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| Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week August 3rd - August 9th, 2008. In this issue we cover ... | Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #103 for the week August 3rd - August 9th, 2008. In this issue we cover ... |
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=== Ubuntu Studio is looking for help. === If you have an interest in multimedia applications, such as Inkscape, Ardour, Blender, Audacity, GIMP, etc., then Ubuntu Studio would like to hear from you. They are looking for people who can package, or would like to learn packaging, people who can help design the look of the website and people who have documentation skills. Join the team at #ubuntustudio-devel, or introduce yourself on the mailing list:https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2008-August/000749.html === SRU needs you! === Stable Release Updates (SRU) go through a cycle that anyone can help with. SRUs are first released in the -proposed repositories for 2 weeks to allow people to make sure that the bugs they are meant to fix really have been. And this is where you can help without having to be a developer. Just select something that interests you on the Pending SRUs list, and click on the bugs in the "Changelog Bugs" colum. Find out how to reproduce the bug, install the application and run the test. Report your findings, both positive and negative as a comment to the bug report. For help, go to the IRC channel #ubuntu-testing. http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/sru-needs-you/ === New Ubuntu Members === ==== Americas Board ==== Andrew Pollock is the tech lead for Goobuntu, Google's in-house derivative of Ubuntu, He is also a Debian Developer. His current involvement with Ubuntu is bug triaging, and reporting Enterprise-level bugs that are encounter in Ubuntu.He is mainly interested in the LTS releases of Ubuntu, but also follows other releases. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~apollock Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndrewPollock Paul Tagliamonte is Creator of Sabre (a Bluetooth plugin for amaroK) Designed and tested for Ubuntu. He is also de creator of Qube (a CLI into libnotify) allowing shell scripters to use the attractive notification daemon. He is a Member of the Ubuntu Forum's Beginner's Team. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~paultag Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Paultag Michael Rooney is an active participant in the Bugsquad and Bugcontrol teams, he also manages the irc bot Eeebotu, which resides in #ubuntu-bugs-announce and announces bugs in Ubuntu as they come in. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~michael Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MikeRooney Charles Davis is a Forum staff member and active member of the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team / Unanswered Posts Team. He is also active in the Launchpad Beginner Team for Ubuntu. He is a member of the Ubuntu Documentation Students Team. hH is currently working to improve the quality of Ubuntu's help system and Community Wiki Pages. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~charles.davis Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Old_soldier Joe Barker has been a member of the Ubuntu Forums since the end of August 2007 and is now a Member of the Beginners Team, and the Unanswered Posts team, and just recently he became a Forum Moderator. He has also participated in the Sabre project (http://launchpad.net/sabre). Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~Joeb454 Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Joeb454 Bryan Quigley is a long standing volunteer for the New Jersey LoCo team and has been to almost every event. He has helped triage bugs, answered many support questions (more off than on launchpad), and made several blueprints. He is a very active advocate of free software (check reference of participation in events). Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~gQuigs Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gquigs Ted Gould has participated in the Desktop team, He has given promotion talks on Ubuntu at several FOSS orientes events ( SCaLE, Ubuntu Open Week, OSCON). he has also participated in packaging and maintenance for GNOME Power Manager and GNOME Screensaver in ubuntu. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~ted-gould Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TedGould Emma Jane Hogbin is a very active member of the FOSS community. Her participation ranges from a member of the Ubuntu Women team. Conference Speaker (Drupal``Con, Lug``Radio Live, amongst others) she has chaired conferences and participates in Hardware recycling programs. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~emmajane Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmmaJane The Americas board is delighted to present these new Ubuntu Members! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-August/000144.html === Canonical to Offer Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop through Ubuntu (R) Partner Repository === Zimbra Desktop (now in Beta Version 3) is a personal collaboration application that works in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, both Open Source Edition and the commercially supported Network Edition. "The addition of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop to our Partner Repository gives millions of Ubuntu users instant access to best-in-class messaging and collaboration,” said Malcolm Yates, global ISV partner manager at Canonical. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/zimbra-desktop === Unison™ released for Ubuntu™ to bring unified communications to Linux === Unison is a Small to Midsized Business (SMB) server and desktop solution for unifying communications. The Unison server, accessed through the Unison desktop, combines email, instant messaging, a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) phone system, contacts and calendaring. Currently available from the Unison Web site [1], it will soon be available at the Canonical Store [2]. [1] http://www.unison.com [2] http://shop.canonical.com http://www.ubuntu.com/news/unison-unified-communications === Canonical To Offer Alfresco Labs Pre-Packaged Within Ubuntu Distribution === Alfresco, the open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is coming to the Ubuntu partner repositories. Said Malcolm Yates, Global ISV manager at Canonical. “Users have a great opportunity to assess Alfresco on Ubuntu and see the benefits these two great Open Source solutions can bring organizations. We will jointly deliver a pre-packaged enterprise version of Alfresco later in the year.” Alfresco and Canonical will be demonstrating this solution at Linux``World in San Francisco, stand # 716. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/alfresco-enterprise-content-management === MOTU News === https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-August/004382.html |
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| http://ubuntuloveday2008.eventbrite.com/ | === Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008 === The Ubuntu Philippines Local Community Team (Ubuntu-PH), and the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Computer Science are holding an Ubuntu sharing event on August 23, 2008. Geared toward Ubuntu enthusiasts, it's an opportunity for people to share their experiences in using Ubuntu in everyday computing. Six resource people are slated to present talks: 1. The Ubuntu 30 day challenge - Aileen Apolo (Google) 2. Ubuntu on virtualization and integrating to a Windows Network - Wallen Tan 3. Ubuntu: Saving lives (and then some) - Charo Nuguid 4. Choice is Good! Welcome to the Exciting, Productive and Wacky World of Ubuntu Derivatives - members of UP Linux Users' Group (UnPLUG) 5. Ubuntu and the OLPC XO-1 - Rowen Remis Iral (OLPCPH) 6. Kubuntu & KDE: Contributing to an International Software Project - Juan Carlos Torres (KDE Project) Due to the limited space, tickets for the event have already been fully allocated. http://ubuntuloveday2008.eventbrite.com/ === Guasmo inauguration and delivery of Internet Laboratories === In a display of cooperation between Lo``Cos, Jorge Alvarez from the Ubuntu Nevada Lo``Co team provided some pictures to the Ecuador Lo``Co. The Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, opened some internet labs in the Guasmo Area of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and the computers are running Ubuntu. The pictures show some of the lab and President Correa. http://ecubuntu.com/?p=1347 |
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| == New in Hardy Heron == | == New in Intrepid Ibex == https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2008-August/002868.html http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/encrypted-private-directories-in-ubuntu-intrepid/ |
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| ## Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent. ## We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest. ## Just pulling one example from my memory, the story about Indiana schools piloting ## a classroom Linux deployment, a portion of which was Ubuntu, are good. Ubuntu ## release reviews are also common items in this section. |
* Ubuntu attracts the lion's share of Linux``World's smaller crowds - Michael Hatamoto noted that the Ubuntu booth seemed to attract more people than other booths. Their presentations and training sessions were heavily attended in a year when overall attendance was sparse. http://www.betanews.com/article/Ubuntu_attracts_the_lions_share_of_LinuxWorlds_smaller_crowds/1218146689 * Ubuntu Goes Enterprise - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains that Ubuntu is about to release business software stacks for Small-to-Medium sized Businesses (SMB) and enterprises. Some of the preloaded software intended to be released by 2009 is the IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) which includes Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime. Another offering will be the Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.5. And still a third will be Unison, which is a combination desktop and server package. http://www.cio.com/article/441702/ * A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community - Esther Schindler relates some of her experiences at the Open