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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 23 for the week of Nov 19 - 25, 2006. In this issue we cover ...

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General Community News

mEDUXa Released

The Education, Culture and Sports Department of the Spanish Canary Island's regional goverment have released mEDUXa 1.0. mEDUXa is a Free Software GNU/Linux distribution developed for educational purposes based on Kubuntu. It will be deployed on 35,000 computers in 1100 schools, which represents 325,000 possible users (25,000 teachers and 300,000 students) in the Canary Islands state schools. mEDUXa comes with different profiles, configured thanks to KDE's Kiosk mode. One of mEDUXa's major feature is the profile for young pupils (from 4 to 8 years old).

http://www.grupocpd.com/archivos_documentos/info_meduxa/

Changes In Fiesty

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyReleasePlan

Launchpad News

In The Press

Kurdish Ubuntu has been [http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/391178.asp promoted] (link in Turkish) in Diyarbakir, Turkey, with a reception. According to the news agency, Ubuntu was the first linux distribution to implement Kurdish localization. Kurdish localization in Linux is an important milestone for Turkey due to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_turkey ethnic conflicts]. Kurdish Ubuntu was prepared by [https://launchpad.net/people/kurdish a team of hardworking translators] in [https://translations.launchpad.net/ Rosetta]. In his talk at the reception, the mayor of Sur (a town in Diyarbakir) said that "Whatever language it is in, we wanted it [our service] to be accessible multilingually because multilingualism is our wealth. Our work is being conducted on Kurdish, English, and Turkish language support. ... If we can integrate multilingualism, multi-identities, and multi-culturalism in this nation, this region will be a place of peace instead of conflicts." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_Uzun Mehmed Uzun], a Kurdish writer, speaking about the Kurdish language, told the attendees that "Our most important problem is that the language is not standardized. The Kurdish language should be standardized." Ubuntu was later distributed to the reception's attendees. You can find screenshots of the Kurdish Ubuntu at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kurdish_Linux_launched_in_Turkey

http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39284836-1,00.htm

Meetings and other similar events

Upcoming Events

Feature Of The Week - ???

Specification highlight

Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Bug Stats

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