Tomorrow evening, Monday that is, I will be hosting a Launchpad workshop in Linköping. It will be held together with “Dataföreningen” and their Ubuntu network. Primarily we will focus on using Launchpad for any (FOSS) project, while at the same time cover a few Ubuntu specific cases.
See Driva projekt på launchpad (Swedish) for more information.
In a default Ubuntu, and probably any other modern Gnome based Linux desktop, the Gnome keyring takes the role of the ssh-agent. If this is not desirable you can tell the keyring not to do that by setting the gconf variable /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false.
$ gconftool -s –type bool /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh false
At the next login you should see your environment variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK pointing towards a more proper socket. Note that the real ssh-agent is still started, assuming Ubuntu, thanks to /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90×11-common_ssh-agent.
Just installed the third alfa release of Ubuntu 10.04 (aka Lucid Lynx) on my Netbook, an Inspiron Mini 10v. So far nothing seems terrible broken. Of course, at this point so far merely consists of booting the system, connecting to the wireless, firing up the web browser, etc.
When trying out the new alfa release, please consider reporting bugs you discover. The earlier bugs are found, the greater the chance for them to actually get fixed in time for the final release.
One of the projects the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo has been working on this summer is a Swedish equivalent of the web site help.ubuntu.com. Being able to give someone a direct url to the (translated) documentation can sometimes help a lot. Hence I’m now very glad to be able to announce our very own…
At this point there are a few people I would like to thank. Obviously the most import contributors are our translation team, under the lead of Daniel Nylander. Without them there wouldn’t really be much to put on the site in the first place. Secondly I would also like to mention our server administrator Lars Ljung, who gave us a framework to work on by providing the initial modifications to the original XSLT templates.
If any other LoCo would like to embark on a similar project, feel free to contact us to get some pointers. While all our work are available in the Launchpad project ubuntu-se-help I’m not sure how much good it will do others in its current stage. Creating a cleaner, and better documented, structure is definitely on the todo list. Of course it would also be very interesting to hear from others who already do similar things, and from whom we perhaps could get some pointers ourself.
On a completly different note, don’t forget the Ubuntu Bug Jam in Linköping now on saturday.
The 3rd of October the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo will arrange a Bug Jam at Linköping University. This in correspondence with the Ubuntu Global Jam happening that weekend.
See http://ubuntu-se.org/wiki/Global_Jam for more information.
Also, happy Software Freedom Day everyone!
Being the newly elected Team Contact for the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo I figured this would be a good time to add my blog to Planet Ubuntu and, by doing that, introduce myself to the greater Ubuntu community.
I’ve been a part of the Swedish LoCo since January 2008. Besides helping out with support, and a short tour as a forum moderator, my primary LoCo work has been done in the role as one of the server administrators. Now I look forward to whole lot of new challenges in the role as Team Contact.
Outside the LoCo I’m part of Ubuntu Bug Control, primarily doing triage on bugs related to the server team. One of my current ambitions is to get my LoCo more involved in the triage process.
At this point I would also like to introduce my running mate, and our new Team Leader, Mathias Friman. While I’ll be the one dealing with external communications and such, he will be the one responsible for our LoCo’s internal organization.
Finally I would like to thank Urban and Vulfgar, the former Team Leaders of the Swedish LoCo, for all their hard work. Thank you!
Anyway, if you want to get in touch we the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo, feel free to drop me a line!
For my personal backups I usually prefer to use rdiff-backup.
Since current Ubuntu versions doesn’t provide any packages from the recent stable branch of rdiff-backup I nowdays like to create my own debs. Also, rdiff-backup tends to work best if you have the same version on both ends of the backup.
At first I maintained my own repository, had a whole set of different pbuilder chroots, etc. While it was a good learning experience I’m not really sure it’s worth the effort for just one package. Hence I now maintain my packages in a Launchpad PPA.
In case you’d like to use my rdiff-backup packages you are very welcome to do so. They can be found in the PPA for Andreas Olsson.
EDIT: Use PPA for rdiff-backup packages (also mine) instead.
Actually, you really shouldn’t use my PPA unless: 1) You have a somewhat good reason to trust me and/or 2) You have the means to get even with me if my packages break your system.
Apparently Ubuntu now has APT::Install-Recommends set to True by default. This happened in version 8.10 (Intrepid) and it results in that packages marked as Recommended are now automatically installed kinda like dependencies.
I guess that change can make sense on a desktop system, where it might be nice to by default provide the user with a few more useful features. Dealing with servers on the other hand I very much like to be in control of what and what not is installed.
My way of disabling the automatic installation of Recommends is to put this into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01ubuntu:
APT
{
Install-Recommends “false”;
};
Disclaimer: I don’t know the APT layout of Ubuntu well enough to know if that is the best place to put those settings. All I can say is that for now it seems to get the job done.
Yes, I have made a mention about it in Launchpad (#316472).
Ubuntu and OpenBSD, two of my favorite operating systems, both released new versions a couple of weeks ago. Happening at basically the same time it made me think about how different they are, and that being part of the reason I like them so.
On an Ubuntu system I can easily do pretty much anything I want to do on it, and Ubuntu will handle it reasonable well. It’s not always perfect, but usually it will work good enough. A lot of times good enough is really good enough.
Running OpenBSD I feel a bit more limited in the aspect of what can easily be done. On the other hand, those things which can be done easily are done really, really well. The OpenBSD servers I maintain really doesn’t need much maintenance once they are setup.
Different operating system has different priorities and make different compromises. In my world that is a good thing. As long as my operating systems interoperate well, they really don’t have to be the same.
My Eee PC 900 now runs the beta version of Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10). So far pretty much everything seems to work right out of the box. It’s nice not having to depend on extra repositories, specially compiled modules and such.
