Author Archives: boredandblogging

Free Ubuntu laptops for French students

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-18

Five thousand French students now have laptops running Ubuntu, thanks to a local government initiative. The Centre Region’s local authority has distributed the computers to second-year university students in and around the famous Loire Valley. Each laptop dual-boots Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.06, with the intention of giving students a painless introduction to free software. […]

Squash a bug today!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-18

Simon Law writes to say: I have the pleasure of once again announcing Hug Day. We’re in the final weeks before Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft’s release, and we’d love to have your help polishing it up. This Wednesday, 18 October 2006, please join us in the #ubuntu-bugs IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. And learn how you […]

Weekly News #17

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-13

Corey and the gang are back with another round-up of everything that’s been happening in the shared worlds of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu and all that jazz. In Ubuntu Weekly News #17, we have: The winner of the UbuntuVideo.com contest has been announced. Daniel Holbach has kicked off a new Bluetooth team. Ubuntu’s been getting […]

Behind Ubuntu: Matt Zimmerman: 'Technologist'

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-13

Top dog ‘mdz’ joins the walk of fame Kenny Duffus sent us word that Behind Ubuntu have a shiny interview with Matt Zimmerman (aka mdz), Ubuntu’s Chief Technologist Officer (CTO). Matt was one of the early people to come on board to the Ubuntu project having been recruited from his involved work with Debian, particularly […]

Weekly News #16: Akademy, latest changes in Edgy

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-13

The Ubuntu Weekly News #16 is out, containing a round up of events during the last week of September. Covered topics are: Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Beta Release Akademy 2006 Poster Competition Results Universe Version Freeze Changes in Edgy Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Ichthux Launchpad News Feature Of The Week – Bip For Kubuntu, the big event in the […]