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I discovered today that the GTK blogging client Drivel is apparently seeing active development again. Nifty!

See http://drivel.sourceforge.net/

Okay, for everyone out there who has been frustratingly reporting that KompoZer is broken in various ways in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex", I just wanted to say, I know. That said, I do not know why or how to fix it. So, here's a little background and explanation of where things stand.

So I noticed this morning both on my laptop at home and in the logs on servers at work that there had been a BIND update that came down the pipe, and being a core system service, was a bit curious what the deal was, but didn't look into it right away. Now, later in the day I'm going through the tech / security news of the day, and found this article providing a bit of background, and was able to confirm that it was related via USN 622-1.

So like we did for 7.10, with the 8.04 release of Ubuntu the Minnesota (USA) LoCo gathered contact information for various local media outlets, and I sent them all a note about the release, Ubuntu itself, and our release party. As a result, I actually got a response, from Jon Gordon of National Public Radio (NPR).