This is the third post in our series on our git workflow tooling in Ubuntu. There is an index of all our planned posts in the first post. As mentioned there, it is important to keep in mind that the tooling and implementation are still highly experimental.
Nish introduced our ...
Back in 2014, I published some information and tooling on using git for Ubuntu development, even though most Ubuntu development wasn’t done with git at the time.
Three years on, this work has expanded significantly. Most of the server team is using git for daily work when touching Ubuntu ...
I found it quite frustrating to read Carsten Munk's concerns about GPL and licensing related to the kernel shipping with the bq Ubuntu phone. Clarity is essential in these matters. That Carsten can't tell what is going on for certain is a problem. It shouldn't have happened ...
Here's a typical example:
corosync 2.3.3-1ubuntu1
The part before the hyphen (2.3.3) is the "upstream version". This is
the version of the release tarball from upstream that the package is
based on.
The part after the hyphen (1ubuntu1) is the packaging revision. But
this splits ...
Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel mailing list (archive).
I thought it was about time that I shared my own merge workflow, as I think it is quite different from most other Ubuntu developers. I'm an advanced git user (even a fanatic, perhaps), and I make extensive use of git ...
As part of the Ubuntu Server team's participation in the Ubuntu Open Summit, we'll be running two Q&A sessions this week aimed at Ubuntu Server users. We want to gather questions from the community both before and during the event, so that users can get direct and ...
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with PHP 5.5, which is a significant upgrade over PHP 5.3 as found in 12.04.
PHP 5.5 actually first appeared in 13.10, though of course if you intend to do an LTS to LTS upgrade, you won't notice this ...
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with nginx 1.4, which is now in main for the first time. Packages in main are covered by the Ubuntu Security Team and generally receive particular focus and attention in Ubuntu. This brings nginx up to par with Apache as a first class citizen ...
Ubuntu 14.04 ships with Apache 2.4, which is a significant upgrade over Apache 2.2 as found in 12.04.
Apache 2.4 actually first appeared in 13.10, though of course if you intend to do an LTS to LTS upgrade, you won't notice this until ...
There was an interesting article on Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right that appeared on HN recently.
I thought this was an interesting article. It appears to cover the underlying cryptography fairly well. It looks like a great introduction for anybody who wants to study more in this area.
However ...
Fed up of being unable to read legitimate multipart/alternative emails
in mutt because of badly formatted text/plain sections, I set about
fixing my mailcap to have mutt show me the text/html section rendered
sensibly.
The usual way to do this is to have the mailcap call out ...
Yesterday I posted a call for testing to the ubuntu-server list:
There has been much work in Debian since wheezy was released, including a major transition to Apache 2.4[1]. The maintainers used this opportunity to overhaul the packaging, which also affected dependencies such as PHP[2].
Ubuntu has ...
In the past, true two factor authentication in ssh has been something of a hack to set up. Now that OpenSSH 6.2 has now been released with full and proper support, the next release of Ubuntu (Saucy Salamander) will include it.
All you have to do is ...