Source Convention (OSCON). Some of it involves how to include more than just developers in the community, and get people to contribute in other ways than code. This included talking to Mark Shuttleworth about attracting participants and interacting and integrating with upstream software providers. Other discussions included the role of women in Open Source, and community management. Jono Bacon mentioned that part of it is not trying to convert a user community into a developer community. "You're trying to convince a cat to bark," he said. Also mentioned in the article is the Open Web Foundation, and how it tries to encourage data as well as open source code to be available everywhere. Some of this involves untangling licensing definitions. Read more at http://www.cio.com/article/441165/ * Leadership Lessons: Passion, Smarts and What Open Source Can Learn About Management - Esther Schindler spoke to Mark Shuttleworth from Ubuntu and Jon Sobel (Source``Forge group president) and Ross Turk (community manager for Source``Forge.net) about management and the open source community. One of the things that Ms. Schindler discovered is that there doesn't appear to be any training for managers in open source projects. And now it's time for open source to step up and innovate new methods of managing and training managers. http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/leadership_lessons * Giving new life to old computers - C.M. Boots-Faubert raises the age-old question: what do you do with a computer that no longer suits your needs? The answer, of course, is to give it to a child that has none, loaded with a secure operating system like Xubuntu which makes it appear to run faster than it ever did before. Not only that, but it comes with email and web browser, Abiword for doing homework and, oh yes, games. http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080805/BIZ/808050303 |
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| http://journihilism.net/2008/08/a-practical-experience-fedora-vs-ubuntu/ | * Canonical Preparing Virtual Ubuntu Server Appliances - The Var Guy briefly explains how Ubuntu is simplifying the installation of server applications in virtual server appliances. The application stacks ride on top of the virtualization software without the need of special hardware beyond that traditionally used. Read more at http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/canonical-preparing-virtual-ubuntu-server-appliances/ * Installfest: Untangle, Ubuntu Linux Save 750 PCs From Landfills - Joe Panettieri has the final numbers from the Installfest at Linux``World Expo. In an effort backed by Untangle and its partners, Ubuntu was installed on 750 used computers, resulting in an estimated savings of $375,000 over buying new PC's with Windows Vista installed. This helps kids and the environment. http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/untangle-ubuntu-linux-save-750-pcs-from-landfills/ * A practical experience: Fedora vs Ubuntu - The author of the blog site Journihilism compares Fedora and Ubuntu based on some personal preferences but without giving a definitive choice. His purpose appears to be more toward showing the strengths of each distribution. It is his opinion that Ubuntu is easy to use, whereas Fedora is more stable and secure, but that Ubuntu has a means of getting the codecs one needs where Fedora doesn't. http://journihilism.net/2008/08/a-practical-experience-fedora-vs-ubuntu/ * How Dell and System76’s Ubuntu Machines Stack Up to Their Mac Counterparts - Andrew Min compared the prices of comparable Mac, System76 and Dell (loaded with Ubuntu) computers in 4 different categories. Prices were somewhat comparable in the mini and low-end laptop categories. But the System76 Serval took the high-end category and the Dell Inspiron 530N with Ubuntu installed took the desktop category. See the breakdown at http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/08/how-dell-and-system76s-ubuntu-machines-stack-up-to-their-mac-counterparts/ |
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## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections. |
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ibm-canonicalubuntu-novell-red-hat/story.aspx?guid={F6BECEDE-0833-4FA6-83D7-4EBA7A79337E}&dist=hppr http://www.linux.com/feature/144170 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/03/copy.machine.reprap (Ubuntu is supposedly the OS in the picture. I can't really tell) |
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #103 for the week August 3rd - August 9th, 2008. In this issue we cover ...
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In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu Studio is looking for help.
If you have an interest in multimedia applications, such as Inkscape, Ardour, Blender, Audacity, GIMP, etc., then Ubuntu Studio would like to hear from you. They are looking for people who can package, or would like to learn packaging, people who can help design the look of the website and people who have documentation skills. Join the team at #ubuntustudio-devel, or introduce yourself on the mailing list:https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2008-August/000749.html
SRU needs you!
