"Decentralised social network startup Diaspora* announced on their
blog today that they will become a 'community project' with the
intention of making it an entirely community-driven, community-run
project. Whether this is a sign of the project losing impetus, or
whether this will provide the push needed to challenge commercially
run social networks, remains to be seen."
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/28/0117226/diaspora-announces-it-is-no…
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Good News Everyone! Thanks to the Ubuntu Gnome Community and Jeremy
Bicha, it seems that the popular distribution will ship a flavor with
a relatively pure GNOME experience in the next release cycle, on
October 18. At this point the effort is community based, but hopefully
GNOMEbuntu will make it as an official Canonical spin, similar to
Kubuntu, Xubuntu, et cetera, in the 13.04 release. This is the story:
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, some discussions took place on
the need for a Gnome spin. On August 13, Jeremy Bicha posted on Gnome
mailing lists about looking a name for the new Ubuntu derivative.
After that, I had no news till Stinger gave us a thread in Ubuntu
Forums. On there, Jeremy talks about working on an Alpha version! So I
contacted him and he verified that GNOMEbuntu will be released
together with Ubuntu 12.10."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/08/30/175221/gnomebuntu-set-to-arrive-in…
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Bummer...
"The alternate installer, required when users want to configure
cryptsetup, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) or software-based RAID arrays
during installation, may disappear from Ubuntu as early as version
12.10."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1676906
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"KWin, KDE's compositing window manager, will better play with the AMD
Catalyst binary blob in the KDE 4.10 release by enabling direct
rendering and the OpenGL 2.x back-end for those using the latest
Catalyst driver. "
-- source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE2OTI
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
There's a WLUG meeting tonight:
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Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 7:30pm onwards
Topics
* ReneBartosh will give a short demo of the Raspberry Pi running the RaspBMC and Raspian distributions and will include a chance to get hands on and have a tinker with the Pi
There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday:
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Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 7:30pm onwards
Topics
* ReneBartosh will give a short demo of the Raspberry Pi running the RaspBMC and Raspian distributions and will include a chance to get hands on and have a tinker with the Pi
How's our SFD planning going?
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From: Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org>
Date: 21 August 2012 16:39
Subject: [Marketing] Promote SFD 2012
To: The SFD marketing committee list <marketing(a)sf-day.org>
Dear marketing committee,
We are about 24 days to the big day, SFD 2012, so far we have 220 teams
registered. It's time to boost registration and have more teams for 2012!
There are some ways to promote SFD, e.g.:
1) email local communities in your country
2) Blogging
3) Social Networks [1]
4) SFD Banner (link to SFD site) [2]
5) SFD countdown (link to SFD site) [3]
6) Join local conferences / events to talk about SFD
7) others
We need your help to promote SFD in your country! If you think of any other
ways to promote SFD, please share with us!
[1] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SocialNetworks
[2] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote
[3] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown
Regards,
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The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today:
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Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 7:30pm onwards
Topics
* ReneBartosh will give a short demo of the Raspberry Pi running the RaspBMC and Raspian distributions and will include a chance to get hands on and have a tinker with the Pi
Hi there
Running a MATE session, you might encounter warning messages like this
in your terminal when, for instance, updating via subversion:
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-*****/pkcs11
Apparently, gnome-keyring is only started if a session manager is
started that supports this. E.g., running the MATE session manager on
my Linux Mint Cinnamon install generates this error message, since
"MATE" is not listed in the "OnlyShowIn" key of the
"/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop" config file.
Just add "MATE" to the value of the "OnlyShowIn" key, e.g.:
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE
Original source:
http://laslow.net/2012/05/06/gnome-keyring-issues-in-ubuntu-12-04/
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Handy overview in this article.
"Nothing ever need be a mystery on Linux as it has a large number of
excellent utilities for discovering hardware and monitoring hardware
health. Here are a handful of good tools for spotting possible hard
drive failure, displaying hardware information and monitoring
temperatures, fans, voltages, email, music players and more."
-- source: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/620416-discovering-and-monitoring-hard…
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
