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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 75 for the weeks January 20th - January 27th, 2008. In this issue:...

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General Community News

Alpha 4 Freeze Ahead

Hardy Alpha 4 is expected to be released Thursday, January 31.

Hardy Alpha 4 will again use a "soft freeze" for main, meaning developers are asked to refrain from uploading packages between Tuesday and Thursday which don't bring us closer to releasing the alpha, so that these days can be used for settling the archive and fixing any remaining showstoppers.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000370.html

6.06.2 LTS Released

This is the second maintenance release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, which continues to be supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until June 2009 on desktops and June 2011 on servers. This maintenance release focuses on improving hardware support for popular server platforms, including updated server installation media.

Over 600 post-release updates have been integrated, so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation, and a number of bugs in the installation system have been corrected. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2008-January/000107.html

MOTU Council Election Open

The polls for the MOTU Council election are open. If you're an Ubuntu developer, please vote at:

All nominees have linked their homepages (which contain more information about them) from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Council - it's a good time to get informed today. You have time to vote until 2008-01-31.

Ubuntu Demo Day, Swindon, UK

An Ubuntu Demo Day will be held from 10am on Saturday 26 April at the Museum of Computing in Swindon. Local publicity will be aimed at telling people about Ubuntu, allowing them to try it out on the demo machines, and giving out Live CDs. Screencasts and videos will be running on a large-screen projector.

The event and on-site parking is free. There are plenty of activities nearby including children's activities, shopping, and outdoor activities.

If anyone would like to help at this event, please contact Dianne Reuby (pramclub at yahoo.co.uk) - our main need will be for experienced users to talk to non-users and answer their questions.

Read more at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2008-January/010772.html

Hug Day January 29th, 2008

The next Hug day of the new year will be held the Tuesday 29th of January. The Desktop team has uploaded to Hardy the new Nautilus which is using gvfs (a gnome-vfs replacement) since this is a new feature we're looking for brave bugtesters, so the bug day will be focus on Nautilus bug reports. New bug reports will be triaged, confirming that the old Nautilus bugs are still reproducible with the new one and asking reporters to test their bugs with it. The event will be held in #ubuntu-bugs on Freenode. The list of targeted bugs and tasks is posted at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080129

== Launchpad News ==

update on LP logo stuff, https://help.launchpad.net/logo/submissions and http://news.launchpad.net/general/logo-contest-update

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-January/003053.html

reminder about translations open for hardy - http://news.launchpad.net/translations/translate-ubuntu-hardy-heron

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

  • How to Develop Virtual Appliances Using Ubuntu JeOS - Virtual appliances are an effective and convenient way to distribute applications, whether it's an open source application stack or a commercial product. Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced" juice") is an efficient variant of the Ubuntu Server operating system, configured specifically for virtual appliances. JeOS is a specialized installation of Ubuntu Server Edition with a tuned kernel that only contains the base elements needed to run within a virtualized environment. For installation instructions and where to download, visit the link. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4829/

http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1070

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0350885.htm

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5605271273.html

http://tinyurl.com/2dj5qz

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141752-c,linux/article.html

In The Blogosphere

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13506_1-9854570-17.html

http://sonoftheclayr.info/?a=view&id=11

In Other News

Full Circle Issue 9 Available

Full Circle - The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine is proud to announce the release of issue nine containing:

  • OpenGEU - Step-by-step install from OpenGEU creator Luca De Marini.
  • How-To : Directory Server, Ubuntu on an iBook, Installing the OpenTTD game (Transport Tycoon Deluxe)
  • Create Your Own Server: Part 1
  • Review of KDE 4.0.

  • Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, Ubuntu Women, Top5 and more!

Get it while it’s hot at fullcirclemagazine.org: http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-9/

Meeting Summaries

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/January2008 - add items from community council and ubuntu-women

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Edubuntu meeting

  • Start: 12:00 UTC
  • End: 14:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: No agenda listed as of the publication

Launchpad users meeting

Friday, February 1, 2008

MOTU Meeting

Community Spotlight

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

Security Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (39755) +341 # over last week
  • Critical (17) -1 # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (20435) +206 # over last week
  • Unassigned (30215) +340 # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (147672) +1252 # 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. Spanish (12417) +/-0 # over last week
  2. French (37728) +/-0 # over last week
  3. Swedish (49176) +/-0 # over last week
  4. English-UK (24991) -181 # over last week
  5. German (66387) -46 # 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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