Ubuntu Blog Update

  • Jad writes a breakup letter to Microsoft, explaining that he’s found someone else.
  • Niall has packaged the Xine version of Rhythmbox, available for download in his GPG-signed archive.
  • Peter found it “odd that something as basic in 2005 as ripping a CD to mp3 is not supported by Ubuntu in a straightforward way, via the applications menu” and used Windows to rip some MP3s. We need to make this problem, and solutions to it, easier to understand.
  • Tim Riley has worked on some Ubuntu rollouts to schools in South Australia, and gives us this tasty picture of the end result. Yum!
  • Rami and Jeff have made the switch from Gentoo to Ubuntu, both finding it easier to set up and maintain, while Captain Packrat might go back to Windows after fighting with the partitioner in Ubuntu’s installer. D’oh!
  • Luckily, ezrock is head over heels and thinks Ubuntu is “much faster than Windows XP, and better looking”. Hooray!
  • Martin reports that he has been hired by Canonical to “build a distributed version-control system that open-source hackers will love to use”, which Andre sounds very happy about: “Knowing Martin, this will have the usability of Subversion and Darcs, the algorithms of Arch, and the pure leetness of rsync. Beware, other RCS authors: your days are numbered!”
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