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* Hug Day * Technical Board Meeting * Ubuntu Marketing Team Meeting * Lugradio Live 2006 |
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'''July 11, 2006''' | ==== July 11, 2006 20:00 UTC ==== |
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* ColoradoTeam - JoeyStanford * KurdishTeam - ErdalRonahi * ChicagoTeam - RichJohnson |
* ColoradoTeam - Joey Stanford (Rinchen) * KurdishTeam - Erdal Ronahi * ChicagoTeam - Rich Johnson (nixternal) |
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* JoeyStanford * HenrikOmma * MaxenceDunnewind |
* Joey Stanford (Rinchen) * Henrik Omma (heno) * Maxence Dunnewind (Sp4rKy) * Ubuntu Memberships Awaiting Mako's Approval * Dmitri Alenitchev (alenitchev) * Rich Johnson (nixternal) * Steven Harms (sharms) * Lukas Fitl (lfittl) |
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The NewUserNetwork announces it's latest project [:Classroom:The Classroom]. The Classroom will create an educational atmosphere in an IRC channel in the hopes of teaching new users the basics, as well as the advanced tasks involved with using and maintaining their Ubuntu system. Classes will be held in #ubuntu-classroom on the scheduled dates. People interested in instructing can join #ubuntu-nun for further information or check out the NewUserNetwork wiki page. === The Ubuntu Magazine === The [:UbuntuMagazine:Ubuntu Magazine], a new project of the [:MarketingTeam:Ubuntu Marketing Team] held a meeting on July 17, 2006. The meeting included topics of a wiki redesign, project charter, magazine name, as well as some offtopic information concerning future contest possibilities. For more information concerning the meeting, please check out the [:UbuntuMagazine/Meetings/2006-07-17:Meeting Minutes]. |
The NewUserNetwork announces it's latest project The Classroom. The Classroom will create an educational atmosphere in an IRC channel in the hopes of teaching new users the basics, as well as the advanced tasks involved with using and maintaining their Ubuntu system. Classes will be held in #ubuntu-classroom on the scheduled dates. People interested in instructing can join #ubuntu-nun for further information or check out the New User Network wiki page. New User Network: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewUserNetwork The Classroom: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom === The Ubuntu Magazine Meeting === ==== July 17, 2006 20:00 UTC ==== The Ubuntu Magazine, a new project of the Ubuntu Marketing Team held a meeting on July 17, 2006. The meeting included topics of a wiki redesign, project charter, magazine name, as well as some offtopic information concerning future contest possibilities. For more information concerning the meeting, please check out the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/Meetings/2006-07-17 |
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With the announcement of the new ''Canonical Commercial Repositories'' came the news that Opera 9 was the first application available to the Ubuntu Community. For more information regarding this story, please check out the [http://www.ubuntu.com/news/opera9 news release]. |
With the announcement of the new ''Canonical Commercial Repositories'' came the news that Opera 9 was the first application available to the Ubuntu Community. For more information regarding this story, please check out the news release at http://www.ubuntu.com/news/opera9 === Hug Day === ==== July 19, 2006 ==== The Ubuntu BugSquad, as well as many other volunteers, worked countless hours committing to bug triage. #ubuntu-bugs on on IRC was the busiest many have seen in a while. People were coming from everywhere to help out knock down the current bug list. When asked about the results of the Hug Day, the following quote was made: {{{ <nixternal> any results from yesterday's 'Hug Day'??? this is for the UWN <crimsun> "we closed some bugs". }}} I think he is understating the whole event, but I think that qualifies for a down and dirty interview, ready for the television!!! === Technical Board Meeting === ==== July 18, 2006 20:00 UTC ==== Congratulations to the following: New MOTUs * Sara Hobbs (Hobbsee) * Jeremie Corbier (Toadstool) New Core-Dev * Anthony Mercatante (Tonio) === Ubuntu Marketing Team Meeting === ==== July 21, 2006 19:00 UTC ==== === Lugradio Live 2006 === ==== Saturday, July 22, 2006 through Sunday, July 23, 2006 ==== http://www.lugradio.com/live/2006/index.php/Main_Page Wolverhampton are you ready? the LUGRadio Live event driven by and for OpenSource is upon us. The following is just SOME of the speakers you can see, or hear: * Mark Shuttleworth - If you don't know who this is, you may have accidentally found this newsletter, in that case check out http://www.ubuntu.com * Jonathan Riddell - He is the international man of Kubuntu. http://www.kubuntu.org * Scott James Remnant - Mr. Keybuk to you, will be representing Canonical and Ubuntu, while driving his Ubuntu Themed Ford Focus ST * Henrik Omma - Former Ubuntu/Canonical webmaster, now spends his time making Ubuntu accessible There will be plenty to hear and see, so make sure you check it out. |
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'''''INSERT INTERVIEWS HERE''''' |
'''Jordan Mantha''' (LaserJock) * '''OGG Vorbis:''' http://www.buntudot.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/buntudot_radio_podcast2.ogg * '''MP3:''' http://www.buntudot.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/buntudot_radio_podcast2.mp3 |
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USN-319-1: Linux kernel vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-319-1 USN-313-2: Open``Office.org vulnerabilities http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-313-2 USN-319-2: Linux kernel vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-319-2 USN-320-1: PHP vulnerabilities http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-320-1 |
