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 * 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
 * In Other News
 * Other Articles of Interest
 * Featured Podcasts
 * 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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David Planella reports that out of a surprising 150 applicants to the Ubuntu App Showdown, a remarkable 132 of them are qualified and have 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. 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.
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Katherine Noyes, PCWorld, reports on the success of Project Sputnik, the effort that resulted 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.” 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.”
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Xubuntu embraces social media, jumping from zero to four social media outlets in the year past and thanks the admins who run them. “All of these resources are linked at the bottom of every page on Xubuntu.org.” 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.”
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Curtis Hovey writes about problems considering private projects and Purple squad work progress on 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 brings Disclosure draft report  where it is visible what Purple squad is doing, has recently done, will do next. Disclosure draft report is visible at http://people.canonical.com/~curtis/lp-milestone/report.html		 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
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Dean Howell, The Power``Base, writes about Canonical’s innovations around GUI. Considering innovations, Howell gave biggest accent on 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.” 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.”
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Hoo Ann, Ezine@rticles, posts about Ubuntu one features an benefits from its usage namely: storage, online backup, folder/file synchronisation, availability and approachability from other OS, music streaming. Ann states: “Ubuntu One with 5GB of free storage is better than Dropbox and equal to Sugarsync and Google Drive.” 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.”
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Joey Sneddon, OMG! Ubuntu!, posts about shortage of ASUS netbooks, preloaded with Ubuntu, in UK. Considering shortage, Sneddon mentions that in Italy is a completely different situation. Since the source, where Sneddon pulled information from, is in Italian, Sneddon brings some specs of ASUS netbooks to make it easier to ones who are not familiar with Italian language. 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.
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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. 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.
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Swapnil Bhartiya, Muktware, writes about Ubuntu’s entrance into 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 considering  installment of Ubuntu. 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.
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## Common acronyms


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
  • In Other News
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Podcasts
  • 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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