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## Common acronyms  1. IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol.
 1. IRC - Internet Relay Chat
 1. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
 1. NTFS - the standard file system of Windows NT.
 1. POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3.
 1. SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer: a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
 1. SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
 1. Tls - Transport Layer Security, successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
 1. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
 1. UTC - Coordinated Universal Time: UTC replaced GMT as the basis for the main reference time scale or civil time in various regions on January 1, 1972.

Contents

Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu LoCo Teams Meeting
    2. New MOTUs: didrocks, huats, Laney and quadrispro
    3. Rockin' LoCo Docs Day
    4. Ubuntu Hug Day
    5. Testing needed - Improved mail server stack
    6. Drupal 5.x and 6.x LoCo Suite Released
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Infamous Bugs
    3. Translation Stats Jaunty
    4. Translation Stats Intrepid
    5. 5-a-day bug stats
      1. Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days
      2. Top 5 teams for the past 7 days
    6. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu Honduras being organized
  6. New in Intrepid Ibex
  7. Launchpad News
  8. Ubuntu Forums News
  9. In The Press
    1. Netbooks: A Curse or a Blessing in an Imploding PC Market?
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu and the new user
    2. Ubuntu spawns new generation
  11. In Other News
    1. Ubuntu Training for USA
    2. HP Mini Mi screenshots
  12. Meeting Summaries
    1. Server Team Meeting Feb.10th
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Community Spotlight
  15. Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 7.10 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
  16. UWN #: A sneak peek
  17. Archives and RSS Feed
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #129 for the week February 8th - February 14th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu LoCo Teams Meeting

Be sure to put this date on your LoCo and personal calendars, Feb. 28th, 2009. At 6pm UTC there will be an Ubuntu LoCo Team's Community meeting. You can find out more details on the meeting page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamMeeting The meeting will take place in #ubuntu-locoteams on Freenode. Everyone is welcome. This meeting will be to kick off regular LoCo Team Community meetings. http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/02/13/ubuntu-loco-team-meeting-scheduled/

New MOTUs: didrocks, huats, Laney and quadrispro

In the first ever MOTU Council meeting dedicated to developer applications, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers, several new MOTU's were approved:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-February/005451.html (please be sure to include links to launchpad and wiki for all of these new motu's)

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-February/005452.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-February/005455.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-February/005457.html

Congratulations to the four of you!

Rockin' LoCo Docs Day

Feb 14th, was LoCo Docs Day for the Ubuntu LoCo Community, and it was a Rockin' event. The LoCo Community came together to work on expanding and improving the LoCo Documentation on the Wiki. It was great to see folks from all the different LoCo's coming together to tweak the already excellent documentation. Here is a list of the work done:

dholbach:

damokles:

nhandler:

tyche:

johnc4510:

effie-jayx

Jono:

Jorge Castro

pleia2:https:

boredandblogging:

Thanks to everyone for getting involved and contributing your time. Of course, today is just one day and we need to continue to work hard to keep our documentation as up to date and authoritative as possible. Jono is planning on organizing more LoCo Doc Days in the future. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoDocsDay

http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/02/13/the-docs-were-indeed-rocked/

Ubuntu Hug Day

Another Hug Day is scheduled for terminating those pesky bugs:

Everyone is welcome and will be able to make a contribution by attending.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-February/000410.html

Testing needed - Improved mail server stack

During last UDS it was decided to improve the mail server stack available in Ubuntu Server. One of the items that came out of the discussion was a better integration between postfix and dovecot. Ante Karamatic worked on implementing it for Jaunty and his results have been uploaded. To test it all you need is a jaunty system and install the dovecot-postfix package. Once the installation has completed the following configuration will be available:

  • SASL authentication for smtp services

  • Dovecot delivered as the default Local Delivery Agent

  • Tls for smtp services

If you’re interested in a integrated mail stack providing a combination of smtp, imap, pop3 and managesieve services, the Jaunty Jackalope will suit you. Have a look at it, test it and with only one simple command: apt-get install dovecot-postfix Please let the Ubuntu Server team know about your suggestions and comments here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Contact

http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/an-improved-mail-server-stack-in-jaunty-dovecot-and-postfix-integration/

Drupal 5.x and 6.x LoCo Suite Released

That long needed suite of tools has finally been completed.

This suite is designed for any Ubuntu LoCo Communities wanting to host a website. It is designed to allow any LoCo team to quickly create a website using Drupal for their team.

