The following articles below were published during the month of July 2011 (times are based on UTC):
As you know we had a slight mishap yesterday with our host, and while he tries to figure out his stuff, we have decided to jump to another host, unfortuantly though we didn't have a full and complete back up. So we have restored what we do have, and will be working to get the rest of it back, and set up to where we once were, but for now, we have gone into a limited functionality mode, and hope to have a full functioning 2buntu.com back early next week!
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="612" caption="Utter crap, utterly useless, utterly dangerous."][/caption] This post is inspired by the fact that I'm seeing yet another article about Bitcoin (why even pay this any attention?), and I thought it would be nice to add a voice to the issue. The other day someone actually bothered to even ask a question on AskUbuntu about a problem with their system supposedly caused by a Bitcoin generator. The views expressed here are mine, and this is not to be used as some kind of official warning of any kind. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The official Bitcoin client. Official, but still useless."][/caption] In all honesty, Bitcoin is a waste of time, effort, GPU cycles, and human intelligence. Not ...
Recently I had announced the browser wars, but obviously that takes longer than expected, and you must be thinking "what a waste of time". Good news! I will resume shortly, however I will be splitting things into smaller pieces to make it easier. Other than that, I'm also going to be writing some game reviews and recommendations, as well as pointing out some areas in which the Linux community needs to improve greatly. If you aren't a regular 2buntu reader, now is a good time to add us to your RSS reader (if you have one), and it's also a good time to share with your friends and family, etc. [notice] P.S. We are still awaiting feedback on ...
For the first time, a silly complaint holds weight. With the release of GNOME 3, the GNOME Control Centre has become "System Settings", which is the same name as the KDE System Settings. Apparently this causes a conflict in menus, and one of the KDE Developers made a formal complaint at this year's Desktop Summit. At first I was a bit ticked off by the concept of complaining over a name, but after consideration, I can see the problem clearly. If the two use the same name, only one can show up if both Desktop environments are installed. Either that, or you get two entries with the same name, which would be rather confusing. Something has to give, of course. ...
I only just realized exactly where the bombing today was (I didn't catch much in terms of details), and was reminded how fragile life is, as well as how connected we all are as mankind. As a result - I would like to send out condolences on behalf of the entire 2buntu team - to Norway, and all others in the world affected by acts of terror and evil. May God bring justice to all.
Running Ubuntu 11.10? Then you are brave! If you are willing to try KDE 4.7 RC 1, you are even more brave! So how can you do it? Add this ppa: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/experimental Source: here.
Currently we are looking for some good software to package. We have been considering KDE 4.7 and LibreOffice 3.4 - but both of these are rather tedious and cumbersome. So we're looking for your help on what to choose. There is a lot of software out there that works on Ubuntu just fine, but is not packaged. While many people under take the effort to package such software, you can never have enough packagers (it seems). So... what should we package?
Currently our categories are out of hand (my fault) - I'll try to fix that!
I won't say much about this (yet). I share some (though certainly not all) of these grievances with Ubuntu, especially the top-down decisions that ignore users (I will be writing a lot about this very soon). So what did people have to say? Take a look: = Development Processes = (4) review process: - too slow (2) - reviewers should go the extra mile (be more humane) - there should be more peer review (2) developer application docs: - too complicated, - unclear expectations (1) SRU process (1) missing mentoring programme (1) top-down decisions (1) bureaucracy = QA = (3) release cycle: - short release cycle brings in many regressions/bugs often, (2) - changes in LTS cycle too agressive (2) ...
Finally something I have been waiting for, for some time. As a user of Google Music Beta, I hate having to boot into Windows to upload any new music to the service. Well thanks to Google, I don't have to do this any more. Thanks to OMG! Ubuntu!, for the heads up! You can hit the link up for a full write up, and instructions to use the new manager. Or you can jump straight to the download page if you have a Google Music Account!