March 11 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
I went on a quest to find an awesome game for Ubuntu. It doesnt matter how much it costs I just want an awesome game. So there are some ones that most people know about Heroes of Newerth, Nexuiz, Warsow, OpenArena, Tremulous and a load of id software games.
So we have lots but most of [...]
March 6 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
When I started using Ubuntu back in Gutsy(7.10) we looked like this.
And now we look like this.
We are getting a nice new logo too and our own font (in 10.10 for the font) so we are quickly becoming hugely competitive. On looks and hardware support alone we are up there with Apple and [...]
March 3 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
One word….awesome. I think out of the two desktop looks they put up, my desktop is going to be the white one. I like the orange/purple/white colours a lot more than brown/orange/grey. I think the sound and networking icons look a little Mac ish but still I like it. I just hope that the icon [...]
March 3 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
I was looking at some of the comments on Seif’s blog post and I thought that something needs to be addressed.
1. C is an awesome language and its very very fast but its not the easiest to learn.
2. Python and Ruby are easy to learn but not fast.
Some people suggested moving all the [...]
February 25 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
Ok I was on a break for a while I still was testing lucid out and filing bugs but I was trying to ignore email and trying not to go onto IRC. So I was gone for a few weeks and ill start to get back to getting busy again. Im still busy with college [...]
February 19 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
I was on #ubuntu-motu today and a person asked if there was a policy for removing programs from the archive. They wanted to know if we could remove a program that hasnt had a release in years and the functionality is included in other programs so its completely superseded. This got me thinking maybe we [...]
February 16 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
I love the new icons but one thing struck me. Have a look at this picture
Everything else monochrome and nice but the map blue and the clock purple and the house red. Great icons though
February 9 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!
This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Pitivi!
* #16 New bugs need a hug
* #8 Incomplete bugs need a status check
* #8 Confirmed bugs need a review
* #1 Bug to be forwarded Upstream
Pitivi is a video editor that is being included by default in the next version [...]
In Ireland we have a special relationship with software we see the goodness but politicians dont have a clue how to make sure they get delivery on the sanctioned software systems. There have been a few systems an e-voting system and PPARS(its a payroll system for the medical service) both cost a half a billion [...]
February 6 2010 by
Shane in
Ubuntu |
Ive been testing out lucid since a little before alpha 1 and all is well from what I can see. What landed recently was the me menu and I have say that its cool.
I love the idea of posting to twitter on the fly from the desktop rather than waiting for Gwibber to load up(which [...]