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Ubuntu users in the Sydney area are invited to join the festivities on April 25 at the James Squire Brewhouse on King Street Wharf. The party starts at 4 PM, and those with Ubuntu t-shirts are encouraged to wear them. Daring partygoers may even choose to dress up as with antler headbands or hats (like those ones from Christmas) as tribute to the mythical Jackalope.
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The Ubuntu-tn Lo``Co Team continues to visit various cities to present Ubuntu and free software. This time, they stopped at the Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Sidi Bouzid (ISET) in response to an invitation received from the Computer Science Department. More than 100 people turned out for the presentations, and 20 remained for an install fest of Ubuntu 8.10. The link includes even more information and pictures of the event.

Contents

Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.04
    2. Ubuntu 7.10 reaches end-of-life on April 18, 2009
    3. Ubuntu Open Week
    4. QA Team: Next Testing Day
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Infamous Bugs
    3. Translation Stats Jaunty
    4. Translation Stats Intrepid
    5. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. New York State LoCo - Jaunty Launch Party
    2. Florida Team
    3. Nebraska Team
    4. North Carolina Team
    5. Ubuntu Release Party: Sydney
    6. Ubuntu Day Tunisia
  6. New in Intrepid Ibex
  7. Launchpad News
    1. Updating the PPA Docs
    2. Meet Gavin Panella
  8. Ubuntu Forums News
    1. Expanding the Forum Council
    2. New Staff in Town
  9. The Planet
    1. Jim Campbell: apt URLs now available on the Ubuntu Wiki
    2. Jonathan Carter: More Easter eggs in Ubuntu
    3. John Vivirito: Bookmarksftp update
    4. Dustin Kirkland: Running Ubuntu, literally
  10. In The Press
    1. Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 for MySQL on Ubuntu Server
    2. Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Planning to Overtake Apple
    3. The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 8.10
    4. The Best Looking Linux is nearly here: and it's not Ubuntu
    5. Preview of Kubuntu 9.04
    6. Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows
    7. Ubuntu Notebooks provided by Sun
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Five reasons to put Ubuntu on your Netbook
    2. A Quick Look at Ubuntu Portable
    3. Ubuntu accuses Microsoft of Linux netbook FUD
    4. Cloud Computing: What Can It Do for Ubuntu?
    5. Codegate 2009 runs Ubuntu
    6. Ubuntu needs to monitor consistency not appearance
  12. In Other News
    1. Ubunchu the Ubuntu Manga is now in English
  13. Meeting Summaries
    1. Server Team Meeting: April 7th
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Sunday, April 12, 2009
      1. Ubuntu-us-az LoCo Team Meeting
    2. Monday, April 13, 2009
    3. Tuesday, April 14, 2009
      1. Server Team Meeting
      2. Desktop Team Meeting
      3. Kernel Team Meeting
    4. Wednesday, April 15, 2009
      1. Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting
      2. Foundation Team Meeting
      3. QA Team Meeting
    5. Thursday, April 16, 2009
      1. Jaunty Release Candidate
      2. Language Pack Translation Deadline
      3. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      4. Ubuntu Java Meeting
      5. Packaging Training: How-to
    6. Friday, April 17, 2009
      1. Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting
    7. Saturday, April 18, 2009
  15. Updates and Security for 7.10, 8.04, 8.10, and 9.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 7.10 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.04 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 #137 for the week April 5th - April 11th, 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

Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.04

Steve Langasek reports that we are less than a week away from the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope. Proposed date for the Release Candidate is April 16, 2009. The archive is now frozen and will not thaw again before release.Uploads to universe should again follow the guidelines described here:

The list of release-critical bugs that we want to still try to resolve before the release candidate on April 16 is tracked here:

Additional bugs that are still considered "targets of opportunity" for the release are found at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-April/000561.html

Ubuntu 7.10 reaches end-of-life on April 18, 2009

Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, will reach end of life on Saturday, April 18, 2009. It has been supported for the past 18 months, but following April 18 will no longer receive Ubuntu Security Notices or Updates. Note that upgrades to version 8.10 and beyond are only supported in multiple steps, via an upgrade first to 8.04 LTS, then to 8.10. Both Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and Ubuntu 8.10 continue to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 7.10 is via Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades.

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol

Ubuntu Open Week

Welcome to the Ubuntu Open Week!

The next Open Week takes place from Monday April 27th - Friday May 1st on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom. In just four years, Ubuntu has become one the most popular Linux distributions in the world with millions of users, and a thriving community. Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. The session are organized for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved.

