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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 15 for the week of @MONTH@, @DAY@ - @DAY+7@ @YEAR@. In this issue we cover ...
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In This Issue
General Community News
How to make Ubuntu Dapper look like OSX
[http://www.supriyadisw.net/2006/09/ultimate-ubuntu-dapper-look-like-osx This] is an ultimate tutorial to make Ubuntu Dapper look like OSX Tiger. Nice screen shots are [http://www.supriyadisw.net/wp-content/uploads/ubuntu_osx3.jpg available] too on how it will look when makeover is finished.
New Apps In Edgy
Don't forget quick installation notes, enable extra repository, package name, use g-a-i where possible, etc...
Synaptic has better support for the new automatic removal of unused dependencies feature found in the edgy version of apt (see AptAutoRemove for more information). This makes it even easier to keep you system clean and lean. It supoprts now mark/unmark of a package as automatic installed and has two new custom status filters to fitler for automatically installed packages and for packages that were automatically installed and have no other package depending on them anymore.
Launchpad News
In The Press
Enterprise Storage Forum takes a look at The Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org) and find Ubuntu under the hood:
As for the software running the system, it's almost all open source. "Primarily now we're using the Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) release of Debian (www.debian.org) for our OS," says Berry. "It's very easy to manage and install. We also use Linux, which we've used for many years in different flavors. And we use Apache and things like Perl and PHP."
For the Archive, the decision to go with uopen source software was based on cost savings as well as experience.
"Obviously you don't pay the big licensing fees," says Berry. "But it also gives us a lot of openness and freedom, and the Archive is usually pushing some technical edge. So it's nice to have that flexibility, which we wouldn't necessarily have had with vendor software."
More tech details about the archive can be found at http://tinyurl.co.uk/rho1
CNET's Tom Merritt has recorded a video introduction to Ubuntu. You can watch it http://tinyurl.co.uk/gi50
Userful Corporation and Canonical are working together to deliver even more value to organizations that deploy Ubuntu:
"Our virtualized X-server enables a single Ubuntu PC equipped with extra video cards to support up to 10 monitors, USB keyboards, and users simultaneously," says Tim Griffin, President of Userful. "Ubuntu with Userful's 'Multiplier' offers dramatic hardware and software savings, literally offering organizations ten Linux workstations for what they would otherwise spend on just a single Windows computer with commercial office and graphics software."
Userful's Multiplier software is ideally suited for organizations that wish to deploy large numbers of workstations for users without deploying a large number of computers. By sharing the processing power and resources of modern, often overpowered PCs with up to nine additional users, Userful and Ubuntu can reduce IT management, electrical and cooling costs by more than fifty percent per workstation.
"By making Userful's Multiplier available on Ubuntu, we are adding significantly to the potential savings to be made by our customers," commented Malcolm Yates, ISV and Partner Manager at Canonical. "This unique solution is suitable for schools, small businesses and developing markets, where computing resources tend to be scarce."
There's more at http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/274522.htm
Meetings and other similar events
Upcoming Events
Feature Of The Week - ???
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Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
Bug Stats
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Infamous Bugs
Conclusion
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