FAQ&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Buffer overflow, uh oh...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Python or Perl? &amp;nbsp;Ruby!?! -- you gotta be kidding me :-(&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- You don't have to forward me that email. &amp;nbsp;I've already seen it. &amp;nbsp;You don't use email encryption :-)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Would you sign my public key?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Fire up an instance in EC2&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- My kernel oops'd&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- TCP or UDP?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- There's not enough entropy on this friggin machine!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- You haven't rooted your phone?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- No open access points? &amp;nbsp;I see 12 running WEP. &amp;nbsp;Give me a minute... &amp;nbsp;Okay, I'm in.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Where's your public key?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Drop that in a pastebin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Okay, I have it. &amp;nbsp;What's your fingerprint?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Java or C++?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- What do you think of Unity?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- OpenStack or Eucalyptus?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Check StackExchange&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Shit, not another core dump...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;:-Dustin&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3822757291061444396-7764223390781088643?l=blog.dustinkirkland.com&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T10:49:52+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>Dustin Kirkland</dc:creator>
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	<title>Ubuntu Server blog: Automating Openstack Testing on Ubuntu</title>
	<link>http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/704/</link>
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During the Ubuntu precise development cycle the Canonical Platform Server Team have been working on automating testing of Openstack on Ubuntu. The scope of this work was: Per-commit testing of Openstack trunk to evaluate the current state of the upstream codebase in-conjunction with the current packaging in Ubuntu precise and the current Juju charms to deploy Openstack. SRU testing for Openstack Diablo on Ubuntu 11.10. Openstack do a lot of pre-commit testing through the use of gerrit with Jenkins; we &amp;hellip;
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	<dc:date>2012-02-08T10:11:55+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Gerfried Fuchs: Squeeze RCs's Squashing 2012 #2</title>
	<link>http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/02/08#squeeze-RCs-2012-2</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;This is the second entry in my series about squeeze release critical bug squashing. In response to my last blog post it was asked whether this is proper release critical bug squashing. Indeed there haven't been any patches or upload involved in this, only &lt;acronym title=&quot;Bug Tracking System&quot;&gt;BTS&lt;/acronym&gt; handling, but this doesn't mean that these bugs weren't considered to be affecting squeeze. You can see this effort currently as weeding out the &quot;wrong&quot; bugs so that the list gets more useful and actually be able to ask maintainers to address the real issues.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can at least see in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/&quot;&gt;this graph&lt;/a&gt; that the blue line is going down constantly since the year change instead of rising up like before. And I hope I will be able to keep it below the green line for a while still. Also thanks to the release-team and ftpmasters that it was possible to keep the massbugs about waf binary blob not being preferred source for modification out of affecting squeeze and ignore it for the current stable release&amp;mdash;the required changes for those would rather be a fair bit intrusive for a stable update.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/637213&quot;&gt;637213&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/648989&quot;&gt;648989&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584568&quot;&gt;584568&lt;/a&gt;: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/624464&quot;&gt;624464&lt;/a&gt;: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/632106&quot;&gt;632106&lt;/a&gt;: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/632108&quot;&gt;632108&lt;/a&gt;: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/632262&quot;&gt;632262&lt;/a&gt;: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/632264&quot;&gt;632264&lt;/a&gt;: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/632265&quot;&gt;632265&lt;/a&gt;: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/632266&quot;&gt;632266&lt;/a&gt;: most stuff (BTS, PTS, ...) use maintainer information from unstable only&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/595298&quot;&gt;595298&lt;/a&gt;: squeeze has linux 2.6.32&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/613732&quot;&gt;613732&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/616694&quot;&gt;616694&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/620264&quot;&gt;620264&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/620573&quot;&gt;620573&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/621440&quot;&gt;621440&lt;/a&gt;: libdb4.8 not obsolete in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/624593&quot;&gt;624593&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/626868&quot;&gt;626868&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/628475&quot;&gt;628475&lt;/a&gt;: libdb4.8 not obsolete in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/629838&quot;&gt;629838&lt;/a&gt;: boost1.46 not in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/628475&quot;&gt;628475&lt;/a&gt;: boost1.46 not in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/631623&quot;&gt;631623&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/639990&quot;&gt;639990&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/632763&quot;&gt;632763&lt;/a&gt;: no libevent 2.0 in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/627000&quot;&gt;627000&lt;/a&gt;: not affecting squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/658216&quot;&gt;658216&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/654870&quot;&gt;654870&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655115&quot;&gt;655115&lt;/a&gt;: this is explicitly about testing&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/657092&quot;&gt;657092&lt;/a&gt;: working in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655710&quot;&gt;655710&lt;/a&gt;: doesn't fail in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/644691&quot;&gt;644691&lt;/a&gt;: no nautilus 3 in squeeze&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
  
&lt;p&gt;I am glad that I managed to keep it up and even have a nice margin in case I can't put any effort into it some day but still have more bugs squashed than days there are in the year so far. Currently I am at 60 bugs in 39 days. This gives a warm feeling. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;

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	<dc:date>2012-02-08T09:18:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Tiago Hillebrandt: New Ubuntu Brazilian Community Council announced</title>
	<link>http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/2012/02/new-ubuntu-brazilian-community-council-announced/</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ubuntu-BR.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-903&quot; title=&quot;Ubuntu-BR&quot; src=&quot;http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ubuntu-BR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ubuntu-BR&quot; width=&quot;338&quot; height=&quot;80&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu Brazilian Community is proud to announce your new Community Council:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andre Noel: &lt;a href=&quot;http://launchpad.net/~andrenoel&quot;&gt;http://launchpad.net/~andrenoel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ayrton Araújo: &lt;a href=&quot;http://launchpad.net/~ayrton&quot;&gt;http://launchpad.net/~ayrton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fábio Nogueira: &lt;a href=&quot;http://launchpad.net/~fnogueira&quot;&gt;http://launchpad.net/~fnogueira&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tiago Hillebrandt: &lt;a href=&quot;http://launchpad.net/~tiagohillebrandt&quot;&gt;http://launchpad.net/~tiagohillebrandt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s really a big honor for me become a part of Brazilian Council. Now I look forward to continue learning and applying great ideas to support the growth of Ubuntu Community! Thank you to all.&lt;/p&gt;
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	<title>Rick Spencer: Girrrr: PyGame + Gtk in a GOI World</title>
