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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #101 for the week July 20th - July 26th, 2008. In this issue we cover:

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In This Issue

General Community News

Main frozen for Alpha 3

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-July/000457.html

MOTU school session: Maintainer Scripts

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-July/004252.html

Ubuntu Screencasts

Mixing A Podcast In Ardour - Part 1 http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/Mixing_A_Podcast_In_Ardour_-_Part_1

LoCo Approvals

New:

Re-assessed successfully:

Ubuntu Stats

Look at Chris_c2's suggestion on the Ideas page.

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
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
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

Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Press Release

The Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo will have their fourth free Exploration Ubuntu event to demonstrate Ubuntu. It will be held Saturday August 2nd, from 10am to 5pm at the MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA. Contact event coordinator Mike Rushton (leftyfb at ubuntu.com), or visit http://ubuntu-ma.us for more details. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-July/000103.html

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

• Mark Shuttleworth: life on Mars, Ubuntu in emerging markets - Ryan Paul reports on a presentation Mark Shuttleworth gave to the Portland Legion of Tech. His presentation touched on his experience in space and the need for extensive research on Mars, then moved on to Ubuntu. Here, he outlined the reason for founding Canonical and establishing the Ubuntu distribution. The greatest potential, he feels is in emerging markets and mobile space, and to bring Linux to new audiences. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080722-mark-shuttleworth-life-on-mars-ubuntu-in-emerging-markets.html (Concentrate on Ubuntu in emerging markets angle)

• OSCON, Pt. 2.1: A Few Words With Mark Shuttleworth - Serdar Yegulalp had the opportunity to interview Mark Shuttleworth at OSCON. Mark had the opportunity to express his views on the needs for and benefits of diversity. Mark also gives his opinion on having usable, beautiful, software, and the need for space for developers to work. The last question that Mr. Yegulalp asked was answered in a video included at the bottom of the page. See more at: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/oscon_pt_21_a_f.html

• Legion of Talk Event Podcast | Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu and Space Travel - Hazelnut Tech Talk presents the full 84 minute audio recording of the presentation that Mark Shuttleworth made at McMenamins Mission Theater, in Portland, Oregon. This is the talk that was sponsored by Strands and Legion of Tech (see above). http://oakhazelnut.com/2008/07/22/legion-of-talk-event-podcast-mark-shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-and-space-travel/ (We may put all these interviews under a separate header)

• Shuttleworth: Make Desktop Linux Better than Apple - Darryl K. Taft reports on a talk that Mark Shuttleworth made at OSCON. One of the points that he raised were that the presentation layer should be beautiful and useful: it should be art. He also raised the points that th iPhone is effectively a pure software experience, and that disclosure is the real stimulus of innovation, and free software is the ultimate disclosure. Shuttleworth feels that the development environment should be "permission free". http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Shuttleworth-Make-Desktop-Linux-Better-than-Apple/

In The Blogosphere

• NASA Uses Ubuntu - Mackenzie had the opportunity to visit a Smithsonian Folklife Festival with some friends when NASA had an exhibit going. While looking at a photo and later a demonstration of a robot climbing a wall, they noticed that NASA was using Linux. In fact, one of the people was using Ubuntu Hardy Heron. http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2008/07/nasa-uses-ubuntu.html

• Ubuntu VS Other Linux Distributions - Computingtech demonstrates some of the differences between Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Among the differences explored are the installation, the "look-and-feel", and the use of sudo to access administrative privelages. http://computingtech.blogspot.com/2008/07/ubuntu-vs-other-linux-distributions.html

• A Week of Ubuntu - oilee goes through the first-time impressions of setting up and running Ubuntu, including concerns about driver issues and the look and feel of the GUI. Pleasant surprises were also in store concerning word processing and image editing. The only questions left are the way programs are installed, besides using Synaptic, and whether there are more games available to Linux. http://oilee.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/a-week-of-ubuntu/

• Ubuntu Linux, My Favorite Desktop - amumtaz explains his first reactions to Hardy Heron, and the way it reacted with his Toshiba laptop. His surprise that, even in LiveCD mode, it picked up all his drivers. His amazement at the ease he had installing it, and the way he could do all the things he needed to do with Linux. His feeling, based on his experience with various UNIXs and Linuxs, was that Linux is now ready to compete with Microsoft Windows and hold its own. http://amumtaz.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/ubuntu-linux-my-favorite-desktop/

• A few suggestions to improve Ubuntu - Nicolas Bouliane has had some problems with working with Ubuntu, and offers these suggestions for improving it. One, in particular, is the ability to bulk-rename files when file names conflict with existing files. Another is to add a restore button to the trash applet. A third is to improve the options on "autorun" for storage cards. See the article at http://nicbou.com/2008/07/21/a-few-suggestions-to-improve-ubuntu/

• Computers With Ubuntu Linux Coming to All Major Retailers - The Var Guy has an article on the prediction that Ubuntu loaded computers will be coming to major retailers by the end of the year. These aren't Desktop units, though, or even Laptops. These would be netbooks, or sub-notebooks. Though they would be loaded with Ubuntu, their primary purpose would not be the heavy application use that PCs and Laptops serve. They would be more like the Asus Eee PC in concept, serving as a way to surf the web, get emails, and do some light, quick work. See more at: http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/07/22/computers-with-ubuntu-linux-coming-to-all-major-retailers/

In Other News

Ubuntu man challenges open source to out-pretty Apple

Gavin Clarke starts right off with Mark Shuttleworth's intention that the desktop be more beautiful than that of Apple, and should not be cluttered up with ads. He maintains that the way to make money off of free software is through charging for service. Shuttleworth also emphasized the need for programs to be cross-platform and able to be extended through third-party plugins, similar to the method used by Firefox. The entire article is at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/shuttleworth_apple_challenge/ (johnc4510, I haven't seen this one elsewhere, yet. tyche)

Meeting Summaries

Xubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/July2008 (check Sat. to see if any other team reports available please)

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

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