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Canonical Voices aggregates blogs by Canonical engineers on Ubuntu, Mir, C++, build systems, and audio.
What HN saysHN links it for Mir display server explanations, a memorable rant against autotools, and a Linux audio jack tool; one commenter calls the rant memorable.
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- 1Why GNU Autotools is not my favorite build system (2013)4 people · 18 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 2C++ has become a scripting language2 people · 132 points · first shared 2013 · 193 comments on HN
- 3Why Mir2 people · 47 points · first shared 2017 · 61 comments on HN
- 4Ubuntu One Basic renamed Ubuntu One Free and storage space increased to 5GB2 people · 45 points · first shared 2011 · 21 comments on HN
- 5A New Hope2 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 6The Code Documentation Fallacy1 people · 187 points · first shared 2013 · 129 comments on HN
- 7Ubuntu One release tech preview of U1DB syncable database API1 people · 9 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Canonical releases C++ fuzzy matching library libcolumbus1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9Serialising any C++ data structure to disk with 20 lines of code1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 10The two ways of doing something (2014)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11Mir release 0.27/MirAL release 1.41 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 12Mir Abstraction Layer1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 13Five Management Truths1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 14The New Go Qml OpenGL API1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 15Ubuntu One is shutting down1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
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AnssiH · 2019-03-08
hdajackretask on Linux does that, part of alsa-tools.
Blog post by author from 2011: http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2011/11/29/turn-your-mic…
I believe similar utilities exist on Windows at least with some cards.
Symmetry · 2017-04-12
The previous post had a bit more info.
http://voices.canonical.com/alan.griffiths/2017/04/11/a-new-hope/
unwind · 2017-04-12
Is this blogspam? It's a blog post about a blog post.
The actual blog post from the developer in question is at Canonical: http://voices.canonical.com/alan.griffiths/2017/04/12/why-mir/.
cwyers · 2015-03-18
I admit this is biased, heavily so in fact, but most of what I know about autotools comes from this:
http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autotools/
Which... the reason it sticks out with me is that really good rants are a lot more memorable to me than people talking about what software they like, which is probably not a fair way to evaluate software.
mackwic · 2015-02-03
AH ! That was a nice joke, have my upvote. :)
For the curious: http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autotools/ (tldr: autotools won't work on windows, you need a shell emulator, like cygwin, and gcc)
Premake is nice, also. But CMakes tend to work better for a big project.
agumonkey · 2013-10-17
reminds me of this http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2013/10/15/c-has-become-a-s…
Thrymr · 2013-05-06
> Is sound still a problem on Linux?
Yes. My desktop has mostly just worked for a few upgrades now, but new versions on my HTPC running XBMCbuntu have been hit and miss and taken some screwing around with the sound.
This article from less than a year ago addresses some basic screw-ups that people on linux do trying to fix their sound troubles: http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2012/07/13/top-five-wron…
That rings true to me.
aw3c2 · 2011-07-31
spam. Directly go to http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=1023 instead
I think it was discussed earlier anyways.