Ubuntu Open Week was a series of online workshops where you could:

  • learn about the Ubuntu landscape
  • talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project
  • find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical

  • participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu

  • much more...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

QA Team: Next Testing Day

The next testing day will be on Monday, April 13, 2009. They will be smoke testing any *buntu desktop of your choice. The goals on the day will be to test the installer and applications on the CD as well as those you download from repositories and use regularly. They will be looking for any regressions or breakages in these packages and reporting faults to launchpad. Join them on #ubuntu-testing on the freenode network go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/UbuntuTestingDay/20090413 to find out more and get involved.

http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/49

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (51262) +906 over last week
  • Critical (16) -2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (21961) +884 over last week
  • Unassigned (43507) +884 over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (269754) +3019 over last week

* Open (51219) + 863 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 (15806) -950 over last week
  • French (43389) -907 over last week
  • Swedish (54531) -743 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (56938) -885 over last week
  • English (Uk) (59007) -26485 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) +/-0 over last week
  • French (59023) +/-0 over last week
  • Swedish (63241) +/-0 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (63631) -98 over last week
  • English (UK) (78012) +/-0 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 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 York State LoCo - Jaunty Launch Party

The New York State LoCo has just received fliers for their Jaunty Release party that's set for April 25. The fliers were made up for them by System76. They are planning to have a 2 hour public information event, followed by a 2 hour release party. All Ubuntu users in the Finger Lakes region are invited.

http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/new-york-state-loco-jaunty-launch-party/

Florida Team

The Florida Team held their regular team meeting on April 7. Topics of discussion included a new Linked-In group for LoCo members, and upcoming release parties.

Nebraska Team

Dave Thacker presented "Ubuntu Stuff" to the Omaha Linux User Group on April 7.

North Carolina Team

The North Carolina team continues planning for upcoming release parties. A previous meeting was held on April 7, and a follow up is scheduled for April 15, 7:30-8:30pm Eastern, in #ubuntu-us-nc. For all those who are in NC or those who can offer advice on implementation please plan on attending. We need every voice. It can only be successful when we all come together as a Team, so let's go team. Looking forwarding to seeing how many release parties we can get off the ground. Join us next week and let's plan on how to introduce and celebrate the arrival of Jaunty Jackalope in North Carolina.

Ubuntu Release Party: Sydney

Ubuntu users in the Sydney area are invited to join the festivities on April 25 at the James Squire Brewhouse on King Street Wharf. The party starts at 4 PM, and those with Ubuntu t-shirts are encouraged to wear them. Daring partygoers may even choose to dress up as with antler headbands or hats (like those ones from Christmas) as tribute to the mythical Jackalope.

http://www.geekosophical.net/?p=250#content

Ubuntu Day Tunisia

The Ubuntu-tn LoCo Team continues to visit various cities to present Ubuntu and free software. This time, they stopped at the Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Sidi Bouzid (ISET) in response to an invitation received from the Computer Science Department. More than 100 people turned out for the presentations, and 20 remained for an install fest of Ubuntu 8.10. The link includes even more information and pictures of the event.

http://nizaurs.blogspot.com/2009/04/ubuntu-day-iset-of-sidi-bouzid.html

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Updating the PPA Docs

http://blog.launchpad.net/ppa/updating-the-personal-package-archive-docs

Meet Gavin Panella

http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-gavin-panella

Ubuntu Forums News

Expanding the Forum Council

With the rapid growth of the community, the Forum Council (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumCouncil) has now seven members, after two long time Forums Staff members have been voted in by the Community Council: bodhi.zazen (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=89054) and bapoumba (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=171805). They are now part of the Forums Administrators.

Being part of the Forum Council is a two years term position that can be renewed.

New Staff in Town

This week has also seen several changes to the Forums Staff Team. Four new moderators have accepted to join: cariboo907 (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=77104), forestpixie (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=610428), Michael.Godawski (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=541281) and tinivole (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=490875) who have all demonstrated constant kind and positive inputs on the forums.

Adding moderators is discussed after a Forum Council member opens a discussion in the Staff area. Every Staff is welcome to suggest members. The Forum Council then sends invitations based on the discussions.

