by Jono Bacon | Oct 15, 2008 | Music
Blaze Bayley, former *Iron Maiden* singer and frontman of his own band *Blaze* recently had his wife Debbie pass away. While [talking asbout this terrible news](https://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=106859) I found...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 15, 2008 | Community, Speaking
*In my talk I asked how many people use Ubuntu. This was the result. Wow.* A few days ago I headed to Columbus, Ohio to take part in [Ohio Linuxfest](https://www.ohiolinux.org/). I was there to provide the closing keynote – a new presentation that I have been...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 14, 2008 | Severed Fifth
Alright, get your seatbelts on, your engines running and get ready for a couple of sneak peeks of the final songs of the debut Severed Fifth album *Denied By Reign*. Grab them from below: * Sneak Peek 1 –...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 13, 2008 | Severed Fifth
A week tomorrow, I will be releasing the debut Severed Fifth album *Denied By Reign*. October 21st, head over to [severedfifth.com](https://www.severedfifth.com/) and grab it. Also, based upon feedback, I will be releasing the entire album under a [Creative Commons...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 10, 2008 | Severed Fifth
Rich Johnson (nixternal) on listening to the completed [Severed Fifth](https://www.severedfifth.com/) album *Denied By Reign*: > “Oh yeah…this is the kind of shit I want to listen to before I break into someone’s house and rob them.” Denied By...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 6, 2008 | Free Culture, Ubuntu
[DIGG THIS STORY](https://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Free_Culture_Showcase_Winners_Announced)!! I am absolutely tickled pink to announce the winners of the [Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase)! For those of you living under...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 2, 2008 | Ubuntu
Fortunately, I will be in San Francisco when Ubuntu 8.10, the glorious Intrepid Ibex is released and as such, it would be remiss to not organise a bit of a knees up (translation for my American friends: “*drinks in a bar*”). So, in conjunction with partner...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 27, 2008 | Community, Ubuntu
Yesterday my buddies over at the excellent [Ubuntu UK Podcast](https://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/09/25/s01e15-five-sleepy-heads/) did a segment on [5-A-Day](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day) where they were debating the merits of the initiative. I just wanted to weigh...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 25, 2008 | Ubuntu
Ladies and Gentleman who love and adore the world most lovable and adorable Operating System, Ubuntu, we plan on releasing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on October 30th. Now, this release is a pretty special release because not only do we kick out another kick-ass Ubuntu,...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
Today we launched the beta of our [Ubuntu Upstream Report](https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+upstreamreport#). Jorge has [more details](https://stompbox.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/introducing-the.html) on how upstreams and Ubuntu contributors can make use of the...
