The sabdfl FAQ

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-04

The sabdfl updated his wiki home page to include a lengthy FAQ about his intentions with Ubuntu and some of the controversial or interesting issues about the project. Notable topics include why he’s doing this in the first place, Ubuntu’s relationship with Debian, whether there will ever be a “for-pay only” version produced by Canonical, and why Ubuntu is brown. All the important questions covered! The FAQ has already received positive coverage and responses on Slashdot and other news sites.

Interview with Jeff Waugh

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-01

In an interview for the Linux Australia Update podcast, Jeff Waugh talks to James Purser about how he got into Free Software, GNOME release management, Mark Shuttleworth’s clear vision and fierce focus, Ubuntu’s relationship with Debian, the structure of the project, the awesome MOTU team, and Ubuntu’s unique recipe for taking software freedom to the world.

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Edubuntu Meeting Report

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-09-29

Here are the meeting notes from this week’s Edubuntu meeting held on September 28th:

  • Mauricio Hernandez has volunteered to get a design for Edubuntu 5.10 CDs sorted out. Idea is to use children in a ring image and logo etc. We need a CD label and a CD sleeve/cover. Note that as we have no LiveCD we will just have a single installer CD. Only Intel x86 CDs will be created for now.
  • Oliver Grawert is working on the high priority xscreensaver changes for Mark Shuttleworth, these should be completed by the end of the week.
  • Oliver Grawert will work on the remaining n3 Edubuntu issues after XSS, to be completed before October 13 for the release.
  • Jonathan Carter is working on the html pages, will have first draft ready by the end of this week.
  • Jerome Gotangco has worked on docs: About Edubuntu and Release Notes

Creation of the Desktop Team

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-09-27

Daniel Holbach announced today the creation of the Desktop Team with this message:

Hi everybody,

Nearly half a year we began the work on Breezy Badger and we wanted to create the breeziest, coolest Desktop environment there is. The release is very highly anticipated, people loved the preview and we will succeed: we’ll meet the goals of

  • user-friendlyness
  • out-of-the-box workabilty
  • flash factor
  • and many surprising things more.

However, Breezy needs your help. We need to polish and fix up the last bits to give our users the Ubuntu Linux experience they deserve.

Therefore we announce the “Desktop Team” – we will be the guys that are the first contact for new users, we will create, beautify and organise the most-visible parts of Ubuntu. If you always had a strong liking for GNOME, for how desktop things are done or you are in touch with the GNOME world, we desperately need you.

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Unscheduled Server Outage

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-09-26

Some Ubuntu servers were offline for at least 6 1/2 hours on Sunday September 25th. This included both archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com, two servers used by many Ubuntites when doing package upgrades. The cause of the outage is still unknown. According to IRC logs obtained by The Fridge, the first reports of a problem started appearing on IRC at 5:26 UTC. The servers were back online shortly before 11:48 UTC. The outage generated a lot of questions on the IRC channel #ubuntu during that period, and the two main workarounds suggested to users were to use ftp instead of http in their apt sources.list, and to use official mirrors.