Author Archives: boredandblogging

Weekly News #21 and 22 Double Feature

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-11-22

We have a double dose of news for you today, the older Ubuntu Weekly News #21, published last week on the 11th and the newer #22, hot off the press. First, lets take a look at Issue 21. This was a jumbo issue, covering the past two weeks, including: Ubuntu Developer Summit Mountain View gNewSense […]

Charity Auction of signed Ubuntu T-Shirt

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-11-20

The Ubuntu-UK team are holding a charity auction in aid of Children in Need. This is an annual charity drive in aid of disadvantaged children around the world. The item being auctioned is a Ubuntu t-shirt signed by Mark Shuttleworth, various Canonical staff and members of the Ubuntu-UK team. The auction is being held on […]

Holy Fork Ubuntu Man

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-11-10

Our very own Mark Shuttleworth posed in front of a Google tree during a recent interview with the chaps over at The Register. Mark answered questions covering everything from Oracle, Red Hat, and Novell to um, Microsoft? The interview is fun, to the point and very entertaining. It is cool to see Ubuntu's top dog, […]

Developer Summit – you can contribute!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-11-05

The Ubuntu Developer Summit has just kicked off in Mountain View, and the discussions about Feisty are rolling on. The entire core Ubuntu team are there, and a number of upstream projects and developers such as Telepathy, GStreamer, Pulseaudio, KDE, GNOME, OLPC, Maemo, Compiz/Beryl and more are in attendance. If you are not physically at […]

Launchpad in October: Bazaar and Mirror additions

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-11-05

Christian Robottom Reis, who heads up the Launchpad team has been busy over the weekend and prepared the Launchpad report for the start of October. Launchpad is the central focal point for many K/Ubuntu activities, providing the bug tracking system known as Malone, a complete specification management system and the Rosetta web-based translation interface. Many […]