Author Archives: boredandblogging

Taking Kubuntu to the Akademy at Dublin University

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-09-20

Join the KDE Akademy Konference Over at Dot.KDE the KDE developers have been getting excited and prepared for their annual Akademy Konference (yes, in Germany ‘Konference’ really is spelt with a ‘K’!). The final schedule is now up and if you’re wondering how to get there, it’s in Dublin at Trinity College. Dublin is of […]

Soyuz, think you're a road warrior like sabdfl?

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-09-16

Over at Linux World there’s a piece from Mark Shuttleworth about how he stays connected whilst traveling. We learn how he manages to work on Ubuntu … almost anywhere. Mark Shuttleworth: Laptop warrior It’s revealed that Mark Shuttleworth uses Mozilla Thunderbird as his normal email client and for answering email off-line. Thunderbird is an email […]

dholbach – Ubuntu developer – interviewed

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-09-14

Daniel Holbach (aka dholbach), one of the lead developers working in the Ubuntu Desktop team, has been speaking to BehindUbuntu. Now, when you meet Daniel at conferences, you can compete with other people to see who knows most about him. I’ve got my own notes here, written on my arm: Has dog, called Murphy Likes […]

Software Freedom Day this Saturday!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-09-14

Two important events take place each September: Talk Like a Pirate Day Software Freedom Day. Every day deserves a little “Yaaarrrr!”, as far as we're concerned, so we turn our attention to Software Freedom Day, instead. The Software Freedom Day website explains it best: Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open […]

Upstream Hug Day – September 13, 2006

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-09-12

Ubunteros squash those bugs Most of the software contained in K/Ubuntu started life in other projects. We call these original projects “Upstream projects”, because of the similarity to a river starting off in the mountains “upstream” and flowing downwards, gaining momentum as the water spreads out to the distributions, of which Ubuntu is one. Simon […]