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UDS-P Architecture Preview
Today we kick off the week-long Ubuntu Developer Summit, focused on the upcoming 12.04 release, “Precise Pangolin”, shaping the plans for the next 6 months, and breaking the goals into a manageable...
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Mythbusters – UEFI and Linux
A recent blog post about a user who was having trouble installing Ubuntu on an HP machine, sparked off an urban legend that UEFI secure boot is blocking installs of Linux. To calm FUD with facts: the...
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Quixperiment: Ubuntu and iPod
I have an old iPod that I occasionally use on car trips, but haven’t really modified in years (it mostly sits on a shelf). This morning I decided to play around a bit with hooking it up with my main...
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Mythbusters – UEFI and Linux (Part 2)
Following up on my earlier post on UEFI and Linux, I got access to an identical system to the one with the original problem (an HP S5-1110) this week to do some install testing with various scenarios:...
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Appreciation for Kees Cook
Today is Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day, a new tradition in the Ubuntu community started by Ahmed Shams El-Deen of the Ubuntu Egypt LoCo. I’d like to take this opportunity to show appreciation for...
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Free Software for Task Management
I am perpetually trying out online task management tools. My never-ending quest is to tame the massive sea of things I should be doing at any given moment, both making sure that important tasks don’t...
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Tody Task Manager
Failing to find any free software task manager I could live with, I created my own over the December holidays. I called it “Tody”. It’s a simple GUI app, focused on quick searching, editing, and...
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Open Source Enlightenment
(My thanks to Audrey Tang for this lyrical transcript of my talk at OSDC.tw, to Macpaul Lin for the video, and to Chia-liang Kao for proofreading the Chinese translations in my slides.) Over the years,...
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UDS-Q Architecture Preview
This week in Oakland is the Ubuntu Developer Summit, a time for Ubuntu Developers from around the world to gather and plan the next release, version 12.10 codenamed “Quantal Quetzal”. I’ve shuffled and...
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UDS-R Architecture Preview
The 13.04 “Raring Ringtail” release of Ubuntu falls at the mid-point between the 12.04 and 14.04 LTS (long-term support) releases. This is the time in a development cycle when the balance starts to tip...
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Mythbusters – Why I (still) Love Perl
At the very beginning, I should probably make it clear that this post is not a declaration of exclusivity in my relationship to Perl. I love programming languages. I first learned to program about the...
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Relativity, skepticism, and virtual worlds
Yesterday on Twitter I posted: Has anyone applied Einstein’s theory of relativity to radical skepticism? i.e. spaces of reference in knowledge relative to each other. Twitter is great for tossing out a...
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Engaging hidden influencers as active participants
Shared Intro: After the summit (#afterstack), a few of us compared notes and found a common theme in an underserved but critical part of the OpenStack community. Sean Roberts, Allison Randal, and Rob...
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The Future of Open Source
William Gibson has a concept of the future in relation to science-fiction, which he’s mentioned on many occasions in slightly different forms. My favorite source is the earliest one I can find, which...
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What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. — T.S. Elliot, “Little Gidding” Serving as president of the Open Source...
View ArticleCapabilities for Open Source Innovation: Background
Over the past decade, I’ve been researching open source and technology innovation, partly through employment at multiple different companies who engage in open source, and partly through academic work...
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