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## This document contains numerous comments to help make getting
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## Edit the following to include issue number, date info, and a short list
## of the top articles in this release.
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## In this section, list major topics of interest using bullets.
## Format: * <Topic name>
## Ex: * Ubuntu overtakes Microsoft with 90% market share
## This gets added right before you publish bullet points of table of contents		  * Ubuntu App Showdown: let the voting begin!
 * New Session Menu Lands in Ubuntu 12.10
 * Dell's Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, 'Blows Away' Expectations
 * Thank you Xubuntu social media admins
 * Ubuntu Stats
 * Launchpad does not have private projects…yet.
 * Charlene Tessier: Make It Yours – A Guide to Lenses and Scopes
 * Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update
 * Barneedhar: Test Quantal kernels on Precise
 * David Henningsson: Top five wrong ways to fix your audio
 * Canonical, the FSF and the Ongoing Secure Boot Saga
 * Must have missing features in Ubuntu
 * In The Blogosphere
 * Other Articles of Interest
 * Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
 * Monthly Team Reports: June 2012
 * Upcoming Meetings and Events
 * Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
 * And much more!
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## Make each article a subsection, via ===
## These are big articles that don't fit within another section
## Suggested sources: ubuntu-news-team mailing list, fridge.ubuntu.com

=== Welcome New Members ===

## Browse ubuntu-news-team list for announcements of new Ubuntu members
## Forums and IRC also grant membership, where to look for those?
## Format: Results for the $foo Board Meeting DATE
## * Name (launchpad profile | wiki page)		 === Ubuntu App Showdown: let the voting begin! ===

David Planella reports that out of a surprising 150 applicants to the Ubuntu App Showdown, a remarkable 132 of them have qualified and made it to the final list, which has now been released. Judges will now have a full week to test and vote on the apps. Meanwhile, apps will begin being added to the Software Centre, where users will review and rate the apps to decide the community portion of the contest.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/07/ubuntu-app-showdown-let-the-voting-begin/

=== New Session Menu Lands in Ubuntu 12.10 ===

Joey Sneddon, OMG! Ubuntu!, brings comparison between the old and new session menu under Ubuntu. Sneddon states:”The new applet merges items from the previously separate User and System menus into one new look, unified drop-down.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/new-session-menu-lands-in-ubuntu-12-10


=== Dell's Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, 'Blows Away' Expectations ===

Katherine Noyes, PCWorld, reports on the success of Project Sputnik, the effort that resulted in a prototype open-source laptop based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Dell’s XPS 13 hardware. Now entering the Beta phase, interested parties are asked to sign up to participate. “We've been blown away by the number of people who have wanted to be beta participants,” Barton George of Dell explains and goes on to say “if this gets the traction I think it will, you can bet Dell will start looking at others who would benefit from a similar solution.”

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259229/dells_ubuntu_laptop_program_enters_beta_blows_away_expectations.html
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## This section is for various "Thank You's" and appreciation stories from the community.
## These stories can come from any source: Planet, Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, Blogs, News, Press etc.
## Team Leaders throughout the community should be encouraged to put their stories here as well.		 === Thank you Xubuntu social media admins ===

Xubuntu embraces social media, jumping from zero to four social media outlets in the past year and thanks the admins who run them. “All of these resources are linked at the bottom of every page on Xubuntu.org.”

http://xubuntu.org/news/thank-you-xubuntu-social-media-admins/
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## Bug stats only take a second to do.
## Data can be found at: http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
## Note: "Unconfirmed" number comes from "New" number
## See last week's UWN to calculate change over last week.
## NOTE: To be done ONLY on the release date of the UWN (or latter if late).

    * Open (#) +/- # over last week
    * Critical (#) +/- # over last week
    * Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week		     * Open (98866) +4982 over last week
    * Critical (76) +5 over last week
    * Unconfirmed (49513) +1285 over last week
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## Translation stats only take a second to do.
## Data can be found at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise (or current release)
## See last week's UWN to calculate change over last week.
## NOTE: To be done ONLY on the release date of the UWN (or latter if late).
## List the top 5 untranslated languages.

