Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
So on Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day I want to toss a big thanks out to the Michigan Loco. It’s a great bunch of guys and gals that I talk with online every day and have helped keep me sane, taught me new things, and overall have just made this community thing work for me. If [...]
Filed under: Canonical, Ubuntu | 1 Comment
Tags: community, thanks, ubuntu
Now that I’m going to be working for Canonical I’ve got to get ready for some week long sprints. Now, I LOVE my 12″ X201 thinkpad. It’s the best laptop I’ve ever owned, and I’ve owned macs, toshibas, dells, and larger thinkpads. When I’m home, I dock and use dual 21″ displays. When I travel, [...]
Filed under: Ubuntu | 7 Comments
Tags: monitor, thinkpad, usb, xorg
Ubuntu: Help Wanted
So Jono wants to know how we can get more developers interested in Ubuntu. We got talking about it in the #ubuntu-us-mi loco and it sparked an interesting debate. Just who are you looking for? Jono mentions “people interested in getting involved in packaging, fixing bugs, and joining our community”, but that’s not just developers. [...]
Filed under: Python, Ubuntu | 3 Comments
Ok, that’s it. If you’ve been listening to our Lococast.net episodes you’ll know that I thought the whole stackexchange for Ubuntu Q&A was a bad idea. Too many places for users to go and find help/answers seems like it’d be a large negative. In the end the community decided to go ahead with it and [...]
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A quick Lococast.net update. After PyOhio ate up one episode and then my illness ate up another, Craig and I finally got back behind the mics for episode 4. Thanks for everyone that checked in on us and sorry for the delay. Along with that I managed to release something new. A screencast! That’s right, [...]
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Yay, Craig and I managed to get back on the lococast.net podcast train once I got back from my Vacation. It’s still a work in progress as we fight to try to keep our normal extended discussions down to a 30min podcast. This time I wanted to discuss the idea of the desktop os app [...]
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