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=== Development Team Meeting === ==== July 20, 2006 15:00 UTC ==== |
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=== New Apps In Edgy === Don't forget quick installation notes, enable extra repository, package name, use g-a-i where possible, etc... |
==== gfxboot-theme-ubuntu 0.1.26 ==== * Rename identifier for "Install in text mode" from txt_menuitem_install to txt_menuitem_install_text, to avoid clashing with "Install to the hard disk" (closes: Malone #47615) * Make "lang" file work with locales that require _CC (pt_BR, zh_CN, zh_TW). |
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The Kubuntu Team got together for yet another very eventful meeting. With topics ranging from the Kubuntu releases page, to future artwork and it's status, even some KDE Firefox in the future, and who could ever forget all the agenda topics Hobbsee posted!!! It was a great meeting and a lot got done. [:nixternal:Rich Johnson] became a Kubuntu Member as well during this meeting, so congratulations Rich and welcome aboard!!! The team is currently working on setting up the next meeting. For more information on the meeting, including agenda items, check out the [:KKubuntu/Meetings/2006-07-17:Meeting Minutes]. === Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates === |
The Kubuntu Team got together for yet another very eventful meeting. With topics ranging from the Kubuntu releases page, to future artwork and it's status, even some KDE Firefox in the future, and who could ever forget all the agenda topics Hobbsee posted!!! It was a great meeting and a lot got done. Rich Johnson (nixternal) became a Kubuntu Member as well during this meeting, so congratulations Rich and welcome aboard!!! The team is currently working on setting up the next meeting. For more information on the meeting, including agenda items, check out the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Meetings/2006-07-17 |
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Don't forget quick installation notes, enable extra repository, package name, use g-a-i where possible, etc... |
More information available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Kubuntu/Edgy/Knot1/ * KDE 3.5.3 * Launchpad Integration * K3b 0.12.16 |
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=== Meeting === ==== July 19, 2006 20:00 UTC ==== The Edubuntu Team welcomes 3 new members: * Pete Savage (cbx33) * Mario Danic (pygi) * Susan Stewart (HedgeMage) |
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=== Xubuntu 6.06 Updates === === New Apps In Edgy === Don't forget quick installation notes, enable extra repository, package name, use g-a-i where possible, etc... |
The buzz on the Xubuntu mailing list seems to be about a new logo and artwork. It seems there was some productive discussions that were used to create some of the new logos and artwork they have. I must say they look pretty darn good. If you are interested in checking them out, look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/XubuntuEdgy/Proposals |
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New Bugs: # [[BR]] Closed Bugs: # |
Open Bugs: 13,445 Critical Bugs: 22 Unconfirmed Bugs: 7,194 Unassigned Bugs: 8,560 |
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https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/BugsForExtraPoints |
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* Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ * http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1990777,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616 |
WORK IN PROGRESS
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #7
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #7 for the week of July, 15 - 21 2006
You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
In This Issue
- Edgy Eft Knot 1 Release
- Community Council Meeting
- The Classroom
- Ubuntu Magazine Meeting
- Canonical Commercial Repositories
- Opera 9 For Ubuntu
- Hug Day
- Technical Board Meeting
- Ubuntu Marketing Team Meeting
- Lugradio Live 2006
General Community News
Edgy Eft Knot-1 Released
Edgy Eft Knot-1, which will emerge as Ubuntu 6.10 when complete was released on July 20, 2006. Knot-1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Edgy development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Edgy. you can download it here for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu respectively:
[http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/edgy/knot-1/ Ubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-1]
[http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/edgy/knot-1/ Kubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-1]
[http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/edgy/knot-1/ Edubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-1]
[http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/edgy/knot-1/ Xubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-1]
The primary changes from Dapper have been the re-mergin of changes from Debian. Common to all variants, we have upgraded the kernel to 2.6.17. In Ubuntu, gnome has been updated to 2.15.4 and GTK+ to 2.10.
Notable Kubuntu changes are listed on http://wiki.kubuntu.org/Testing/Kubuntu/Edgy/Knot1
This is quite and early set of images, so you can expect some bugs. Amonth them are the following (so you don't need to bother reporting these if you encounter them):
- Installing to LVM volumes is broken and will fail
- When shutting down the live CD, the prompt asking you to press enter to confirm that you have removed the CD reads from the wrong terminal. It is at that point safe to press the reset or power button.