	<link>http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2012/02/girrrr-pygame-gtk-in-goi-world.html</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;a href=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qv3K67Q4kRI/TzJRrWTbnJI/AAAAAAAAAjo/aNV7Vaucxo0/s1600/game.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qv3K67Q4kRI/TzJRrWTbnJI/AAAAAAAAAjo/aNV7Vaucxo0/s320/game.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706713482995145874&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2011/08/using-pygame-in-pygtk-app.html&quot;&gt;Back in August, I wrote a bit&lt;/a&gt; about how to embed PyGame into a pygtk app (and why it might be interesting to do that). Well, the world has moved on a bit, so today I updated the code sample to work with GObject Introspection. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It wasn't too hard to do, but did take a bit of digging around. I created a diff between the files and then commented on the diff, so you can see the required changes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; === modified file 'game.py'&lt;br /&gt;--- game.py     2011-08-25 12:14:00 +0000&lt;br /&gt;+++ game.py     2012-02-08 10:22:50 +0000&lt;br /&gt;@@ -1,41 +1,41 @@&lt;br /&gt;import pygame&lt;br /&gt;import os&lt;br /&gt;#you can't import Gtk and GObject in the old way&lt;br /&gt;#so delete these imports&lt;br /&gt;-import gobject&lt;br /&gt;-import gtk&lt;br /&gt;#I haven't made quickly prompts work with introspection yet&lt;br /&gt;#I think it will be easy, but in the meantime, we can't use&lt;br /&gt;#quickly.widgets or quickly.prompts&lt;br /&gt;-from quickly import prompts&lt;br /&gt;#here's how to import GObject and Gtk&lt;br /&gt;#you have to import GdkX11 or you can't get a widget's xid&lt;br /&gt;+from gi.repository import GObject&lt;br /&gt;+from gi.repository import Gtk&lt;br /&gt;+from gi.repository import GdkX11&lt;br /&gt;#&quot;gtk&quot; has to be changed to &quot;Gtk&quot; everywhere&lt;br /&gt;#I used find and replace for this&lt;br /&gt;-class GameWindow(gtk.Window):&lt;br /&gt;+class GameWindow(Gtk.Window):&lt;br /&gt;  def __init__(self):&lt;br /&gt;-    gtk.Window.__init__(self)&lt;br /&gt;-    vbox = gtk.VBox(False, 2)&lt;br /&gt;+    Gtk.Window.__init__(self)&lt;br /&gt;+    vbox = Gtk.VBox(False, 2)&lt;br /&gt;    vbox.show()&lt;br /&gt;    self.add(vbox)&lt;br /&gt;    #create the menu&lt;br /&gt;-    file_menu = gtk.Menu()&lt;br /&gt;+    file_menu = Gtk.Menu()&lt;br /&gt;-    accel_group = gtk.AccelGroup()&lt;br /&gt;+    accel_group = Gtk.AccelGroup()&lt;br /&gt;    self.add_accel_group(accel_group)&lt;br /&gt;-    dialog_item = gtk.MenuItem()&lt;br /&gt;+    dialog_item = Gtk.MenuItem()&lt;br /&gt;    dialog_item.set_label(&quot;Dialog&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;    dialog_item.show()&lt;br /&gt;    dialog_item.connect(&quot;activate&quot;,self.show_dialog)&lt;br /&gt;    file_menu.append(dialog_item)&lt;br /&gt;    dialog_item.show()&lt;br /&gt;-    quit_item = gtk.MenuItem()&lt;br /&gt;+    quit_item = Gtk.MenuItem()&lt;br /&gt;    quit_item.set_label(&quot;Quit&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;    quit_item.show()&lt;br /&gt;    quit_item.connect(&quot;activate&quot;,self.quit)&lt;br /&gt;    file_menu.append(quit_item)&lt;br /&gt;    quit_item.show()&lt;br /&gt;-    menu_bar = gtk.MenuBar()&lt;br /&gt;+    menu_bar = Gtk.MenuBar()&lt;br /&gt;    vbox.pack_start(menu_bar, False, False, 0)&lt;br /&gt;    menu_bar.show()&lt;br /&gt;-    file_item = gtk.MenuItem()&lt;br /&gt;+    file_item = Gtk.MenuItem()&lt;br /&gt;    file_item.set_label(&quot;_File&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;    file_item.set_use_underline(True)&lt;br /&gt;    file_item.show()&lt;br /&gt;@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@&lt;br /&gt;    menu_bar.append(file_item)&lt;br /&gt;    #create the drawing area&lt;br /&gt;-    da = gtk.DrawingArea()&lt;br /&gt;+    da = Gtk.DrawingArea()&lt;br /&gt;    da.set_size_request(300,300)&lt;br /&gt;    da.show()&lt;br /&gt;-    vbox.pack_end(da)&lt;br /&gt;#pygtk didn't require all of hte arguments for packing&lt;br /&gt;#but Gtk does, so you have to add all the arguments to pack_end here&lt;br /&gt;+    vbox.pack_end(da, False, False, 0)&lt;br /&gt;    da.connect(&quot;realize&quot;,self._realized)&lt;br /&gt;    #set up the pygame objects&lt;br /&gt;@@ -70,7 +70,15 @@&lt;br /&gt;      self.y += 5&lt;br /&gt;  def show_dialog(self, widget, data=None):&lt;br /&gt;-    prompts.info(&quot;A Pygtk Dialog&quot;, &quot;See it works easy&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;+    #prompts.info(&quot;A Pygtk Dialog&quot;, &quot;See it works easy&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;#I just hand crafted a dialog until I can get quickly.prompts ported&lt;br /&gt;+     title = &quot;PyGame embedded in Gtk Example&quot;&lt;br /&gt;#a lot of the constants work differently&lt;br /&gt;#gtk.DIALOG_MODAL -&amp;gt; Gtk.DialogFlags.Modal&lt;br /&gt;#gtk.RESPONSE_OK -&amp;gt; Gtk.ResponseType.OK&lt;br /&gt;#There's some info here to get started:&lt;br /&gt;#http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting&lt;br /&gt;#but I found that I had to poke around with ipython a bit to get it right&lt;br /&gt;+     dialog = Gtk.Dialog(title, None, Gtk.DialogFlags.MODAL,(Gtk.STOCK_CANCEL, Gtk.ResponseType.CANCEL, Gtk.STOCK_OK, Gtk.ResponseType.OK))&lt;br /&gt;+     content_area = dialog.get_content_area()&lt;br /&gt;+     label = Gtk.Label(&quot;See, it still works&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;+     label.show()&lt;br /&gt;+     content_area.add(label)&lt;br /&gt;+     response = dialog.run()&lt;br /&gt;+     dialog.destroy()&lt;br /&gt;  def quit(self, widget, data=None):&lt;br /&gt;    self.destroy()&lt;br /&gt;@@ -87,14 +95,14 @@&lt;br /&gt;    return True&lt;br /&gt;  def _realized(self, widget, data=None):&lt;br /&gt;#since I imported GdkX11, I can get the xid&lt;br /&gt;#but note that the properties are now function calls&lt;br /&gt;-    os.putenv('SDL_WINDOWID', str(widget.window.xid))&lt;br /&gt;+    os.putenv('SDL_WINDOWID', str(widget.get_window().get_xid()))    &lt;br /&gt;    pygame.init()&lt;br /&gt;    pygame.display.set_mode((300, 300), 0, 0)&lt;br /&gt;    self.screen = pygame.display.get_surface()&lt;br /&gt;-    gobject.timeout_add(200, self.draw)&lt;br /&gt;+    GObject.timeout_add(200, self.draw)&lt;br /&gt;if __name__ == &quot;__main__&quot;:&lt;br /&gt;  window = GameWindow()&lt;br /&gt;-  window.connect(&quot;destroy&quot;,gtk.main_quit)&lt;br /&gt;+  window.connect(&quot;destroy&quot;,Gtk.main_quit)&lt;br /&gt;  window.show()&lt;br /&gt;-  gtk.main()&lt;br /&gt;+  Gtk.main()&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://code.launchpad.net/~rick-rickspencer3/+junk/pygame-pygtk-example&quot;&gt;I pushed the example to launchpad&lt;/a&gt;, in case you want to see the whole thing in context.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7497847932106835950-1987501894861836693?l=theravingrick.blogspot.com&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-08T02:48:55+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>Rick Spencer</dc:creator>
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	<title>Jono Bacon: Canonical Community Team Meeting – 7th Feb 2012</title>
	<link>http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/02/07/canonical-community-team-meeting-7th-feb-2012/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Minutes are &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-community-team/2012/ubuntu-community-team.2012-02-07-16.00.moin.txt&quot;&gt;available here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T22:35:35+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Jonathan Riddell: KDE at FOSDEM 2012</title>
	<link>http://blogs.kde.org/node/4532</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;At the end of a long day here are some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/sets/72157629220786173&quot;&gt;photos from KDE at FOSDEM 2012&lt;/a&gt;.  Pradeepto says &quot;3.24 AM here, am in office, those pictures made my day/night/whatever itis now&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6837751493/&quot; title=&quot;DSCF6528 by Jonathan Riddell, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6837751493_4a2f507803.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; alt=&quot;DSCF6528&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KDE Love as Claudia sells t-shirts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6837750385/&quot; title=&quot;DSCF6525 by Jonathan Riddell, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6837750385_9d88cbf3e6.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; alt=&quot;DSCF6525&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Paul demos KDE Software on every form factor: mobile, tablet, desktop, Windows, cloud and server.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6837758223/&quot; title=&quot;DSCF6537 by Jonathan Riddell, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6837758223_1257bf8267.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; alt=&quot;DSCF6537&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Corridor chat with Frank&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6837759619/&quot; title=&quot;DSCF6539 by Jonathan Riddell, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6837759619_e83e00f767.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; alt=&quot;DSCF6539&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Cross-Desktop room group photo (missing lots of people who were at other talks)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6837761567/&quot; title=&quot;DSCF6545 by Jonathan Riddell, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6837761567_9fba83b342.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; alt=&quot;DSCF6545&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KDE dinner - had to turn away quite a lot of people who were too late to get a seat.  I may be concussed but I'm still able to herd KDE cats better than anyone else did.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6837772125/&quot; title=&quot;DSCF6561 by Jonathan Riddell, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7143/6837772125_b44a2e252d.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; alt=&quot;DSCF6561&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A business man pose from Paul&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/6837756405/&quot; title=&quot;DSCF6533 by Jonathan Riddell, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6837756405_c1042e18a3.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; alt=&quot;DSCF6533&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Lydia Launches the &lt;a href=&quot;http://open-advice.org/&quot;&gt;Open Advice book&lt;/a&gt; on which &lt;a href=&quot;http://open-advice.org/author.html#Jonathan&quot;&gt;I am a contributing author&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FOSDEM reminded me why I love KDE, great people and friends working on great technology.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T22:15:56+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Ubuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-15.24 uploaded (ABI Bump)</title>
	<link>http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam/?p=6487</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. Please note the ABI bump.  The most notable changes are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;  * Rebase to upstream stable v3.2.5&lt;br /&gt;
  * Enable CONFIG_THERM_ADT746X=y&lt;br /&gt;
  * acer-wmi: support for P key on TM8372&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The full changelog can be seen at:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.2.0-15.24&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T22:14:41+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Ubuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – February 7, 2012</title>
