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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 71 for the week December 16th - December 22nd, 2007. In this issue...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Dell Adds DVD Playback

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/18/38935.aspx

Ubuntu Live Conference Call for Proposals Open

http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1889

Hardy Alpha 2

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-December/000362.html

MOTU

Training

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training, http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/134

Kubuntu LTS

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2007-December/002066.html

Ubuntu Live 2008: Call for Proposals

http://en.oreilly.com/ubuntu2008/public/content/home

Full Circle Magazine Issue #8

full circle #8

Full Circle - The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud to announce the release of issue eight.

It contains: * Mythbuntu - Step-by-step Install * How-To : Install Wubi, Get a Christmas Desktop, Multi Boot Linux and Learning Scribus Pt.8. * Review of TomBoy. * New Column for Ubuntu Women * Letters, Q&A, My Desktop, Top 5 and more!

Get it while it's hot! http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-8/

New Kubuntu Members

Guillaume Martres - Guillaume is an admin of the French Ubuntu forums and a KDE-lover. His contributions are strong around bug reporting, and he hopes to make patches for Kubuntu/KDE in the future. https://launchpad.net/~smarter Carlos Cabezas - Carlos is the founder and admin of kubuntu-es.org for about two years. For the future, he hopes to represent Kubuntu at Linux events in Spain, work on more translations and bug reports. https://launchpad.net/~rouzic

IRSeek

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2007-December/000383.html

LoCo News

Launchpad News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-December/002872.html

Ubuntu Forum News

Ubuntu Forums Interviews

LaRoza is involved in the Unanswered Post Team and in the Programming Talk section. A self taught programmer, always willing to help other users, LaRoza is one of the respected member of our community. Read the full in interview here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/an-interview-with-laroza/

A new "Thank You" option

This week, ubuntu-geek implemented a "Thank You" button that can be clicked to thank a user for a helpful post. The button [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/post_thanks.gif] can be found at the bottom right of each post, close to the [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/edit.gif] and [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/quote.gif] ones. A user cannot thank his/her own posts, and can only thank a given post once. Most of all, the forum staff would like to express that the "Thank You" feature is not a reputation system, that just like bean counts or profile images associated to beans, "Thank yous" are not intended to rate or rank members.

The "Thank You" feature will hopefully allow users to more easily spot useful information, and is one answer that UF is providing to help solve the problem of the dangerous commands posted recently by spammers. Full implementation will be available with the upcoming software upgrade. "Thank You" counts will appear in the user profile and will help new and naive users identify members who positively contribute to the forums.

In The Press

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7924076658.html

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912

In The Blogosphere

http://pcwizkid.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-710-vs-osx-leopard-comparison-part-3/ (and the other parts)

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/12/11/prodit/19702110&sec=prodit

http://marcfearby.com/computing/the-migration-of-a-fussy-windows-user-to-linux (maybe)

In Other News

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

LoCo Serbia

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-December/001882.html

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, and 7.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (#) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats

  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

Remaining string to translate in Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/

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