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Archive for July 2010
My Lucid killed my GnomeShell
Version conflict? Dependencies broken? Or just too much like hard work?Whatever the reason, when I ran a dist-upgrade on the Pentium-4 test box recently, Lucid Lynx 10.04 spontaneously decided of its own accord to remove GnomeShell! Granted it’s not my favourite interface, deeply flawed in the current version, but for Lucid to take it out … Continue reading
Full Circle Podcast #10: Trawling the Internet for a Goat Festival
Full Circle Podcast #10: Trawling the Internet for a Goat Festival In this episode, the editors fight back. This episode we are minus one Dave Wilkins who is away, but plus two guests. Esteemed editor of Full Circle Magazine Mr Ronnie Tucker is our co-host… While Editor-in-Chief of Ubuntu Weekly News Letter is our guest, … Continue reading
Ubuntu In Business Event
Ubuntu In Business, Tuesday, July 13, 2010The Brickhouse, Brick Lane, London The Ubuntu UK community and Canonical held an event yesterday to promote the uptake of… Ubuntu in business! Featuring all kinds of Ubuntu advocacy from indpendent software vendors, the UK Community and Canonical itself, we saw some eye-opening presentations, great chat, re-unions, the best … Continue reading
Flood of Media Players
Nothing less than a flood of media players have come to my attention in the last two weeks. In varying states of maturity, each has a new release getting attention. MiniTunes XNoise Gejengel Qmmp What’s the collective noun for a mixed bag of players? A cacophony of media players…?
Man in an Ubuntu T-Shirt
Last month in my local coffee shop (Caffe Nerd), I picked up my de-caff cappuccino (no comments about my metro-sexuality, please; they don’t know what that is in my corner of Hampshire) and headed for a window seat. The man walking up to the counter sported an Ubuntu t-shirt and hat. It was a complete … Continue reading
Ubuntu Developer Week: 12th-16th July 2010
Happy to help to spread the news, Ubuntu developer Week is back this month. In the organiser’s own words: “Ubuntu Developer Week is back again, which means five days of action-packed IRC sessions where you learn more about hacking on Ubuntu, developing Ubuntu and how to interact with other projects. We’ll have a fantastic time … Continue reading
Ubuntu User Days Saturday July 10th, Sunday July 11th 2010
If you’re new to Ubuntu, or want to help friends and family that you’ve converted to Ubuntu, there’s an ideal learning opportunity this month: Ubuntu User Days! Next User DaysSaturday July 10th 2010, 09:45 UTC – Sunday July 11th 2010, 03:00 UTC About Ubuntu User Days “User Days was created to be a set of … Continue reading
Full Circle Podcast #9: Playing a Unicycle and the Trombone out now
Full Circle Podcast #9: Playing a Unicycle and the Trombone available now from the Full Circle Magazine Site. MP3 audio Podcast [80:18m] | Download OGG audio podcast [80:18m] | Download In this episode, a little later than scheduled; Unity, Gnome-Shell and UNE go head to head. News: Ubuntu in Business Event, More Maverick Development, Aptitude … Continue reading
Review: Shotwell Photo Management
“Shotwell is a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others.” Shotwell is going to be the default photo-management program in Ubuntu 10.10. It is … Continue reading
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