	<link>http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam/?p=6488</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;h3&gt;Meeting Minutes&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/02/07/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt&quot;&gt;IRC Log of the meeting.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam&quot;&gt;Meeting minutes.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Agenda&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 07 Feb, 2012&quot;&gt;20120207 Meeting Agenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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     ARM Status&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;ARM Status &lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt; UUID support: Found a way to support an initrd-less kernel using GPT, an hybrid mbr and the ROOTUUID boot parameter, kernel seems to be good already.&lt;br /&gt;
 lp709245 (&amp;#8220;ARM SMP scheduler performance bug&amp;#8221;): Still bisecting latest P kernel trying to find where the fix for this issue has been embedded in the TI BSP &amp;#8211; whenever i turn on the the corresponding upstream errata (PL310_ERRATA_769419) the kernel hangs on boot, so there must be a previous patch clashing in there. Now i&amp;#8217;m down to a ~160 commits window.&lt;br /&gt;
 P/omap4: Nothing new to report this week.&lt;/p&gt;
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     Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs &lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following link:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kt-meeting.txt&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Milestone Targeted Work Items &lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;td&gt; ogasawara  &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt; hardware-p-kernel-config-review       &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt; 4 work items &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt; sconklin   &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt; servercloud-p-ceph                    &lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt; 1 work item  &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt; tgardner   &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt; hardware-p-kernel-delta-review        &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt; 1 work item  &lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt; If your name is in the above table, please review your Beta-1 work items.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- -&lt;br /&gt;
     Blueprint: hardware-p-kernel-power-management&lt;br /&gt;
--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Blueprint: hardware-p-kernel-power-management &lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Power Management:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
        CPU governor testing (Intel only) (will test AMD CPUs later)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/power-benchmarking/cpu-governor/results.txt&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- -&lt;br /&gt;
     Status: Precise Development Kernel&lt;br /&gt;
--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Status: Precise Development Kernel &lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Last week we rebased to v3.2.4 and uploaded.  We&amp;#8217;ve recently rebased to v3.2.5 and plan to upload shortly.  Note that Beta-1 is on the horizon with Beta Freeze approximately 2 weeks away.  We&amp;#8217;ll be prepping our Beta-1 kernel next week.  If there are any patches which need to land, submit them now.&lt;br /&gt;
 I&amp;#8217;d like to also note that we&amp;#8217;ve opened the Q git repo for anyone interested (git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-q.git).  At this time, it is strictly for development/testing purposes only and will not be supported until Q officially opens in the archive.&lt;br /&gt;
 Important upcoming dates:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
        Thurs Feb 23 &amp;#8211; Beta Freeze (~2 weeks)
    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
        Thurs Mar 01 &amp;#8211; Beta 1&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- -&lt;br /&gt;
     Status: CVE's&lt;br /&gt;
--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Status: CVE&amp;#8217;s &lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Currently we have 73 CVEs on our radar, six new CVEs were added this week.&lt;br /&gt;
 See the CVE matrix for the current list:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Overall we have pushed the backlog down by approximatly 2 CVEs this week:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; We have also pushed another CVE back to security for review.  This backlog&lt;br /&gt;
 is increasing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- -&lt;br /&gt;
     Status: Stable, Security, and Bugfix Kernel Updates - Oneiric/Natty/Maverick/Lucid/Hardy&lt;br /&gt;
--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Status: Stable, Security, and Bugfix Kernel Updates &amp;#8211; Oneiric/Natty/Maverick/Lucid/Hardy &lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Here is the status for the main kernels, until today (Jan. 24):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
        Hardy &amp;#8211; 2.6.24-30.98&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
                Nothing new this cycle.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;



&lt;li&gt;
        Lucid &amp;#8211; 2.6.32-38.85&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
                Proposed is frozen due to 10.04.4 prep.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;



&lt;li&gt;
        Maverick &amp;#8211; 2.6.35-32.65&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
                Regression testing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;



&lt;li&gt;
        Natty &amp;#8211; 2.6.38-13.55&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
                Regression testing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;



&lt;li&gt;
        Oneiric &amp;#8211; 3.0.0-16.27&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
                Regression testing.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Current opened tracking bugs details:
            &lt;/p&gt;


&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kernel-sru-workflow.html&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; For SRUs, SRU report is a good source of information:
    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/sru-report.html&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Future stable cadence cycles:
    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseInterlock&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- -&lt;br /&gt;
     Open Discussion or Questions? Raise your hand to be recognized&lt;br /&gt;
--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Open Discussion or Questions? Raise your hand to be recognized &lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt; OK, Thanks everyone&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T21:30:28+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://chrisjohnston.org/?p=932">
	<title>Chris Johnston: Linaro Connect Q1.12 – Day 1</title>
	<link>http://chrisjohnston.org/ubuntu/linaro-connect-q1-12-day-1</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday was day one of Linaro Connect Q1.12. This was a very productive day of meeting people that I will be working with on LAVA, as well as other people throughout Linaro. I attended a couple of sessions during the morning, but I didn&amp;#8217;t have anything noteworthy come out of them at this point. During the afternoon I worked with the Validation team in their hack session and was able to get LAVA running locally on my laptop and imported a bundle stream from Linaro&amp;#8217;s LAVA setup.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Throughout the day I also did some work on Summit, pushing a couple of fixes and a new IRC link feature to Launchpad. While in the hacking session I met with Andy Doan and discussed the future of the Linaro Connect Android app, and we managed to get out a bug fix for it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On day 2 I hope to do some more work with LAVA, hopefully figuring out how to play with the results that are displayed in the dashboard.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T20:25:04+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.piware.de/?p=594">
	<title>Martin Pitt: fatrace: report system wide file access events</title>
	<link>http://www.piware.de/2012/02/fatrace-report-system-wide-file-access-events/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Part of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-power-consumption&quot;&gt;efforts to reduce power consumption&lt;/a&gt; is to identify processes which keep waking up the disk even when the computer is idle. This already resulted in a few &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-consumption&quot;&gt;bug reports&lt;/a&gt; (and some fixes, too), but we only really just began with this.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there is no really good tool to trace file access events system-wide. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/&quot;&gt;powertop&lt;/a&gt; claims to, but its output is both very incomplete, and also wrong (e. g. it claims that read accesses are writes). &lt;a href=&quot;http://manpages.ubuntu.com/strace&quot;&gt;strace&lt;/a&gt; gives you everything you do and don&amp;#8217;t want to know about what&amp;#8217;s going on, but is per-process, and attaching strace to all running and new processes is cumbersome. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~aaronc/iosched/doc/blktrace.html&quot;&gt;blktrace&lt;/a&gt; is system-wide, but operates at a way too low level for this task: its output has nothing to do any more with files or even inodes, just raw block numbers which are impossible to convert back to an inode and file path.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So I created a little tool called &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/fatrace&quot;&gt;fatrace&lt;/a&gt; (&amp;#8220;file access trace&amp;#8221;, not &amp;#8220;fat race&amp;#8221; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.piware.de/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif&quot; alt=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;wp-smiley&quot; /&gt;  ) which uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://lwn.net/Articles/360955/&quot;&gt;fanotify&lt;/a&gt;, a couple of &lt;code&gt;/proc&lt;/code&gt; lookups and some glue to provide this. By default it monitors the whole system, i. e. all mounts (except the virtual ones like /proc, tmpfs, etc.), but you can also tell it to just consider the mount of the current directory. You can write the log into a file (stdout by default), and run it for a specified number of seconds. Optional time stamps and PID filters are also provided.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;
$ sudo fatrace
rsyslogd(967): W /var/log/auth.log
notify-osd(2264): O /usr/share/pixmaps/weechat.xpm
compiz(2001): R device 8:2 inode 658203
[...]
