Archive for March, 2007

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The Start of a MOTU Journey

March 30th, 2007

A few days ago, I have added #ubuntu-motu to Konversation’s auto-join list. This marks a new phase in my adventures in FOSS-land: learning how to package stuff for Kubuntu. The MOTU, or the Masters of the Universe, are the people in charge of maintaining the packages in the universe and multiverse repositories of Ubuntu. So [...]

Progress at last!

March 25th, 2007

Finally, some progress! Almost three months after buying it, I’ve finally finished Chapter Three of my C++ How to Program (Deitel) book! Yes, three months! Now I only have 20 more chapters to go! Hopefully, if I finish the basic stuff, I would be a bit eligible to enroll for a Diploma in Computer Science [...]

Quotable quotes and C++

March 21st, 2007

Two quite unrelated topics:
When I was at a FOSS conference two weeks ago, I picked up three quotes that kinda stuck in my head, because it was funny, true, or both. They’re not absolutely hilarious, but still…

“There’s nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel. The tricky part is making sure it’s round.” – Amb. Alister McDonald, [...]

Traditional “Hello, Planet” and other stuff

March 16th, 2007

Greetings, fellow Kubuntu (and, of course, *buntu) lovers!
I’m Juan Carlos Torres from the Philippines, a Kubuntu member and a member of the Ubuntu Philippines Team. I’ve started using Kubuntu back in January of 2006. My first months were spent trying to get my feet on solid ground, and the Ubuntuforums and KubuntuForums.Net were great [...]

Stomping on bugs for the Fawn

March 12th, 2007

Yuriy Kozlov posted last week an invitation to bug triaging for the Kubuntu Desktop. Kubuntu 7.04, lovingly called Feisty Fawn, is due to be released in a month’s time. Now’s the perfect time for users to give a hand in helping make Feisty a solid and stable release. We can help by doing some Bug [...]

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