Heavy Metal for Human Beings

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-14
September 2004:
Ubuntu 4.10 Preview launched to rave reviews. By all accounts, it was a smashing desktop… But deep underneath lay the foundations of a server powerhouse, waiting to be unleashed.
April 2005:
Ubuntu 5.04 ships with an minimal server profile option on the installation CD. A growing number of server administrators are realising the unique combination of benefits provided by the Ubuntu commitment and community – 6 month release cycles, 18 month support cycles, timely and reliable security updates, a rock solid server platform and mountains of systems administration experience in the Ubuntu and Debian communities.
October 2005:
Ubuntu 5.10 ships with a dedicated server installation CD, containing the minimal default server profile, and a ready-to-go selection of the popular Open Source server applications supported by the Ubuntu team. Already popular for edge services such as web, mail, database and firewalls, Ubuntu picks up interest in the High Performance Computing community. IBM’s DB2 is certified on Ubuntu, signifying its entry into the enterprise database platform market.
December 2005:
The Ubuntu Server Team is established to pursue short term, high impact goals for the Ubuntu 6.04 release, such as server hardware testing and kernel quality assurance. Plans are laid for future developments in “Just Works” server setup and operation.

Join the Ubuntu Server Team today, and bring the spirit of Ubuntu to the server world!

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Flight CD 2 Released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-14

Flight CD 2 is ready. This is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Dapper development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Dapper. You can download it from the following locations. Please use bittorrent!

A list of notable changes in this release across the whole distribution is available, thanks to Matt Galvin. For more information, see the complete announcement.

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MOTU School Lecture Coming Up

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-08

Just a friendly reminder that the first live MOTU School series will be taking place the 10th of December at 1770 UTC on #ubuntu-motu-school on irc.freenode.net. Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch) will be chairing the session “Packaging without debhelper and/or CDBS”. Andrew is a Debian Developer and MOTU, and will be focusing on the raw guts of the Debian packaging toolchain. The intent is to give participants a deeper understanding of packaging techniques to further educate the pool of budding Ubuntu developers.

We've got the event up on the calendar, so check it out if you are interested in brushing up those debian/rules skills. For a better understanding of what MOTU School is about, make sure you read up Stephan Hermann's goals for the project.

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CC and Accessibility Team Meeting Summaries

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-08

Dennis Kaarsemaker once again brings us the latest summary of the Community Council meetings, this one is for the 6th of December. Community volunteers who sign the Code of Conduct are now officially referred to as “Ubunteros” instead of “Ubuntites”. The Council also approved new members Mauricio Hernandez, Jordan Mantha, Chris Peterman, Kevin Cole, and Steve Kowalik.

The Accessibility Team has conducted its second meeting, Daniel Holbach has posted minutes of that meeting.

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Macedonia Deployment Follow Up

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-03

In October we reported on the 5,000 desktop deployment of Ubuntu in Macedonia. The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has an interview with Darko Arso, Technology Integration Manager at the Education Development Center, on why they chose GNOME running on Ubuntu.

While you’re there you might want to check out the Journal’s extensive review of GnomeMeeting, as well as the developer-oriented Writing a Widget Using Cairo and GTK+2.8.

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