&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It shows the process name and pid, the event type (&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;read, &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;rite, &lt;strong&gt;O&lt;/strong&gt;pen, or &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;lose), and the path. Sometimes its&amp;#8217; not possible to determine a path (usually because it&amp;#8217;s a temporary file which already got deleted, and I suspect mmaps as well), in that case it shows the device and inode number; such programs then need closer inspection with strace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you run this in gnome-terminal, there is an annoying feedback loop, as gnome-terminal causes a disk access with each output line, which then causes another output line, ad infinitum. To fix this, you can either redirect output to a file (&lt;code&gt;-o /tmp/trace&lt;/code&gt;) or ignore the PID of gnome-terminal (&lt;code&gt;-p `pidof gnome-terminal`&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So to investigate which programs are keeping your disk spinning, run something like&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;
  $ sudo fatrace -o /tmp/trace -s 60
&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and then do nothing until it finishes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My next task will be to write an integration program which calls fatrace and powertop, and creates a nice little report out of that raw data, sorted by number of accesses and process name, and all that. But it might already help some folks as it is right now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The code lives in &lt;code&gt;bzr branch lp:fatrace&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pitti/fatrace/trunk&quot;&gt;web view&lt;/a&gt;), you can just run &lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sudo ./fatrace&lt;/code&gt;. I also uploaded a package to Ubuntu Precise, but it still needs to go through the NEW queue. I also made a 0.1 release, so you can just grab the &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/fatrace/+download&quot;&gt;release tarball&lt;/a&gt; if you prefer. Have a look at the manpage and &lt;code&gt;--help&lt;/code&gt;, it should be pretty self-explanatory.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T19:53:05+00:00</dc:date>
	<dc:creator>pitti</dc:creator>
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<item rdf:about="http://milky.manishsinha.net/?p=580">
	<title>Manish Sinha: Privacy and Activity Manager (Zeitgeist) Release</title>
	<link>http://milky.manishsinha.net/2012/02/07/privacy-and-activity-manager-zeitgeist-release/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;We all love privacy and we take it seriously. Most of the people whom I have met are pretty much vigilant about their data and which makes complete sense to have a tool which can you can use to fine tune your privacy settings. Till now most of our experience with Privacy Settings are related to Facebook which makes me feel like&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;wp-caption aligncenter&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;  &quot; title=&quot;Layman control center?&quot; src=&quot;http://flowergarden.noaa.gov/image_library/equipment/nr1/subconsole1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;484&quot; height=&quot;322&quot; /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Layman control center?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are a Zeitgeist user, it is pretty expected to expect a Privacy application. Yes, we have it. Today we are releasing it. The first release was a hastily assembled up together application using pygtk (gtk2) which&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/activity-log-manager-for-zeitgeist-lets-you-blacklist-files-and-apps-delete-your-history-more/&quot;&gt; served it&amp;#8217;s purpose well for the time being&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;wp-caption aligncenter&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Older version of Activity Log Manager&quot; src=&quot;http://cdn.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Selection_011-500x364.png&quot; alt=&quot;Older version of Activity Log Manager&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;364&quot; /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Older version of Activity Log Manager&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Soon it was decided in Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando that Activity Log Manager will be included in Ubuntu Precise to provide greater privacy controls to user. We improved the looks based on the design provided by the Canonical Design Team.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The interface was kept as simple as possible. This first release lacks a few things as of now and some more UI polish is pending including localization support. Both of them will land sooner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It has been integrated in Gnome Control Panel &lt;em&gt;(which works only on Ubuntu)&lt;/em&gt;. In distributions where it cannot integrate in Control Panel, it runs as a standalone application.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is how it looks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;attachment_581&quot; class=&quot;wp-caption aligncenter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alm-gcc.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-581&quot; title=&quot;Entry in GNOME Control Center&quot; src=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alm-gcc.png?w=640&amp;#038;h=477&quot; alt=&quot;Entry in GNOME Control Center&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;477&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Entry in GNOME Control Center&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;attachment_582&quot; class=&quot;wp-caption aligncenter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alm-apps.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-582&quot; title=&quot;Blacklisting Applications&quot; src=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alm-apps.png?w=640&amp;#038;h=482&quot; alt=&quot;Blacklisting Applications&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;482&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Blacklisting Applications&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;attachment_585&quot; class=&quot;wp-caption aligncenter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alm-file.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-585&quot; title=&quot;Files and Folder blacklisting&quot; src=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alm-file.png?w=640&amp;#038;h=482&quot; alt=&quot;Files and Folder blacklisting&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;482&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Files and Folder blacklisting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;attachment_586&quot; class=&quot;wp-caption aligncenter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alm-history.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot; wp-image-586 &quot; title=&quot;Activity Log Manager History tab with Icon&quot; src=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/alm-history.png?w=640&amp;#038;h=446&quot; alt=&quot;Activity Log Manager History tab with Icon&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;446&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Activity Log Manager History tab with the Icon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Zeitgeist Team worked on it and ported the application to gtk3 and vala in a few weeks which was a pleasure (and I finally learnt vala. Finally!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/port-all-the-code.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-583&quot; src=&quot;http://manishtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/port-all-the-code.jpg?w=640&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Geeky Juice:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The release is named &amp;#8220;Friendly Dolphin&amp;#8221; 0.9.0 and can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/activity-log-manager/0.9/0.9.0&quot;&gt;downloaded from here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://launchpad.net/activity-log-manager/0.9/0.9.0/+download/alm-0.9.0.tar.gz&quot;&gt;Source Tarball for 0.9.0 Activity Log Manager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://launchpad.net/activity-log-manager/0.9/0.9.0/+download/README&quot;&gt;README for this release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://launchpad.net/activity-log-manager/0.9/0.9.0/+download/NEWS&quot;&gt;NEWS file for this release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This application would be made available in Ubuntu Precise soon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are building it yourself and want Control Center integration, then pass &amp;#8211;with-ccpanel to the configure script.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;./configure --with-ccpanel&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This would work on all the Linux distributions which derive from Ubuntu and don&amp;#8217;t change the gnome-control-center packaging since this integration relies on a Ubuntu specific patch for control center.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please log any bugs which you come across. To make sure that we are able to help you, please provide detailed explanation of what led to the issue. You can &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/activity-log-manager/+filebug&quot;&gt;file your bugs here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	<dc:date>2012-02-07T17:58:19+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, February 9</title>
	<link>http://nhaines.livejournal.com/64672.html</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.nhaines.com/ubuntu/hour/hour.png&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; height=&quot;40&quot; alt=&quot;Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest&quot; /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu Hour is a chance to meet up for an hour and chat with other Ubuntu users.  The meeting is open to anyone interested whether they use Ubuntu or not, and everyone's welcome with no commitments or RSVPs.  It's definitely a good opportunity to bring along friends who are curious about Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not only is it fun to meet local Ubuntu fans, but we can also be a valuable introduction to Ubuntu for others. Wear that cool Ubuntu or Linux shirt or bring your laptop with the Ubuntu stickers, if you have them.  We'll also follow the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct&quot;&gt;Ubuntu Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; while we're there. Easily summarized as &quot;be excellent to each other,&quot; it means that we'll be good examples of the wonderful Ubuntu community.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The latest information, including locations and times, is always available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhaines.com/ubuntu/hour/&quot;&gt;http://www.nhaines.com/ubuntu/hour/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Upcoming dates&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thursday, February 9, 2012, 6pm - 7pm&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thursday, February 23, 2012, 6pm - 7pm&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Location&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.panerabread.com/&quot;&gt;Panera Bread&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yelp.com/biz/panera-bread-lake-forest&quot;&gt;Yelp&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ur1.ca/0cec5&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
23592 Rockfield Blvd.&lt;br /&gt;Lake Forest, CA 92618&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Panera Bread is a casual restaurant that has fresh bread, soups, and sandwiches and free wi-fi access. We're the group with a laptop or two and some Ubuntu logos, so please feel free to come up and say hi.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T17:54:35+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Clay Weber: Kubuntus Future is still a Blue one</title>
	<link>http://dohbuoy.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/kubuntus-future-is-still-a-blue-one/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Today Jonathan Riddell&lt;a title=&quot;Jonathan's Blog&quot; href=&quot;http://blogs.kde.org/node/4531&quot;&gt; announced &lt;/a&gt;that our favorite Linux distro will no longer have the same support that it has had for almost its entire history.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is very sad news to hear that Kubuntu will no longer have the &amp;#8220;Official&amp;#8221; status it has had for many years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But what exactly does this mean? What will the future bring for the Blue Gears?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I really don&amp;#8217;t know yet precisely what the changes will be, that may take some time to fully flesh out. But I doubt it. The Kubuntu team is already mostly independent, run mostly with its own personality and ideals that stem from those of Ubuntu. The concept of a highly KDE-centric Linix distribution is still a vital and valid one, one that attracted me back in 2005 when my previous distro &lt;a title=&quot;Lycoris is no more&quot; href=&quot;http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6659836508.html&quot;&gt;was killed off.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kubuntu ain&amp;#8217;t going anywhere any time soon. We already have a wonderfully &lt;a title=&quot;Kubuntu's Independent forum&quot; href=&quot;http://kubuntuforums.net&quot;&gt;friendly forum&lt;/a&gt;  :D We have all the hard working packaging Ninjas. We have a large, broad range of users all over the world. We will still be a KDE showcase. We will still have the same set of awesome volunteers. We still have the will and means to do what we are already doing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What will see change is the level of help from YOU, the user and developer community. Some of us will have to ante up and kick it into a higher gear. New contributors will be sought and welcomed. Things will move on, yet i do not foresee any upheavals or intense drama.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, I am trying to pep up some unfortunately bad news. We have a great platform to continue working on,&lt;em&gt; so we continue to work on it&lt;/em&gt;.  It isn&amp;#8217;t too hard to find the positive amongst all the goodness.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I do want to thank Canonical for providing Jonathan and the Kubuntu community with the resources it has for so long. KDE has benefited imo from the adoption of Kubuntu by its wide range of users, and Canonical and Ubuntu have provided the means for this occur.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Go Blue!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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	<dc:date>2012-02-07T16:22:37+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Richard Johnson: Kubuntu Is Not Dead</title>
