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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #133 for the week March 8th - March 14th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

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 Jaunty

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 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/

Translation Stats Intrepid

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
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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/

# NEEDS UPDATING. # #=== 5-a-day bug stats === # #==== Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days ==== # # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # #==== Top 5 teams for the past 7 days ==== # # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # #5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

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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

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team (UFBT)

UFBT has taken a step forward, with guidance from BodhiZazen, and collaborates with Ubuntu Classroom. They offer IRC events and courses, held in #ubuntu-classroom. Events are less formal, based on a Q&A format or a one day topic. A course is more formal, including series of sessions all related to the same topic (Python 101, Python 201, etc). Upcoming topics are Security, Packaging, How to use LP, How to triage bug reports, How to stay current with Ubuntu Events/Community, How to IRC (clients, registration, channels, etc). Not all potential topics have been scheduled yet. The first two events will be on Security (March 19th and March 26th, see the Events link below for an actual schedule). See you there !

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom

Events: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Education/Events

Courses: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Education/Schedule

Proposed topics (feel free to add): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Education/Proposals

UF discussion thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1093535

In The Press

System76 Serval Professional Notebook

Michael Larabel of phoronix says that finding a laptop that can run Linux is no longer much of a challenge. A majority off the shelf PCs shipping with Windows can easily have their operating system replaced with Linux and chances are most, if not all, of the components will "just work" on this open-source operating system, while ill-supported parts can usually be configured to work in just a few steps. For those looking to save time or avoid a potential headache, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and other major vendors have been offering Linux notebooks for some time now. One of the smaller vendors that has been offering Ubuntu Linux notebooks (along with desktops and servers) is System76 Inc. System76 recently released their Serval Professional notebook with a 15.4" screen which is available with a 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1200 display, and can be configured along with a NVIDIA GeForce or NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics processor. Some of the other components include Gigabit LAN, 802.11 a/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, Express Card, a built-in 2.0 mega-pixel web camera, and a fingerprint reader. System76 currently loads their products up with Ubuntu 8.10 (x86_64) with the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, GNOME 2.24.1, X Server 1.5.2, GCC 4.3.2, and the proprietary NVIDIA driver. This is phoronix's first time reviewing a System76 product, and they report that they are pleased with this notebook. The Serval Professional notebook was designed well, has a great build quality, there is a nice selection of hardware around which this notebook can be configured, and it ships with Ubuntu! http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=system76_serval_pro&num=1

Possible data loss in Ext4

H-Online tells us of a bug report posted in the bug tracker for the next version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) that describes a massive data loss problem when using Ext4, which is the future standard file system for Linux, and which is available as an option when installing Ubuntu 9.04. The report describes a crash occurring shortly after the KDE 4 desktop files had been loaded, resulting in the loss of all of the data that had been created, including many KDE configuration files. Ext4 Developer Ted Ts'o advises that "this is really more of an application design problem more than anything else." Programmers had become accustomed to and dependent on, the behaviour of Ext3, which has a commit interval of 5 seconds and a default journalling mode of "data=ordered." Ts'o describes a workaround, but points out that other modern file systems, such as XFS and the new Btrfs, are also affected by this problem. Patches for this issue will not be included in the coming release of 2.6.29, but are queued for the 2.6.30 kernel. http://www.h-online.com/open/Possible-data-loss-in-Ext4--/news/112821

French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu

"A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015." -- ARS Technica

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars

In The Blogosphere

Dvorak makes the switch to Ubuntu

"Almost all the newest hardware coming out has Linux support. The critical mass has been reached, and it's time everyone tried Ubuntu." -- John Dvorak
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8559496096.html
original article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp

9 features Ubuntu should implement

http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2009/03/9-features-ubuntu-should-implement_07.html

Another Look at Ubuntu 9.04

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/03/08/previewing-ubuntu-904-alpha-5/

Ubuntu for Business: The Missing Pieces

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/03/08/ubuntu-for-business-the-missing-pieces/

Five things Ubuntu really needs

http://darrenyates.com.au/?p=918

In Other News

Meeting Summaries

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

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

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