Issue13
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue # 13
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue # for the week of Sept 3 - 10 2006
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In This Issue
General Community News
Upstart goes live
Scott James Remnant through the switch early this week and made upstart the default init for Edgy.
Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
New Apps In Edgy
Edgy sees GNOME 2.16 this week, uploads of which started on the 3rd and continued all the way through the formal release of GNOME 2.16 on the 7th. GNOME uploading team Sebastian Holbach were reportedly up very early some mornings, eager to beat each to packaging more of GNOME.
It used to be that when you popped an Ubuntu cd in, it would ask you if you wanted to upgrade, even if you had put a 4.10 cd in your 5.10 computer. Michael Vogt has finally fixed this and thus renabled support for this feature in update-notifier 0.43.1.
Over the past several weeks the KDE Guidance team has been working on usability of the tools, which has resulted in several straight-from-SVN uploads by various Kubuntu developers, including Anthony Mercatante.
Other new releases include: mono 1.1.17.1 dbh 4.5.0
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
Edubuntu
Xubuntu
Bug Stats
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Infamous Bugs
In The Press
Feature Of The Week - ???
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Conclusion
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