	<link>http://feed.nixternal.com/~r/nixternal/~3/x7wHMjMSa7U/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kubuntu.org/&quot;&gt;Kubuntu&lt;/a&gt; is not dead, it is in fact just as alive today as it was last month. Those of you who are posting things like, &amp;#8220;&lt;em&gt;Time to jump ship&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8221; or &amp;#8220;&lt;em&gt;Kubuntu is dead&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8220;, where do you get your facts? Did you happen to read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.kde.org/node/4531&quot;&gt;Jonathan&amp;#8217;s blog post&lt;/a&gt;? Where in there does it say that Kubuntu is dead? Why jump ship? Why jump ship to another distro that is only supported by a few instead of a larger community? I don&amp;#8217;t get your logic, and truthfully, saying things like I have read thus far, is nothing more than childish at best. The worst part is that so-called journalists are writing such things, and not just mindless or thoughtless people. I saw one site change the title of their post because they were fact checked by Jonathan in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did you know that the 11.10 release of Kubuntu was damn near 100% a community effort? Did you know that Jonathan switched rolls during that release to work on &lt;code&gt;bzr&lt;/code&gt; and not Kubuntu (which is something I wish more companies would do, that being allow their employees to move around to try different jobs). Did you know that pretty much every release has happened because of the volunteer community more so than Canonical?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Canonical is not stopping Kubuntu, they are stopping the funding. Stopping the funding doesn&amp;#8217;t mean that Kubuntu is dead. If you support the idea that Kubuntu is dead because of this, then damn near every distribution that you want to jump ship to is also dead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jumping ship in a time like this equates to nothing more than a slap in the face of everyone who has worked their asses off to offer to you, free in every sense of the word, Kubuntu. Remember, Jonathan was the only paid Kubuntu developer, everyone else did it for free. Don&amp;#8217;t disrespect their hard work with your flawed logic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And if you still believe Kubuntu is dead, why don&amp;#8217;t you hop on IRC and join &lt;code&gt;#kubuntu-devel&lt;/code&gt;. Does that look dead to you? Just this morning I saw the volunteers working on bugs and discussing updates and fixes for 12.04. Instead of giving up so quickly, why don&amp;#8217;t you support the community? Let the developers know you appreciate their work, let them know your issues, help mold the future of Kubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nixternal.com/kubuntu-is-not-dead/&quot;&gt;Kubuntu Is Not Dead&lt;/a&gt; is a post from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nixternal.com/about/&quot;&gt;Richard A. Johnson&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nixternal.com/blog/&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nixternal/~4/x7wHMjMSa7U&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T16:16:30+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Marco Ceppi: Ask Ubuntu Moderator Town Hall Chat</title>
	<link>http://marcoceppi.com/2012/02/ask-ubuntu-moderator-town-hall-chat/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;If you wish to drill the candidates about their philosophies and get to know them better before you vote in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com/election&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu Moderator Elections&lt;/a&gt; then join us for our &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2443/2012-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-tuesday-7-feb-2100-utc-4pm-est&quot;&gt;Town Hall chat&lt;/a&gt; today! The chat will take place in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/268/ask-ubuntu-town-hall-chat?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu Town Hall Chatroom&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&amp;amp;day=07&amp;amp;year=2012&amp;amp;hour=21&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=0&quot;&gt;21:00 UTC&lt;/a&gt;. I look forward to an informative town hall with all the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T13:33:01+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu sound theme design</title>
	<link>http://design.canonical.com/2012/02/ubuntu-sound-theme-design/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re as keen as we are that the Ubuntu sound theme is on brand, now is your chance! We are calling for pitches for the Ubuntu sound theme!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The brief&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Ubuntu expands onto new form factors, with an increasingly definitive visual identity and brand, it is important to ensure that the theme of Ubuntu is reflected in all aspects of the experience. The auditory experience of Ubuntu must be included in this theme to maintain an immersive environment and consistency with the brand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These values are a key component of our brand and should form the basis for the sound theme.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Reliable&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Collaborative&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Freedom&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Precise&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our brand values : &lt;a title=&quot;Brand Values&quot; href=&quot;http://design.ubuntu.com/values&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://design.ubuntu.com/values&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Objective&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To define an Ubuntu soundscape that compliments look, feel and brand and produce a library of assets required for implementation. Provide a guideline for the Ubuntu soundscape that will allow for extension by internal and external stakeholders.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Project requirements&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The concept for the sound theme should reflect the requirements of all form factors. Concepts should therefore be explored through signature moments in the Ubuntu soundscape; with an opportunity to refine a desktop startup sound for the 12.04 release. The emergent sound theme should then be articulated and guidelined.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first stage of this project is the pitch &amp;#8211; the deadline is Monday the 13th of February.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The pitch&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;wp-caption aligncenter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/unity_greeter_11_10_screenshot.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Unity Greeter 11.10 Screenshot&quot; src=&quot;http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/unity_greeter_11_10_screenshot.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Login screen&quot; width=&quot;1280&quot; height=&quot;800&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Login screen&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One desktop startup sound&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This will be heard when the login screen (shown above) is ready for user interaction.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The device is coming alive, awakening.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One notification&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This gives us a feel for how these sounds fit in a theme.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An example notification would be a calendar event.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Participants can submit as many sample sounds as they like, however the minimum requirement is one of each.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feedback will be given by Wednesday 15th February, and we will work with the successful participant to refine the startup sound for the 12.04 release and continue to work with them on the development of the Ubuntu soundscape.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is an open pitch, and we encourage everyone to participate; including, hopefully, some of you sound professionals out there!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Submissions should be sent &lt;strong&gt;to the Unity project manager Nick Tait -&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:nick.tait@canonical.com?Subject=Sound%20Theme&quot;&gt;nick.tait@canonical.com&lt;/a&gt; subject &amp;#8220;Sound Theme&amp;#8221; &lt;/strong&gt;in a folder entitled &amp;#8220;firstnamelastname.zip&amp;#8221;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For reference, the ideal length of the startup should be around 2 &amp;#8211; 4 seconds, ogg format, 320kbps.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some helpful links&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Design guidelines : &lt;a title=&quot;Design Guidelines&quot; href=&quot;http://design.ubuntu.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://design.ubuntu.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Ubuntu tour : &lt;a title=&quot;The Ubuntu Tour&quot; href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/take-the-tour&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/take-the-tour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Brand values : &lt;a title=&quot;Brand Values&quot; href=&quot;http://design.ubuntu.com/values&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://design.ubuntu.com/values&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	<dc:date>2012-02-07T12:14:35+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Chris Coulson: Why Ubuntu is not using the Firefox ESR</title>
	<link>http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=111</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Recently, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2012-February/003672.html&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; has appeared on the ubuntu-desktop mailing list asking why Ubuntu (or specifically, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) is not using the Extended Support Release of Firefox by default.  I&amp;#8217;ve also been asked this a few times on IRC over the last few weeks (from people inside and outside of Canonical), so I just wanted to clarify the reasoning for this, and why I think that our choice will offer the best experience for Ubuntu users.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arguments against the ESR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aside from the fact that offering the Firefox ESR by default to Ubuntu users would make our good friends at Mozilla unhappy (and from my perspective, we have a pretty good relationship with them.  I certainly don&amp;#8217;t want this to change), here are some reasons why I think that shipping the Firefox ESR by default would be bad for Ubuntu users.  Some of these are points from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal&quot;&gt;ESR proposal&lt;/a&gt;, and some of them are my own thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Over time, Firefox ESR will become less secure than Firefox&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The ESR proposal states that:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mozilla will backport security bugs qualified as &amp;#8220;Critical&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;High&amp;#8221; to the ESR where feasible (there may be cases where a backport cannot be applied with reasonable effort, and those cases are expected to be exceptional)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This means that people running the Firefox ESR may have to wait for the next major release to receive fixes for security bugs with &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings&quot;&gt;sg:moderate&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings&quot;&gt;sg:low&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings&quot;&gt;sg:dos&lt;/a&gt; severity ratings.  What is worse is that ESR users may also miss out on some &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings&quot;&gt;sg:critical&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings&quot;&gt;sg:high&lt;/a&gt; rated bugs, where it is just not feasible to backport the fix to the ESR branch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, Firefox ESR users will have to wait longer than regular Firefox users for proactive security improvements such as support for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-iframe-element.html#attr-iframe-sandbox&quot;&gt;iframe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341604&quot;&gt;sandbox&lt;/a&gt; attribute, &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Features/CA_pinning_functionality&quot;&gt;CA pinning&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Features/Mixed_Content_Blocker&quot;&gt;Mixed Content Blocker&lt;/a&gt; or any other &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=2248923&amp;amp;resolution=---&amp;amp;resolution=DUPLICATE&amp;amp;classification=Client%20Software&amp;amp;classification=Components&amp;amp;status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&amp;amp;query_format=advanced&amp;amp;status_whiteboard=[sg%3Awant]&quot;&gt;new security features / improvements&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Because of this, the Firefox ESR will always become less secure than the regular Firefox releases.