During a thread about daylight savings confusion here in Sydney, Martin Barry asked the SLUG list why updates to Ubuntu packages go into a separate “updates” repository. John Ferlito suggested that I blog my answer…
I’ve never understood the ${ubuntu_release}-updates thing.
A separate repositry for security I understand due to the need to bypass mirror lag.
But anything […]
Somewhat belated celebration of our latest release, but hey, I just wanted to see the release love continue to roll by on all the Planets. Check out Dave’s release linkage for some bricks and whole bunch of bouquets.
Definitely great to see Cheese (of which I am quite the fan) so prominently featured in the […]
“We are moving to a point in the world where more and more law will be expressed in its effective way, not in terms of statutes solidly enacted by the parliament … but in the technology itself: code.” — Australian High Court Judge, Justice Kirby, Tech makes lawmakers impotent, says Judge
Great to hear this understood and so […]
James Maguire at Datamation published an article late last year about the favourite projects of FLOSS industry and community leaders. Uh huh, I’m still catching up with 2007!
With my GNOME Foundation hat on I thought that, rather than taking the easy way out by plugging a bunch of our rocking applications, it might […]
Hearty congratulations to our friends in the KDE community, who shipped KDE 4.0 today!
It’s a hard slog for any software development team to wrangle a major release such as this, but if our experience since shipping GNOME 2.0 is anything to go by, the KDE team’s efforts on this release will pay off handsomely in […]
After quite a bit of work, WP-OpenID is now ready for WPMU! Always wanted your WPMU install to consume OpenID for logins and comments? Now it can!
I am already running this modified version on blogs.gnome.org and perkypants.org (WPMU and WPSO respectively), in order to test the changes in both environments.
To try it out, download the […]
A couple of weeks ago, while chatting with Rob, I mentioned that John gave me an awesome tip that I use all the time: The pget command in lftp, particularly for sftp downloads. That’s right: Not only does lftp provide a sweet interface for sftp, but it can also make multiple connections and download in […]
I have almost kicked enough WordPress MU and WP-OpenID arse to enable global OpenID consumption for logins and comments. That’s mu-plugins style, WPMU lovers — yeah!
Once GNOME bug #446524 is fixed for Blogo, I’ll try to push the changes upstream. OpenID is for everybody, including WPMU admins and users!
Over on Planet Debian, Christian Perrier looked back at the number of Debian bugs submitted over the years.
The variation is not quite large enough to make any serious judgements about the impact of Ubuntu, but the spike in 2004 has a certain whiff of intrigue about it. Perhaps that’s just me.
Of course, I […]
If you haven’t celebrated New Year’s in Sydney, you haven’t celebrated New Year’s… and remember, kids, 2008 is the year of Linux on the des — kidding! Happy new year!
Photo courtesy SMH. Click the image for more.
