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In This Issue
General Community News
Distro Sprint
The Canonical distro team and a couple of community developers met for a week's hacking in Wiesbaden in Germany. Much feature work was done as we came to the Edgy feature freeze.
On the Thursday local IT consultancy company CC GmBH, who run Kubuntu on all their desktops, invited us to their offices and cooked us a South African dinner in their impressive kitchen. The dinner was commented on as "the best food we've ever had at our conferences".
Our chefs with Mark and Matt: http://static.flickr.com/92/224474985_f130cd7833.jpg?v=0
Scrumptious food photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/
Our office for the week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/221138809/
Paul Sladen's fridge report: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/517
Backports Open for Business
Backports reopened thanks to Colin Watson adding support in our archive manager Soyuz. Backported packages:
- ktorrent
- libtheora alpha7 (and dev package too)
- kbarcode 2.0.3-1ubuntu2
- nexuiz
- Gcin 1.2.0
- mplayerplug-in
- k3b
- Dia 0.95
- RSIBreak 0.7.1
Security Updates
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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
New Apps In Edgy
Don't forget quick installation notes, enable extra repository, package name, use g-a-i where possible, etc...
Digital Photography
- dcraw has been updated to 8.31 to improve the camera RAW file support with new cameras.
- UFRaw has been updated to 0.9.1.
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
New Artwork
Ken Wimer the Kubuntu Edgy artist in chief has been busy working on new artwork. The O2 theme has a definite purple feel to it is looking lovely.
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Artwork/Incoming/Kubuntu-Edgy-Ideas-Feedback
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/EdgyEft/Knot2/Kubuntu?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=desktop.png
System Settings
Simon Edwards has reorganised the layout of System Settings based on ideas from Usability Ellen.
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2220
Power Management Applet
The kde-guidance package has gained a new power management applet in Edgy. This replaces the klaptopdaemon used in previous versions of Kubuntu. Try it out and let us know of your experiences.
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/57 https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuPowerManagementFeedback
New artwork coming soon.
HWDB Client
We have added a KDE version of the HWDB client. This programme uploads anonymous information about your computer to our database at http://hwdb.ubuntu.com which can then be used in bug reports and helps us know more about our target hardware.
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2261
New artwork for this also coming soon.
Edubuntu
Xubuntu
Bug Stats
New Bugs: # BR Closed Bugs: #
Infamous Bugs
In The Press
Tips on keeping your Ubuntu Linux server secure
Computerworld published an excerpt from The Official Ubuntu Book by Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse and Ivan Krstic:
"In general, Ubuntu Server is a very secure platform. The Ubuntu Security Team, the team that produces all official security updates, has one of the best turnaround times in the industry. Ubuntu ships with a no open ports policy, meaning that after you install the machine -- be it an Ubuntu desktop or a server -- no applications will be accepting connections from the Internet by default. Like Ubuntu desktops, Ubuntu Server uses the sudo mechanism for system administration, eschewing the root account. And finally, security updates are guaranteed for at least 18 months after each release (five years for some releases, like Dapper), and are free."
Read more at http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002691&pageNumber=1
An interesting trivia question was spotted today on Washingpost.com:
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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082501540.html
And the buzz continues. Technorati.com, which indexes over over 52 million blogs lists Ubuntu as its fifth most popular search:
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You can search for Ubuntu related blog posts at http://www.technorati.com
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Conclusion
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Credits
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