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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 17 for the week of Oct 1 - 7, 2006. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

A winner of the $100 USD Ubuntu Video contest has been announced. Mous, the creator of multiple Linux gaming videos, was selected because his videos presented an image of Ubuntu that challenge the assumptions people have about Linux gaming. His work was widely circulated and appeared in multiple gaming forums to positive feedback. You can see the full announcement and his videos at http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/and_the_winner_is

Kubuntu/Debian KDE Extras

Achim Bohnet made a page describing how Kubuntu packagers can make sure their packages get into Debian too through the Debian KDE Extras team.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuKDEExtras

Rosetta and Upstream Collaboration

The Rosetta developers responded to comments from the KDE translators with some notes that are valid for all upstream projects Rosetta includes.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/RosettaAndUpstreamCollaboration

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDERosettaCollaboration

Changes in Edgy

This week was fairly quiet in Edgy, as we approach the final release.

The week started with the Xubuntu people finishing the split up of the XFFM file manager package. As such, Gauvain Pocentek and David Valot uploaded xffm-samba 4.5.0, xffm-filemanager 4.5.0, xffm-gui 4.5.0, xffm-fstab 4.5.0, xffm-recent 4.5.0, xffm-icons 4.5.0, xffm-trash 4.5.0, xffm-proc 4.5.0. A few days later Gauvain uploaded the xffm4 4.5.0, which is the new modular metapackage.

Xffm was not the only piece of Xubuntu that saw changes this week. Jani Monoses uploaded the new xubuntu-system-tools 2.15.5, which is a branch of the gnome-system-tools. Jani also uploaded xfce4-dict-plugin 0.2.0, xfce4-mailwatch-plugin 1.0.1, and xfwm4 4.3.99.1svn+r23289. Two changes to the xubuntu-meta package came this week, 2.14,. which added gxine, onboard and xfce4-dict-plugin to the desktop and one of the last uploads of the week, 2.15, which adds the system-config-printer tool to the desktop.

Andrew Mitchell uploaded with new 0.2.1 release of F-spot, the photo management app. Aside from the usual huge number of bug fixes, this version brings support for scaling images when they are being emailed, exporting them in the correct rotation and Picasa export.

Users of Xen will be pleased to see that xen-3.0 3.0.3~rc1 came this week, thanks to the hard work of Andrew Mitchell and Chuck Short. Later in the week Andrew updated to the rc2 release.

Fabio M Di Nitto uploaded a number of cluster packages this week, including the new Openais 0.80.1 and redhat-cluster-suite 2.20061002.The latter includes changes from a bugsquishing party held with upstream.

The printing world got a little saner this week, with Till Kamppeter uploading foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20060925, which merges all of Ubuntu and Debian's patches upstream. Till also uploaded foomatic-db-hpijs 20060925 while Martin Pitt merged cupsys 1.2.4 from Debian, including a great many bug fixes. Finally cups-pdf 2.4.2 was synced from Debian.

Launchpad News

In The Press

Benjamin Smedberg of Mozilla raised some concerns about the cathedral-like nature of Ubuntu (and any other distros) archives. He wondered about how Ubuntu can manage new applications and the ability for people to install from the "Bazaar", as he called it. You can read more at http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2006-10-04/is-ubuntu-an-operating-system/

Newsforge reports on Benetech, a charity whose mission is to use technology to improve the world. They use Kubuntu and Ubuntu on their desktops Ball cited Ubuntu's ease of setup and installation as the reason for the switch. "If you have to roll out 10 or 15 machines, Gentoo's [inconvenient]. Most of our machines are Kubuntu, but there are a couple of GNOME people in our organization."

There's more at http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/09/29/1827208.shtml?tid=39&tid=150&tid=132

ZDNet takes a look at Canonical as it gears up and shoots for profitability:

Canonical is the 65-employee start-up behind a popular version of Linux called "Ubuntu". The company is betting that it can win a place in the market using a strategy that dominant Linux seller Red Hat has dropped.

Red Hat offers two versions of Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora Core is free, but relatively untested and unsupported by Red Hat, while RHEL is supported and certified, but must be purchased. With Canonical's Ubuntu, however, the free and supported versions are identical--the approach Red Hat abandoned in 2003.

"We believe that Ubuntu should be free to everyone--not just a trial version, but our very best version," said Christopher Kenyon, Canonical's business development manager. The South African company even ships free CDs anywhere in the world. Using that strategy, it expects profitability within 24 months, he added.

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