Bionic Blastoff
When Bionic came out, I suddenly got a LOT of new livepatch users. 10 times as many, even. Damn.
Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Bionic done, maybe Cybernetic Cymric next
CC was updated to the new Ubuntu release 18.04, Bionic Beaver. In 3 weeks my first live patch release will come out on the 'beave. Let's hope I'm not too hard on him.
Snaprant
One of the things I hate the most about snaps is the so-called "security" system that makes them impossible to extend or fix if something's missing from the snap. Example: GRadio, an otherwise-excellent internet radio player, does not have the MPEG2 AAC codec required to decode my local radio station Q102's stream. If it were […]
Boo
Meltdown, Spectre. UGH. The only silver lining is that now I have a valid reason to stop livepatching pre-2018 kernels.
Sorry, not interested
"a look at how Ubuntu can power financial institutions" How about we take a look at how financial institutions go against everything the word "Ubuntu" means? How about we look at the way these places maximize harm on their own customers for their own profit? How about we look at how they screwed over everyone […]
Seen in my 3D Printing Group
In reference to how much to charge for design work: "Life is one turkey dinner and I don't need fifty gallons of gravy"
Artful Aardvark comes out THURSDAY. UPDATE.
It has been a long time since I was this happy about an OS update. :) Freedom looks great on it, and damn the kernel is NICE. I'm running it on my GPD WIN and stuff works. Not everything, mind, the screen dimmer isn't quite there yet but everything else is quite sweet. I'll have […]
Make that 2 systems
So, I got two systems that even together were less than one system from Lenovo or Alienware. First is Beast, it's an ASUS gaming laptop. GTX980/4G with 3.3THz i7, 32 GB of RAM, 256GB SSD and 1TB of 7200 rpm hard drive. It's 17.3" screen, and 10 pounds, so it is a monster. Ubuntu runs […]
Pictures from Ubuntu Rally 2017
Maybe more later.
Stupid Ubuntu Tricks: Make Gnome Shell Use the Ubuntu font
If you are running Ubuntu GNOME, but like/miss/prefer different fonts to the ones used by the shell, you can customize Gnome Shell's font like this: Create a text file containing css for the font you want, in a directory named whatever you want the theme to be named, i.e. for a theme called FOO, create […]