The Planet

Jim Campbell: apt URLs now available on the Ubuntu Wiki

http://j1m.net/2009/04/09/apt-urls-now-available-on-the-ubuntu-wiki/

Jonathan Carter: More Easter eggs in Ubuntu

http://jonathancarter.co.za/2009/04/09/more-easter-eggs-in-ubuntu/

John Vivirito: Bookmarksftp update

http://gnomefreak-76.livejournal.com/681.html

Dustin Kirkland: Running Ubuntu, literally

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/04/running-ubuntu-literally.html

In The Press

Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 for MySQL on Ubuntu Server

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/zmanda-recovery-manager-30-mysql-ubuntu-server

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Planning to Overtake Apple

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3814021/

The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 8.10

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-8.10-ispconfig-3

The Best Looking Linux is nearly here: and it's not Ubuntu

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24346/1141/

Preview of Kubuntu 9.04

http://polishlinux.org/linux/ubuntu/preview-of-kubuntu-904/

Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows

http://lifehacker.com/5195999/portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows

Ubuntu Notebooks provided by Sun

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1852

In The Blogosphere

Five reasons to put Ubuntu on your Netbook

Blogger Roy Tanck covers 5 reasons why he believes Ubuntu Linux should be on your netbook. First reason is that, it does everything netbooks are good at. Ubuntu comes preloaded with everything needed to surf the web, chat, download and email. It even comes with OpenOffice as well. His second reason is that "It's fun". Be this tinkering around with the operating system, or trying out new software. Even with this capability it's easy to operate and very stable. The third reason is that he is expecting it to have the ability to boot in seconds. He is using Intel's Moblin version of Linux as an example of this, and he is expecting this technology to be implemented with Ubuntu in the future. The fourth reason he gives is freedom. He contributes this as a way to "stick it to the man", and says that "Linux is free as in speech". His 5th reason is that it makes your netbook more than just a slower, smaller laptop. He has noticed that he is able to do anything that he wants with his netbook now, and any problems that he has can be fixed in minutes. He compares this to when he was running Windows XP, and it would run very slow and unable to do everything he wanted. He believes that the Microsoft statistics of 96% of netbooks using Windows is skewed, because of the lack of availability of Linux powered netbooks. He also attributes this to people buying Windows netbooks, and installing Linux on them afterwards. http://www.roytanck.com/2009/04/08/five-reasons-to-put-ubuntu-linux-on-your-netbook/

A Quick Look at Ubuntu Portable

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Linux-Weekly-Issue-40-108697.shtml#0

Ubuntu accuses Microsoft of Linux netbook FUD

http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_accuses_microsoft_of_linux_netbook_fud

Cloud Computing: What Can It Do for Ubuntu?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/04/10/cloud-computing-what-can-it-do-for-ubuntu/

Codegate 2009 runs Ubuntu

http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2009/04/09/codegate-2009-ran-ubuntu-intrepid/

Ubuntu needs to monitor consistency not appearance

http://www.lockergnome.com/linux/2009/04/11/ubuntu-needs-to-monitor-consistancy-not-appearance/

In Other News

Ubunchu the Ubuntu Manga is now in English

http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/ubunchu-the-ubuntu-manga-is-now-in-english/

Meeting Summaries

Server Team Meeting: April 7th

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with the irc logs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20090407

  • Review progress made on the Roadmap items: Nobody reported any significant issue, which is good given our current position in the release cycle. sommer noted that given that StringFreeze is in order and TranslationFreeze coming up very soon, from now on documentation fixes would rather apply to the next release and be done as a Jaunty SRU.

  • Open Discussion: ttx remembered everyone that FinalFreeze will be in effect starting this Thursday. So now is the last time to submit significant bugs and regressions so that they can be fixed without triggering exception procedures. egbert asked about further improvements of the postfix-dovecot mail system and ivoks replied that those will now apply to the next release cycle. Finally ivoks reported that we all rock, but I think it’s a duplicate since we already know that.

  • Agree on next meeting date and time: After a brief discussion about moving the meetings to US afternoons, it was decided that US mornings (which means Europe afternoons) are still the best time to maximize meeting participation. So next meeting will still be on Tuesday, April 14th at 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/server-team-20090407-meeting-minutes/

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Ubuntu-us-az LoCo Team Meeting

Monday, April 13, 2009

  • None listed as of publication

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Server Team Meeting

Desktop Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting

  • Start: 12:30 UTC
  • End: 13:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-pa
  • Agenda: None as of publication

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

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Jaunty Release Candidate

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCandidate

Language Pack Translation Deadline

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguagePackTranslationDeadline

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

Packaging Training: How-to

Friday, April 17, 2009

Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, April 18, 2009

  • None listed as of publication

Updates and Security for 7.10, 8.04, 8.10, and 9.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

[Editor's Note: Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, will reach end of life on Saturday, April 18, 2009. The UWN's last report on Updates for this release will occur Sunday, April 19, 2009, then will no longer appear in this section.]

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Conclusion

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Glossary of Terms

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