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In This Issue

General Community News

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146, highlight point releases

loco 5-a-day: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2008-May/002209.html

Ubuntu Stats

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 Hardy

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
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  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/

LoCo News

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Tutorial of the Week

This week, we highlight a contribution by one of the biggest proponents of 64-bit Ubuntu on the forums: Kilz, who wrote the impressive "Howto Install 32 bit Firefox with Flash w/sound and Java for AMD64."

It's a thread that began almost two years ago, has received updates through four releases and has even been recently adjusted. It's unusual to see a tutorial receive so much attention, but when you read through it, it's clear that this is a labor of love. If you use 64-bit Ubuntu and want to get a fully functional Firefox, Kilz has made it easy for you. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537

See you in a week!

A reminder: K.Mandla, one of the moderators on ubuntuforums, is the driving force behind the "Tutorial of the Week" project. If you wish to suggest a tutorial, you are welcome to do so here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4941270

In The Press

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18160/1141/1/1/

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/3749.html

http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7506682379.html

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18227/1141/

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_virt_benchmarks&num=1

In The Blogosphere

http://polishlinux.org/linux/ubuntu/ubuntu-804-not-quite-there-yet/

http://reddragdiva.livejournal.com/473413.html

http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/linux_distro_smack_down_the

http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/how-did-ubuntu-end-up-so-popular/

In Other News

metalinks, someone mentioned the use of it in wubi at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas. Also, see http://elliotmurphy.com/2008/05/13/metalinks-what-are-those/

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/sunradio/RadioFreeSoftware/2008/05/12/Fedora-Ubuntu-OpenSUSE-and-OpenSolaris-Community-Managers-A-Radio-Free-Software-Interview

http://www.screenage.de/blog/2008/04/24/ubuntu-landed-on-berlin-metro-system/

http://n00.be/archives/697/

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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