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Last weeks election in the Philippines was notable for several reasons – not least of which was the introduction of a new electronic voting system in which Ubuntu has played a vital – but invisible – role managing the Linux-based ROMs that do the actual counting. Sadly the introduction of computerized vote counting was marred by repeated machine hardware failures, and large-scale errors. Ubuntu in this situation was neither the culprit or the cause, but demonstrated once again the versatile deployment capabilities of Ubuntu.

Contents

Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
  5. New in Lucid Lynx
  6. Launchpad News
  7. Ubuntu Forums News
  8. The Planet
  9. In The Press
    1. Hands-on with Ubuntu's new Unity netbook shell
    2. With Ubuntu 10.10 It May Be Easier To Run Wayland
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical’s Red Headed Stepchildren
    2. 'Linux is Not User Friendly' - No Way!
    3. Philippines use Ubuntu-based voting machines in recent election
    4. See Ya F-Spot! Shotwell to be default Image App in Ubuntu 10.10
    5. UDS-M: Sound menu Changes coming In Ubuntu Maverick
    6. The Ubuntu Support and Learning Center
    7. Too many Ubuntus?
    8. UDS-M: Chromium to be default browser in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition
    9. UDS-M: Me Menu getting improvements for Maverick
  11. In Other News
  12. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Community Spotlight
  15. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  16. UWN Translations
  17. UWN #: A sneak peek
  18. Subscribe
  19. Archives and RSS Feed
  20. Additional Ubuntu News
  21. Conclusion
  22. Credits
  23. Glossary of Terms
  24. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  25. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #193 for the week May 9th - May 15th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (81354) +803 over last week
  • Critical (28) +3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37013) +615 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translation Stats Lucid

  1. English (United Kingdom) (797) -115 over last week
  2. Spanish (10764) -685 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (35889) -324 over last week
  4. French (40197) -101 over last week
  5. German (54872) -852 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

  • Ubuntu doesn't handle power management well enough
  • FSCK front end and automatic scanning for errors on impoper shutdowns
  • Adding Audiobooks to the Ubuntu One Store
  • totem should provide an option to purge/disable playing history
  • Many arabic/hebrew speakers can't transcode movies

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 Lucid Lynx

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

In The Press

Hands-on with Ubuntu's new Unity netbook shell

Ryan Paul of ARS Technica reports that during a keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Belgium, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth unveiled a new lightweight user interface shell called Unity. The new shell is designed to use screen space more efficiently and consume fewer system resources than a conventional desktop environment. It will be a key component of the Ubuntu Netbook Edition and a new instant-on computing platform called Ubuntu Light. The Unity environment eschews the conventional GNOME panel configuration. It includes a dock-like launcher and task management panel that is displayed vertically along the left-hand side. The top panel will house application indicators, window indicators, and the menubar of the active window. Moving the menu out of individual windows and into a global menu bar will reduce wasted vertical screen space, leaving more room for content. ARS Technica's test of the Unity prototype leads them to believe that the project has considerable potential and could bring a lot of value to the Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Its unique visual style melds beautifully with Ubuntu's new default theme and its underlying interaction model seems compelling and well-suited for small screens.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/05/exclusive-hands-on-with-ubuntus-new-unity-netbook-shell.ars

With Ubuntu 10.10 It May Be Easier To Run Wayland

Phoronix's Michael Larabel thinks that beyond working towards the X Server not running as the root user and the X.Org/Mesa/Kernel upgrades planned for Ubuntu 10.10, it may also be easier to test the Wayland Display Server in this Ubuntu "Maverick Meerkat" update due out in October. Larabel first talked about Wayland in late 2008 when the project was still in its infancy by Kristian Høgsberg. Wayland is still very much a side-project of Kristian's that just receives commits every once in a while and has yet to gain any widespread adoption, but it still possesses a lot of progress. Wayland can run dual nested X.Org Servers within it, now runs off Mesa rather than Eagle EGL, supports the KMS page-flipping ioctl, a DRI2 driver is being worked on, and much more. However, it doesn't do too much yet for the end-user, but that should change once the GTK, Qt, or Clutter tool-kits are properly supported within Wayland. We'll see where Wayland gets by the time Ubuntu 10.10 is due out in October.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI0OA

In The Blogosphere

Canonical’s Red Headed Stepchildren

http://jimlynch.com/index.php/2010/05/12/canonicals-red-headed-stepchildren/

'Linux is Not User Friendly' - No Way!

The mainstream media is adopting Linux, and a lot of people are starting to complain how not-user-friendly Linux really is. one thing they all need to consider is this, Linux!=Windows! It is not the friendliness factor, it is the user familiarity factor that is giving Linux a bad name. Until 4 years ago this blogger was not much of a computer user. He installed Ubuntu on a dual boot and loved it right off. But it took him about 3 months to really get comfortable with the system. There lies the rub, most folks think Linux should be just like windows, and that perception has to change. People have to give Ubuntu and Linux a chance to show them that there is a better way.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/05/linux-is-not-user-friendly-no-way.html

Philippines use Ubuntu-based voting machines in recent election

Last weeks election in the Philippines was notable for several reasons – not least of which was the introduction of a new electronic voting system in which Ubuntu has played a vital – but invisible – role managing the Linux-based ROMs that do the actual counting. Sadly the introduction of computerized vote counting was marred by repeated machine hardware failures, and large-scale errors. Ubuntu in this situation was neither the culprit or the cause, but demonstrated once again the versatile deployment capabilities of Ubuntu.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/philippines-use-ubuntu-based-voting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

See Ya F-Spot! Shotwell to be default Image App in Ubuntu 10.10

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/see-ya-f-spot-shotwell-comes-to-ubuntu.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

UDS-M: Sound menu Changes coming In Ubuntu Maverick

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/sound-menu-changes-coming-in-ubuntu.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

The Ubuntu Support and Learning Center

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/ubuntu-support-and-learning-center.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

Too many Ubuntus?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/16090/too_many_ubuntus

UDS-M: Chromium to be default browser in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/chromium-to-be-default-browser-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

UDS-M: Me Menu getting improvements for Maverick

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/me-menu-getting-improvements-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

In Other News

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers please follow the link below for the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Additional Ubuntu News

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