by Jono Bacon | Oct 13, 2006 | Community, Desktop, Humor
Well, thats it, its been an exausting day here in Stuttgart, and I have been trucking for around 18 hours today, but its been a really productive day. I had a really interesting discussion with some KDE people about the relationship between Canonical, Kubuntu, KDE and...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 13, 2006 | Advocacy, Community, Desktop, Speaking, Ubuntu, Usability
Here I am at the [10th anniversary event for KDE](https://events.kde.org/10years/) and its really cool. Last night I had two, count them, two hours of sleep before my alarm went off at 3am. I get back into England at around 11pm. Its a long day, but its worth it. The...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 11, 2006 | Advocacy, Community, Desktop, Jokosher, LUGRadio, Speaking, Ubuntu
I will be at the Technische Akademie Esslingen in Ostfildern (near Stuttgart) all day on Friday for the [10th KDE anniversary event](https://events.kde.org/10years/). If there are any Kubuntu, Ubuntu, LUGRadio, Jokosher or other Open Source people who want to meet up,...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 9, 2006 | Community, Desktop, Speaking, Ubuntu
After an excellent two weeks away I am now back at work. Today is a good day to get back too – Sooz and I celebrate our 11th year together. 11 years ago I nervously asked her out at a band practise in Wootton, Bedfordshire. 11 years on I still love her as much...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 14, 2006 | Desktop, Jokosher, Music, Ubuntu
I just don’t get them. I really don’t. For years, the perceived wisdom has been that if you want to record audio on Linux, you need a low-latency kernel, real-time kernel. The technical description is a kernel with *real-time pre-emption*, and the stock...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 28, 2006 | Desktop, Jokosher
You know, there are tonnes of undocumented things out there. Really, really cool technologies that should be getting used more are *not* getting used as much because there lacks decent docs. And, to make matters worse, the developers naturally just want to get on and...