A short while before the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) I did some work on the micro-blogging client Gwibber. I fixed a bug related to the disproportionally large fonts present in the GUI of Gwibber, which had been plaguing the 2.0.0 release for quite a while. It turns out this fix was a very [...]

It can easily be noticed that a lot of seasoned Ubuntu users, especially in social locations such as the official Ubuntu forums and the Identi.ca Ubuntu group commonly use the development names of Ubuntu releases. Such development names being Jaunty Jackalope, Edgy Eft, Dapper Drake, Karmic Koala, etc. While this is suitable for those users [...]

Ubuntu 9.10, the user-friendly, free, Linux-based operating system, is to be released tomorrow (the 29th of October 2009). Canonical, Ubuntu’s corporate sponsor, states that Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, ‘puts the user at the heart of its new design’, and being an Ubuntu user myself for about three years and a Linux user for significantly [...]