Issue136
WORK IN PROGRESS
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In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 Beta Released
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2009-April/000120.html
Package Training Sessions
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-March/000559.html note: leave out the april 2nd session since that has already passed - john
Hug Day: April 9th
Time to get involved in making Ubuntu even better by participating in Hug Day!
- Date: April 9, 2009
- Target: Bugs with Patches
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs
Information: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs/
Get involved in helping to squash those pesky bugs!
Ubuntu Brainstorm: Call for Idea Reviewers
- Ubuntu is unusable after Windows installation
- Focus an attention of user on shutdown confirmation dialog
- Improve the wallpaper part of Ubuntu
- Synaptic quick search uses OR operator, making it hard to narrow down a search.
- Prevent accidental closing of multiple tabs in a Nautilus window
* Ubuntu is unusable after Windows installation http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/44 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-April/005623.html http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/03/30/the-fourth-horseman-steps-forward/
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (50356) +1087 over last week
- Critical (18) -4 over last week
- Unconfirmed (21077) +830 over last week
- Unassigned (42623) +964 over last week
- All bugs ever reported (266735) +3316 over last week
* Open (50356) +1087 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 (16756) -7190 over last week
- French (44296) -6187 over last week
- Swedish (55274) +457 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (57823) +175 over last week
- English (Uk) (85492) -1066 over last week
* Spanish (16756) -7190 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 (15230) -23 over last week
- French (59023) -1 over last week
- Swedish (63241) +/-0 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (63729) +/-0 over last week
- English (UK) (78012) +/-0 over last week
* Spanish (15230) -23 over last week Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
- Ubuntu is unusable after Windows installation
- Focus an attention of user on shutdown confirmation dialog
- Improve the wallpaper part of Ubuntu
- Synaptic quick search uses OR operator, making it hard to narrow down a search.
- Prevent accidental closing of multiple tabs in a Nautilus window
* Ubuntu is unusable after Windows installation http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/44 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-April/005623.html http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/03/30/the-fourth-horseman-steps-forward/
LoCo News
New Ubuntu Mirror: Columbia
http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2009/04/04/new-ubuntu-mirror-in-colombia-now-available/
Ubuntu Florida: Jaunty Release Parties!
http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/index.php/news/1-ubuntu/138-jaunty-release-parties.html
Ubuntu Pennsylvania: Jaunty Release Party
http://ubuntupennsylvania.org/?p=38
New in Intrepid Ibex
Launchpad News
Launchpad 2.2.3 Released: multiple PPAs and translation imports from Bazaar
http://blog.launchpad.net/releases/launchpad-223-multiple-ppas-and-translation-imports-from-bazaar
Launchpad: Official Bug Tags
http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/official-bug-tags
People and teams get multiple Personal Package Archives
http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/multiple-ppas-per-person
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
KDE 4.2.2 in Jaunty and PPA for Intrepid
http://machine-crusade.net/blog/2009/04/02/kde-422-in-jauntu-ppa-for-intrepid-soon/
Checkbox 0.7.1 Released
http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/46
Ubuntu Podcast: Qimo Interview/Michael and Michelle Hall
http://ubuntupodcast.net/2009/03/30/ubuntu-podcast-michael-michelle-hall-qimo/
In The Press
Shuttleworth: standards and open source against 'gross' cloud lock-in
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/shuttleworth_cloud_standards/
Ubuntu Server offers Amazon Cloud Capabilities
Ubuntu Server's Ambitions no longer cloudy
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/ubuntu_servers.html
The latest Ubuntu 9.04 Beta comes with improved netbook support
