Issue160
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #160 for the week September 13th - September 19th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...
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In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
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- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
- Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
- All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week
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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/
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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
Swedish LoCo Bug Jam: Linköping
The 3rd of October the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo will arrange a Bug Jam at Linköping University. This in correspondence with the Ubuntu Global Jam happening that weekend. See http://ubuntu-se.org/wiki/Global_Jam for more information.
http://www.andreasolsson.se/2009/09/19/ubuntu-bug-jam-in-linkoping/
New in Karmic Koala
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
Ubuntu Tutorial of the Week
DSDT (Differentiated System Description Table) is in the BIOS and this is where the OS looks for hardware and configuration info. It sometimes needs to be adjusted, in particular regarding ACPI. 67GTA (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=231204) has written a comprehensive tutorial for Ubuntu and Linux Mint: "HOWTO Fix A Buggy DSDT File" which currently works only up to Jaunty 9.04 release. I'm not sure I understand all the details, but reading through the thread, members seem to be able to fix a large range of ACPI related issues.
Credits to unutbu (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=518895) who suggested the tutorial. As unutbu puts it: "It is kind of amazing (at least to me) that fixing one file can solve such a variety of problems."
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1036051
Ubuntu Community Interviews
joeb454 has taken over the UF interview series and started out with elisabeth (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=10746), who is also pleia2 on IRC. Elisabeth is a debian sysadmin, runs the Philadelphia LUG and is much involved in the ubuntu-women, ubuntu-classroom, ubuntu-learning and ubuntu-beginners projects. Wow!
http://blog.joeb454.com/2009/08/an-interview-with-pleia2/
The second interview is with nhandler (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=148906), from Chicago. He is part of the ubuntuforums Beginners and Unanswered Posts Teams. He currently serves on the Ubuntu Beginners Team Council. He's also a MOTU and serves on the MOTU Council. Nathan is one of these members who make the forums and the community a better and friendly place.
http://blog.joeb454.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-nhandler/
Enjoy!
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
Cave Dwellers Give Ubuntu Two Thumbs Up
http://www.daniweb.com/news/story223037.html
Pidgin vs. Empathy: Feature Comparison
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/09/15/pidgin-vs-empathy-feature-comparison/
In Other News
Linux-ready mini-PC powers up
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Linutop-3/
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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