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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #113 for the week October 12th - October 18th, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Intrepid Release Parties

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseParties

Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 8.10

Steve Langasek announced, on October 16, that the Release Candidate for Intrepid Ibex is one week away, and the final release is 2 weeks away. At this point, the Archive for the release is frozen, and all uploads must be approved by a member of the release team. Any uploads to main should be release critical only. In addition, there are guidelines for uploads to Universe[1], a list of release-critical bugs[2], and a list of "target of opportunity" bugs[3].

The Release Candidate will be October 23, 2008, and the final release will happen on October 30, 2008

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-October/000499.html

Preparing for Ubuntu Open Week

Jorge O. Castro has given us the dates of the next Ubuntu Open Week[1]: Monday 3 November to 7 November. Open Week is a series of IRC sessions, tutorials and tips, a week of collaboration over several topics that cover all aspects of Ubuntu. Jorge has prepared a "prep page" for this edition of Open Week[2], to help find people who would like to present sessions, and for users to add topics they'd like to see covered. Please submit your ideas and subjects no later than 22 October.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-October/005928.html

Americas Membership

Hollman Enciso https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HollmanEnciso - https://launchpad.net/~hollman

Hollman has been an active member of the Ubuntu Columbia LoCo, and helped to coordinate many activities and currently leads the team as one of its administrators. Hollman has been very active in translation work, answering questions in Launchpad, bug triaging and general advocation.

Julián Alarcón https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JulianAlarcon - https://launchpad.net/~alarconj Julián comes in as another member of the Ubuntu Columbia Team. As with his teammate, Julián has shown excellent work in translations as well, as all around work with triaging bugs, answering question in Launchpad, and advocation of local Ubuntu events. Julián hopes to work on packaging with MOTU.

Luke Faraone https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LukeFaraone - https://launchpad.net/~lfaraone Luke represents the LoCo of Washington, D.C. in the United States. Luke has been incremental in getting Sugar Labs (http://sugarlabs.org) into Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. Luke has also been a solid contributer to bug work, including 5-a-day, and active in the Washington, D.C. LoCo.

New MOTU Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukC2I0hUoIw

US Ubuntu Shop

http://usshop.ubuntu.com/

maybe moved to ION?

Ubuntu 7.04 EOL: Sun Oct 19th

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.04-end-of-life

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 Intrepid

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/

LoCo News

Ohio LinuxFest 2008

http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/ Jacob's blog on the event (mention Jono speaking and link to his blog: http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1326)

http://decafbad.net/pictures/ohio-linuxfest/ohio-linuxfest-2008

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

Launchpad 2.1.10 released

http://news.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-2110-faster-branch-uploads

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/10/13/dell-launches-consumer-advertising-for-ubuntu-linux-pcs/

http://www.technobuzz.net/1000-free-ubuntu-apps/ include link: http://appnr.com/ point out: uses apturl, it grabs everything from the repos already listed in a users source.list file, doesn't go to some random third-party site and try to download anything

  • NSW considers giving students Linux laptops - Fran Foo reports on a move by the government of New South Wales, Austraila. The NSW government wants to place $56 million worth of computers, loaded with non-proprietary software such as is found in Edubuntu, with secondary school students. "Students would also have access to thousands of other open source educational programs," Mr McAlpine said in briefing papers sent to NSW Labor Party politicians and school principals two weeks ago. A Microsoft Australia spokesperson said the company had not seen the document and could not comment. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24490953-15306,00.html

  • Linux and Laptop Screen Resolutions - J.A. Watson has been looking into the problem that Linux has with screen resolutions, and come up with a pleasant surprise. It used to be that Linux "didn't get it right". But now, Mandriva has managed to get the resolution just as he wants it by default. And when he adds another screen, it gives a best possible for a mirrored screen. Ubuntu doesn't do that as well, using the highest resolution that they both share. But with mirrored unchecked, it optimises each screen to its best resolution. So, between the two distributions, there have been major improvements. http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009516o-2000498448b,00.htm

  • Open source's usability challenge - From the staff of ZDNet UK, this article defines the difference between functionality and usability. Products may mimic each other in functionality, but how usable are they? When it comes to open source, the concern is that it appears to lack someone with the vision of what usability actually means and how to achieve it. And, without that spark of creativity, open source will give its competitors a free ride. http://www.builderau.com.au/program/linux/soa/Open-source-s-usability-challenge-/0,339028299,339292604,00.htm

  • Ubuntu 8.10 Has a Brand New Wallpaper - Marius Nestor reports on his disappointment with the wallpaper that has been offered in the Alpha and Beta releases of Intrepid Ibex. Ubuntu 8.10 had been promised to have a new and breathtaking theme. But the first one was dark, the second was a rehash of the Human Murrine them, and then came dots. However, on October 10th, a new theme was released that better represents the Intrepid Ibex, and an alternative has been suggested. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-8-10-Has-a-Brand-New-Wallpaper-95451.shtml

http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/10/18/history-of-ubuntu-from-warthog-to-ibex/

In The Blogosphere

http://nosecurity.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/xubuntu-intrepid-beta-mini-walkthrough/

http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/10/buying_a_netboo.html

http://computingtech.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-ubuntu-then.html

http://prosenjit23.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/switch-to-ubuntu-linux-not-apple-mac-os/

In Other News

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/10/17/s01e16-i-can-help/

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=canonical_catalyst_811&num=1

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cauv2008/ running Ubuntu Server 8.04

http://kipas.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/blankon-minimalist-to-gnome-asia-summit/ (link to the distro homepage directly)

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

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