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WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 71 for the weeks December 30th - January 5th, 2008. In this issue...
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In This Issue
General Community News
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000363.html
http://people.ubuntuwire.com/~jpatrick/tutorials/kubuntu-tutorials-day-bugs.pdf
http://ubuntulive.blip.tv/ (ubuntu live 2007 videos, maybe remind folks about ubuntu live 2008?)
LoCo News
New in Gutsy Gibbon
Launchpad News
A fantastic result for Inkscape with Launchpad
Just a couple weeks after Inkscape moved its bug tracker to Launchpad (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue67), the results are impressive! The Inkscape community has been working very hard, and there is more than a 4-fold decrease in open bugs. Mark Shuttleworth elaborates on the strength of the Open Source community in his article: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/135
Ubuntu Forum News
Ubuntu Forums Interview
So, K.Mandla, dedicated interviewer, UF moderator and so much more (running half-marathons, speaking four languages..), has finally answered the "Nine Simple Questions". You can read the article here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/an-interview-with-kmandla/
Ubuntu Tutorial of the Week
The idea is to highlight a Tutorial every week, as an example, and maybe improve the quality of the Tutorial & Tips sub-forum.
You can subscribe to the closed thread to get the notifications each week: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=655207
The discussion thread regarding the Tutorial of the Week can be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=655209
In The Press
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7601019362.html
http://www.linux.com/feature/123494
In The Blogosphere
Built-in apps get an "A", wireless support an "F" - Dennis O'Reilly at cnet.com blogs has tested Ubuntu. He is very impressed with the overall distribution, and all the applications bundled in Ubuntu, especially the ones he did not expect: F-Spot Photo Manager, GIMP Image Editor, OpenOffice.org Drawing app, XSane Image Scanner, Movie Player, Rhythmbox Music Player, Serpentine Audio CD-Creator, Sound Juicer CD Extractor, Sound Recorder, Ekiga, Evolution, Pidgin client (previously known as Gaim). He also enjoyed the games: "Blackjack, Sudoku, and a Tetris knockoff; there's even a version of my favorite time-waster, Mahjongg". But did not manage to make the wireless work out of the box or with Ndiswrapper. The comments on the article offer different solutions. http://www.cnet.com/8301-13880_1-9838468-68.html
http://enews.penton.com/enews/windowsitpro/security/2008_01_02_0102_sec_upd/display
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23420
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13880_1-9839735-68.html
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/ubuntubeyondthehype.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1848
In Other News
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205208008
Meetings and Events
Community Spotlight
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
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
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- 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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Conclusion
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