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| This is the first Kubuntu newsletter, keeping you up to date with current Kubuntu development. Read on for Shipit CDs, LinuxTag and the Kubuntu Council. | In this newsletter: release candidate, Kubuntu meeting, KOffice 1.5.1, Kubuntu in Rosetta, Adept 2.0, Icecream and the Summer of Code. |
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| == Shipit For Kubuntu == | == Release Candidate == |
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| As part of an increased commitment from Canonical to Kubuntu orders are now being taken for free Kubuntu CDs of version 6.06 to be released at the start of June. You can get free CDs for PC and 64-bit PCs. | The Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate was made available yesterday. |
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| https://shipit.kubuntu.org/ | https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-May/000081.html |
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| == Kubuntu Council == | There have been no critical bugs from the Release Candidate so please test it either from a fresh install or by upgrading from Breezy and let us know how you get on. We especially welcome reports of installs from the new Ubiquity installer on the Desktop CD. |
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| Kubuntu will have a council to consider memberships for Kubuntu helpers to Ubuntu and decide any other issue at Kubuntu meetings. By general consensus the members for the first year will be: Jonathan Riddell, Anthony Mercantine, Raphael Pinson, Tom Albers (our KDE link), Sarah Hobbs and Achim Bohnet. | https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuDapperFeedback |
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| The next Kubuntu meeting is planned for Monday 22nd May at 21:00UTC on #ubuntu-meeting. All welcome. | == Kubuntu Meeting == |
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| == Kubuntu at LinuxTag == | The first Kubuntu Meeting with the new Kubuntu Council was held, minutes are available at: |
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| Kubuntu had a very successful stand at LinuxTag in Germany, many thanks to the German Kubuntu people for answering so many questions for the 4 days. Mirjam kindly wrote us this report | https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Meetings/2006-05-22 |
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| http://kubuntu.org/announcements/linuxtag2006.php | We approved three new members, imbrandon, toma and kwwii. We also discussed what needs to be done before the final release. |
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| On the Saturday several Kubuntu developers met with KDE developers and Mark Shuttleworth to discuss better collaboration. Mark said how he wants to employ more developers with a KDE background to the Canonical distro team. Canonical will become one of the first KDE Patrons in a new scheme being launched by KDE. | The next meeting is on June 6th at 21:00UTC in #ubuntu-meeting, all welcome. |
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| == Amarok 1.4 == | == KOffice 1.5.1 == |
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| Amarok 1.4 has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu. Unfortunately release is too late to get into dapper. | KOffice 1.5.1 was released and packages are available for Kubuntu |
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| http://kubuntu.org/announcements/amarok-1.4.php | http://kubuntu.org/announcements/koffice-151.php |
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| == Rosetta Support == | These packages contain a fix for the Kexi tables problem. Unfortunately the 1.5.1 release was too late to get into Dapper. |
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| All of Kubuntu is now in Rosetta, the translation module of Launchpad. Translating Kubuntu is now as easy as filling in a web form. I'll be sending an announcement to KDE translators shortly to discuss how best to take advantage of Rosetta. | == Kubuntu in Rosetta == |
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| https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+translations | Rosetta is now complete for the upcoming release. This is the first release where Rosetta supports Kubuntu and all of KDE in main has been imported. |
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| == Development Status == | https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-May/000082.html |
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| With less than two weeks to go development is now in heavy bug fixing mode. The update to CUPS 1.2 seems to have fixed all the major printing problems we were having. Ken Wimer has been touching up his Dapper artwork, so everything looks really shiny. Luka Reno has done a great job fixing various problems with knetworkconf. | I sent out some guidance to KDE translators in using Rosetta. |
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| The new live CD installer Ubiquity is looking really nice and I'm getting a good number of reports of successful installs. Next week will be the release candidate, please help us by testing the live CD installer when that is released. Ping me (Riddell on IRC) with reports of successful or unsuccessful installs. | https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-May/000082.html |
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| Reports of successful or unsuccessful upgrades from breezy are also very welcome, using sudo apt-get dist-upgrade or adept-updater. | Jonathan Jesse noted that Kubuntu Docs have been imported into Rosetta and translations of them are very welcome. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2006-May/001218.html == Adept 2.0 == Peter Rockai released Adept 2.0. Adept is Kubuntu's package manager and the 2.0 release adds an update notifier icon in the system tray and a simplified Add/Remove Programs installer. == Icecream Packages == Icecream packages have entered the archive as icecc and icecc-monitor. Icecream is a cluster compiler, similar to distcc but with a central server for automatic setup. It was written by KDE Developer Stephen Kulow. http://wiki.kde.org/Icecream == Kubuntu Summer of Code == Google's Summer of Code 2006 has begun and Kubuntu has four students working on QTParted, Guidance, a floppy/USB disk formatting tool and a port of the Ubuntu OEM installer. These should be exciting projects. |
Kubuntu Newsletter
In this newsletter: release candidate, Kubuntu meeting, KOffice 1.5.1, Kubuntu in Rosetta, Adept 2.0, Icecream and the Summer of Code.
Release Candidate
The Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate was made available yesterday.
There have been no critical bugs from the Release Candidate so please test it either from a fresh install or by upgrading from Breezy and let us know how you get on. We especially welcome reports of installs from the new Ubiquity installer on the Desktop CD.
Kubuntu Meeting
The first Kubuntu Meeting with the new Kubuntu Council was held, minutes are available at:
We approved three new members, imbrandon, toma and kwwii. We also discussed what needs to be done before the final release.
The next meeting is on June 6th at 21:00UTC in #ubuntu-meeting, all welcome.
KOffice 1.5.1
KOffice 1.5.1 was released and packages are available for Kubuntu
These packages contain a fix for the Kexi tables problem. Unfortunately the 1.5.1 release was too late to get into Dapper.
Kubuntu in Rosetta
Rosetta is now complete for the upcoming release. This is the first release where Rosetta supports Kubuntu and all of KDE in main has been imported.
I sent out some guidance to KDE translators in using Rosetta.
Jonathan Jesse noted that Kubuntu Docs have been imported into Rosetta and translations of them are very welcome.
Adept 2.0
Peter Rockai released Adept 2.0. Adept is Kubuntu's package manager and the 2.0 release adds an update notifier icon in the system tray and a simplified Add/Remove Programs installer.
Icecream Packages
Icecream packages have entered the archive as icecc and icecc-monitor. Icecream is a cluster compiler, similar to distcc but with a central server for automatic setup. It was written by KDE Developer Stephen Kulow.
Kubuntu Summer of Code
Google's Summer of Code 2006 has begun and Kubuntu has four students working on QTParted, Guidance, a floppy/USB disk formatting tool and a port of the Ubuntu OEM installer. These should be exciting projects.
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