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users have already had to wait longer than Firefox users on other platforms for new security and privacy features such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introducing_Content_Security_Policy&quot;&gt;Content Security Policy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Security/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security&quot;&gt;HTTP Strict Transport Security&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://dnt.mozilla.org/&quot;&gt;Do Not Track&lt;/a&gt;.  We don&amp;#8217;t want Ubuntu to lag behind other platforms in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The risk of introducing bugs is greater with Firefox ESR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a common misconception that when a piece of software receives only reactive security fixes, it is the safest option for users and that the risk of breakage is minimal with this approach.  In reality, this isn&amp;#8217;t exactly true.  There is always risk associated with backporting any form of code change from one branch to an older branch, and this risk increases as:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The 2 branches diverge further apart, making the backport less straightforward&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The amount of testing exposure decreases&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Clearly, the Firefox ESR will be affected by both of these factors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The regular Firefox releases pass through the beta channel for 6 weeks before release, where they are exposed to a large community of users who are using the beta as their day-to-day browser.  And, whilst the Linux testing community is relatively small (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=19&quot;&gt;I would like to grow this though&lt;/a&gt;), we mustn&amp;#8217;t take for granted the positive effects on quality that Ubuntu users get from Firefox beta testers across &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; platforms.  The Firefox ESR will not benefit from this type of large scale pre-release exposure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667087&quot;&gt;bug 667087&lt;/a&gt; is a perfect example of how the ESR approach can lead to the introduction of bugs (this was a regression which only affected the 3.6 branch).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is only supported for 1-year &lt;em&gt;(well, 54 weeks, to be more exact)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Firefox ESR is supported for 54 weeks (9 regular Firefox release cycles), with a 12-week (2-cycle) overlap.  This means that it would be inevitable that we would have to upgrade users to a new version of Firefox ESR every year, if we provided this by default.  Instead of small incremental changes every 6 weeks, users would be faced with much larger and more obvious changes every year.  We believe this is generally worse for most users.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have been following the new Firefox release process since Ubuntu 11.04, and users seem to have adapted to it quite well.  Having just upgraded Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users from Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 10, we know that this scale of update is much more painful &amp;#8211; for users and for us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The web is not static&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All of the major browser vendors are pushing new technologies on the web, and existing standards are constantly evolving. It is important that we provide Ubuntu users with a browser which keeps up with this, as users coming from competing platforms expect.  In the time since Firefox 4 (which isn&amp;#8217;t that dissimilar to the time between 2 ESR versions), Mozilla has added support for things such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/bdi&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;bdi&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt; element, &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Using_the_Page_Visibility_API&quot;&gt;page visibility API&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.mozFullScreenEnabled&quot;&gt;Mozilla&amp;#8217;s full screen API&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/Using_CSS_transforms#3D_specific_CSS_properties&quot;&gt;CSS 3D transforms&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/font-stretch&quot;&gt;CSS font-stretch property&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL/Cross-Domain_Textures&quot;&gt;cross-domain textures in WebGL&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing/&quot;&gt;Web Timing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/hyphens&quot;&gt;CSS hyphenation in languages other than English&lt;/a&gt;, HTML5 context menus and added a bunch of other improvements to IndexedDB, WebSockets, and canvas.  Web developers and Firefox users on other platforms already have access to these features.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#8217;t want Ubuntu users to regularly be the last people to have access to evolving technologies on the web, and I don&amp;#8217;t think it&amp;#8217;s great to say to them &amp;#8220;if you want access to the latest web technologies like users on other platforms have, you need to upgrade your entire OS in 6 months or use this unsupported PPA instead&amp;#8221;.  It wouldn&amp;#8217;t be good for Ubuntu if the function or appearance of our users favourite websites ends up being degraded by default on our flagship product, as the web evolves faster than the browser that we are shipping.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Until recently, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users have already been missing out on major technologies such as CSS transitions (which is used in some places in &lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/&quot;&gt;Google+&lt;/a&gt;), WebGL and WebM (available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;) whilst we have been shipping Firefox 3.6 to them.  In addition to this, Google have already effectively &lt;a href=&quot;http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-plans-to-support-modern-browsers.html&quot;&gt;dropped support for Firefox 3.6&lt;/a&gt;, as have &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.softpedia.com/news/Flickr-Drops-Support-for-Google-s-Picnik-IE7-and-Firefox-3-6-246539.shtml&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;, and we have had reports from other people saying that some online banking sites have already bumped their minimum browser requirements beyond Firefox 3.6.  As the web evolves faster, this type of thing may occur more frequently in the future (the alternatives to this are that web developers give themselves a hard time when trying to adopt new technologies by having to support fallbacks for older browsers, or innovation on the web just stagnates as developers are reluctant to adopt new features).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Over time, Firefox ESR will become slower than Firefox&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the same way that Firefox ESR will become less secure than Firefox, it will also become slower and less resource efficient than regular Firefox due to initiatives such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink&quot;&gt;MemShrink&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy&quot;&gt;Snappy&lt;/a&gt; and continual work on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/11/10/type-inference-to-firefox-beta/&quot;&gt;improving performance&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/IonMonkey&quot;&gt;JS engine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Performance and memory consumption really matter to users, and these things can affect people&amp;#8217;s perception of Ubuntu when they compare browser performance with browsers that are shipped on other platforms.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, we offer the latest version of Chromium alongside Firefox in the Ubuntu archive.  It would be bad for Mozilla for us to offer an outdated Firefox ESR against the very latest version of Chromium, as the difference in performance between the 2 can significantly influence our users perception of the quality of Mozilla&amp;#8217;s product.  I&amp;#8217;m not the &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.planning/19O8ODZnmPo/qiJLUvKwCEwJ&quot;&gt;only person who thinks this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think it would hurt us competitively if Fedora or Ubuntu shipped ESR, because users or journalists would compare ESR with up-to-date Chrome&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arguments in favour of the ESR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, other people have some good points about why the ESR might be a positive thing. I&amp;#8217;ll list some of the more frequent points I hear, and explain why I disagree with them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Ubuntu LTS is for enterprise users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#8217;t true.  Whilst it is true that enterprise users tend to stick with the LTS release for the longer period of support and less frequent upgrades between OS versions, the LTS is targeted and used by &lt;em&gt;all types&lt;/em&gt; of users.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users who stick with the LTS want stability. Users who want the latest-and-greatest should upgrade between the regular 6-month releases&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are several things wrong with this argument:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;It assumes that because a user doesn&amp;#8217;t want to upgrade their entire OS every 6 months and because they want 3-5 years of support, that they don&amp;#8217;t want the latest applications.  I don&amp;#8217;t want to upgrade my cell phone more than once every 2 years because it is a pain to adapt to a new device, but I certainly do want to be offered the latest apps on it for the time that it is supported.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It assumes that LTS users &lt;em&gt;choose&lt;/em&gt; to stay on the LTS.  In fact, when somebody installs the LTS, we will only offer LTS &amp;#8211; LTS upgrades for them unless they change a setting in the &lt;em&gt;Updates&lt;/em&gt; tab of the &lt;em&gt;Software Sources&lt;/em&gt; settings.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It assumes that the Firefox ESR provides more stability than the regular Firefox release, and that we won&amp;#8217;t get stability from shipping regular Firefox releases.  I&amp;#8217;ve already explained above why I don&amp;#8217;t think this is the case.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It assumes that stability is all that is required to satisfy LTS users.  The reality is a lot more complicated than this.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LTS users actually do seek out the latest software.  As the maintainer of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-next&quot;&gt;Firefox Beta PPA&lt;/a&gt; and the (now retired) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=100&quot;&gt;Firefox Stable PPA&lt;/a&gt;, I have some interesting download statistics for these PPA&amp;#8217;s:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users are consistently the second highest consumer of the Firefox Beta PPA.  In fact, the number of downloads from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users is around the same as (and sometimes exceeds) the number of downloads from Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04 combined.  Note that the highest consumer is always the most recent supported release.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The last upload to the Firefox Stable PPA (9.0.1, which was also uploaded to lucid-proposed) was downloaded by 3-times as many users on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as it was from users on Ubuntu 10.10.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Also, I accidentally introduced a packaging bug in to our daily builds last week which temporarily broke upgrades for daily build users on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.04.  To my surprise, we got a bug report from a 10.04 user within minutes of the broken packages being published. We then got a fairly steady stream of bug reports from 10.04 users until the packages were fixed.  In total, we had 7 bug reports from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users, and 1 bug report from an Ubuntu 11.04 user.  Prior to this, I had always made the assumption that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users would be the smallest consumer of Firefox daily builds, but I may have to reevaluate this view now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ok, it&amp;#8217;s difficult to read too much in to this relatively small amount of data and I&amp;#8217;m not sure how much it &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; proves.  In any case, I think you&amp;#8217;ll find that the LTS  users aren&amp;#8217;t quite as conservative as some people make them out to be.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The LTS should be stable, secure, supported, predictable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The regular Firefox releases are more secure than the ESR, will be just as stable (with the significantly larger audience of beta testers) and are better supported.  The 6 weekly releases are also predictable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course our flagship product needs to be stable, secure and supported.  But, it needs to be &lt;em&gt;much more&lt;/em&gt; than this too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addons break between releases&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whilst this was problematic in the early stages of the rapid release process, this isn&amp;#8217;t as much of a problem now.  Starting in Firefox 10, most addons are &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Add-ons/Add-ons_Default_to_Compatible&quot;&gt;compatible by default&lt;/a&gt; (the exceptions are themes and addons with binary components).  Prior to this, addon compatibility has been regularly exceeding 95% before each new Firefox release (for the top 95% of addons which were compatible with the previous Firefox version).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Soooooo&amp;#8230;..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope this answers some of your questions about why Ubuntu is not shipping the Firefox ESR by default.  Of course, I&amp;#8217;m more than happy to listen to peoples concerns.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is entirely possible that we might provide a Firefox ESR build for people who are managing large deployments of Ubuntu, although the details of this aren&amp;#8217;t decided yet.  However, this isn&amp;#8217;t going to be the default browser for our LTS.  If it existed, it would be shipped in a PPA (much like we have been doing for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable&quot;&gt;Firefox Stable PPA&lt;/a&gt;), and we would have to be clear to users that it wouldn&amp;#8217;t receive the same level of support we give to the regular Firefox versions.&lt;/p&gt;
