Category Archives: Ubuntu
Can’t select my country on the Ubuntu installation map
In 1977 Tal Brody said after winning the Euroleague Basketball cup with Maccabi Tel Aviv as sentence which became quite famous in Israel: “We are on the map! And we are staying on the map – not only in sports, but … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu
An RTL issue in Ubuntu’s installation
Earlier this week I saw a request for help from the Israeli community to fix an RTL issue in the Ubuntu installation. Although the request is in Hebrew, the screenshots speak for themselves and show the cropped text on the … Continue reading
Filed under Ubuntu
64-bit Flash Player
I read today that Adobe re-released its 64-bit Flash player (although a preview version) after a 3 months without supporting Linux 64-bit. Although these are good news, I think I’ll thank Adobe for forcing me into using the free software … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu
Why ubuntu sucks in keeping the distribution in good shape?
Tomer writes about Why ubuntu sucks in keeping the distribution in good shape?, which is related to posts I wrote at the past about Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox translation in gnome’s language pack ? and The disadvantage of language … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Working for Free? – Motivations of Participating in Open Source Projects
I’ve been asked to summarize an article by Alexander Hars & Shaosong Ou about motivations of participating in open source projects written in 2000 for a psychology course. It was very interested to see how many things can motivate one … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Mozilla, Openoffice.org, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu
The disadvantege of language packs in Ubuntu
I’ve encounterd a bug in launchpad about adding a new gnucash translation to the Hebrew language pack. Nothing out of the ordinary excepts that for every upstream translation update you should file a bug to update the language pack. A … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, i18n & l10n, QA stuff, Ubuntu
Ubuntu’s reportbug-ng sends bug reports to Debian’s BTS
I checked the Debian firefox bugs page and noticed a new bug was reported against firefox. Checking the bug report showed the bug is new as it reported against version 3.0b5. As there’s now firefox package in debian testing/unstable that … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, QA stuff, Ubuntu
Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox transalation in gnome’s language pack ? (2)
A day after presenting the question, seems like a user got a problem I didn’t thought of. He didn’t like Firefox 3 and decided to install Firefox 2 instead. The problem is that he now has Firefox 2 and the … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox transalation in gnome’s language pack ?
The other day, Tomer from Mozilla Israel contacted me to update me that the Israeli Ubuntu community changes the Firefox translation and doesn’t contribute the changes back. We sorted out the translation process with the Ubuntu people who were very … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Ubuntu and the lack of Thunderbird Hebrew localization
Almost a year ago Ubuntu uploaded thunderbird-locales for Thunderbird 2.0.0.0. As the Hebrew localization wasn’t ready then, they dropped the hebrew l10n package & files. During the last year Mozilla released more localizations for Thunderbird, but it doesn’t seem Ubuntu … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
