Author Archives: boredandblogging

Weekly News: Issue #48

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-16

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #48 for the week July 8th – July 14th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover the imminent release of the next Gutsy Gibbon alpha release, Tribe 3. Mark Shuttleworth also brings us some some fresh open alternatives with Gobuntu and a proposal for a pure […]

Weekly News: Issue #47

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-09

Issue #47 for the week June 24th – July 7th, 2007 is now available. This issue features two weeks of news packed into one great issue. Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has passed the second alpha release, and is starting to look like we’re going to have another amazing release. We have quiet some new members and […]

Edubuntu in the news!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-05

Edubuntu at Technology In Education Conference The Colorado Local Community Team manned a Canonical/Ubuntu booth at the Technology in Education Conference in Copper Mountain. The general consensus was that the Ubuntu session turned out to be “the cool session” amongst all of the conference attendees for that day, nearly one thousand classroom teachers, administrators and […]

French community growing!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-05

We received some exciting news from the French speaking Ubuntu community today. Our forum reached its 1 000 000th post today! This is incredible news, which we would never have expected when we started the Ubuntu-fr locoteam 2 1/2 years ago. The French speaking community is growing, more and more people are getting involved every […]

Kubuntu at Akademy 2007

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-04

Akademy 2007, the KDE World Summit, is happening now in Glasgow. The week long event is being sponsored by Kubuntu thanks to Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth gave one of the keynote speeches talking about challenges to the free software desktop and provoked a debate among KDE developers by suggesting they adopt a fixed release schedule. Kubuntu […]