Issue222

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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    3. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. The Planet
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Testing the new Login Manager for Ubuntu, LightDM
    2. First Impressions of VirtualBoxed Ubuntu
    3. LoCo Council Meeting
  10. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine - Issue #50
  11. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu UK Podcast: S04E09 – Brave New World
    2. Full Circle Podcast #21: Wibberty Wibberty Woo
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
  15. UWN Translations
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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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

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 this week

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/

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

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

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

Ubuntu 11.04 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

Subscribe

Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news

Archives

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Mike Holstein
  • Tubuntu
  • Unit193
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

Feedback

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