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A new roadmap for the App Center
This is a follow up to the previous post about the App Center. As noted in a previous post (that one too long to be read), the …
Ubuntu censoring rap
Wow, I love rap. I don’t believe that Ubuntu is censoring Mono Opposition. I don’t believe Mono haters infringed the CoC, not in most cases, at least. I do believe Mono opposers sometimes get utterly annoying. I believe also moderators are not careful enough and …
Code Talks
Some days ago I stumbled on an old post of Matthew Paul Thomas, Canonical employee: Why Free Software has poor usability. Disagreeing on about everything written in there, I decided to pull out a long reply to each one of the points made. Of course, that’s not really a direct response to him, but more [...]
Landing on Identi.ca
Just a quick notice for everyone interested. I opened an account on identi.ca, and I’m actually looking forward to use it. So, see you there !
Karmic Koala new design postponed ?
To Canonical: what’s so wrong with the design thing ? Several people around the net are increasingly disappointed by the UI redesign (originally meant for Hardy if I recall correctly) getting postponed from cycle to cycle, from year to year. [I apologize on lack of time to cite sources here] Don’t be so …
This is getting messy
Shuttleworth’s last post expressed a nice intent: coordinating (almost) releases and sharing work. The issue to be tackled here is the traditional fragmentation which constitutes both the force (being more creative and less erhm.. controllable by some people 
and the weakness of Linux distributions development. As it’s usual for Mark’s posts, the article is [...]
Pasquetta’s roundup
Pasquetta is the italian name for the day right after easter. I hope you enjoyed your eggs and had a happy easter. Here’s a quick round up, but with quite nice stuff, nice enough to make me feel sorry about not writing a dedicate article for each entry. Critique on notifications
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How to make an infinite mirror with Ubuntu [HOW TO]
Infinite mirrors are rightfully considered a business critical feature these days. Today I’ll show you how to make one with Ubuntu. This tutorial should work with any distribution running Gnome. Gnome makes it easy, but be careful to follow closely the steps, or your mirror may broke. Here are the steps: Minimize all your applications [...]
Is OpenMoko dead ? Not really.
Surprised ? IT journals have been quite quick to report OpenMoko’s death after Sean Moss-Pultz’s announce at OpenExpo. It seems to me they’ve been so quick that they missed something. So here is a quick post to quickly make clear a what it needs to. Also, OpenMoko hasn’t put out a Press Release yet, which [...]
Annoying people is fun – URL expander
Lifehacker’s fools day post is nice one, after tens of URL shortening services (like this one, which I see so much on identi.ca) , finally we can enjoy a fast, no-question-asked URL expander. Seriously, how cool is that ? I …