 1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
 2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
 3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
 4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
 5. Language (#) +/- # over last week		  * English (Australia) (3) +1 over last week
 * Spanish (10757) -30 over last week
 * English (United Kingdom) (19977) -291 over last week
 * Bosnian (37168) +7 over last week
 * German (46264) +7 over last week
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## These come from http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/. Click on the link on the left that says "most popular this week" then put the title for the most popular 5.

 * heading
 * heading
 * heading
 * heading
 * heading		  * Novo Menu Indicator de Rede - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29935/
 * Improve the selection of files and folders - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29946/
 * a Real Destop blogging client for Ubuntu! - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29942/
 * Debug symbols very large--log downloads - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29950/
 * Remote ubuntu on any smartphone - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29937/
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## Go to askubuntu.com and click on "WEEK" to get the top questions
## of the week		  * How do I select a field/column from the output of `ls -l`? http://askubuntu.com/questions/161802/how-do-i-select-a-field-column-from-the-output-of-ls-l
 * How are packages actually installed via apt-get install? http://askubuntu.com/questions/162477/how-are-packages-actually-installed-via-apt-get-install
 * My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? http://askubuntu.com/questions/162075/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it
 * Are the source repositories required for a normal user? http://askubuntu.com/questions/161963/are-the-source-repositories-required-for-a-normal-user
 * Can I install Portage, Pacman or other package managers on Ubuntu? http://askubuntu.com/questions/161503/can-i-install-portage-pacman-or-other-package-managers-on-ubuntu
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== LoCo News ==

## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name ===
## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc.
## Keep and eye on the Planet, the LoCo Team Portal, and other
## LoCo team Blogs you can add to your RSS Feeds, also the
## loco-contacts mailing list and http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/
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## This section is for news from the Launchpad Blog at http://blog.launchpad.net/

== Ubuntu Forums News ==

## This section is provided to include any interesting updates from the Ubuntu Forums.
## Announcements are often posted in the Community Cafe:
## http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11

== Ubuntu Cloud News ==

## This section largely draws from the aggregated blog at http://cloud.ubuntu.com/		 === Launchpad does not have private projects…yet. ===

Curtis Hovey writes about problems considering private projects and Purple squad work progress on the Disclosure feature. Hovey states: ”I think the problem here is that Launchpad squads no longer use Launchpad to plan and execute work. There is no place for any interested party to see what the goals of Disclosure is and gauge how we are progressing.”

Hovey also presents a Disclosure draft report, where it is can be seen what Purple squad is doing, has recently done, and will do next. The Disclosure draft report is available at http://people.canonical.com/~curtis/lp-milestone/report.html

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-does-not-have-private-projects-yet
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ === Charlene Tessier: Make It Yours – A Guide to Lenses and Scopes ===

Charlene Tessier shares a quick-start guide to understanding Unity lenses and scopes. It covers what each of them are and how users can take advantage of them.

http://frenchfortunecookie.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/make-it-yours-a-guide-to-lenses-and-scopes/

=== Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update ===

This week’s Ubuntu TV update covers news about the port from Unity 2D to 3D, a working stand-alone mode, and scopes including Video, Music, DVR, and Pictures, as well as more technical notes about metadata and removing Qt to make way for Nux.

http://www.doadjustyourset.com/2012/07/09/ubuntu-tv-weekly-update/

=== Barneedhar: Test Quantal kernels on Precise ===

Testing Quantal kernels in 12.04 is a great way to help the kernel team to provide better hardware support in the 12.04 release. The post outlines the steps necessary to download, install, and test the newer kernel versions. Any bugs should be reported in launchpad.

http://unbrokenspectrum.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/test-quantal-kernels-on-precise/

=== David Henningsson: Top five wrong ways to fix your audio ===

David Henningsson writes about five common, outdated ways people try to fix issues with audio. Among the suggestions are not trying to update ALSA, not purging Pulse``Audio, and not replacing ALSA with OSS.

http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2012/07/13/top-five-wrong-ways-to-fix-your-audio/
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## This section comes from blog.canonical.com === Changes to Contacts ===

The Ubuntu One team is announcing that they are removing the Facebook contact import and sync feature in Ubuntu One. They cite turning off old features reliant on the old infrastructure in favor of moving to a new syncing infrastrcuture, U1DB. Users who have already added their Facebook contacts will continue to have access to that information.

