Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: introduction

Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10 - an introduction Ubuntu has supported ZFS as an option for some time. We started with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu 15.10, then delivered it as a FS container in 16.04, and recommended it for the fastest and most reliable container experience on LXD. We have also created some dedicated tutorials for users who want to become more familiar with ZFS concepts, like on basic layouts and taking snapshots.

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Open The Cosmic Gate: A beautiful theme gets a beautiful name

A beautiful theme gets a beautiful name Communitheme has been a community effort from the start with an overwhelming amount of feedback from an even larger community. Surprisingly, the still ongoing discussion thread of more than 1500 messages hasn’t (yet?) broken discourse! However, the effort to refresh the look and feel of Ubuntu has gone way beyond just a theme. From the start, Sam Hewitt’s beautiful Suru icons were included and over time, the effort brought new system sounds and new cursors under its wing.

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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Behind communitheme: interviewing Aaron

Interviewing people behind communitheme. Today: Aaron As discussed last week when unveiling the communitheme snap for ubuntu 18.04 LTS, here is a suite of interview this week on some members of the core contributor team shaping this entirely community-driven theme. Last interview is from Aaron, godlyranchdressing on the community hub. Who are you? What are you doing/where are you working? Give us some words and background about you! I’m Aaron Papin and I’m from Trinidad and Tobago.

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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Behind communitheme: interviewing Merlijn

Interviewing people behind communitheme. Today: Merlijn As discussed last week when unveiling the communitheme snap for ubuntu 18.04 LTS, here is a suite of interview this week on some members of the core contributor team shaping this entirely community-driven theme. Today is the turn of Merlijn, merlijn-sebrechts on the community hub. Who are you? What are you doing/where are you working? Give us some words and background about you! I’m Merlijn Sebrechts, I’m a PhD student and teaching assistant at Ghent University in Belgium.

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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Behind communitheme: interviewing Frederik

Interviewing people behind communitheme. Today: Frederik As discussed last week when unveiling the communitheme snap for ubuntu 18.04 LTS, here is a suite of interview this week on some members of the core contributor team shaping this entirely community-driven theme. Today is the turn of Frederik, frederik-f on the community hub. Who are you? What are you doing/where are you working? Give us some words and background about you! My name is Frederik, I live in Germany and I am working as a java software developer in my daily job.

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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Behind communitheme: interviewing Mads

Interviewing people behind communitheme. Today: Mads Rosendahl As discussed last week when unveiling the communitheme snap for ubuntu 18.04 LTS, here is a suite of interview this week on some members of the core contributor team shaping this entirely community-driven theme. Today is the turn of Mads, madsrh on the community hub. Who are you? What are you doing/where are you working? Give us some words and background about you!

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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Behind communitheme: interviewing Carlo

Interviewing people behind communitheme. Today: Carlo As discussed last week when unveiling the communitheme snap for ubuntu 18.04 LTS, here is a suite of interview this week on some members of the core contributor team shaping this entirely community-driven theme. Today is the turn of Carlo, c-lobrano on the community hub. Who are you? What are you doing/where are you working? Give us some words and background about you! I am Carlo, I am an Linux user since 2007 and Linux Software Developer since 2010.

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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Behind communitheme: interviewing Stefan Eduard

Interviewing people behind communitheme. Today: Stefan Eduard As discussed last week when unveiling the communitheme snap for ubuntu 18.04 LTS, here is a suite of interview this week on some members of the core contributor team shaping this entirely community-driven theme. Without further ado, here we go with the first one! Who are you? What are you doing/where are you working? Give us some words and background about you! My name is Stefan Eduard Krenn, I live in Vienna/Austria and in Carinthia/Austria.

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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: New WIP ubuntu theme as a snap

Communitheme is now available for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as a snap! Before the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, I wanted to write a few words to update you since our first call for a theme crafted by the community. Progress from 0 to nowdays communitheme’s state After our call for contribution in November last year over the ubuntu community HUB, we saw a lot of people stepping up and being interested into helping crafting this theme, which will be the default ubuntu theme in a near future.

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Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Nautilus, a LTS and desktop icons

Nautilus, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and desktop icons: upstream and downstream views. If you are following closely the news of various tech websites, one of the latest hot topic in the community was about Nautilus removing desktop icons. Let’s try to clarify some points to ensure the various discussions around it have enough background information and not reacting on emotions only as it could be seen lately. You will have both downstream (mine) and upstream (Carlos) perspectives here.

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