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In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (76370) -170 # over last week
• Critical (40) +4 # over last week
• Unconfirmed (39396) -171 # 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

• Configure Ubuntu Programs During Installation - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23490/

• Rhythmbox internet radio cover art - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23522/

• Expand Brainstorm to help with community artwork selection - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23500/

• Totem needs a "Go Fullscreen" button - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23458/

• Automatically set weather applet location - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23438/

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

Ubuntu Honduras

Ubuntu Honduras kicked off the 2010 year of activities with a team pizza party where they discussed upcoming events for 2010, and welcomed new members. The team set the agenda for the next 3 months which includes, an Ubuntu presentation at Universidad de San Pedro Sula, and a two hour talk at the T3 conference Escuela Internacional Sanpedrana. The team is also discussing a couple of workshops they hope to have. One for team members to help them gain experience and improve their knowledge of Ubuntu, and the second that they will have at area universities. Pictures of the pizza party are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/elvira.martinez38/PrimerPizzaBashSanPedroSula2010#

http://blog.diegoturcios.net16.net/?p=382

New in Karmic Koala

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

Nouveau From 2.6.33 Prepped For Ubuntu 10.04

Michael Larabel of Phoronix recalls that back in November he shared that Nouveau would finally be pulled into the Ubuntu 10.04 kernel as up to this point Canonical had employed the feature-limited and obfuscated open-source NVIDIA driver known as xf86-video-nv. The plans to switch over to Nouveau with kernel mode-setting support for Ubuntu 10.04 were great, but then in December the Nouveau driver got pulled into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel which complicated matters for Ubuntu as they already were set with using the Linux 2.6.32 kernel for the 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" release. It looks like the Canonical kernel developers have decided to pull the Nouveau DRM from the 2.6.33-rc4 kernel, and the Nouveau KMS code will be pulled in for the next alpha release. Follow this link for more information: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkyNw

Updates Coming For Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS

Phoronix's Michael Larabel tells us that Canonical's Jos Boumans sent out an e-mail on the Ubuntu development mailing list to outline some of the new plans going forward for Ubuntu Server with the 10.04 release. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 2 came out just nine days ago, but Jos is hoping to incorporate these new Ubuntu Server changes prior to the Alpha 3 release that is scheduled for the end of February. To be worked on for Ubuntu Server 10.04 Alpha 3 is migrating from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1, an upgrade to Eucalyptus 1.6.2, PHP/Python/Perl libraries for Amazon's cloud computing platform, integrating Puppet and Etckeeper, boothooks and user based configuration for UEC/EC2, and various QA improvements. For the Ubuntu Server 10.04 release the community also hopes to provide Asterisk integration, an Ubuntu Cluster Stack, Ubuntu Server Containers for LXC and OpenVZ, and integration of Amavisd-new, Spamassassin, and Clamav. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkxNA

Yahoo Pays Canonical, Now They're The Ubuntu Default

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Canonical's Rick Spencer has written about two small changes that are happening to Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04. The first is the default Ubuntu home-page with its search box in Firefox will now follow whatever the user has set as their default search engine in Firefox. The second change is that Canonical is changing the default search engine for Firefox in Ubuntu to Yahoo. Google has always been the default search engine in Ubuntu's Firefox, but now it's changing to Yahoo beginning with Lucid Lynx. Canonical is changing the default search path over to Yahoo as the two companies have negotiated a revenue sharing deal off the advertisements when using Yahoo search on Ubuntu. Users can still switch Firefox to using Google search with a couple clicks, but Canonical is hoping this change will yield them some additional revenue.

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

In The Blogosphere

Does Ubuntu Need Server Hardware Partners?

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/25/does-ubuntu-need-server-hardware-partners/

Interview With Ubuntu Manual Project Leader

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/01/interview-with-ubuntu-manual-project.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+d0od+(Omg!+Ubuntu!)

Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition Review

http://www.thelinuxblog.com/ubuntu-unleased-2010-edition-revie/

Ubuntu Could Profit From Both Yahoo, Google

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/26/ubuntu-could-profit-from-both-yahoo-google/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WorksWithU+(Works+With+U)

Ubuntu: Enterprise Management Getting Easier?

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/24/ubuntu-enterprise-management-getting-easier/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WorksWithU+(Works+With+U)

The choices inside Ubuntu

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/The-choices-inside-Ubuntu

Apple’s iPad vs Notion Ink’s Adam tablet with Ubuntu: battle of two worlds

http://soltesza.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/apples-ipad-vs-notion-inks-adam-tablet-with-ubuntu-battle-of-two-worlds/

In Other News

Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, February 1, 2010

Security Team Catch-up

• Start: 18:00 UTC
• End: 18:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

• Start: 13:00 UTC
• End: 14:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting

Developer Membership Board

• Start: 15:00 UTC
• End: 16:00 UTC
• Location: None listed as of publication
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

• Start: 16:30 UTC
• End: 17:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

• Start: 17:00 UTC
• End: 18:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: Not listed as of publication

LoCo Teams Meeting

• Start: 18:00 UTC
• End: 19:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

EMEA Membership Meeting

• Start: 20:00 UTC
• End: 21:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA

Community Council Meeting

• Start: 22:00 UTC
• End: 24:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda

Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting

• Start: 22:00 UTC
• End: 23:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-beginners

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Server Team Meeting

• Start: 14:00 UTC
• End: 15:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting

Cameroonian LoCoTeam monthly IRC meeting

• Start: 15:00 UTC
• End: 16:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-cm

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CameroonianTeam/NextMeeting

Foundation Team Meeting

• Start: 16:00 UTC
• End: 17:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

QA Team Meeting

• Start: 17:00 UTC
• End: 18:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

Edubuntu Meeting

• Start: 19:00 UTC
• End: 20:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Ubuntu Java Meeting

• Start: 14:00 UTC
• End: 15:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

Ubuntu Translations Meeting

• Start: 16:00 UTC
• End: 17:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/Events/Meetings

Friday, February 5, 2010

Lucid Weekly Release Meeting

• Start: 16:00 UTC
• End: 17:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-02-05

Saturday, February 6, 2010

BugJam

• Start: 21:00 UTC
• End: 23:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc and #ubuntu-bugs
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

DC Loco IRC meeting

• Start: 23:00 UTC
• End: 24:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Ubuntu UK LoCo Team Meeting

• Start: 19:30 UTC
• End: 20:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-uk-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda

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

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