Interested in following changes, have a look at the edgy-changes list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
The testing area of the wiki suggests various tests that can be performed on Knot CD releases to try to catch bugs far enough before the final release that they can be fixed: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing
Bug reports should goto Malone: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
You can read the full report in it's entirety at the following: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-July/000164.html
Community Council Meeting
July 11, 2006 20:00 UTC
- IRC network discussion continues
- Local Community Teams Made Official
ColoradoTeam - Joey Stanford (Rinchen)
KurdishTeam - Erdal Ronahi
ChicagoTeam - Rich Johnson (nixternal)
- Ubuntu Membership Approvals
- Joey Stanford (Rinchen)
- Henrik Omma (heno)
Maxence Dunnewind (Sp4rKy)
- Ubuntu Memberships Awaiting Mako's Approval
- Dmitri Alenitchev (alenitchev)
- Rich Johnson (nixternal)
- Steven Harms (sharms)
- Lukas Fitl (lfittl)
The Classroom
The NewUserNetwork announces it's latest project The Classroom. The Classroom will create an educational atmosphere in an IRC channel in the hopes of teaching new users the basics, as well as the advanced tasks involved with using and maintaining their Ubuntu system. Classes will be held in #ubuntu-classroom on the scheduled dates. People interested in instructing can join #ubuntu-nun for further information or check out the New User Network wiki page. New User Network: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewUserNetwork The Classroom: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom
The Ubuntu Magazine Meeting
July 17, 2006 20:00 UTC
The Ubuntu Magazine, a new project of the Ubuntu Marketing Team held a meeting on July 17, 2006. The meeting included topics of a wiki redesign, project charter, magazine name, as well as some offtopic information concerning future contest possibilities. For more information concerning the meeting, please check out the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/Meetings/2006-07-17
Canonical Commercial Repositories
Canonical announced on July 6th, 2006 the creation and implementation of the Commercial Repositories. This is a favorite amoung many in the community. To enable the repositories, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main
https://help.ubuntu.com/Repositories for more help adding repositories.
Opera 9 for Ubuntu
With the announcement of the new Canonical Commercial Repositories came the news that Opera 9 was the first application available to the Ubuntu Community. For more information regarding this story, please check out the news release at http://www.ubuntu.com/news/opera9
Hug Day
July 19, 2006
The Ubuntu BugSquad, as well as many other volunteers, worked countless hours committing to bug triage. #ubuntu-bugs on on IRC was the busiest many have seen in a while. People were coming from everywhere to help out knock down the current bug list. When asked about the results of the Hug Day, the following quote was made:
<nixternal> any results from yesterday's 'Hug Day'??? this is for the UWN <crimsun> "we closed some bugs".
I think he is understating the whole event, but I think that qualifies for a down and dirty interview, ready for the television!!!
Technical Board Meeting
July 18, 2006 20:00 UTC
Congratulations to the following: New MOTUs
- Sara Hobbs (Hobbsee)
- Jeremie Corbier (Toadstool)
New Core-Dev
- Anthony Mercatante (Tonio)
Ubuntu Marketing Team Meeting
July 21, 2006 19:00 UTC
Lugradio Live 2006
Saturday, July 22, 2006 through Sunday, July 23, 2006
http://www.lugradio.com/live/2006/index.php/Main_Page
Wolverhampton are you ready? the LUGRadio Live event driven by and for OpenSource is upon us. The following is just SOME of the speakers you can see, or hear:
Mark Shuttleworth - If you don't know who this is, you may have accidentally found this newsletter, in that case check out http://www.ubuntu.com
Jonathan Riddell - He is the international man of Kubuntu. http://www.kubuntu.org
- Scott James Remnant - Mr. Keybuk to you, will be representing Canonical and Ubuntu, while driving his Ubuntu Themed Ford Focus ST
- Henrik Omma - Former Ubuntu/Canonical webmaster, now spends his time making Ubuntu accessible
There will be plenty to hear and see, so make sure you check it out.
Interviews
Jordan Mantha (LaserJock)
OGG Vorbis: http://www.buntudot.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/buntudot_radio_podcast2.ogg
MP3: http://www.buntudot.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/buntudot_radio_podcast2.mp3
Security Updates
USN-319-1: Linux kernel vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-319-1
USN-313-2: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-313-2
USN-319-2: Linux kernel vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-319-2
USN-320-1: PHP vulnerabilities http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-320-1
Ubuntu
Development Team Meeting
July 20, 2006 15:00 UTC
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
gfxboot-theme-ubuntu 0.1.26
- Rename identifier for "Install in text mode" from txt_menuitem_install to txt_menuitem_install_text, to avoid clashing with "Install to the hard disk" (closes: Malone #47615)
- Make "lang" file work with locales that require _CC (pt_BR, zh_CN, zh_TW).
