Author Archives: boredandblogging

Getting ready for the Lynx's release parties

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-28

The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release is almost there and we’re getting ready to celebrate the awesomeness of this new shiny version and the great work of everyone involved in making it possible. All over the world, from Maracaibo to Beijing, people are ultimating the details of their Lucid release parties to mark this new milestone […]

Regional Membership Boards need YOU

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-27

We are going to extend the nomination period for the Regional Membership Boards Asia/Oceania and EMEA until Friday 30th April 12:00 UTC. (The Americas Board is all set in terms of nominations.) On 2010-05-05 the terms of the following members of the Regional Membership Boards will end: Asia/Oceania: Andi Darmawan, Emmet Hikory, Luke Yelavich, Melissa […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #190

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-26

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #190 for the week April 18th – April 24th, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: * Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS * Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks * Ubuntu Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source * Mark Shuttleworth […]

Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-22

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server Editions and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s EC2, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition. Codenamed "Lucid Lynx", 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest […]

Ubuntu / Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-21

Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager) announced on his blog:- Some time back we made Launchpad available as Open Source, and we have gone on to see a wonderful and thriving Launchpad development community flourish there. One component in particular that was not made available as Open Source, was the Canonical Identity Provider which is used […]