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/07/11/changes-to-contacts/
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## Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent.
## We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest.
## Just pulling one example from my memory, the story about Indiana schools piloting
## a classroom Linux deployment, a portion of which was Ubuntu, are good. Ubuntu
## release reviews are also common items in this section.
## For this and the next sections, see:
## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/LinkSuggestions		 === Canonical, the FSF and the Ongoing Secure Boot Saga ===

Linux Inside reports on the continuing back-and-forth between the Free Software Foundation and Canonical over the proposed plan to overcome issues with secure boot. Disagreements of licenses and a shift to an alternate bootloader, as opposed to Grub 2, are among the top issues discussed.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/75612.html

=== Must have missing features in Ubuntu ===

Datamation writes on missing features that new users to Ubuntu, or Linux in general, are expecting when migrating over. One of the features is system restore, which lets users move back to a known good working installation of the operating system. Other missing features include wide-spread inclusions of driver discs with new hardware from the manufacturers, and the ability to easily install software without an active Internet connection.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/must-have-missing-features-in-ubuntu-1.html
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## In this section we want to highlight the blogs that are exceptionally well-written and in-depth.
## Blogs tend to make it easy for low-quality content, so be extra careful on what goes here.
## We should encourage bloggers to spread the word, so this section might be a good way to do so.

== In Other News ==

## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections.		 === Thunderfork: Canonical’s Chance To Expand Its Ecosystem With Thunderbird ===

Dean Howell, The Power``Base, writes about Canonical’s innovations around the GUI. When considering innovations, Howell gave the most focus to Thunderbird and its future. Howell states:”Thunderbird integration in Unity is a hack-job. Forking Thunderbird and bending it to fit the will of Ubuntu makes sense. Forking the project and making a version available for Android and iOS to gain adoption, increase mind-share and raise the visibility of it’s cloud services is simply genius.”

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/07/thunderfork-canonicals-chance-to-expand-its-ecosystem-with-thunderbird/

=== All About Ubuntu One ===

Hoo Ann, Ezine@rticles, posts about Ubuntu one features, and benefits from its usage namely: storage, online backup, folder/file synchronisation, availability and approachability from other operating systems, and music streaming. Ann states: “Ubuntu One with 5GB of free storage is better than Dropbox and equal to Sugarsync and Google Drive.”

http://ezinearticles.com/?All-About-Ubuntu-One&id=7125827

=== There‘s no shortage of Asus Ubuntu netbooks in Italy ===

Joey Sneddon, OMG! Ubuntu!, posts about the shortage of ASUS netbooks, preloaded with Ubuntu, in the UK. Discussing the shortage, Sneddon mentions that in Italy it is a completely different situation. Since Sneddon's source is in Italian, he presents some specs of the ASUS netbooks to make it easier for ones who are not familiar with the Italian language.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/theres-no-shortage-of-asus-ubuntu-netbooks-in-italy

=== Preloaded Ubuntu laptops all set to compete against Windows ===

Vaibhav Panwar, REVTHATUP, posts about: Ubuntu’s competition with Windows, Canonical’s partnership with Dell, entrance into new markets like India and China, and advantages of Ubuntu.

http://www.revthatup.com/preloaded-ubuntu-laptops-all-set-to-compete-against-windows/


=== India Can Be Ubuntu's Impenetrable Fort ===

Swapnil Bhartiya, Muktware, writes about Ubuntu’s entrance into the India market. Bhartiya looks at the features and benefits that Ubuntu brings to potential users. He also compares Ubuntu with Windows and he points out possibilities for those considering installing Ubuntu.

http://www.muktware.com/3890/india-can-be-ubuntus-impenetrable-fort
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## Bullet-point list of articles that are more generic linux in nature

