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Made With Developers in Mind: The Ubuntu Ultrabook™

This week, Dell released a new Ultrabook™ that is branded towards developers. This is part of Project Sputnik, an intriguing internal conversation that centered on creating a laptop that was better suited towards what developers are really looking for.

Project Sputnik

Project Sputnik evolved as an internal conversation at Dell, and was centered on the foundational premise of how to enable developers to do what they do, better. Here’s a quote from Barton George, director of marketing for Dell’s Web vertical:

Binaries Considered Dangerous

Reposted from my blog on the Yocto Project site. Go there for more pearls of wisdom and other embedded Linux goodies.

When I initially started talking publicly about the fact that I was working on the Yocto Project, one of the first questions I got was, in essence, "Why would you need to build an OS from sources?" After all, there are plenty of distros out there who have done the hard work for you.

A Merlot, a Malbec and a Moblin

Last week, a few of us were talking about future Moblin OS releases, and we were just having fun and starting talking about our wish list for code name "themes".  You know, this is when a series of products are given code names before their real names go on, and the code names follow a certain pattern.

For example, releases of Microsoft Windows used to be named for cities in the US (Memphis, Chicago) and then switched to ski areas (Whistler, Longhorn, Blackcomb).

Does "popular" mean "better" in open source?

Here in the West, having a hit is considered the mark of success.

If you do something that is really insanely great, it should become incredibly popular, no matter what the critics or the bloggers say. There are plenty of movies and books that are considered a "critical success" because the experts love the art. But being a critical success is considered a back-handed complement, since "success" equals "popular" in our mindset.

World of Netbooks: Interview with Jon Ramvi of the Ubuntu Eee Project

While I was trying different OS options on the Eee PC 901, I spent some time with Ubuntu Eee. It's not an official Ubuntu/Canonical project, but rather a community driven custom distribution with some Eee-specific features and tweaks. It's quite nice, and very functional.

Build an Ubuntu Fedora Dual Boot System

These instructions detail the steps for creating a dual boot system with both Ubuntu and Fedora versions of Linux. Since Moblin v1 was primarily developed using Ubuntu and Moblin v2 uses Fedora, as Moblin developers this can be helpful.
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