What this suite offers:

  • An approved theme for any LoCo

  • A highly customizable theme
  • Launchpad OpenID integration
  • Users don't need to create an account on your site
  • Launchpad Teams integration
  • Can control access levels in site based on LP team memberships
  • Fast and friendly support

Official project: https://launchpad.net/loco-drupal

Release Downloads:

A Special Thanks: This project would not be possible without all the collaboration involved from:

http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2009/02/13/drupal-5x-and-6x-loco-suite-released/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (47390) +152 over last week
  • Critical (24) +/-0 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (19200) +81 over last week
  • Unassigned (39815) +83 over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (250183) +1755 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 Jaunty

  • Spanish (20690) +3973 over last week
  • French (59550) +6802 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (67267) -1101 over last week
  • Swedish (77622) +6251 over last week
  • English (Uk) (80140) +4449 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/

Translation Stats Intrepid

  • Spanish (15787) -1 over last week
  • French (61297) +/-0 over last week
  • Swedish (72562) +/-0 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (74852) -21 over last week
  • English (UK) (81040) +/-0 over last week

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

5-a-day bug stats

Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days

  • hew (91)
  • crimsun (40)
  • dholbach (39)
  • charlie-tca (30)
  • itnet7 (18)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

  • ubuntu-au (91)
  • ubuntu-berlin (51)
  • ubuntu-de-locoteam (50)
  • dcteam (40)
  • ubuntu-us-florida (23)

5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

  • Modify the linux for capturing the gaming market.
  • Volume control should close when you click somewhere else
  • Vinagre is not totally safe
  • Improve NTFS Unclean Shutdown Options
  • Improve progress communication

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

LoCo News

Ubuntu Honduras being organized

Anyone interested in helping to organize the Honduras Ubuntu team is invited to come and meet fellow users on the #ubuntu-hn IRC channel, next Thursday night February 19th. When: 9PM, Tegucigalpa (UTC-6) time. Convert to your time zone here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=19&year=2009&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=245

http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2009/02/13/primera-reunion-de-organizacion-ubuntu-honduras-jueves-feb-19-9pm/

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

Netbooks: A Curse or a Blessing in an Imploding PC Market?

From the Technology section of the New York Times, Ashlee Vance reports that, though the Netbook market has been blamed for the fall-off of PC sales, the sale of PCs had actually slumped before Netbooks arrived on the market. Couple that with the lower cost of processors, the lack of need for high-end graphics, and the use of Linux on Netbooks, and you have a formula for making money - just not as much money as the companies used to make. Hewlett-Packard is one of the latest to join the Linux migration. HP has taken Ubuntu and modified it by stripping out the branding and creating their own startup screen for the Mini 1000 Mi Edition computer. This provides people with the ability to access photos, e-mail, music and the Internet. Ashlee believes that other PC makers will also try fresh approaches, and that such work should eventually reach standard laptops and PCs and benefit consumers.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/netbooks-a-curse-or-a-blessing-in-an-imploding-pc-market/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu and the new user

Pete Graner has just converted his wife to Ubuntu. She was an avid Windows user that he managed to get onto Macs, but that was as far as she would go. Since he was working for RedHat at the time, he tried her on the various flavors of RedHat but without success. Now, as a Canonical employee, he's trying her on Ubuntu 8.10.

http://blog.redvoodoo.org/2009/02/ubuntu-and-new-user.html

Amber Graner is an average housewife who, according to her doctor, is human. So she wanted to try the "Linux for Human Beings" - Ubuntu. She started the install of Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 6400 and in less than 2 hours found herself able to connect to the Internet, connect to a color laser printer wirelessly, get to her website, get to FaceBook, access classes at Dayton, and write her blog. Her saga continues on her blog site.

http://amber.redvoodoo.org/

Ubuntu spawns new generation

In just the few years since it was released, Ubuntu Linux has inspired tens of new Linux distributions. Here we look at five of the best. In just the few years that Ubuntu Linux has been around it has become one of the most popular Linux versions available, ahead of others such as Red Hat, Suse and Mandriva. Ubuntu is not only a popular distribution in its own right, but it has spawned a new generation of Linux versions that use its underlying code to build versions for particular interest groups. Apart from the official Ubuntu derivatives such as Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu, there are tens of other distributions built around the Ubuntu community. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/6933.html

In Other News

Ubuntu Training for USA

Canonical has recently signed up two new training partners in the U.S. Fast Lane and Bridge Education. Both companies are already providing Ubuntu training courses across the U.S., details of which you can find here: http://webapps.ubuntu.com/course_locator/country_US/ As a special introduction offer, they are offering a 10% discount to any Ubuntu loco member who takes a course over the next 6 months.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2009-February/002772.html

HP Mini Mi screenshots

M Freitas provides screenshots of his HP Mini Mi along with a brief description of his feelings about it. This is his first Ubuntu computer, and he has found the experience really interesting. He has even gained the interest of a couple of lawyers, friends of his, who are interested in using it when they're on the move. Even his parents-in-law are interested. See his screenshots at: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8085

Meeting Summaries

Server Team Meeting Feb.10th

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027347.html

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

Archives and RSS Feed

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Nick Ali
  • John Crawford
  • Craig A. Eddy
  • Your Name Here
  • Liraz Siri
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

  1. IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol.
  2. IRC - Internet Relay Chat
  3. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the Universe and Multiverse repositories.
  4. NTFS - the standard file system of Windows NT.
  5. POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3.
  6. SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer: a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
  7. SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
  8. Tls - Transport Layer Security, successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
  9. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
  10. UTC - Coordinated Universal Time: UTC replaced GMT as the basis for the main reference time scale or civil time in various regions on January 1, 1972.

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

Feedback

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