Author Archives: akgraner

Ubuntu (11.10) Open Week: October 17-21, 2011

By akgraner | Published: 2011-10-12

            What is Ubuntu Open Week? Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved. When […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 236

By akgraner | Published: 2011-10-10

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #236 for the week October 3 -9, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: P is for… Community Council Nominations and Poll Ask the Ubuntu Server team Technical Board 2011 Ubuntu 11.10 Development Update Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu 11.10 Planned Release Parties Launchpad […]

P is for…

By akgraner | Published: 2011-10-05

It’s a perennial pleasure to pick pertinent and/or pithy placeholder names for Ubuntu releases. At least, I like to think of them as pertinent and/or pithy. I’ve had diverse feedback, shall we say. Nevertheless, it’s now a tradition, and it’s a pressing priority as we approach the release of Oneiric. So, what will be our […]

Ubuntu Font Family 0.80 released – with Ubuntu Mono

By akgraner | Published: 2011-09-30

Hello all, Ubuntu Font Family version 0.80 has been released, download the .zip from: http://font.ubuntu.com/ This is made available under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0, you are expressly encourage to share, modify and remix. Source code and licensing details can be found on the website above. Release notes and changelogs for this 0.80 release can […]

Ubuntu One now works on Windows!

By akgraner | Published: 2011-09-30

It’s been a long time coming but today we are thrilled to tell you that the much anticipated Ubuntu One official client for Windows is now available for download. A question we get asked a lot is…..why an Ubuntu One Windows client? Well there are a few reasons: The most important is we listen to […]