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Don't forget help!

https://help.ubuntu.com & https://help.ubuntu.com/community are two more locations for instant support gratification. This is in response to Michael Stemle, Jr.’s post.

https://help.ubuntu.com is the system documentation that is already installed on your Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and/or Xubuntu system.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community is yet another wiki, this time for the entire community to contribute their documentation to. So if you want to let the world know how you got something specific setup, head on over there and setup a wiki page.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com is more or less the staging area for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu development. You will notice a lot of things specific to development, artwork, specifications and such.

No matter if you work on the Community Wiki or the Development/Staging Wiki, there is a Styling Guide to follow. If Wiki hacking is your thing, you might be interested in the Ubuntu Wiki Team. They are a part of the Ubuntu Documentation Project and communicate on the ubuntu-docs mailing list and on IRC in #ubuntu-doc.

NOW! Calling all documentors! We need your help with content in the Edubuntu Handbook as well as the new Kubuntu System Documentation. The Doc Team utilizes DocBook XML however if plain text works for you, it works for me. You can always send the text files directly to me and after a quick run through I will manually put them to DocBook files. We work from a Subversion Repository so there are only a select group of individuals who can commit, however anyone can check out, edit, and submit patches to ubuntu-docs(at)lists.ubuntu.com.

If anyone is interested in helping out, try and stop by #ubuntu-doc on IRC (chat.freenode.net | port 8001). Thanks everyone!

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Does the bling bling sing sing for Intel?

I am sorry for the title, I know it is horrible, but please bear with me and look past that :)

OK, here is what I want to know. Are you running Beryl with an Intel 945GM chipset? If you are running Ubuntu or Kubuntu please let me know. As most already know I am a KDE user so Kubuntu is my flavor of choice. So if you are using Kubuntu with a combination similar to mine, please let me know your experiences. Thank you so much!

OK, for those of you going “but nixternal you preach composite is crap,” I want to not only see the hoopla for myself, but Beryl is a positive thing for gaining switchers. I am keeping my free software stance, but I feel that in order to gain switchers we need to show them the bling bling. So if you are a FSF or GNU advocate, please don’t get into a pissing contest, as I agree with 99.9% of your philosophy. So hit me with the goods, it would be great to just leave a comment to this so I can bookmark and pimp it for those who might be wondering the same thing I am right now. Once again, thanks everyone, and you are the reason this community kicks ass!

UPDATE: I apologize, but when I brought up the FSF/GNU stuff I forgot to add the part about ATI and NVidia driver. I apologize.

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My hats off to you…

Ubuntu Canada. From the pictures it looks like you did a great job. I was not expecting to see this though.

Tux owns Bill

I did not know you guys had a Tux that damn big. I love how it is overlooking the MS display with a look of disgust on his face. I read the bogus publicity and I am sorry, that show of force I know grabbed more than 1 persons attention. If you successfully converted 1 person, I feel you did your job. That 1 person will got tell another person and so on. Great job guys. Hey, where can I get one of them big ass penguins? For those of you who want to see more pictures, check out the Flickr images they posted.

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