Tag Archives: Events

Software Freedom Day this Saturday!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-09-14

Two important events take place each September: Talk Like a Pirate Day Software Freedom Day. Every day deserves a little “Yaaarrrr!”, as far as we're concerned, so we turn our attention to Software Freedom Day, instead. The Software Freedom Day website explains it best: Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open […]

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. […]

Future Ubunteros swamp expo booth!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-08-17

Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier over at Newsforge has been covering the current events at LinuxWorld San Francisco during this week. Today they ran an article that doesn’t surprise me one bit: Many of the .Org booths, the Ubuntu booth in particular, seem to be swamped, while others have only a few attendees dropping by at a […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter: Issue #1

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-06-05

The Ubuntu Documentation Team have kicked off an awesome new project — the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter! Welcome to the first issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. Each week we will bring you news from in and around the Ubuntu community related to anything and everything about Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu. We hope you will […]