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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #173 for the week December 13th - December 19th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

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 Karmic

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
5. 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

New in Karmic Koala

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

Canonical Continues Ubuntu Server Edition Push

http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/12/15/canonical-continues-ubuntu-server-edition-push/

Mark Shuttleworth To Step Down From CEO Role

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzgxOQ

Ubuntu 10.04 Already Shortens The Boot Time

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_lucid_short&num=1

Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/12/ubuntu-1004-will-bring-panel-overhaul-social-network-menu.ars

Ubuntu, Linux, GNOME and Xorg: This Intel-video user is tired

http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2009/12/ubuntu-linux-gnome-and-xorg-th.html

Ubuntu's Jono Bacon: Managing an Open Source Community

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3853331/

Ubuntu's Lucid plans

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/10860.html

In The Blogosphere

Canonical’s Shuttleworth: We’ll Have New CEO In 2010

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/12/18/canonicals-shuttleworth-well-have-new-ceo-in-2010/

First Look at Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 1

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/12/17/first-look-at-ubuntu-10-04-alpha-1/

So a Man Walks Into a Bar and Asks for an Ubuntu on the Rocks

http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/12/so-man-walks-into-bar-and-asks-for.html

Mark Shuttleworth’s Next Ubuntu Move?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/12/17/mark-shuttleworths-next-ubuntu-move/

My kid will, in fact, do it with Ubuntu (and other 2010 predictions)

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3448

Pushing Prism on Ubuntu

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/12/15/pushing-prism-on-ubuntu/

Setting up Ubuntu 9.10

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/12/16/setting-up-ubuntu-9-10/

Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15275/shuttleworth_steps_down_as_ubuntu_ceo

Where does Ubuntu go from here?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15278/where_does_ubuntu_go_from_here

In Other News

Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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