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WORK IN PROGRESS

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

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

Intrepid Alpha 3 released

Alpha 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. Pre-releases of Intrepid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. You can download it here:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-July/000459.html

MOTU school session: Maintainer Scripts

The MOTU school is in session, and this time it's Maintainer Scripts. Cesare Tirabassi is offering a beginners session in maintainer scripts on the 28th July at 14:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.ubuntu.com. This will be a great session for anyone starting out with packaging, or anyone looking for a refresher on this topic. Maintainer scripts are important parts of a package, so this should be a useful session. If you can't attend, logs of the session will be available, afterwards. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-July/004252.html

Ubuntu Screencasts

Mixing A Podcast In Ardour - - The UK LoCo Team has released this first of 13 parts outlining how to mix a podcast in Ardour, in the hope that it would benefit others with editing podcasts, or even just editing in general. The original was recorded at 2560 X 1024 resolution so those with smaller screens may want to select lower a resolution.

LoCo Team Approvals

Lithuania - The Ubuntu Lithuania LoCo team was founded in July 2005 are active in CD distribution, installfests, working with the school system to introduce OSS, reuse of older computers, and Ubucon Baltic. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LithuanianTeam/ApprovalApplication

Tunisia - The Ubuntu Tunisia LoCo team has been most active in Installfests, SFD Tunisia, various local conferences, and CD distributions. Their roadmap indicates that they want to take part in SIB 2008(Tunisia computer exposition), build a working relationship with local universities, and creating a local ubuntu mirror. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/ApprovalApplication

Japan - The Ubuntu Japanese LoCo team has successfully completed their revue procces for a previously approved team. They are most active in managing bugs submitted in Japanese, promoting Ubuntu with Japanese businesses, a Japanese version of the Offical Ubuntu Book, written ariticles for print on online local magazines, local conferences, and deploying new archive mirrors. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JapaneseTeam/ApprovalApplication

The LoCo council is happy to welcome these new or reapproved teams to the growing list of officially approved LoCo teams. Great job!

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

New Staff members

Please welcome all the great new moderators on UF. They have shown a constant, good natured and welcoming spirit and have made substantial contributions to the forums. You can find their forum member and Launchpad page below:

Tutorial of the Week

This week's star is another oldie-but-goodie -- tseliot's "HOWTO: Kernel Compilation for Newbies."

This is one of the longest-running kernel compilation threads in the forum, and it comes from a highly reputable and knowledgeable member. It's a great place to start learning about the core element of your Ubuntu system, and how to modify it to your liking. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=56835

In The Press

  • Mark Shuttleworth: Ubuntu in emerging markets - Mark Shuttleworth sees the greatest potential for growth in emerging markets and in mobile, where he believes that software freedom has the most to offer. His mission is to bring Linux to new audiences, not to displace the other major distributions. He notes that the sub notebook market offers a unique opportunity for Linux vendors, where there is real room for linux to be a commercial success. Shuttleworth's presentation offered a compelling glimpse at the man behind one of the most successful Linux distributions. His dynamic style of expression and obvious enthusiasm for Linux captivated the audience. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080722-mark-shuttleworth-life-on-mars-ubuntu-in-emerging-markets.html

  • OSCON, Pt. 2.1: A Few Words With Mark Shuttleworth - For many people, Ubuntu is Linux, and Mark Shuttleworth is Ubuntu. It might come as a surprise to learn that the prime mover behind one of the most successful and visible Linux distributions isn't entirely comfortable with that. Ubuntu celebrates everyone else's work, and we focus our energy to deliver their thinking to the world wide community. This interview also gives us insight into Mark's thinking on how to draw people to Ubuntu as contributors, and how to get continued participation from developers. You can also see a video of Mark talking about who his personal heros are and why, by visiting the link. 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. http://oakhazelnut.com/2008/07/22/legion-of-talk-event-podcast-mark-shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-and-space-travel/

  • Shuttleworth: Make Desktop Linux Better than Apple - Darryl K. Taft reports on a talk that Mark Shuttleworth made at OSCON. During the talk, Mark said he thought the greatest task in front of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something that is stable, robust and not so pretty, into something that is art. There is need to invest in making the desktop beautiful and useful, because now more than any other time in history, software matters. The iPhone is a great example of effective use of the pure software experience, and it's no accident that over the last 10 years in technology, many of the biggest brands have been built using free software. 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

Full Circle Magazine - Issue #15

Full Circle - the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community are proud to announce the release of our fifteenth issue.

This month:

  • Command and Conquer - The Ins and Outs of Directories.
  • How-To : Separate Home Partition, Create Your Own Server Part 7,
    • Using GIMP Part 4 and GRUB 101.

  • My Story - Ubuntu Saves The Day & From Mickeys ABC To Kubuntu

  • Review - HP Photosmart C3180 Printer
  • MOTU Interview - Mathias Gug

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

Get it while it's hot! : http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-15/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-July/000112.html

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

  • JMak has completed the GDM theme for Intrepid.
  • Final draft of the Xubuntu Strategy Document has been completed. This will be presented to the Community Council at the next meeting.
  • Many updates completed on Xubuntu Wiki
  • Organized the team for the update of the Xubuntu.org website
  • Released Hardy Heron 8.04.01.
  • Released Intrepid Alpha 1 and 2 Xubuntu versions
  • Added catfish to desktop-recommends.
  • Added yelp to desktop-recommends.
  • Moved avahi-daemon to desktop-recommends.
  • Moved gnome-system-tools to desktop-recommends.
  • Moved xfce4-mcs-plugins-extra to desktop-recommends.
  • Moved xfce4-terminal to desktop-recommends.
  • Added xfce4-mixer to panel by default.
  • Set catfish as search command for places plugin.
  • Started wiki page on performance and began collecting data.

  • Xubuntu Testing is looking for a Team Leader. Please contact [WWW] [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CodySomerville Cody Somerville] if you are interested.

  • Xubuntu is in need of people skilled in Artwork, CSS and HTML for the update of the Xubuntu.org website.
  • Xubuntu website project status information is available on the Special Projects page.
  • Held a community meeting on July 12, 2008. Draft plan to update the website was discussed. Status of xfce4.6 was agreed upon.

(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

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