The packaging presentation this morning really got me excited about getting involved in that area of Ubuntu so I put a few things together in order to try and keep me on this road.
I took a lot of notes and have a lot of links for reference and study.
I’m putting together a schedule to [...]
I just finished attending the Ubuntu OpenWeek Session: Packaging 101, presented by dholbach, King of the MOTU! . It was a great presentation and I learned quite a bit. I have studied packaging before and I always ran into issues. I think his presentation made things very clear and he was great in [...]
I’ve blogged in the past about setting up extended display on the MacBook (second gen), but I thought I’d update the post for Ubuntu 8.04. I notice there are some small differences, which are likely caused by the updates to Xorg. I’ll post my steps and my xorg.conf file below.
Extended Display on the MacBook
First, I [...]
I hope by now you’ve heard some of the noise regarding Ubuntu OpenWeek which begins tomorrow, 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom. We’re going to have some really cool, really interesting presentations this time around! I’m trying to figure out when I’ll have time for work there are so many presentations that I want to attend!
I also [...]
I just finished the upgrade on this server from Ubuntu 7.10 ‘Gutsy’ to Ubuntu 8.40 ‘Hardy’ and all I have to say is Ubuntu 8.04 Rocks My Socks! Here is a bit how things played out…
I spent a bit of time backing things up and preparing for the upgrade (you know, just in case). I [...]
This is the last of my servers / desktops / laptops that is not yet running Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy”. In my testing on non-production machines and semi-production machines the upgrades have worked absolutely perfectly. I wanted to post an announcement / warning that I would be upgrading this server to Ubuntu 8.04 at some point [...]
Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is released! Definitely cause for celebration with many, many new features and improvements! I figure a hot search item for the next little bit will be regarding how to upgrade. I thought I’d share a collection of links that will hopefully cover enough of the bases to cover everyone. Remember, the [...]
This post is dedicated to the conversation I had earlier today with cjwatson…
This evening I went out to dinner with _MMA_ from the Ubuntu Studio crew. One nice thing about my traveling job is that I get to meet Ubuntu community members from around the country. I generally like to take them out to dinner [...]
With Ubuntu 8.04 being the second LTS (Long Term Support) release it is also possible to upgrade from LTS to LTS releases. This means upgrading Ubuntu 6.06 to Ubuntu 8.04. I have tested this in a previous post, “Dapper 6.06 to Hardy 8.04 Direct Server Upgrade“, which you might also be interested in (that post [...]
Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is now almost final and I want to congratulate the entire team and community for a great accomplishment! This is another fine release and I feel proud to be part of this community.
For those that now want to upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” to Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” you can [...]