== Featured Podcasts ==

## Ubuntu UK Podcast
## Full Circle Magazine Podcast
## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV
## Lococast.net		  * Debian Developers Discuss UEFI Secure``Boot Plans - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEzNjU
 * Another way Around Linux Windows Secure``Boot problem - http://www.zdnet.com/another-way-around-linuxs-windows-secureboot-problem-7000000829/#
 * More Teeny-Tiny Linux PCs are Arriving - http://ostatic.com/blog/more-teeny-tiny-linux-pcs-are-arriving
 * Debian Wants To Work With Its Offspring (Ubuntu) - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEzOTQ
 * A New 3D Action RPG Game is Coming to Linux - http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/07/a-new-3d-action-rpg-game-is-coming-to.html
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## Change date to reflect the latest meeting date and verify link then just remove the comment out marks
## * Kernel Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_21_February_2012
## * QA Team - February 15, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120215
## * Desktop Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-02-21
## * Security Team - February 13, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120213
## * Server Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120221


== Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings ==

# Edubuntu Team, Lubuntu, Studio and Xubuntu currently (01/2012) have active regular meetings.

== Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR> ==

## Once a month we do these in the format:
##
## See here for the team report for June 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/MonthYear
##
## If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting		  * Kernel Team - July 10, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_10_July_2012
 * QA Team - July 11, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120711
 * Desktop Team - July 10, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-07-10
 * Security Team - July 9, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120709
 * Server Team - July 10, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120710

== Monthly Team Reports: June 2012 ==

See here for the team report for June 2012: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/June2012

If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting
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## Run security-and-updates/ListSecurity.py YEAR MONTH  * [USN-1499-1] Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001752.html
 * [USN-1500-1] Pidgin vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001753.html
 * [USN-1502-1] X.Org X Server vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001754.html
 * [USN-1501-1] Nova vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001755.html
 * [USN-1503-1] Rhythmbox vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001756.html
 * [USN-1504-1] Qt vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001757.html
 * [USN-1506-1] Puppet vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001758.html
 * [USN-1505-1] Open``JDK 6 vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001759.html
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH hardy
## End of life - April 2013 (Server)		  * gnutls13 2.0.4-1ubuntu2.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2012-July/012777.html
 * silo 1.4.13a+git20070930-1ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2012-July/012778.html
 * linux 2.6.24-32.104 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2012-July/012779.html

End of life - April 2013 (Server)
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH lucid
## End of Life - April 2013 (Desktop) - April 2015 (Server)		  * pudb 0.92.14-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012974.html
 * redmine 0.9.3-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012975.html
 * mesa 7.7.1-1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012976.html
 * vm-builder 0.12.4-0ubuntu0.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012977.html
 * glib2.0 2.24.1-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012978.html
 * initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu78.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012979.html
 * samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.11 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012980.html
 * qt4-x11 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012981.html
 * puppet 0.25.4-2ubuntu6.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012982.html
 * landscape-client 12.05-0ubuntu0.10.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012983.html
 * openjdk-6 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012984.html
 * icedtea-web 1.2-2ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2012-July/012985.html

End of Life - April 2013 (Desktop) - April 2015 (Server)
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH natty
## End of Life - October 2012		  * qt4-x11 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2012-July/012590.html
 * puppet 2.6.4-2ubuntu2.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2012-July/012591.html
 * landscape-client 12.05-0ubuntu0.11.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2012-July/012592.html
 * openjdk-6 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2012-July/012593.html
 * icedtea-web 1.2-2ubuntu0.11.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2012-July/012594.html

End of Life - October 2012
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH oneiric
## End of Life - April 2013		  * linux-ti-omap4 3.0.0-1213.25 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012224.html
 * linux-meta-ti-omap4 3.0.0.1213.12 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012225.html
 * rhythmbox_2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1.4_armel_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012226.html
 * puppet 2.7.1-1ubuntu3.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012227.html
 * landscape-client 12.05-0ubuntu0.11.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012228.html
 * python-scipy 0.9.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012229.html
 * openjdk-6 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012230.html
 * icedtea-web 1.2-2ubuntu0.11.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012231.html
 * openjdk-6 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/oneiric-changes/2012-July/012232.html

