Yesterday I went to see what’s probably been the biggest music event of this decade in South Africa so far. The line-up included Fokofpolisiekar, The Rasmus, Seether, Fatboy Slim, Collective Soul and Metallica. It was rocking.
We got there a bit early to avoid traffic, only to stand in a two hour queue for the venue […]
Jane Weideman, who baked the first Ubuntu distro cake, has now also pioneered the first Ubuntu soup:
Achieving this only a single day after Jeff Waugh posted the soup question on the Ubuntu Fridge. Sources have revealed leaked information about a top-secret Ubuntu layered cocktail that is under development. Another Ubuntero, which looked suspiciously under the […]
Edubuntu was the first Ubuntu distro to have a cake (thanks to Jane Weideman) in October 2005:
Recently, the other Ubuntu distributions followed suite:
Ubuntu cake:
An attempt from the Germans (aka the Cookiegate scandal):
Kubuntu cake:
The Edubuntu cake is the biggest so far, while the Kubuntu cake is at least 40% more blue than the other cakes. The […]
I love being part of the Ubuntu community. It’s so incredibly vibrant, and full of energy. Right at this moment, I’m in a meeting on the #ubuntu-meeting IRC channel, where 329 people have already joined for the discussions about the delay in the next release of Ubuntu.
I think it’s amazing that the Ubuntu Technical Board […]
Recently, I discovered that Mark Shuttleworth created a Nexenta team on Launchpad. I didn’t immediately think anything about it, then this morning I discovered Nexenta on the Launchpad distributons page. Nexenta is a GNU distribution with the OpenSolaris kernel, currently based on the Debian system. Are they (Nexenta) planning to move over to Ubuntu for […]
Last week marked a full two years of working full-time at the Shuttleworth Foundation. It’s certainly been both exciting and eventful. It feels like yesterday I got to my desk and unpacked the first Thinkpad!