Monthly Archives: October 2006

Behind Ubuntu: Matt Zimmerman: 'Technologist'

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-13

Top dog ‘mdz’ joins the walk of fame Kenny Duffus sent us word that Behind Ubuntu have a shiny interview with Matt Zimmerman (aka mdz), Ubuntu’s Chief Technologist Officer (CTO). Matt was one of the early people to come on board to the Ubuntu project having been recruited from his involved work with Debian, particularly […]

Weekly News #16: Akademy, latest changes in Edgy

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-13

The Ubuntu Weekly News #16 is out, containing a round up of events during the last week of September. Covered topics are: Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Beta Release Akademy 2006 Poster Competition Results Universe Version Freeze Changes in Edgy Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Ichthux Launchpad News Feature Of The Week – Bip For Kubuntu, the big event in the […]

Where do all the old Microserfs go?

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-04

Where do you want to go after you leave? Here at Fridge central we got a tip off that the Microsoft Alumni Network (aka MSA) has an interesting logo. We found out that the MSA organisation “is a network comprised of approximately 12,000 former Microsoft employees.”. Well, there you go, if you’ve ever worked for […]

Improved bug watches, reformatted CVE reports – Launchpad news

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-10-03

It’s been another busy couple of weeks for the Launchpad team, with work focused on polishing existing features. Improved bug watch integration with upstream: it is now possible to specify a remote bug tracker for a specific upstream product. New optimised CVE report format. Several distribution management enhancements: improved mirror listing format, significantly optimised code […]