Creation of the Desktop Team

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-09-27

Daniel Holbach announced today the creation of the Desktop Team with this message:

Hi everybody,

Nearly half a year we began the work on Breezy Badger and we wanted to create the breeziest, coolest Desktop environment there is. The release is very highly anticipated, people loved the preview and we will succeed: we’ll meet the goals of

  • user-friendlyness
  • out-of-the-box workabilty
  • flash factor
  • and many surprising things more.

However, Breezy needs your help. We need to polish and fix up the last bits to give our users the Ubuntu Linux experience they deserve.

Therefore we announce the “Desktop Team” – we will be the guys that are the first contact for new users, we will create, beautify and organise the most-visible parts of Ubuntu. If you always had a strong liking for GNOME, for how desktop things are done or you are in touch with the GNOME world, we desperately need you.

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Unscheduled Server Outage

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-09-26

Some Ubuntu servers were offline for at least 6 1/2 hours on Sunday September 25th. This included both archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com, two servers used by many Ubuntites when doing package upgrades. The cause of the outage is still unknown. According to IRC logs obtained by The Fridge, the first reports of a problem started appearing on IRC at 5:26 UTC. The servers were back online shortly before 11:48 UTC. The outage generated a lot of questions on the IRC channel #ubuntu during that period, and the two main workarounds suggested to users were to use ftp instead of http in their apt sources.list, and to use official mirrors.

Juicy Server Sweetness

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-09-25

HowtoForge have published a very thorough guide to setting up Ubuntu 5.04 in an ISP environment. It covers basic server installation, and major ISP services such as web, mail, DNS, FTP, databases, quotas, secure authentication, firewalling and hosting management. Meanwhile, check out Edd Dumbill’s LDAP-tastic step-by-step guide to LDAP authentication and management for UNIX and Samba users on Ubuntu systems. Craving more juicy server sweetness? Ubuntu quenches your thirst!

  • Upgrade on your terms: Each predictable and reliable 6 monthly release is bolstered with an 18 month support lifecycle for security updates and major bugfixes.
  • Security first: Strong emphasis on proactive security and reduced privileges by default.
  • Fast fixes: First class security fix response times.
  • Love you long time: Ubuntu 6.04 will have a 5 year support cycle for servers!