Issue222
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 222 for the week June 19 - 25, 2011.
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (90506) -17 over last week
- Critical (150) +1 over last week
- Unconfirmed (49430) -648 over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
Make it easier for new users to find the correct software - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28148/
Right-clicking on a unity's launcher icon should list opened window titles. - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28159/
Add save and load option for backups to the gnome-config-tool (gcontool) - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28151/
Tomboy is great and could even be better - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28155/
Ubuntu One Notes is nice...but could be better - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28154/
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/
Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions and Contributors this week
What does a beginner need to know before switching to Ubuntu? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/49827/what-does-a-beginner-need-to-know-before-switching-to-ubuntu
What is the “proposed” repository? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/49691/what-is-the-proposed-repository
Application for taking pretty screenshots (like OS X does) - http://askubuntu.com/questions/50604/application-for-taking-pretty-screenshots-like-os-x-does
What is the default swap size? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/50308/what-is-the-default-swap-size
What is the difference between remove and completely remove in synaptic package manager? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/49890/what-is-the-difference-between-remove-and-completely-remove-in-synaptic-package-m
Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://AskUbuntu.com
LoCo News
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
Testing the new Login Manager for Ubuntu, LightDM
In 11.10 Ubuntu will be switching to the LightDM for a display manager. See some suggested mock-ups and learn how you can now help with testing this new light, themeable display manager.
More information can be found at: http://ubuntu4beginners.blogspot.com/2011/06/testing-new-login-manger-for-ubuntu.html
First Impressions of VirtualBoxed Ubuntu
At this blog post, Josh Braun, Cornell University Ph.D. Candidate, shares his first impressions having recently switched from dual-booting OSX and ubuntu to running ubuntu in virtualbox under OSX.
More information can be found at: http://wideaperture.net/blog/?p=3312
LoCo Council Meeting
Paul Mellors discusses his attendance at his first LoCo Council meeting and the process which teams go through to be re-approved for the council.
More information can be found at: http://paulmellors.blogspot.com/2011/06/loco-council-meeting.html
In Other News
Full Circle Magazine - Issue #50
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our half-centenary issue.
This month:
- Command and Conquer.
How-To : Program in Python - Part 24, LibreOffice - Part 5, Ubuntu Development - Part 2, and Use KDE (4.6).
- Linux Lab - Gnome Shell -vs- Unity.
- Review - PAM Facial Recognition.
- Top 5 - USB Installers.
- I Think - Should Ubuntu keep it's current schedule, or switch to a rolling release?
plus: Ubuntu Games, My Story, and much much more!
Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-50/
Featured Podcasts
Ubuntu UK Podcast: S04E09 – Brave New World
Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and guest presenter Alan Bell are back oop North in Studio B (with noisy podcats but no dishwasher) for episode 9 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:
We talk about monkeying around with a MicroServer (we really must do a segment about them at some point), going to the Doctor Who Experience in London (we don’t reveal any spoilers), and going through 108 locks in one weekend on a canal boat.
- In the news
We give updates on OggCamp11 * We interview actor, director, DRM-free audio books advocate Barnaby Edwards about his new venture, TextBookStuff (which you can get via the Ubuntu One Music Store).
We have a competition to win an audio book from TextBookStuff. Entries to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by Sunday 17th July
- We have a Bit About Ubuntu
- ..and a bit that’s Not About Ubuntu
- And we had some Command Line Love
- Finally we have your feedback.
More information is available at: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/06/22/s04e09-brave-new-world/
Full Circle Podcast #21: Wibberty Wibberty Woo
In this episode, why do we need Ubuntu? The desktop versus the cloud.
OGG: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1381/0/fullcirclepodcast_ep21_240611.ogg
MP3: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1381/1/fullcirclepodcast_ep21_240611.mp3
More information is available at: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2011/06/24/full-circle-podcast-21-wibberty-wibberty-woo/
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for June 21st, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2011-06-21
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from June 23rd, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2011/20110623
Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for June 21st, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20110621
Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for June 21st, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2011-06-21
Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for June 24th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-06-24
Upcoming Meetings and Events
For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at ubuntu-news.org: http://ubuntu-news.org/calendars/
Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
Security Updates
USN-1155-1 NBD vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-June/001356.html
USN-1156-1 tgt vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-June/001357.html
USN-1157-1 Firefox vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-June/001358.html
USN-1157-2 mozvoikko - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-June/001359.html
USN-1149-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-June/001360.html
USN-1157-3 Firefox regression - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-June/001361.html
USN-1158-1 curl vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-June/001362.html
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
curl 7.18.0-1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-June/012667.html
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
nginx 0.7.65-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012370.html
skype 2.2.0.35-0lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012371.html
curl 7.19.7-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012372.html
Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
skype 2.2.0.35-0maverick1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009518.html
curl 7.21.0-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009519.html
Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
skype 2.2.0.35-0natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011987.html
curl 7.21.3-1ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011988.html
cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011989.html
compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011990.html
libgpod 0.8.0-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011991.html
initramfs-tools 0.98.8ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011992.html
apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011993.html
multipath-tools 0.4.8-14ubuntu10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011994.html
gwyddion 2.22-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011995.html
epdfview 0.1.7-5ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011996.html
qt4-x11 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011997.html
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