Fabio Massimo Di Nitto Interviewed

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-04

Here’s a great interview with Fabio Massimo Di Nitto, leader of the Ubuntu Server team. When Fabio’s not cooking up a hearty spaghetti bolognese – with sauce in the shape of the Ubuntu logo! – he’s ploughing fixes and love into Ubuntu, and making it rock for server administrators world-wide. (Please note that the interview was conducted in Italian and translated to English.)

After the first release of the Ubuntu Server CD with breezy, we had a strong demand for extending the scope of the project and we decided to concentrate on the quality of the server-specific packages and on adding features that we think can be more useful for an administrator.

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Documentation News for January

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-02

Following the success of the desktop team’s newsletter, the Documentation Team has begun running their own newsletter, bringing you the latest docs from the land of the wiki. Work has already begun on the Desktop and Server Guides for the next release.

Also be sure to check out the “New Hotness” section, which highlights just some of the awesome work going into user documentation. The MultimediaApplications is particularly good! Archives of the newsletter will be kept here.

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Post-Holiday Catch Up

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-02

We hope everyone had a safe and prosperous holidays. Now that we’re all done stuffing ourselves from our real fridges, it’s time to catch up on what’s been going on in Ubuntu land.

  • Ben Collins is looking for AMD64 volunteers to help test the new SMP/Uniprocessor kernels.
  • Daniel Holbach has posted the latest Desktop Team minutes.
  • Alain Perry was wondering if there was a list of “Love Tasks” that volunteers could contribute for desktop specific tasks. Sebastien Bacher was happy to provide a nice TODO list of desktop work. Also, don’t be afraid to stop by #ubuntu-desktop on freenode.
  • Linux Journal has a thorough review of Jeff Waugh’s BadgerBadgerBadgerTour appearance in Toronto, Canada. (Lots of good Ubuntu stuff here).
  • Corey Burger pointed out that the wiki could use some help, check out their TODO page for some low hanging fruit.
  • Erast Benson from the Nexenta (an Ubuntu derivate using the OpenSolaris kernel) team has posted a small update on their progress porting the GNOME System Tools to their system.
  • Dennis Kaarsemaker keeps us updated with the latest Community Council minutes. This week saw Lucas Nussbaum and Irvin Piraman join the Ubuntu Team. Welcome!

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Asia Business Tour Ready to Roll

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-17

This past fall Jeff Waugh toured around North American and Europe in a grueling Badger Badger Badger Tour, bringing the spirit of Ubuntu to any LUG and LocoTeam willing to listen. The sabdfl has just announced his intent to expand the Ubuntu touring concept by visiting Asia and the surrounding area with the Asia Business Tour. Mark plans to lead a team of Ubuntu advocates spanning (so far) 17 major cities across 12 countries.

In each location listed below we plan to host a business breakfast/lunch with local companies, and then hold in-depth meetings with selected companies, as time allows. We would like to reach out to our local community in each location to help us build relationships with various entities, including government, technology companies, universities, and anyone who you can think would benefit from Ubuntu and what it has to offer.

The tour will take place during January and February of 2006, so heads up to all Ubunteros in Asia.

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UDN – Issue #1

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-16

Vincent Untz, perennial GNOME hacker and a member of the Desktop Team has published the first issue of the Ubuntu Desktop News (UDN). Highlights include gconf and rhythmbox improvements, Michael Vogt’s slick new click-and-install .deb tool, gdebi, and shots of the new logout window prototype.

Vincent caps off the first issue an interview with the GNOME packaging machine, aka Sebastien Bacher, who handles a large part of bringing desktop goodness into the distribution:

Some people call me “sebuild”, I’m kind of a “serial updater” :). Joke aside my main job is to update GNOME packages every time upstream roll a new tarball and to handle bugs we get about the GNOME packages (most of the desktop stuff).

In related Desktop Team news, the minutes from the first desktop meeting are up in case you missed them. If you’re interested in helping out the desktop folks, then Bug Day is a good day to start.

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