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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #162 for the week October 4th - October 10th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...
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In This Issue
General Community News
New MOTUs
- MC Meeting, 2009-10-09:
- Travis Watkins was welcomed back to the MOTU team and recommended for upload rights for compiz-related packages.
- Robert Ancell joined the MOTU team.
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
- 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
- Spanish (10490) -144 over last week
- French (36412) -715 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (46525) -1223 over last week
- Swedish (53304) +126 over last week
- English (United Kingdom) (53342) -73 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
Translation Stats Karmic
- Spanish (16626) +417 over last week
- French (62207) +772 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (68341) -1314 over last week
- Swedish (71292) +432 over last week
- English (Uk) (88814) +1374 over last week
1. Language (#) +/- # over last week Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/
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
Late Global Jam in Copenhagen
While Copenhagen didn't quite manage to get their Global Bug Jam in on the same date as the rest of the Ubuntu World, they still managed to get it done. They worked primarily on bug triaging, however they also had a quick look at the features of Empathy (the new default instant messaging client in Karmic Koala), and the Ubuntudanmark Podcast guys did a quick segment for their next podcast.
http://compadre.dk/blog/2009/10/11/late-global-jam-in-copenhagen/
New in Karmic Koala
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
Joey Stanford: Ubuntu Tribal Leadership
The Ubuntu community is a tribe. In fact, inside Ubuntu we have different tribes (some represented formally by teams like MOTU, Core Devs, LoCo Teams, and the like). Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is a different tribe. Canonical as well has different “sub-tribes”. Upstreams, the valuable authors of programs inside Ubuntu, each have their own tribe. How do we lead and cooperate with all of these tribes and “sub-tribes” and do it well? Or, in Ubuntu tribal speak, one might ask how do we advance the vision of Ubuntu? To get a better sense of the question and some answers, I encourage you to watch David Logan’s talk on tribal leadership. http://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_on_tribal_leadership.html
http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2009/10/10/ubuntu-tribal-leadership/
In The Press
New Ubuntu Community Council elected
http://www.h-online.com/open/New-Ubuntu-Community-Council-elected--/news/114414
Dell's Ubuntu 9.04 Offers More Changes
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU5Mw
Screenshots Tour of Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 Beta
http://maketecheasier.com/screenshots-tour-ubuntu-karmic-910/2009/10/06
Shuttleworth at LinuxCon: Will Ubuntu Lead Free Software?
The Ubuntu obsession of Tanner Helland
http://insidesocal.com/click/2009/10/the-ubuntu-obsession-of-tanner.html
Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/04/ubuntu-karmic-koala-preview/
What makes Ubuntu so user friendly?
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/06/what-makes-ubuntu-so-user-friendly/
In The Blogosphere
Dell: Ubuntu Desktop PC Is Back
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/10/07/dell-ubuntu-desktop-is-back/
Ubuntu Linux 9.04 - Technical Details
Karmic Koala: The best Ubuntu Linux ever?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/14871/karmic_koala_the_best_ubuntu_linux_ever
Sex, Live, and Virtualization
http://ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Marcel-Gagne-Orbiting-Planet-buntu/Sex-Live-and-Virtualization
Ubuntu 9.10 Preview: New Login Manager
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/10/03/ubuntu-910-preview-new-login-manager/
Ubuntu 9.10 Preview: New Theme, Icons
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/10/07/ubuntu-910-preview-new-theme-icons/
In Other News
Ubuntu 9.10 - Almost Perfect
Hulu Desktop (Linux)
Hulu Desktop for Linux is currently built on Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04. The packages should also work on any Linux distribution with glib2.16 (such as Ubuntu 8.04+ and Fedora 9+). You must have Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124 or higher installed. If you can load and watch videos on Hulu.com, you should be able to use Hulu Desktop for Linux. Hulu Desktop depends on the following libraries or packages, although they should be pre-installed with the supported distributions:
- GTK+ 2.12 or higher
- GLib 2.16 or higher
- LIRC 0.8.2 or higher (required for remote control functionality)
Downloads for 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu at the link below.
http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux
Meeting Summaries
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Community Spotlight
Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04
Security Updates
USN-841-1: GLib vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-841-1
USN-842-1: Wget vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-842-1
USN-843-1: BackupPC vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-843-1
USN-844-1: mimeTeX vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-844-1
USN-845-1: Pan vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-845-1
USN-846-1: ICU vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-846-1
USN-847-1: Devscripts vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-847-1
USN-847-2: devscripts vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-847-2
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
langpack-locales 2.3.18.25 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-October/012786.html
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
debian-installer 20070308ubuntu40.12 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-October/012297.html
apt-cacher 1.5.5-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-October/012298.html
tzdata 2009n-0ubuntu0.8.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-October/012299.html
adept 2.1.3ubuntu25.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-October/012300.html
Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
tzdata 2009n-0ubuntu0.8.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-October/009765.html
landscape-client 1.3.2.3-0ubuntu0.8.10.0 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-October/009766.html
Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
tzdata 2009n-0ubuntu0.9.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-October/009901.html
landscape-client 1.3.2.3-0ubuntu0.9.04.0 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-October/009902.html
smart 1.2-0ubuntu1.9.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-October/009903.html
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