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Ubuntu One Music Store, my answers
Since I posted about Canonical’s Music Store project, a few comments rained down from above. I’ll abuse my blog to give some answers. Oh, and you forgot to say “Welcome back, Stefano” ! 
Michael: This would be great, …
Ubuntu One Music Store
For those who don’t know, the Lucid UDS has begun today. One of the most interesting yet controversial meetings is this: the Ubuntu One Music Store. What it will be is currently left to the imagination since …
Skype will get an OpenSource client
So, here’s the news. In a mail response, Skype revealed the intention to open source their Linux client. [...] We are happy about your interest in Skype! We understand that many users complain that there is no Mandriva version at present. We are happy to be able to inform …
LifeHacker’s Ubuntu wishlist
For those who may have not noticed, Lifehacker published a long article with a bunch of things they’d like to see in Ubuntu. While ironically the first wish is already in the works, the other suggestions are down to …
Ubuntu – Mono = Chicken
Jo Shields has been kind enough to provide an Ubuntu (9.04) remix without Mono apps. This is done by simply removing (without replacing in anyway) the offending packages. Chicken Little Remix 9.04, AMD64 edition —————————————- Chicken Little Remix is a modified copy of the Ubuntu “alternate” installer, with all packages relating to Mono removed from [...]
Crying wolves
I am not sure if I should write about this or not. Reading the Ubuntu Planet today I noticed a post about sexism written by Melissa Drapper. Interestingly, she points as a subtle sign of sexism a post by Emgent, where he made her grandma try to crack a wireless network with the last version [...]
Interesting claims
It’s interesting how much misleading Lefty’s last blog post is. After receiving (he claims) interesting mails from Boycott Novell’s folks he suddenly realized that the community is under attack. I’ve come to realize that our community and the people in it, are under attack. We are being disrupted, we are being defamed, we are …
Launchpad opensourcing delayed
The release date of Launchpad has been changed from 21st July to July/August. On https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing, I recently changed the date for when the Launchpad.net code is being open-sourced: it now says just “July / August 2009″, instead of “21 July 2009″. To be honest I had …
Android Live CD
Want to try Android without downloading the SDK or buying a G-1 ? Look no further, download the Live CD ISO (roughly 90mb), fire up your VirtualBox and tell me what you think about it !
