Author Archives: ubuntista

How to start a corporate internal blog

How to start your (internal) corporate blog
Despite your company’s success in the last months you still feel an “incomplete” businessman, because you don’t have a corporate blog yet. Don’t worry, though: I’ll teach you how you can get this thing done without an headache or a computer degree.

Why do you need a corporate (internal) blog? [...]

David Airey

David Airey is a bright Irish designer, and he came up with a wonderful idea: a blog anniversary prize!
He creates best logos, and he’s specialized in wonderful and effective logo design and blogs.
Check out his site, you’ll find interesting hints… and you can participate to the prize too!
Here some of the sponsors:
http://www.natewhitehill.com
http://www.doshdosh.com
http://ilovetypography.com
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips
http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk
And many others.
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Ubuntu Logo!

Do you like them? I made them yesterday, on the beach of Ansedonia, near Orbetello (Italy).
You can use them as your wallpapers, click the resolution and save.
Creative Commons AT-NC-SA 3.0.

ubuntusand-1, 3:4 ratio
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ubuntusand-1, 16:10 ratio (widescreen)
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Orbetello

I’m in Orbetello, at Zia Anna’s, for some holidays.
This morning I drove around the Argentario peninsula, beautiful without people and traffic.

I was intrigued by this sign, outside the parking lot of a nearby restaurant:

(in italian you write “proprietà”, NOT “propietà”); the sign mean “private property”.
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Ubuntu 8.04 will be named Hardy Heron!

 
Directly from Jono Bacon (why not Mark, I wonder?), few hours ago came the announcement of the new name for the next Ubuntu release, expected for april 2008: Hardy Heron!

It’s a LTS release, or Long Term Support: it means that the server version will have 5 year support, and the desktop version 3 years support [...]

Linux admin… using a GUI?

Tristan writes that Linux administration will become GUI-oriented (Graphical User Interface) sooner or later.
I personally LOVE to be able to log in via SSH to ANY server in the planet, without worrying about GUI interfaces.
However, it is also true that in some cases, for example when you admin a server INSIDE your LAN, it could [...]

The truth about Gnome vs. KDE!

I’ve recently read the results of a survey on DesktopLinux.com that shows how Gnome “seems” to have more users than KDE. This image is from their website:

I don’t believe that, and you’ll soon see why.
(This is not AGAINST Desktop Linux, by the way: I’m just trying to see things in a clearer way. This is [...]

O’Reilly School of Technology

Ever heard of O’Reilly School of Technology?
It’s an online university (a joint venture between O’Reilly and University of Illinois) that offers Information Technology courses with an innovative education method.
You have classes for beginners, intermediate and expert, for Linux sysadmin to web developers.
Every course rewards you with Continuing Education Units, and an official letter from [...]

The Canonical shop has opened!

Check it out here: Canonical shop.

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The dawn of a new blog

Hi guys,
this is my first post on my Ubuntista blog IN ENGLISH!
Yeah, I’m italian, and I already had an italian blog on Ubuntu, but… I thought: what a cool thing to have an english one!
We’ll talk about Ubuntu, sometimes with techy things, sometimes more human ones
Hope you enjoy it!
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