Last week the PowerUser community ran a poll to decide the new logo/branding for our community and the submission by Thorsten Wilms was selected as the winner. Many thanks to Thorsten and all the other people who submitted artwork, they were all fantastic.
We have had a ton of submissions for the branding of the Ubuntu Power User community. I invite the Power user and wider Ubuntu community to vote for the branding we will use.
The entries can view on the wiki.
Vote for your two favorite logos
Ubuntu Power User Branding Poll
Total Voters: 150
Loading ...The poll will close 24 May 2011 at 11:59:59 PM MST (UTC -7).
The Ubuntu Power Users community is work on branding and logo for the team. If you are budding artist and would like to contribute, please our wiki page for more details.
A few days ago “The Internet’s” Jono Bacon posted on his blog an idea to create a Ubuntu Power User community, to help people get the most of their Ubuntu experience. I have to agree that this is a good idea. The Ubuntu devs and design team work hard to make to Ubuntu Linux the best experience it can be for new users, and we need to do this if we want widespread adoption of Ubuntu. 200 million users… Yes we can!!!
The problem is many of us want more out of our Ubuntu experience than the base Ubuntu install can give us. We want to take the Ubuntu and tweak it and make it our own. A Power User is someone who likes to tweak the user interface, is not afraid of changing the default settings or install useful extensions. But a Power User doesn’t necessary need to know how to code or compile a package from source code. A Power User is just a user… with power [1].
So with the this call to arms, the Ubuntu Power User community was created. This group foundations are still being built, but we do have some goals for the next release cycle of Ubuntu.
1. Documentation of existing tools and tweak: This team could a central repository documentation of useful tools, tweaks, and configuration utilities for the desktop, kernel, and other parts of Ubuntu Linux. This can can help sort the safe and useful tools from tools and tweak that could cause unforeseen harm someone’s Ubuntu Linux install.
2. Provide tools: The long term would be getting some of the most useful tools and tweaks upsteamed into the Ubuntu default install. Unity quicklist are a good example of low hanging fruit that many power users use, but would still be useful in the Ubuntu default install. Also the Power User community could work developers of such great tools as Ubuntu Tweak, Gunity, and others to give them feedback on their projects and help make this tools more a part of the wider Ubuntu community with the goal creating a ultimate configuration tool or kitchen sink app for the more advanced users of Ubuntu.
If you are interested in joining this community, check out our Launchpad team (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-power-users), Wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers), Mailing List (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-power-users), and IRC channel (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-power-users). We will soon start having regular IRC meetings to further define our goals and purpose in the Ubuntu community.
Citations
[1] Who is a Power User? – https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers/
The Ubuntu Forums will down Monday, February 14th at 9:00 UTC for about two hours to replace the forums database server with new hardware which will greatly improve speed and performance on the forums. We appreciate peoples patience during this transition.
Here is what I have been working on for Ubuntu Forum recently. At a session at UDS this week, we discuss the forums and how to bring it up to date with the new Ubuntu branding. There will be some big changes upcoming in the forums.
Hopefully this work will be finished during the current Ubuntu release cycle.
O’Reilly (Yah Reilly) has the ebook version of VMWare Cookbook, written by my good freinds Ryan Troy and Matthew Helmke from the Ubuntu Forums, on sale for $9.99. It is a must for any VMWare admin.
@oreillymedia: #Ebook Deal of the Day: VMware Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDVMC http://oreil.ly/9Uw59z
Ubuntu 10.04 is the best version of Ubuntu Linux so far, but I have a couple problems on my Dell Studio XPS 1340 that could not be resolved before the Ubuntu 10.04 was released.
My laptop has a Intel Wireless WiFi 5100 half height card. I had a problem with it losing connection with a wireless access point using 802.11n. This problem is a known issue with the iwlagn driver, and the best workaround is to disable 802.11n on the card. To disable 802.11n on this card create/edit your /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf file
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf
And add the following to it.
options iwlagn 11n_disable=1 11n_disable50=1
I was also have trouble in the timing between the nvidia driver and GDM loading at boot on my laptop. LP #532436. I have to have cron relaunch GDM at boot for a rough workaround for this problem.
1. sudo vim /etc/crontab and add this line to the end:
@reboot root /root/gdmstart
2. Create the shell script to relaunch GDM
sudo vim /root/gdmstart
with this contents:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 6
/usr/sbin/service gdm start
3. Make script executable.
sudo chmod u+x /root/gdmstart
One other problem I had with this laptop with any version of Linux is not being able to burn CD/DVDs with Linux. The fix was to downgrade the firmware for the HLDS HLDS GS20N 9.5mm Slotload SATA DVD-RW drive to version A108.
What workarounds did you have to tweek to get Ubuntu working on your hardware? Post them here, and be sure to file a bug on your problem if you have not already.
One of the common questions I get for my Ubuntu User column is what is my desktop or what is a good desktop for Ubuntu Linux. A few weeks ago I got a Dell Inspiron 560 on sale at Best Buy. It was a great deal, and ended up being a near perfect Ubuntu desktop.
Specs.
Everything on this computer works out of the box with Ubuntu. I thought the Dell 1525N wireless card was a Broadcom device and was planning a night of sacrificing chickens to the dark wireless gods to get it working under Linux. I was pleased that the card used the ath9k driver and works great in Ubuntu.
With 8GB of ram, I installed the amd64 version of Ubuntu Lucid RC, and I’m amazed how far the 64bit version has come since the last time I tried it. If you have delay switching over to 64 bit for PC with more than 3GB of memory, now is the time to switch. I found the user experience between using the 32bit vs 64bit nearly identical.
The only issue I had with this machine was that the installer ran very very slow, about 10 minutes for the first screen to appear. I’m looking to see if there is an existing bug that matches this problem, if not I will be running ubuntu-bug ubiquity tonight.
If you are looking for a desktop that works great with Ubuntu, I strongly recommend the Dell Inspiron 560.