It Runs On Linux reports that the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu has released a beta of it's latest version, 9.04. This Beta is reported to be running fine on several Netbooks. Brad Linder from Liliputing loaded it onto a 1GB USB flash drive using UNetbootin & did test it on his Eee PC 1000HE & noticed "all of the hardware just worked". Even the keyboard shortcuts for adjusting the volume and screen brightness did work fine on his Eee PC 1000HE. Ubuntu Mini reports: "The Beta does not require any extra fixes or patches for the Dell Mini 9. Audio works out of the box and there is no longer a drive mounting problem after a LiveUSB install. Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix doesn't require adding any extra repositories or adding items to your start-up programs." http://eeepc.itrunsonlinux.com/the-news/290-the-latest-ubuntu-904-beta-comes-with-improved-netbook-support
Ubuntu 9.04 Beta vs. Fedora 11 Beta Performance
Michael Larabel or phoronix tells us that last week marked the release of the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta and this week there is the planned release of the Fedora 11 Beta. Both distributions are similar in the respect they will be upgrading several common packages like GNOME 2.26, but in Fedora 11 are more upstream (and experimental) bits like kernel mode-setting, the EXT4 file-system by default, and various other features. phoronix set out to run a few performance tests comparing the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta to the latest Rawhide packages that will make up today's Fedora 11 Beta release. Of the 15 tests, the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta won 10 of these Linux tests -- in a few of the tests though, the performance was close. This is a bit surprising considering Fedora 11 Beta uses the newer Linux 2.6.29 kernel and our internal benchmarks have shown this kernel to perform better overall than its predecessor. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_fedora_q209&num=1
Moblin V2 vs. Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs. Ubuntu MID
Last week Intel had pushed out a second alpha release of Moblin V2. Moblin is certainly turning into an interesting Intel creation, but how does its performance compare to other mobile-focused Linux distributions? We have benchmarked Moblin V2 Alpha 2 and compared it against what is likely their biggest competitor in the mobile space, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and the LPIA-based Ubuntu MID edition. Which of these mobile operating systems is the fastest? The LPIA-based Ubuntu MID was the fastest in three of the seven tests while Ubuntu Netbook Remix was the fastest in three of the others. When it came to SQLite where there is the bug we exposed in the 2.6.26 - 2.6.28 kernels, Moblin V2 came out ahead. However, in some of these tests, the results between the three distributions were close. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=moblin_ubuntu_mobile&num=1
Xubuntu 9.0.4 ScreenShots Beta
For those that enjoy seeing how a new distribution looks, Allen Sanabria of Linux Dynasty has released his second set of screen shorts and this time it is Xubuntu 9.0.4 Beta based on the New Jaunty Jackalope Beta Release of Ubuntu 9.0.4. Allen says, "I absolutely love Xubuntu since it uses the very light and efficient Xfce 4.6. Granted usually I am praising the fancier Ubuntu based distros, but I do love the simpleness and the fast loading of Applications in Xubuntu." http://www.linuxdynasty.org/xubuntu-904-screenshots-beta.html
Ubuntu server adoption slow but steady in the data center
Pam Derringer of SearchDataCenter says that although the Ubuntu desktop has won wide popularity, Ubuntu's fairly sophisticated server OS has yet to establish significant inroads in U.S. data centers. In a recent Ubuntu global user survey, nearly a third of the respondents worked for companies with 10 or fewer employees and only 28% worked in the U.S. And the overwhelming majority are using it for basic functions like Web, print and file, database and backup servers, with only a small minority using it for advanced tasks like virtualization or cluster computing. The most prevalent Ubuntu industry sectors, unsurprisingly, were technology and education. Most of the respondents said they are entrusting mission critical functions to Ubuntu and will be adding more Ubuntu servers in the future. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1352654,00.html
Shuttleworth: Windows 7 an Opportunity for Linux
Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews.com reports that Microsoft might be betting big on Windows 7, but to Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, the upcoming release is really an opportunity for Linux to shine. Granted, Linux on the desktop has not made as much of a dent against Windows as it has in the datacenter. But Shuttleworth figures the desktop itself and the applications that people are using are changing in ways that make the coming desktop battle different than it has ever been before. "The principals of diversity in the desktop space are well established," Shuttleworth told InternetNews.com. "The benefits to consumers and industry of having an alternative are very substantial. Any change in the status quo is an opportunity." http://www.internetnews.com/mobility/article.php/3813456/Shuttleworth+Windows+7+Is+an+Opportunity+for+Linux.htm
In The Blogosphere
Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 Beta
Tom of Tombuntu reports that on March 26 Ubuntu 9.04 Beta was released. He installed it on his main desktop system as soon as it was available, and has been running it for a few days. Tom reports many improvements in the Jaunty beta that he likes such as the Transmission Bittorrent client’s interface has been tweaked in a few places so it’s now easier to select which individual files to download and set their priority. Also, the default version of Compiz now recognizes GIMP’s toolbox windows and keeps them floated above the image window like Metacity. If you’ve tried the beta, how’s it been for you? Any new features in particular you like? http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/03/30/upgrading-to-ubuntu-904-beta/
Managed Service Providers Embrace Ubuntu Server Edition
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/04/02/managed-service-providers-embrace-ubuntu-server-edition/
Best of the Best: Hive Five Winners, January through March 2009
http://lifehacker.com/5194859/best-of-the-best-hive-five-winners-january-through-march-2009 - Again, focus on the Ubuntu aspect of this
New Ubuntu Linux server is for business
http://blogs.computerworld.com/new_ubuntu_linux_server_is_for_business
Will Your Next Wireless Router Run Ubuntu?
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/04/02/will-your-next-wireless-router-run-ubuntu/
In Other News
Ubuntu Podcast Episode #24 - Mark Shuttleworth
http://ubuntupodcast.net/2009/04/02/ubuntu-podcast-episode-24-mark-shuttleworth/
Ubuntu-UK Podcast: The Return
Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen bring you a new episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.
In this the first episode of the second season the Ubuntu UK podcast team returns with a slightly changed format. They’re trying to reduce their workload by recording more ‘live’ and doing less editing and post processing. They're’re hoping this won’t reduce the quality that you’ve come to know and love in their little podcast.
In addition they’ve opened channels of communication by taking comments via twitter and identi.ca whilst they record the show. They think this will improve the immediacy of the show by helping people to get involved. Of course they welcome your feedback on these changes.
In this weeks show:
- A catch up with what the presenters have been doing whilst the podcast has been taking a break
Ciemon has been phoning himself with Asterisk (with the help of a free book) and rejecting mice with Crunchbang Linux http://crunchbanglinux.org/
Dave has been stretching his leadership muscle with the Ubuntu UK LoCo Team http://ubuntu-uk.org/
Alan has booted himself over a network with PXE(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment) and the Net install image(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot) and has played with Blender as a video editor
Tony has been playing with Easy Peasy on his new Acer Aspire One, and recently helped judge the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
Tony and Laura interview Scott James-Remnant from Canonical about some of his projects http://www.netsplit.com/
- A discussion about what’s coming up in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
- The News
- We announce some upcoming events:-
- April 23rd - Worldwide, Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope releases. Join #ubuntu-release-party on the day to celebrate online.
April 23rd - London, Southern England Jaunty Release Party https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2009-March/017693.html
April 24th - Manchester, North-West England Jaunty Release Party https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2009-March/017644.html
June 13th - Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest http://southeastlinuxfest.org/
A new competition to win some Ubuntu goodies including an exclusive ‘Ubuntu Guru’ T-shirt, a copy of the great Ubuntu Kung-Fu book by Keir Thomas, stickers, an Ubuntu hat, bamboo lanyards, Google notebooks and anything else we can find! Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Monday 13th April. http://ubuntukungfu.org/
- And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show.