End of Life - April 2013
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH precise
## End of Life - April 2017		  * linux-armadaxp 3.2.0-1605.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016568.html
 * linux-meta-armadaxp 3.2.0.1605.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016569.html
 * unscd 0.47-2build2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016570.html
 * winff 1.4.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016571.html
 * bamf 0.2.118-0ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016572.html
 * banshee 2.4.1-3ubuntu1~precise1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016573.html
 * juju 0.5+bzr531-0ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016574.html
 * me-tv 1.3.6-1ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016575.html
 * evince 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016576.html
 * gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016577.html
 * gtimer 2.0.0-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016578.html
 * libfuse-perl 0.09-3ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016579.html
 * unity-lens-video 0.3.5-0ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016580.html
 * unity-scope-video-remote 0.3.5-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016581.html
 * libunity 5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016582.html
 * xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.6.2-1ubuntu1~precise1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016583.html
 * pudb 2012.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016584.html
 * software-center 5.2.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016585.html
 * xdiagnose 2.5.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016586.html
 * keystone 2012.1+stable~20120608-aff45d6-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016587.html
 * vino 3.4.2-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016588.html
 * libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016589.html
 * epoptes 0.5.5-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016590.html
 * hplip 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016591.html
 * aptdaemon 0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016592.html
 * glance 2012.1+stable~20120608-5462295-0ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016593.html
 * compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016594.html
 * pango1.0 1.30.0-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016595.html
 * compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016596.html
 * compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016597.html
 * xorg-server 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016598.html
 * nova_2012.1+stable~20120612-3ee026e-0ubuntu1.2_i386_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016599.html
 * rhythmbox_2.96-0ubuntu4.1_armel_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016600.html
 * postfix 2.9.3-2~12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016601.html
 * ubuntuone-storage-protocol 3.0.2-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016602.html
 * ubuntuone-client 3.0.2-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016603.html
 * puppet 2.7.11-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016604.html
 * libmusicbrainz 4.0.3-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016605.html
 * aiccu 20070115-14.1ubuntu3.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016606.html
 * gnome-media 3.4.0-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016607.html
 * landscape-client 12.05-0ubuntu0.12.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016608.html
 * cgroup-lite 1.1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016609.html
 * libfm 0.1.17-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016610.html
 * lxc 0.7.5-3ubuntu60 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016611.html
 * gamin 0.1.10-4ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016612.html
 * fonts-liberation 1.07.0-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016613.html
 * sks 1.1.1+dpkgv3-7ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016614.html
 * python-distutils-extra 2.34-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016615.html
 * quickly 12.04-0ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016616.html
 * telepathy-gabble 0.16.0-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016617.html
 * gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016618.html
 * libjpeg-turbo 1.1.90+svn733-0ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016619.html
 * partman-base 153ubuntu5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016620.html
 * devscripts 2.11.6ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016621.html
 * qt4-x11 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-July/016622.html

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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu App Showdown: let the voting begin!
    2. New Session Menu Lands in Ubuntu 12.10
    3. Dell's Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, 'Blows Away' Expectations
  3. Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
    1. Thank you Xubuntu social media admins
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Precise
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad does not have private projects…yet.
  6. The Planet
    1. Charlene Tessier: Make It Yours – A Guide to Lenses and Scopes
    2. Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update
    3. Barneedhar: Test Quantal kernels on Precise
    4. David Henningsson: Top five wrong ways to fix your audio
  7. Canonical News
    1. Changes to Contacts
  8. In The Press
    1. Canonical, the FSF and the Ongoing Secure Boot Saga
    2. Must have missing features in Ubuntu
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Thunderfork: Canonical’s Chance To Expand Its Ecosystem With Thunderbird
    2. All About Ubuntu One
    3. There‘s no shortage of Asus Ubuntu netbooks in Italy
    4. Preloaded Ubuntu laptops all set to compete against Windows
    5. India Can Be Ubuntu's Impenetrable Fort
  10. Other Articles of Interest
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Monthly Team Reports: June 2012
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 274 for the week July 9 - 15, 2012.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu App Showdown: let the voting begin!
  • New Session Menu Lands in Ubuntu 12.10
  • Dell's Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, 'Blows Away' Expectations
  • Thank you Xubuntu social media admins
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Launchpad does not have private projects…yet.
  • Charlene Tessier: Make It Yours – A Guide to Lenses and Scopes
  • Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update
  • Barneedhar: Test Quantal kernels on Precise
  • David Henningsson: Top five wrong ways to fix your audio
  • Canonical, the FSF and the Ongoing Secure Boot Saga
  • Must have missing features in Ubuntu
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: June 2012
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu App Showdown: let the voting begin!

