10 thousand!

10 thousand visitors hit my blog, I thought a celebratory post was due
next goal is one more zero at the end

Remastering an “Ubuntu alternate” ISO with Ubuntu Customization Kit – the complete guide

You have an Ubuntu alternate ISO and you want to customize it, to do things with ease you choose to do that with Ubuntu Customization Kit which will handle most of the tasks for you.
Preamble
This guide is written with the SVN version of Ubuntu Customization Kit, thus somethings (actually only minor things such as log [...]

Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0.1

A small maintenance release to fix a few bugs, mainly focused on the “alternate” ISO remastering.
Here you have the complete changelog:
GUI:

version number shown in uck-gui was fixed

Backend:

when unpacking an “alternate” ISO now we don’t try to parse the filesystem manifest
because it doesn’t exist
uck-remaster-finalize-alternate now can handle new releases of ubuntu-keyring package

Package:

fakeroot dependency was added

Links:
Download UCK [...]

Minibuntu – the base for your distro, now add your ingredients

A few days ago a guy on UCK forum told me that he would need a clean Ubuntu livecd without all the bells and whistles, without gnome and all the graphic releated software, a sort of minimum system to build on his new Ubuntu derivate, starting from a clean base.
I thought it was a really [...]

P4A 3.0 roadmap

ok here you have:

brand new widget rendering system, it will provide a new experience from the users point of view, a richer set of widgets and the best browser support (we’re doing deep tests right now, more info will follow)
PHP5 only
add Zend Framework
replace adodb with Zend_DB
define which database engine will be supported (I think MySQL, [...]

The theme quest…

Will ever be over? I don’t know… wordpress.com hasn’t the perfect theme for me, sorry guys!!

P4A 2.2 is finally out

This is the month of the big releases first was UCK 2.0 a few days ago, now it’s time for P4A – PHP For Applications 2.2!

Highlights of this release:

Prototype/scriptaculous were dropped and jQuery was added. Thanks to jQuery and some wonderful plugins we added a new color picker field type, the ajax [...]

A shining new theme for the blog :)

I was so happy to find out that wordpress.com added a bunch of new themes so I tried some of them and chose this one. I like it so much and I hope you’ll do the same

Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0 is finally out!

It’s been a long journey, the new release is out after more than 6 months of work, adding features and fixing bugs thanks to the help of the community.
What’s the main goal of UCK 2.0? Becoming the de-facto standard base for Ubuntu remastering operations.
How this goal is achieved? Building a complete and stable API [...]

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An open letter to Steve Ballmer from Mandriva’s blog.
UPDATE: maybe things are getting repaired.