Last week Mark Shuttleworth announced the next release name, Oneiric Ocelot. My first thought? How do you pronounce “oneiric”? My second thought? Thank goodness it’s an ocelot, I can find a stuffed animal ocelot! It’s on order now. I’ve been supplementing Ubuntu booth displays with the release animals since Karmic when I discovered that I […]
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SCaLE9x
March 9th, 2011 by pleia2
On the evening of Thursday February 24th, suitcases in hand, MJ and I headed down to the San Francisco airport for a quick flight down to Los Angeles for the Southern California Linux Expo. We arrived at LAX just after midnight and were checked into our hotel room by 1AM. I went right to sleep […]
wiki.ubuntu.com Upgrade Update
March 9th, 2011 by pleia2
Dozens of teams use wiki.ubuntu.com daily for their projects, and if you’re one of those projects you’ve no doubt encountered slowness and errors when saving pages with increasing frequency these past few months. Well, there is good news! There is a team working on it and they are making progress. Charlie Schluting of Canonical has […]
Thinking About Ubuntu Developer Summit Attendance and Sponsorship?
February 23rd, 2011 by pleia2
I have to admit, when I attended my first UDS (for Lucid in November 2009) I wasn’t sure what to expect session and format-wise. How would sessions be organized? What sessions should I expect to attend? Would there be talks or are there strictly work sessions? I had a keen interest in Debian and Ubuntu […]
Ubucon at SCaLE9x in Los Angeles
February 20th, 2011 by pleia2
Can an Ubucon be put together in 2 weeks? The intrepid Nathan Haines thought so and has succeeded in bringing together 6 speakers from across the Ubuntu community, plus himself for a Q&A session, to participate. Ubucon at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) will be taking place this Friday, February 25th. I’ll be doing […]
Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) Released!
February 5th, 2011 by pleia2
Today Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) was released! Congratulations Debian! EDIT: Release announcement here
“Nothing but the web”? The Cr-48.
February 3rd, 2011 by pleia2
Today I went downstairs to pick up an Amazon package which had arrived, and to my surprise there were two packages waiting for me. The second package, to my shock and delight, turned out to be a Cr-48 from the Cr-48 Pilot Program for Google’s ChromeOS. Now before you ask, no, I’m not installing Ubuntu […]
Linux devices
January 23rd, 2011 by pleia2
Linux Journal has a “New Products” section of their magazine which frequently features (among other things like books and software) new devices that are running the Linux kernel. It’d be interesting to know if their job has gotten easier over the past couple years regarding devices. In addition to my traditional PCs running Linux, the […]
CLS West 2011
January 22nd, 2011 by pleia2
If someone had told me 5 years that I’d be attending a “Community Leadership Summit” I probably would have laughed. As far as community leaders go I was a pretty reluctant one, I’m shy and an introvert, certainly not the poster child for charisma. I make my living as a Linux Sysadmin, not strictly a […]
Linux kernel on my TV and Nook, earthquake, Caligula and Ubuntu-Debian meetup
January 18th, 2011 by pleia2
It’s hard to believe January is over half over already, it feels like just yesterday that MJ and I were walking home from the NYE fireworks! Work has been busy, but I’ve learned a lot in the past couple weeks about debugging problems with multihoming in Linux and how the packets move around with IPSec. […]