David Planella reports that out of a surprising 150 applicants to the Ubuntu App Showdown, a remarkable 132 of them have qualified and made it to the final list, which has now been released. Judges will now have a full week to test and vote on the apps. Meanwhile, apps will begin being added to the Software Centre, where users will review and rate the apps to decide the community portion of the contest.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/07/ubuntu-app-showdown-let-the-voting-begin/

New Session Menu Lands in Ubuntu 12.10

Joey Sneddon, OMG! Ubuntu!, brings comparison between the old and new session menu under Ubuntu. Sneddon states:”The new applet merges items from the previously separate User and System menus into one new look, unified drop-down.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/new-session-menu-lands-in-ubuntu-12-10

Dell's Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, 'Blows Away' Expectations

Katherine Noyes, PCWorld, reports on the success of Project Sputnik, the effort that resulted in a prototype open-source laptop based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Dell’s XPS 13 hardware. Now entering the Beta phase, interested parties are asked to sign up to participate. “We've been blown away by the number of people who have wanted to be beta participants,” Barton George of Dell explains and goes on to say “if this gets the traction I think it will, you can bet Dell will start looking at others who would benefit from a similar solution.”

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259229/dells_ubuntu_laptop_program_enters_beta_blows_away_expectations.html

Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories

Thank you Xubuntu social media admins

Xubuntu embraces social media, jumping from zero to four social media outlets in the past year and thanks the admins who run them. “All of these resources are linked at the bottom of every page on Xubuntu.org.”

http://xubuntu.org/news/thank-you-xubuntu-social-media-admins/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (98866) +4982 over last week
  • Critical (76) +5 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (49513) +1285 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 Precise

  • English (Australia) (3) +1 over last week
  • Spanish (10757) -30 over last week
  • English (United Kingdom) (19977) -291 over last week
  • Bosnian (37168) +7 over last week
  • German (46264) +7 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations

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

Launchpad News

Launchpad does not have private projects…yet.

Curtis Hovey writes about problems considering private projects and Purple squad work progress on the Disclosure feature. Hovey states: ”I think the problem here is that Launchpad squads no longer use Launchpad to plan and execute work. There is no place for any interested party to see what the goals of Disclosure is and gauge how we are progressing.”

Hovey also presents a Disclosure draft report, where it is can be seen what Purple squad is doing, has recently done, and will do next. The Disclosure draft report is available at http://people.canonical.com/~curtis/lp-milestone/report.html

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-does-not-have-private-projects-yet

The Planet

Charlene Tessier: Make It Yours – A Guide to Lenses and Scopes

Charlene Tessier shares a quick-start guide to understanding Unity lenses and scopes. It covers what each of them are and how users can take advantage of them.

http://frenchfortunecookie.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/make-it-yours-a-guide-to-lenses-and-scopes/

Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update

This week’s Ubuntu TV update covers news about the port from Unity 2D to 3D, a working stand-alone mode, and scopes including Video, Music, DVR, and Pictures, as well as more technical notes about metadata and removing Qt to make way for Nux.

http://www.doadjustyourset.com/2012/07/09/ubuntu-tv-weekly-update/

Barneedhar: Test Quantal kernels on Precise

Testing Quantal kernels in 12.04 is a great way to help the kernel team to provide better hardware support in the 12.04 release. The post outlines the steps necessary to download, install, and test the newer kernel versions. Any bugs should be reported in launchpad.

