Tag Archives: Design

Move over 'sysvinit', 'upstart' is the new kid in town

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-09-02

On a Unix system, ‘init’ is in control. She is your mother, your grandmother and your great-grandmother. Only once in a generation is a new one born; and seeing that happen is history in the making. The GNU/Linux combination at the heart of Kubuntu and Ubuntu has a design heritage stretching back nearly 30 years. […]

T-Shirt design competition

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-08-07

You have Ubuntu, you love Ubuntu and you want to share Ubuntu…. so in response to comments on the Ubuntu forums, Canonical is looking for a new T-Shirt design that will be used at upcoming conferences to promote Ubuntu. Printing can be done on the front and/or back of the shirt and the design should […]

Localisation Team Leader and Sound Designer required

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-07-31

The Ubuntu project has two exciting volunteer opportunities! Localisation/Translation Team Leader If you’re a whizz with Launchpad’s Rosetta translation tool, enjoy making sure things get done and have experience with localisation, get yourself to the next Community Council meeting. If you’re the right person for the role, you’ll be keeping in touch with translation teams […]

Xubuntu's Jani Moses interviewed

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-07-27

Xubuntu core developer Jani Monoses (‘janimo’ on IRC) gets the A-list celebrity treatment and joins Ubuntu’s Walk of Fame over at Behind Ubuntu. Xubuntu is designed for lower-specification or older machines and can install on machines with only 64MB of RAM. It manages this amazing feat by switching out the traditional full-scale KDE and GNOME […]

Teaching Digital Arts With Ubuntu

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-03-23

NewsForge reports a wonderful success story for an Iowa art professor who migrated his students from Mac OS X to Ubuntu for their digital arts course. Way to go! I’m an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the Macintoshes in […]