Unfortunately we didn’t get time to play a track Syed Ali sent us composed of samples sent to him by Richard Stallman. http://static.podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/uupc/extra/FreeAsInFreedom.ogg
- Aidan Delaney wrote to tell us about some projects his students at Brighton Uni are working on.
https://launchpad.net/cctray-gtk - GTK# interface for the CruiseControl.NET cctray tool.
https://launchpad.net/gimp-hdr - A HDR image generation and manipulation plugin for the GIMP.
https://launchpad.net/bzr-wdiff - A plug-in to provide Bazaar with a wdiff command, works in the same way as the bazaar diff command except prints an output similar to GNU wdiff
Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986 Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Follow us on Identi.ca http://identi.ca/uupc Discuss this episode in the Forums: http://uk.ubuntuforums.org/
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2009/04/01/s02e01-the-return/
Meeting Summaries
Ubuntu Server Team Meeting: March 31st
Minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with the irc logs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20090331
Ubuntu Server Guide: sommer reported that he received some feedback on a few sections from the Ubuntu Server Guide. However some sections still need to be reviewed: they’re listed in the wiki page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyServerGuide Help in reviewing them is welcomed.
- NUMA support for 64bit -server kernel: cooloney brought up the question of whether NUMA should be enabled on 64bit -server kernel. No objections were raised except that it may be too late for the Jaunty release cycle. This topic should be discussed for the Karmic cycle at the next UDS with the Kernel team.
Ubuntu on EC2: zul gave a report on the state of Ubuntu on EC2. The next beta image based on Intrepid is being worked on. Next in the pipeline is an image based on Hardy and the 2.6.24 kernel. An image based on Jaunty and the 2.6.28 kernel is also being planned. Each new release will be announced on the ec2-beta mailing list. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ec2-beta
Bugs from Jaunty Beta: mathiaz reminded that with the release of Jaunty Beta last Thursday the number of new bugs filed had raised. Any help in triaging them is welcomed. The list of new bugs related to the Ubuntu Server team is a good place to start any triaging effort. http://ubuntuservernewbugs.notlong.com/
Bacula testing: ivoks asked for more testing and bug triaging on the bacula package. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bacula/
- RHCS support: ivoks raised the question of whether Red Hat Cluster Suite should be kept in main in Karmic. Fabio M. Di Nitto, the current maintainer, mentioned he had less and less time to maintain the package and was looking for some help. mathiaz suggested to discuss this topic at the next UDS. Meanwhile ivoks will make sure rhcs is in good shape for Jaunty.
- Agree on next meeting date and time: Next meeting will be on Tuesday, April 7th at 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.
http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/server-team-20090331-meeting-minutes/
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Technical Board Meeting
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Server Team Meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Desktop Team Meeting
- Start: 16:30 UTC
- End: 17:30 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
Kernel Team Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
Community Council Meeting
- Start: 20:00 UTC
- End: 22:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda Per CC Agenda page, as of 11/29/08
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Foundation Team Meeting
- Start: 16:00 UTC
- End: 17:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
QA Team Meeting
- Start: 16:00 UTC
- End: 17:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Final translation export from LP
KernelFreeze
NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline
RebuildTest
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
- Start: 12:00 UTC
- End: 13:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Ubuntu Java Meeting
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Friday, April 10, 2009
MC Meeting
- Start: 06:00 UTC
- End: 07:00 UTC
MOTU Council Meeting
- Start: 06:00 UTC
- End: 07:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting
- Start: 13:00 UTC
- End: 14:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2009-04-10
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10
Security Updates
USN-749-1: libsndfile vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-749-1
USN-750-1: OpenSSL vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-750-1
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
langpack-locales 2.3.18.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-March/012778.html
Ubuntu 7.10 Updates
- None Reported
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
tzdata 2009d-0ubuntu0.8.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012208.html
openldap2.3 2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012209.html
virtualbox-ose-modules 24.0.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012210.html
gsasl 0.2.21-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012211.html
asterisk-chan-capi 1.0.2-1build0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012212.html
avelsieve 1.9.7-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012213.html
doc-base 0.8.7ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-April/012214.html
Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
tzdata 2009d-0ubuntu0.8.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009716.html
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009717.html
mit-scheme 7.7.90+20090107-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009718.html
openldap 2.4.11-0ubuntu6.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009719.html
foo2zjs 20080810-0ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009720.html
doc-base 0.8.16ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-April/009721.html
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