Stable Release Updates (SRU) go through a cycle that anyone can help with. SRUs are first released in the -proposed repositories for 2 weeks to allow people to make sure that the bugs they are meant to fix really have been. And this is where you can help without having to be a developer. Just select something that interests you on the Pending SRUs list, and click on the bugs in the "Changelog Bugs" colum. Find out how to reproduce the bug, install the application and run the test. Report your findings, both positive and negative as a comment to the bug report. For help, go to the IRC channel #ubuntu-testing. http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/sru-needs-you/
New Ubuntu Members
Americas Board
Andrew Pollock is the tech lead for Goobuntu, Google's in-house derivative of Ubuntu, He is also a Debian Developer. His current involvement with Ubuntu is bug triaging, and reporting Enterprise-level bugs that are encounter in Ubuntu.He is mainly interested in the LTS releases of Ubuntu, but also follows other releases. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~apollock Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndrewPollock
Paul Tagliamonte is Creator of Sabre (a Bluetooth plugin for amaroK) Designed and tested for Ubuntu. He is also de creator of Qube (a CLI into libnotify) allowing shell scripters to use the attractive notification daemon. He is a Member of the Ubuntu Forum's Beginner's Team. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~paultag Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Paultag
Michael Rooney is an active participant in the Bugsquad and Bugcontrol teams, he also manages the irc bot Eeebotu, which resides in #ubuntu-bugs-announce and announces bugs in Ubuntu as they come in. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~michael Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MikeRooney
Charles Davis is a Forum staff member and active member of the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team / Unanswered Posts Team. He is also active in the Launchpad Beginner Team for Ubuntu. He is a member of the Ubuntu Documentation Students Team. hH is currently working to improve the quality of Ubuntu's help system and Community Wiki Pages. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~charles.davis Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Old_soldier
Joe Barker has been a member of the Ubuntu Forums since the end of August 2007 and is now a Member of the Beginners Team, and the Unanswered Posts team, and just recently he became a Forum Moderator. He has also participated in the Sabre project (http://launchpad.net/sabre). Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~Joeb454 Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Joeb454
Bryan Quigley is a long standing volunteer for the New Jersey LoCo team and has been to almost every event. He has helped triage bugs, answered many support questions (more off than on launchpad), and made several blueprints. He is a very active advocate of free software (check reference of participation in events). Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~gQuigs Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gquigs
Ted Gould has participated in the Desktop team, He has given promotion talks on Ubuntu at several FOSS orientes events ( SCaLE, Ubuntu Open Week, OSCON). he has also participated in packaging and maintenance for GNOME Power Manager and GNOME Screensaver in ubuntu. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~ted-gould Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TedGould
Emma Jane Hogbin is a very active member of the FOSS community. Her participation ranges from a member of the Ubuntu Women team. Conference Speaker (DrupalCon, LugRadio Live, amongst others) she has chaired conferences and participates in Hardware recycling programs. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~emmajane Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmmaJane
The Americas board is delighted to present these new Ubuntu Members!
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-August/000144.html
Canonical to Offer Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop through Ubuntu (R) Partner Repository
Zimbra Desktop (now in Beta Version 3) is a personal collaboration application that works in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, both Open Source Edition and the commercially supported Network Edition. "The addition of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop to our Partner Repository gives millions of Ubuntu users instant access to best-in-class messaging and collaboration,” said Malcolm Yates, global ISV partner manager at Canonical. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/zimbra-desktop
Unison™ released for Ubuntu™ to bring unified communications to Linux
Unison is a Small to Midsized Business (SMB) server and desktop solution for unifying communications. The Unison server, accessed through the Unison desktop, combines email, instant messaging, a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) phone system, contacts and calendaring. Currently available from the Unison Web site [1], it will soon be available at the Canonical Store [2].
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/unison-unified-communications
Canonical To Offer Alfresco Labs Pre-Packaged Within Ubuntu Distribution
Alfresco, the open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is coming to the Ubuntu partner repositories. Said Malcolm Yates, Global ISV manager at Canonical. “Users have a great opportunity to assess Alfresco on Ubuntu and see the benefits these two great Open Source solutions can bring organizations. We will jointly deliver a pre-packaged enterprise version of Alfresco later in the year.” Alfresco and Canonical will be demonstrating this solution at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, stand # 716. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/alfresco-enterprise-content-management
MOTU News
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-August/004382.html
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
- Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
- All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Infamous Bugs
Translation Stats Hardy
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/
LoCo News
Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008
The Ubuntu Philippines Local Community Team (Ubuntu-PH), and the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Computer Science are holding an Ubuntu sharing event on August 23, 2008. Geared toward Ubuntu enthusiasts, it's an opportunity for people to share their experiences in using Ubuntu in everyday computing. Six resource people are slated to present talks:
- The Ubuntu 30 day challenge - Aileen Apolo (Google)
- Ubuntu on virtualization and integrating to a Windows Network - Wallen Tan
- Ubuntu: Saving lives (and then some) - Charo Nuguid
- Choice is Good! Welcome to the Exciting, Productive and Wacky World of Ubuntu Derivatives - members of UP Linux Users' Group (UnPLUG)
- Ubuntu and the OLPC XO-1 - Rowen Remis Iral (OLPCPH)
Kubuntu & KDE: Contributing to an International Software Project - Juan Carlos Torres (KDE Project)
Due to the limited space, tickets for the event have already been fully allocated. http://ubuntuloveday2008.eventbrite.com/
Guasmo inauguration and delivery of Internet Laboratories
In a display of cooperation between LoCos, Jorge Alvarez from the Ubuntu Nevada LoCo team provided some pictures to the Ecuador LoCo. The Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, opened some internet labs in the Guasmo Area of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and the computers are running Ubuntu. The pictures show some of the lab and President Correa. http://ecubuntu.com/?p=1347
New in Intrepid Ibex
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2008-August/002868.html
http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/encrypted-private-directories-in-ubuntu-intrepid/
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
In The Press
Ubuntu attracts the lion's share of LinuxWorld's smaller crowds - Michael Hatamoto noted that the Ubuntu booth seemed to attract more people than other booths. Their presentations and training sessions were heavily attended in a year when overall attendance was sparse. http://www.betanews.com/article/Ubuntu_attracts_the_lions_share_of_LinuxWorlds_smaller_crowds/1218146689
Ubuntu Goes Enterprise - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains that Ubuntu is about to release business software stacks for Small-to-Medium sized Businesses (SMB) and enterprises. Some of the preloaded software intended to be released by 2009 is the IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) which includes Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime. Another offering will be the Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.5. And still a third will be Unison, which is a combination desktop and server package. http://www.cio.com/article/441702/
A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community - Esther Schindler relates some of her experiences at the Open Source Convention (OSCON). Some of it involves how to include more than just developers in the community, and get people to contribute in other ways than code. This included talking to Mark Shuttleworth about attracting participants and interacting and integrating with upstream software providers. Other discussions included the role of women in Open Source, and community management. Jono Bacon mentioned that part of it is not trying to convert a user community into a developer community. "You're trying to convince a cat to bark," he said. Also mentioned in the article is the Open Web Foundation, and how it tries to encourage data as well as open source code to be available everywhere. Some of this involves untangling licensing definitions. Read more at http://www.cio.com/article/441165/
Leadership Lessons: Passion, Smarts and What Open Source Can Learn About Management - Esther Schindler spoke to Mark Shuttleworth from Ubuntu and Jon Sobel (SourceForge group president) and Ross Turk (community manager for SourceForge.net) about management and the open source community. One of the things that Ms. Schindler discovered is that there doesn't appear to be any training for managers in open source projects. And now it's time for open source to step up and innovate new methods of managing and training managers. http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/leadership_lessons
Giving new life to old computers - C.M. Boots-Faubert raises the age-old question: what do you do with a computer that no longer suits your needs? The answer, of course, is to give it to a child that has none, loaded with a secure operating system like Xubuntu which makes it appear to run faster than it ever did before. Not only that, but it comes with email and web browser, Abiword for doing homework and, oh yes, games. http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080805/BIZ/808050303
In The Blogosphere
Canonical Preparing Virtual Ubuntu Server Appliances - The Var Guy briefly explains how Ubuntu is simplifying the installation of server applications in virtual server appliances. The application stacks ride on top of the virtualization software without the need of special hardware beyond that traditionally used. Read more at http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/canonical-preparing-virtual-ubuntu-server-appliances/
Installfest: Untangle, Ubuntu Linux Save 750 PCs From Landfills - Joe Panettieri has the final numbers from the Installfest at LinuxWorld Expo. In an effort backed by Untangle and its partners, Ubuntu was installed on 750 used computers, resulting in an estimated savings of $375,000 over buying new PC's with Windows Vista installed. This helps kids and the environment. http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/untangle-ubuntu-linux-save-750-pcs-from-landfills/
A practical experience: Fedora vs Ubuntu - The author of the blog site Journihilism compares Fedora and Ubuntu based on some personal preferences but without giving a definitive choice. His purpose appears to be more toward showing the strengths of each distribution. It is his opinion that Ubuntu is easy to use, whereas Fedora is more stable and secure, but that Ubuntu has a means of getting the codecs one needs where Fedora doesn't. http://journihilism.net/2008/08/a-practical-experience-fedora-vs-ubuntu/
How Dell and System76’s Ubuntu Machines Stack Up to Their Mac Counterparts - Andrew Min compared the prices of comparable Mac, System76 and Dell (loaded with Ubuntu) computers in 4 different categories. Prices were somewhat comparable in the mini and low-end laptop categories. But the System76 Serval took the high-end category and the Dell Inspiron 530N with Ubuntu installed took the desktop category. See the breakdown at http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/08/how-dell-and-system76s-ubuntu-machines-stack-up-to-their-mac-counterparts/
In Other News
http://www.linux.com/feature/144170
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/03/copy.machine.reprap (Ubuntu is supposedly the OS in the picture. I can't really tell)
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