http://unbrokenspectrum.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/test-quantal-kernels-on-precise/

David Henningsson: Top five wrong ways to fix your audio

David Henningsson writes about five common, outdated ways people try to fix issues with audio. Among the suggestions are not trying to update ALSA, not purging PulseAudio, and not replacing ALSA with OSS.

http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2012/07/13/top-five-wrong-ways-to-fix-your-audio/

Canonical News

Changes to Contacts

The Ubuntu One team is announcing that they are removing the Facebook contact import and sync feature in Ubuntu One. They cite turning off old features reliant on the old infrastructure in favor of moving to a new syncing infrastrcuture, U1DB. Users who have already added their Facebook contacts will continue to have access to that information.

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/07/11/changes-to-contacts/

In The Press

Canonical, the FSF and the Ongoing Secure Boot Saga

Linux Inside reports on the continuing back-and-forth between the Free Software Foundation and Canonical over the proposed plan to overcome issues with secure boot. Disagreements of licenses and a shift to an alternate bootloader, as opposed to Grub 2, are among the top issues discussed.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/75612.html

Must have missing features in Ubuntu

Datamation writes on missing features that new users to Ubuntu, or Linux in general, are expecting when migrating over. One of the features is system restore, which lets users move back to a known good working installation of the operating system. Other missing features include wide-spread inclusions of driver discs with new hardware from the manufacturers, and the ability to easily install software without an active Internet connection.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/must-have-missing-features-in-ubuntu-1.html

In The Blogosphere

Thunderfork: Canonical’s Chance To Expand Its Ecosystem With Thunderbird

Dean Howell, The PowerBase, writes about Canonical’s innovations around the GUI. When considering innovations, Howell gave the most focus to Thunderbird and its future. Howell states:”Thunderbird integration in Unity is a hack-job. Forking Thunderbird and bending it to fit the will of Ubuntu makes sense. Forking the project and making a version available for Android and iOS to gain adoption, increase mind-share and raise the visibility of it’s cloud services is simply genius.”

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/07/thunderfork-canonicals-chance-to-expand-its-ecosystem-with-thunderbird/

All About Ubuntu One

Hoo Ann, Ezine@rticles, posts about Ubuntu one features, and benefits from its usage namely: storage, online backup, folder/file synchronisation, availability and approachability from other operating systems, and music streaming. Ann states: “Ubuntu One with 5GB of free storage is better than Dropbox and equal to Sugarsync and Google Drive.”

http://ezinearticles.com/?All-About-Ubuntu-One&id=7125827

There‘s no shortage of Asus Ubuntu netbooks in Italy

Joey Sneddon, OMG! Ubuntu!, posts about the shortage of ASUS netbooks, preloaded with Ubuntu, in the UK. Discussing the shortage, Sneddon mentions that in Italy it is a completely different situation. Since Sneddon's source is in Italian, he presents some specs of the ASUS netbooks to make it easier for ones who are not familiar with the Italian language.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/theres-no-shortage-of-asus-ubuntu-netbooks-in-italy

Preloaded Ubuntu laptops all set to compete against Windows

Vaibhav Panwar, REVTHATUP, posts about: Ubuntu’s competition with Windows, Canonical’s partnership with Dell, entrance into new markets like India and China, and advantages of Ubuntu.

http://www.revthatup.com/preloaded-ubuntu-laptops-all-set-to-compete-against-windows/

India Can Be Ubuntu's Impenetrable Fort

Swapnil Bhartiya, Muktware, writes about Ubuntu’s entrance into the India market. Bhartiya looks at the features and benefits that Ubuntu brings to potential users. He also compares Ubuntu with Windows and he points out possibilities for those considering installing Ubuntu.

http://www.muktware.com/3890/india-can-be-ubuntus-impenetrable-fort

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: June 2012

See here for the team report for June 2012: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/June2012

If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

End of life - April 2013 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2013 (Desktop) - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

End of Life - October 2012

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2013

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

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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
  • Jasna Benčić
  • Nathan Dyer
  • Nathan Handler
  • Matt Rudge
  • 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

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