Kubuntu
Meeting July 17, 2006
The Kubuntu Team got together for yet another very eventful meeting. With topics ranging from the Kubuntu releases page, to future artwork and it's status, even some KDE Firefox in the future, and who could ever forget all the agenda topics Hobbsee posted!!! It was a great meeting and a lot got done. Rich Johnson (nixternal) became a Kubuntu Member as well during this meeting, so congratulations Rich and welcome aboard!!! The team is currently working on setting up the next meeting. For more information on the meeting, including agenda items, check out the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Meetings/2006-07-17
New Apps In Edgy
More information available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Kubuntu/Edgy/Knot1/
- KDE 3.5.3
- Launchpad Integration
- K3b 0.12.16
Edubuntu
Meeting
July 19, 2006 20:00 UTC
The Edubuntu Team welcomes 3 new members:
- Pete Savage (cbx33)
- Mario Danic (pygi)
Susan Stewart (HedgeMage)
Edubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
New Apps In Edgy
Xubuntu
The buzz on the Xubuntu mailing list seems to be about a new logo and artwork. It seems there was some productive discussions that were used to create some of the new logos and artwork they have. I must say they look pretty darn good. If you are interested in checking them out, look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/XubuntuEdgy/Proposals
Bug Stats
Open Bugs: 13,445 Critical Bugs: 22 Unconfirmed Bugs: 7,194 Unassigned Bugs: 8,560
Infamous Bugs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/BugsForExtraPoints
In The Press
- Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ
Features/Tips Of The Week
Changing the Default Action of your Shutdown Button
Tip provided by Jojoman
This is currently not implamented in the GUI of gnome-power-manager, but will be soon (see [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/49214 bug #49214]). The current default option of the shutdown button is to display the "Exit" menu. Some users would just like their computer to shutdown. The following steps show how to set the action of the shutdown button.
- Press ALT+F2 (run menu)
Type: gconf-editor
Find the Key: /apps/gnome-power-manager/action_button_power
Change the value to one of these: "suspend", "hibernate", "interactive", "shutdown" or "nothing"
Forward & Back MS Intellimouse Buttons
Tip provided by Steven Harms
Did you know that your "forward" and "back" mouse buttons on Microsoft Intellimice can work in Dapper with the following small changes to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? The following changes need to be completed in order for this to work. Remember to restart X when completed:
First step:
cd /etc/X11 sudo gedit xorg.conf
Second step: Use gedit's search and find "Configured Mouse" and replace the section with:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7" EndSection
Third step: Save and restart your X server (crtl-alt-backspace)
RSI Prevention - Typing Breaks
Tip provided by John Stowers
Do you know that Ubuntu ships with an included RSI prevention application?. Taking regular breaks from typing helps prevent RSI and other repetitive keyboard use injuries. To enable a typing break reminder perform the following steps;
First step: Open the keyboard preferences application from the "System", "Preferences" menu.
Second step: Select the typing break tab, and place a tick beside "Lock screen to enforce typing break". You may also place a tick beside "Allow postponing of breaks" if you wish to be able to ignore the occasional break reminder.
Third step: A new bar like icon will appear in the notification area. To monitor how long before your next break simply hover the mouse over the new icon.
Application of the Week
Unison
Application provided by ["JorgeJuan"]
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Unison is an application to synchronize files between machines. It is very efficient because it uses the rsync algorithm and detects it if you rename or move files around. There is a gtk interface as well in unison-gtk, and there is also a MS-Windows version!
I just cannot live without it. I use to have all my important documents in a single folder in my work computer (it is about 800MB). I sync everything with my home computer and laptop whenever I start or stop working. Due to the use of rsync, synchronization takes only a few seconds over a DSL connection and is also very efficient even over a 56k modem line.
rsync alone is very good for synchronizing in one direction (like a backup) but it can be very risky to do two-ways synchronization when you can have files deleted on one sido and the other at the same time. Unison takes care of this gracefully and tells you when files have been modified on both sides, so you can select the appropriate version, although this is not a common situation for me. With text files it can also do diffs and merges.
Unison is not officially supported by Ubuntu (it is in Universe). Ubuntu really lacks a synchronization utitily (may be there is one I do not know). Unison could be a good choice, although the interface can be improved as well as some behaviour, for example: some options can only be set by edditing the configuration files and it do not keep partially transferred files or directories, which is very annoying when transferring a new large file or directory for hours and you need to interrupt the process.
All in all, it is a great tool, not in active development, but in active use by the author of the program as stated in its web page.
Additional News Resources
As always you can find more news and announcements at:
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Conclusion
Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!
Credits
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- Matt Galvin
- Jerome Gotangco
- Jonathan Riddell
- Rich Johnson
- anyone else that contributes
- And many others
Feedback
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