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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #155 for the week August 9th - August 15th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Developer News

  • We are very happy to have Julien Lavergne (gilir) join the MOTU team. His great work in Ubuntu and great passion for collaborating with Debian made the decision very easy.
  • Yulia Novozhilova was recommended for upload privileges for netbeans (and related packages). We're very happy to have somebody new being very active with Java-related packages!

  • Andy Whitcroft was recommended for upload prileges for the Kernel. His great work clearly spoke for himself. Smile :-)

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

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  • 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

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

Translation Stats Karmic

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Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/

# 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 Karmic Koala

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

Open Source Television

Mike Riley of Dr. Dobb's recognizes that technologists and consumers alike have been waiting years for "the ultimate media convergence appliance". Numerous attempts have strived to attain this coveted dream device but none have yet captured the gold medal. This myopic view of customers has given open media device vendor Neuros an entry into this race. The Neuros LINK is essentially a quiet x86 PC running Ubuntu Linux with an ATI graphics card delivering video via VGA, DVI, and HDMI output. To help sprout the Neuros LINK to a tech-savvy media convergence seeker, Neuros has seeded the developer community with a special "gamma edition" of the Neuros LINK. The gamma currently arrives pre-installed with Ubuntu 8.10, although Neuros plans to upgrade to version 9.04 in the commercial version. The Neuros distribution is preloaded with all the audio/video codecs necessary to view the various popular media formats, ranging from AVI, FLV, MP3, MP4, OGV and others that the installed MPlayer, VLC and Xine open source video players support. Check out the Neuros LINK Wiki for a more comprehensive list of the LINK's technical specifications. http://www.ddj.com/linux-open-source/219100482

Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" Alpha 4 Released

Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports that right on schedule, Canonical's Steve Langasek has announced the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4. This fourth development release of the Karmic Koala brings more updated packages (including a kernel based upon Linux 2.6.31-rc5), Ubuntu One file sharing support, and some other new features. Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4 is also the first build to have Kubuntu Netbook Remix support for KDE 4.3 and Ubuntu UEC. Ubuntu UEC is for the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud with support for Amazon's EC2 service. The release announcement with 9.10 Alpha 4 download links for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server UEC, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu can be found on ubuntu-devel-announce. More information surrounding this release is also available from the Ubuntu Testing page. The next release in the Ubuntu 9.10 series is Alpha 5, which is penciled in for a release on the 3rd of September. The final release of Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" will come on the 29th of October. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzQ1Mg

Technical School changes to Ubuntu and saves Millions

PMA Box tells us that the Icelandic National TV channel RUV broadcasted a news story yesterday 11 August 2009 entitled "Nýtt kerfi sparar milljónir", which translates to "New system saves millions." A technical school located in the North of Iceland "Akureyri" saves 5 million Kronas by changing the operating system of the school computers to open source Ubuntu. They also point the fact that it was an easy change without any need of extra hardware or additional costs. Also, they urge other public institutions to follow the example and save money in license fees in this time of world crisis. http://www.pmabox.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:technical-school-changes-to-ubuntu-and-saves-milli

In The Blogosphere

Dell’s Ubuntu Strategy: Restoring My Faith

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/08/13/dells-ubuntu-strategy-regaining-my-faith/

Kubuntu Netbook Release Coming

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013420o-2000498448b,00.htm

System76 Refreshes, Expands Ubuntu Netbook and Desktop Lineup

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/08/11/system76-refreshes-expands-ubuntu-netbook-and-desktop-lineup/

An Early Look at Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala - Overview & Screenshots

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/08/early-look-at-ubuntu-910-karmic-koala.html

Free Book Review: Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/08/free-book-review-ubuntu-pocket-guide.html

Ubuntu Coming to Amahi Home Server?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/08/12/ubuntu-coming-to-amahi-home-server/

Ubuntu Support for Non-Geeks

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/08/10/ubuntu-support-for-non-geeks/

ZaReason Launches Ubuntu Linux Netbook

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/08/12/zareason-launches-ubuntu-linux-netbook/

In Other News

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

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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