This blog entry represents the views of me, myself and I, and does not represent the views of my employer (Canonical) or System 76. While I have decided to write a review of this specific machine, there are many vendors out there who ship Ubuntu on their machines and this review does not favor System76 [...]

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…that this part of my desktop could feel so sleek: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, we are ready for you.

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Today is International Women’s Day, and it provides an opportunity for the world to focus on women’s rights, and society’s attitudes towards women. International Women’s Day has been celebrated since the early 1900’s and has been a key milestone through many key events that have affected women’s rights and is now recognized as a national [...]

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At 10am PSt / 1pm EST / 8pm UTC/GMT on Monday I will be doing another live videocast, and this one is a really special one. That day, March 8th, is International Women’s Day and the Ubuntu Women team have been running a competition to gather a wonderful collection of stories about how women discovered [...]

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As many of you will be aware, this week Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week took part, and the week has been wonderful so far. There has been so much excitement and interest, and I have been tickled pink at just how many people have been telling me that the week has re-invigorated their interest or given [...]

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A user called Eric left a comment on my Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week and Python Snippets Day blog entry which I felt really needs highlighting: Thank you and the entire Canonical team for putting the Opportunistic Developer Week together! I?ve been stuck doing heavy, back end enterprise Java programming for the [...]

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Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week day 4 kicks off and we have some incredible events today: 5pm UTC – Hot rodding your app for translations support – David Planella 6pm UTC – Learning through examples with Acire and Python-Snippets – Jono Bacon 7pm UTC – Write Beautiful Code (and Maintain it Beautifully) – rockstar 8pm UTC – Speed your development [...]

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Ubuntu has seen a tremendous amount of growth and change since it was conceived in 2004. Back then it was a small project with strong ambitions and a handful of developers passionate about delivering a world class Linux Operating System that can compete on every level with Microsoft and Apple. We adopted a style based [...]

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Just a quick note to let you all know that Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week day 3 kicks off in an hour! Here is the order of events for today: 5pm UTC – Creating stunning interfaces with Cairo – Laszlo Pandy 6pm UTC – What’s new in Quickly 0.4 – Didier Roche 7pm UTC – Create games with PyGame – [...]

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I am tickled pink to announce the details of the next Ubuntu Developer Summit taking place at Dolce La Hulpe Hotel and Resort in Brussels, Belgium from the 10 – 14 May 2010. The Ubuntu Developer Summit one of the most important events in the Ubuntu calendar and at it we discuss, debate and design the [...]

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Just a quick note to let you all know that Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week day 2 kicks off in an hour! Here is the order of events for today: 4pm UTC – Gooey Graphics with GooCanvas – Rick Spencer 5pm UTC – Writing a Rhythmbox plug-in – Stuart Langridge 6pm UTC – Microblog from your app with the Gwibber [...]

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Just a quick note to let you all know that Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week kicks off in an hour! Here is the order of events for today: 4pm UTC – Welcome! Ubuntu For Opportunistic Developers – Jono Bacon 5pm UTC – CouchDB support in your app with DesktopCouch – Stuart Langridge 6pm UTC – Creating an application from scratch [...]

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Well, folks, this week Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week kicks off with a fantastic week jammed with great sessions helping to bridge the gap for opportunistic developers who want to write fun, useful applications using Ubuntu as a platform. We have a wonderful week of sessions ahead and as ever, it is recommended that you enjoy [...]

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With the new release of Acire just out I wanted to tell you folks a fun little story of an added benefit to Acire that I never envisaged when I came up with the idea for the app. Yesterday I got an email from someone (I will keep the identify private) saying: I’m trying to [...]

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Everyone’s favorite tool to browse Python snippets, run them, learn from them and incorporate them into your programs has been released! This new release has the following new features: Translated – Acire has now got support for multiple languages, but this is very new so it needs your translations! Want to help make Acire rocking in [...]

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