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	<title>Gerfried Fuchs: Games Screenshot Party</title>
	<link>http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2012/02/07#games-screenshot-party</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;The following announce is lazily copied from &lt;a href=&quot;http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/02/03/debian-ubuntu-games-screenshot-party/&quot;&gt;Paul Wise's announce&lt;/a&gt;. There is only one thing I like to add: the screenshots that are submitted and collected on &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenshots.debian.net/&quot;&gt;screenshots.debian.net&lt;/a&gt; are visible on the packages websites (both &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.debian.org/index&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;) and are also used by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.debian.org/software-center&quot;&gt;software-center&lt;/a&gt; package, so they help people to get a first impression of the package they might want to install.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Have you ever wondered how to start getting involved in Debian/Ubuntu? Do you enjoy discovering new games and playing them? You might want to come to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://deb.li/gamesparty&quot;&gt;games screenshot party&lt;/a&gt;! We hope that the party will be a fun, easy, low-commitment way to get involved.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team&quot;&gt;Debian/Ubuntu Games Team&lt;/a&gt; is organizing a half-day &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties/Screenshots&quot;&gt;screenshots&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties&quot;&gt;party&lt;/a&gt; on the weekend of 25th-26th February for creating screenshots for all the games that are available in Debian/Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you are interested in attending, please add your availability to the poll linked from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://deb.li/gamesparty&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; so that we can get some idea of attendance and when is a good time for the people who are interested.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Look forward to lots of game playing, screenshots and merry time, hope to see you all there!&lt;/p&gt;


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	<title>Raphaël Hertzog: Dpkg with multiarch support available in Debian experimental</title>
	<link>http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/02/07/dpkg-with-multiarch-support-available-in-debian-experimental/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://raphaelhertzog.com/files/2011/07/modify-package-e1309263139826.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Packaging internals&quot; width=&quot;270&quot; height=&quot;270&quot; class=&quot;alignleft size-full wp-image-1985&quot; /&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00184.html&quot;&gt;announced on debian-devel&lt;/a&gt;, Guillem Jover &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-experimental-changes/2012/02/msg00025.html&quot;&gt;uploaded a snapshot&lt;/a&gt; of dpkg&amp;#8217;s multiarch branch to experimental (version 1.16.2~wipmultiarch). Beware: There will&lt;br /&gt;
likely be some small &amp;#8220;interface&amp;#8221; changes between this version and the version that will be released later in unstable (possibly in the output of &lt;code&gt;dpkg --get-selections&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;dpkg --list&lt;/code&gt;, maybe other commands).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;multiarch allows you to install packages from different architectures on the same machine. This can be useful if your computer can run programs from 2 architectures (eg. x86 CPU supporting i386 and amd64), or if you often need to cross-compile software and thus need the libraries of your target architecture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Test dpkg with multiarch support&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you want to test multiarch support in dpkg, install the package from experimental (&lt;code&gt;apt-get install dpkg/experimental&lt;/code&gt; assuming you have experimental in your sources.list).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then you can add a supplementary architecture to your system by doing &lt;code&gt;sudo dpkg --add-architecture &amp;lt;arch&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (e.g. i386 if you are on amd64, and vice-versa). APT will automatically pick up the new architecture and start downloading the Packages file for the new architecture (it uses &lt;code&gt;dpkg --print-foreign-architectures&lt;/code&gt; to know about them).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From there on you can install packages from the &amp;#8220;foreign&amp;#8221; architectures with &amp;#8220;&lt;code&gt;apt-get install foo:&amp;lt;arch&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&amp;#8220;. Many packages will not be installable because some of their dependencies have not yet been updated to work with in a multiarch world (libraries must be installed in a multiarch-compliant path so as to be co-installable, and then marked &amp;#8220;&lt;code&gt;Multi-Arch: same&lt;/code&gt;&amp;#8220;). Other dependencies might need to be marked &amp;#8220;&lt;code&gt;Multi-Arch: foreign&lt;/code&gt;&amp;#8220;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation&quot;&gt;wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation&lt;/a&gt; for more HOWTO-like explanations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now is a good time to see if you can install the foreign packages that you could need in such a setup and to help to convert the required libraries.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can also read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.mraw.org/2012/02/01/dpkg_with_multiarch/&quot;&gt;Cyril Brulebois&amp;#8217; article&lt;/a&gt; which quickly shows how to hunt for the problematic packages which have not been converted to multiarch (in his sample, &amp;#8220;ucf&amp;#8221; is not ready. Since it&amp;#8217;s an &amp;#8220;&lt;code&gt;Architecture: all&lt;/code&gt;&amp;#8221; package which can run on any architecture, it means that it&amp;#8217;s lacking a &amp;#8220;&lt;code&gt;Multi-Arch: foreign&lt;/code&gt;&amp;#8221; field).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Report bugs&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you discover any bug in dpkg&amp;#8217;s multiarch implementation, please report it to the Bug Tracking System (against &amp;#8220;dpkg&amp;#8221; with the version &amp;#8220;1.16.2~wipmultiarch&amp;#8221;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you notice important libraries or packages which are not yet multiarch ready, please open wishlist bug reports requesting the conversion and point the maintainers towards the wiki page linked above. Even better, prepare patches and submit those with your bug reports.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Again, you can follow the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.mraw.org/2012/02/06/dpkg_with_multiarch_redux/&quot;&gt;lead of Cyril Brulebois&lt;/a&gt; who filed 6 bugs!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Review the multiarch implementation&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re a C programmer and have some good knowledge of dpkg (or are willing to learn more of it), we would certainly benefit from more eyes reviewing the multiarch branch. If you want to discuss some design issues of the multiarch implementation in dpkg (or have questions related to your review), please get in touch via &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org&quot;&gt;debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The latest version of the branch is pu/multiarch/master in &lt;a href=&quot;http://git.hadrons.org/?p=debian/dpkg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pu/multiarch/master&quot;&gt;Guillem&amp;#8217;s personal repository&lt;/a&gt;.  I have my own version of the branch (&lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/hertzog/dpkg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pu/multiarch/full&quot;&gt;pu/multiarch/full&lt;/a&gt;) which is usually a snapshot of Guillem&amp;#8217;s branch with my own submitted fixes.&lt;/p&gt;
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$ git clone git://git.debian.org/dpkg/dpkg.git
$ cd dpkg
$ git remote add guillem git://git.hadrons.org/git/debian/dpkg/dpkg.git
$ git remote add buxy git://git.debian.org/~hertzog/dpkg.git
$ git fetch guillem &amp;#038;&amp;#038; git fetch buxy
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&lt;p&gt;If you followed the instructions above, the relevant branches are thus guillem/pu/multiarch/master and buxy/pu/multiarch/full. Both branches are regularly rebased on top of master where Guillem merges progressively the commits from the multi-arch branch as his review progresses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you in advance for your help bringing multiarch in shape for Debian Wheezy, &lt;/p&gt;
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	<title>Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Global Jam: Call For Events!</title>
	<link>http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/02/07/ubuntu-global-jam-call-for-events-2/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu Global Jam: Call For Events!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;2nd &amp;#8211; 4th March 2012&lt;/strong&gt; we will be running the &lt;a href=&quot;http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/global/1443/detail/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu Global Jam&lt;/a&gt;. This is a global event in which we ask Ubuntu users and contributors to organize events in their local areas to meet other Ubuntu people and help contribute to Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Ubuntu Global Jam is a fun event, and a great way to meet other Ubuntu and Free Software folks. It is also really easy to organize an event if there is not one near you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To explain more, tonight I created a video explaining what the Ubuntu Global Jam is, and how to organize an event:&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can&amp;#8217;t see it? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITk8PGBkMXQ&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are going to be encouraging you good folks to start organizing your events. You can find out more about the events &lt;a href=&quot;http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/global/1443/detail/&quot;&gt;here at loco.ubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt; and more information &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam&quot;&gt;on the wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to ask whatever questions you like about how to organize an event in the comments here. Do let me know if you organize an event!&lt;/p&gt;

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	<title>The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 251</title>
	<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubuntu-news/~3/LzFz8M9UJSk/</link>
