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Ubuntu Open Week has just started in the #ubuntu-classroom IRC channel. I seem to be down for doing a Kubuntu Introduction talk in a few hours. Tomorrow Mark Shuttleworth gets quizzed by the community. On Wednesday there's a Kubuntu Q & A with nixternal and elite Kubuntu Ninja Nathan talks about Staying up-to-date with what is going on in the community. Plenty of talks on all other areas of Ubuntu too.

The Akademy program is almost done. Speaker notification deadline was yesterday, but we are still busy sorting out some last details and haven't sent notifications yet. Please bear with us and have a bit more patience. We have a lot of great proposals, more than we can fit into the schedule. So it's not easy to decide what we can take, and the co-hosting with GUADEC adds another dimension of complexity to this task. But we are on a good track, and we will have a fantastic program. Stay tuned...

Hearing that kubuntu jaunty was out, I upgraded two machines today. My wife's machine, so she can finally use KDE 4.2, and my own desktop machine. On her machine, NVidia card, no problem at all. On my machine, ATI Radeon X1300, after the upgrade, X would always just show some red dots on the top of the screen, and then the machine would hang (no keyboard, no ssh, nothing except reboot). I tried every possible driver in xorg.conf, no difference. So this isn't a driver problem, but an Xorg problem. Other people on #kubuntu (e.g. "chx") reported the same issue. Read More

Martin Schlander already said the most important things but repetition never hurt a good message: KDE 4.3 is coming to KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop<. If you do nothing and use this repo you will get KDE 4.3beta1 installed soon! The stable KDE 4.2 packages will continue to be available in the new KDE:42 repo. The Extra-Apps repo is gone, its packages merged into Desktop, Community or Playground according to their level of support and release readiness. App packages which have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 versions are being renamed to show that KDE 4 is the default. Eg for digikam, we have kde3-digikam and digikam-kde4. This will cause a package upgrade to the new stable version. If you want to keep the KDE 3 version, install the kde3- package instead of the new KDE 4 based package. The Geeko is a quiet and stealthy animal. It doesn't make a lot of noise. But it produces solid, well engineered Linux distros year after year. Stephan 'Unstoppable Force Beineri' Binner has produced a respin installation CD of openSUSE 11.1 containing the latest and greatest KDE 4.2.2, and all the online updates since 11.1 came out in December. Is the longer openSUSE release cycle making you twitchy for a hit of something new? Do you want a rock solid openSUSE with the best KDE has to offer and none of this repo-fiddling nonsense? Get the respin from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/.

The Kubuntu Team is proud to announce the release of Kubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope! With this release, the development team brings you the best KDE distro out there. With its world-renowned Ubuntu core and the KDE 4.2 desktop, Kubuntu 9.04 gives users a well-rounded, feature-filled and elegant desktop. Read More

Well, today I was let go after being at Platform Computing working on our Open Source software for almost 5 years. It's been one of those up and downer days. I read the FLOSS blog postings from all the different communities and see people being let go and now I'm one of them :-( Read More

Testers are needed for the proposed CD and DVD ISOs for the final Kubuntu 9.04 Release. Upgrades from 8.10 and 8.04 need testing too. Report your results on ISO testing and #kubuntu-devel.

Ok, this blog is not really KDE related (well, it makes the network installation of a KDE developer more convenient, so...), but anyway here we go. Main purpose is to get the compatibility information out there, so others can find it. Read More

There will be some new weather providers coming soon. I am currently working on adding a Netherlands source (current conditions only provided free). Someone is working on a German source and I plan on adding 7 day forecast info to the NOAA provider hopefully soon. Read More

Testers are needed for the proposed CD and DVD ISOs for the Kubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate. Upgrades from 8.10 and 8.04 need testing too. Report your results on ISO testing and #kubuntu-devel.