A month ago I ordered one of the new Ubuntu Dell on the Dell France website : the Inspiron 6400. The base price was around 450 euros, and I took almost all the upgrades, for a final price of around 750 euros. The specs are : a Intel dual proc, 2Gb of RAM, 160Gb HD, […]
As mentioned before, I recently “discovered” the Ubuntu art team, and all the talents and potential inside. It’s a wonderful place where creativity is unleashed, and new really nice theme ideas are coming up every day on their wiki and ML, on the road to a new default theme.
Unfortunately it seems this potential is far […]
I just got through the Ubuntu art team mailing list, and I should say : Whoah! What traffic! And what nice mockups! I’m really confident we will have an awesome new theme for Heron!
Here one of the best I have seen (from Thomas L.G in this post, http://www.portefolje.net/div/mockup.jpg) :
When packaging, the debhelper (dh_*) tools are both wonderful and awful. Wonderful because they easily handle almost every case, in a very neat way. Awful, because when they don’t work, have a few spare hours ahead!
I’ll share my experience with some private libs, it may be of some help for others. I have a source […]
Yay, I finally did it! The ike package (a VPN client) is up on the Ubuntu hardy Universe repository! Making a debian package for Ubuntu is not as easy as one may think…
I will now explain the process to create one.
First find something to package Easy task, just pick one on this list at […]
When you work full time on a piece of software, you get accustomed to it. You know its UI by heart, you know what and where to look for and that’s the problem! Because you loose track of all these small defects that strike newcomers.
So when you get an extensive GUI overview of Ubuntu by […]
Security in Linux is strong. Because of the Unix security culture, and the constant attention brought to it (latest example is the PolicyKit effort).
But I am still wondering why the grub ability to edit the kernel parameters is activated by default on at least one major distribution (Ubuntu to name it). Just add the “single” […]