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&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. &lt;strong&gt;This is issue #251 for the week January 30 &amp;#8211; February 5, 2012&lt;/strong&gt;, and the full version is available &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this issue we cover:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Precise_Pangolin_Alpha_2_Released.21&quot;&gt;Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Developer_Week:_Summaries_Days_1-3&quot;&gt;Developer Week: Summaries Days 1-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#The_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Needs_You.21&quot;&gt;The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Ubuntu_12.04_Development_update&quot;&gt;Ubuntu 12.04 Development update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Ubuntu_Stats&quot;&gt;Ubuntu Stats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#LoCo_News&quot;&gt;LoCo News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Launchpad_News&quot;&gt;Launchpad News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Canonical_Design_Team:_Multi-Monitor_Update_and_Greeter_Prototype&quot;&gt;Canonical Design Team: Multi-Monitor Update and Greeter Prototype&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Didier_Roche:_Unity_5.2_is_now_released.21&quot;&gt;Didier Roche: Unity 5.2 is now released!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Paul_Tagliamonte:_Mapping_the_Ubuntu_Community&quot;&gt;Paul Tagliamonte: Mapping the Ubuntu Community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#With_GOV.UK.2C_British_government_redefines_the_online_government_platform&quot;&gt;With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#You_Don.27t_Have_To_Quit_Ubuntu.21&quot;&gt;You Don&amp;#8217;t Have To Quit Ubuntu!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Canonical_Promotes_Standard_Ubuntu_Branding_with_New_Website&quot;&gt;Canonical Promotes Standard Ubuntu Branding with New Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Other_Articles_of_Interest&quot;&gt;Other Articles of Interest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Weekly_Official_Ubuntu_Flavors_Team_Meetings&quot;&gt;Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Upcoming_Meetings_and_Events&quot;&gt;Upcoming Meetings and Events&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251#Updates_and_Security&quot;&gt;Updates and Security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And much much more&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Krumbach&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chris Druif&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vikram Dhillon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Liraz Siri&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And many others&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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	<title>Philip Ballew: We are Ubuntu: My interview with Mike Holstein</title>
	<link>http://philipballew.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/we-are-ubuntu-my-interview-with-mike/</link>
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&lt;div&gt;In this post I interview Mike Holstein, a man who has helped me with many questions I have asked of him. A great person to get support from in IRC, and an awesome individual as well.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you do as an individual, outside of the Ubuntu community?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;I am a professional musician, and technology enthusiast living in Asheville NC. I have a solo album that was created using only FOSS tools in UbuntuStudio. Check it out here. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mikeholstein.info/2011/07/living-solo-bass-made-with-ubuntu.html&quot;&gt;http://www.mikeholstein.info/2011/07/living-solo-bass-made-with-ubuntu.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have been using Linux for about 8 years on and off, and full-time for about 5 years. I am mostly rather introverted, though i like talking about technology and music.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In what areas have you helped in the Ubuntu and what does this do to better the community as a whole?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I really enjoy helping first-hand in the IRC support channels. I am particularly interested in promoting Ubuntu and UbuntuStudio, and helping new users find resources to get started. When I found the UbuntuStudio IRC channel, it was pretty empty. Now, there is a handful of users who hang there and help others. I think i am good at helping folks find information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What makes you run Ubuntu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For me, it&amp;#8217;s the community. I do really like using Ubuntu and find it fits my needs in almost every way perfectly, but its the people who are working on it and working with each other to make a polished, proffesional and open project that really draws me in. The idea that i can do literally anything i want with the operating system is quite alluring. For me, that means i can do whatever i like, and my imagination is really the only limit. I read once that nothing in Linux is hiding from you, and that is so helpful.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What inspired you to join the Ubuntu community?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s the open and welcome vibe that everyone in the community seems to have. I find that there is a place for everyone. I find that for me, I get back what I put in. As a contributor, I am able to learn more about what is going on in the development community. That translates to me being able to better support new users as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there anything else you would like to do with Ubuntu that you have not done?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wish I had more programming skills to contribute. Maybe I can help recruit programmers that can contribute code. I really want to help spread the word and pull new users in by sharing what I like about Ubuntu, and helping them find a place in the community. I would like for projects like UbuntuStudio to be more in the mainstream. I want to continue to push this to into the industry and help users adopt the tools.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you feel you have to offer and bring to the table that can help Ubuntu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am an audio professional, and bring plenty to the table for folks transitioning to UbuntuStudio, or getting started with audio production in Linux. I am quite handy at hands-on troubleshooting, and locating the cause of issues. I can usually talk through hardware issues, and help diagnose them. I am good at finding folks help, and sometimes I can provide that help personally. Other times I can find more appropriate avenues of support for the users.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;If you know Mike or have a good story where he has helped you, please comment and share your story.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;To get in contact with Mike visit his Launchpad page at &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~mikeholstein&quot;&gt;https://launchpad.net/~mikeholstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Philip Ballew Can be Contacted at philipballew@ubuntu.com&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Follow Philip Ballew on twitter at &lt;a title=&quot;Link&quot; href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#!/philipballew&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/#!/philipballew&lt;/a&gt; for up the minute happenings with Philip’s Ubuntu Adventures&lt;/p&gt;
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	<title>Kees Cook: use of ptrace</title>
	<link>http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2012/02/06/use-of-ptrace/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2011/02/18/ptracing-siblings/&quot;&gt;discussed last year&lt;/a&gt;, Ubuntu has been restricting the use of ptrace for a few releases now. I&amp;#8217;m excited to see Fedora starting to &lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SELinuxDenyPtrace&quot;&gt;introduce similar restrictions&lt;/a&gt;, but I&amp;#8217;m disappointed at the specific implementation:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A method for doing this already exists (&lt;a href=&quot;https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/454&quot;&gt;Yama&lt;/a&gt;). Yama is not plumbed into SELinux, but I would argue that&amp;#8217;s not needed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The SELinux method depends, unsurprisingly, on an active SELinux policy on the system, which isn&amp;#8217;t everyone.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It&amp;#8217;s not possible for regular developers (not system developers) to debug their own processes.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It will break all ptrace-based crash handlers (e.g. KDE, Firefox, Chrome) or tools that depend on ptrace to do their regular job (e.g. Wine, gdb, strace, ltrace).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Blocking ptrace blocks exactly one type of attack: credential extraction from a running process. In the face of a persistent attack, ultimately, anything running as the user can be trojaned, regardless of ptrace. Blocking ptrace, however, stalls the initial attack. At the moment an attacker arrives on a system, they cannot immediately extend their reach by examining the other processes (e.g. jumping down existing SSH connections, pulling passwords out of Firefox, etc). Some sensitive processes are already protected from this kind of thing because they are not &amp;#8220;dumpable&amp;#8221; (due to either specifically requesting this from &lt;code&gt;prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, ...)&lt;/code&gt; or due to a uid/gid transition), but many are open for abuse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The primary &amp;#8220;valid&amp;#8221; use cases for ptrace are crash handlers, debuggers, and memory analysis tools. In each case, they have a single common element: the process being ptraced knows which process should have permission to attach to it. What Linux lacked was a way to declare these relationships, which is what Yama added. The use of SELinux policy, for example, isn&amp;#8217;t sufficient because the permissions are too wide (e.g. giving &lt;code&gt;gdb&lt;/code&gt; the ability to ptrace anything just means the attacker has to use &lt;code&gt;gdb&lt;/code&gt; to do the job). Right now, due to the use of Yama in Ubuntu, all the mentioned tools have the awareness of how to programmatically declare the ptrace relationships at runtime with &lt;code&gt;prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, ...)&lt;/code&gt;. I find it disappointing that Fedora won&amp;#8217;t be using this to their advantage when it is available and well tested.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/12406&quot;&gt;ChromeOS uses Yama&lt;/a&gt; now. ;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;copy; 2012, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outflux.net/blog/&quot;&gt;Kees Cook&lt;/a&gt;. This work is licensed under a &lt;a rel=&quot;license&quot; href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;license&quot; href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Creative Commons License&quot; src=&quot;http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/us/88x31.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T00:48:30+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Lydia Pintscher: changes in Kubuntu</title>
	<link>http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2012/02/07/changes-in-kubuntu/</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve been running Kubuntu ever since I decided to switch to Linux on my computers. Kubuntu is what got me hooked on KDE&amp;#8217;s software. I was on it&amp;#8217;s council for 2 years. It has a special place in my Free Software world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At FOSDEM I had a long chat with Jonathan. He told me that he&amp;#8217;ll no longer be able to work full-time on Kubuntu soon. This was sad news because I know how much it means to him.  For more details read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.kde.org/node/4531&quot;&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt;. While this is sad it is also good news. It clarifies Canonical&amp;#8217;s position and gives the team behind Kubuntu more power.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;d like to thank Canonical for sponsoring Jonathan for the past years. It was important for Kubuntu and for KDE. Kubuntu is important for KDE because a diverse distro eco-system is vital for us. Let this be a much-needed wake-up call and take it into our hands.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hop over to #kubuntu-devel on freenode and see where you can help out for the next cycle.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-07T00:03:20+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Status</title>
	<link>http://blogs.kde.org/node/4531</link>
	<content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2012-February/005782.html&quot;&gt;my kubuntu-devel posting&lt;/a&gt;.  See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2012-February/005781.html&quot;&gt;Jason's posting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The practical changes are I won't be able to work on KDE bits in my work time after 12.04 and there won't be paid support for versions after 12.04.  This is a rational business decision, Kubuntu has not been a business success after 7 years of trying, and it is unrealistic to expect it to continue to have financial resources put into it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have been trying for the last 7 years to create a distro to show the excellent KDE technology in its best light, and we have a lovely community now built around mostly that vision, but it has not taken over the world commercially and shows no immediate signs of doing so despite awesome successes like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lwn.net/Articles/455972/&quot;&gt;world's largest Linux deployment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first question to answer is whether the world needs Kubuntu - a regularly released community-friendly distro with a strong KDE focus.  There is no other major distro out there that matches that description but others arguably come close.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If it does then we need people to step up and take the initiative in doing the tasks that are often poorly supported by the community process.  ISO testing, for example, is a long, slow, thankless task, and it is hard to get volunteers for it.  We can look at ways of reducing effort from what we do such as scrapping the alternate CD or automating KDE SC packaging.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I expect to do other desktop team tasks in my work time such as Qt.  I can't do much free software work in my spare time for now because of my poor health (slowly recovering I'm pleased to say).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope and expect Kubuntu can continue. I encourage Kubuntu devs to apply to UDS so we can have discussions on how to continue it and keep the dream alive.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jonathan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2012-02-06T23:39:36+00:00</dc:date>
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