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Get Your Ubuntu and Kubuntu Stickers

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:34:30 +0000

In honor of the upcoming release of Intrepid Ibex, Bauer Power is returning Ubuntu or Kubuntu stickers to people who mail him a self-addressed stamped envelope. I mailed my request today! He said his mailbox was full. I wonder if he’s been able to fill all of the requests. I’d like to drop a note of thanks to him for this kind of gracious offer. Here’s another example of the fine people in the open-source software community.

Thanks Bauer Power!

Kubuntu LTS Put On Hold for Hardy Heron

admin — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:07:29 +0000

There’s been a great rift with the Canonical Community as of late surrounding Kubuntu. The update from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.0 is such a great shift that Canonical feels they’re unable to commit to Long Term Support for Kubuntu 8.04. Frankly, I don’ blame them. This is a pretty good move for them as far as any business relationships and future investors.

I don’t think it’s a problem. However, you kind of have to wonder how it affects the users who install using Ubuntu 8.04 and then add the kubuntu-desktop package, or will it be disabled?

Others have noted that there’s been a lack of reports from users with their experience regarding Hardy Heron. I noticed the torrent activity was kind of slacking. This is an excellent time for us to step up the testing on this. I suggest testing the .ISO image from a LiveCD and from some sort of virtualization application, such as VMWare or VirtualBox. If you’ve got the resources, it’s definitely appreciated for a full install and all the reports that you get from that experience.

I’ve encountered a few bugs that I’ve reported at Launchpad. Here I found other users reporting the same kind of problems I experienced. I wasn’t able to find the bug reports doing a simple search, instead it found them for me when I attempted to report the bugs, so go ahead and just attempt to report the bug you encounter. If it doesn’t find it for you, someone will catch it in triage. So, to re-iterate. If you haven’t tried it yet, go ahead and take the time. This is one of the easiest ways to contribute to the community.

Join Your Local Ubuntu Community

admin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:28:25 +0000

I’ve spoke before about the importance of the connection found between Ubuntu and Community. There’s no place where this is more obvious than in the local Ubuntu Community Forum Discussions. You’ll find me in my local forum, the Dallas Ubuntu Community web site and forums.

Expect to find friends with common interests that are willing to help and share the experience of supporting open source software.

Most have local meetings that are both entertaining and educational.

Register Your Ubuntu (and Linux)

admin — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:44:24 +0000

Community is a big part of Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s more than just an operating system. It has an enormous group of individuals closely tied. That community continuously grows as more and more people try it and begin using it. It’s interesting to see how the community expands with each installation. To help us see that growth, I encourage every Ubuntu user to register at the Ubuntu Counter themselves and their machines. It also helps us see trends in version usage. While you’re at it, I suggest registering at the Linux Counter.