Just a little senseless story I conjured up while filling my water bottle yesterday.

Once upon a time, I had a green pet bottle of Mountain Dew. I had it as my water bottle since one month. But one day, when the bottle was lying on a table, away from my eyes, somebody stole it; he must have been cruel enough. That made me very unhappy; I was sad for my lose. The next day, I went to the shop to buy a new bottle of Mountain Dew. I drank it day and night. I drank it in the morning instead of my daily milk glass, I drank it in the afternoon with my lunch, I drank it in the evening with my dinner, drank it when I felt thirsty, and even did my gargles with it. Then one day, Mountain Dew in that bottle finally got finished. I rejoiced. I immediately took it to the water cooler, washed it, and filled it with water. We have been living happily ever after.

Just to let everyone know in Synergy and Unity Land… Synergy Linux now maintains two repositories for KDE 4 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. I have building packages within a modified (very small changes) Unity Linux build environment. The good news is this really simplifies the process of building for dual archs, the bad news [...]

I purchased an OCZ Agility SSD. An SSD (Solid-State Disk) is a memory-based storage device.  It has no moving parts.  Some improvements: Where a hard drive has moving parts, and has to move a read head across the platter to seek data, an SSD can access any point in its storage with no (significant?) change in seek [...]

Some of you may have noticed that the graphics team website has gotten a major face lift.  I figured a site redesign and reorganization might inject a bit of fuel into the graphic design fires of the community.  Here’s a bit of what happened in the site redesign:

BBPress Forum Removed

No one had posted to the graphics forum in 4 months.  I figured it was time to retire it.  For now, I’ve linked the top forum link to a graphics board on the main site of Unity Linux.  I’m most likely going to install Simplepress soon here.  For an example of how simplepress works with a site like ours, see devnet’s Exchange blog forum.  More updates to come on that for us here.

A full backup was performed before this system was removed and I’ll save that in case any Unity Admin has a desire for it.

Coppermine Gallery Removed

All images from the old Coppermine gallery now reside in our Gallery Showcase.  No images were deleted.  A full backup was performed before this system was removed and I’ll save that in case any Unity Admin has a desire for it.

Gallery Showcase

The new Gallery Showcase page was put in.  This replaces our Coppermine gallery and provides one less area that hackers can attack us on.  Public uploads ARE enabled.  You have to register to upload and images will only appear upon approval.  So if you have something to share with us, please do!

Why now?

Why not now?  The graphics team is VERY talented and provides Unity Linux with a fantastic amount of icons, themes, and wallpapers.  They should have a main site that caters to and showcases all the great things they do.  I believe this new design does just that.  Hopefully, you all agree!  Please do let us know what you think of the new digs and thanks for using Unity Linux!

We finally got to setup a fund for Unity. To ensure transparency, we setup the fund through pledgies (http://pledgie.com).

We will shortly setup a table of expenses / funds received on http://docs.unity-linux.org so that all transactions are recorded and available for anyone to view.

In the meantime you can donate at

Thank you all for your support.

Gett.

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