Contents

Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Intrepid Alpha 5 released
    2. KDE Community Stabilizes Desktop with KDE 4.1.1
    3. KDE 4.1.1 available for Kubuntu 8.04
    4. Wanted: Moderators for Ubuntu Brainstorm!
    5. Ubuntu Developer Week Summary
    6. PackageKit: Call for testing
    7. Two Years Going Strong
    8. MOTU
      1. New MOTU
    9. Ubuntu Package Status Pages
    10. New Proposed WikiGuide Page
    11. Call for feedback on new wiki theme
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Hardy
    3. 5-a-day bug stats
  5. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu-ko LoCo team
  6. In The Press
  7. In The Blogosphere
  8. In Other News
    1. Ubuntu UK podcast #13: Don’t Be Cruel
    2. Say Ubuntu!!!
    3. KDE Usability Project (Akademy 2008 Video and Slides)
    4. Atlanta Linux Fest
  9. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Tuesday, September 9, 2008
      1. Server Team Meeting
    2. Wednesday, September 10, 2008
      1. QA Team Meeting
      2. Platform Team Meeting
    3. Thursday, September 11, 2008
      1. Desktop Team Meeting
    4. Friday, September 12, 2008
      1. Ubuntu Release Meeting
    5. Saturday, September 13, 2008
      1. Xubuntu Community Meeting
  10. Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
    3. Ubuntu 7.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 7.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
  11. Archives and RSS Feed
  12. Additional Ubuntu News
  13. Conclusion
  14. Credits
  15. Glossary of Terms
  16. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #107 for the week August 31st - September 6th, 2008. In this issue we cover: Intrepid Alpha 5 released, KDE Community Stabilizes Desktop with KDE 4.1.1, KDE 4.1.1 available for Kubuntu 8.04, Wanted: Moderators for Ubuntu Brainstorm, Ubuntu Developer Week Summary, PackageKit: Call for testing, New MOTU, Ubuntu Package Status Pages, New Proposed WikiGuide page, Call for feedback on new wiki theme, Ubuntu-UK podcast #13, Say Ubuntu, KDE Usability project video, Atlanta Linux Fest, and much, much more!

UWN Translations

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

In This Issue

General Community News

Intrepid Alpha 5 released

Welcome to Intrepid Ibex Alpha-5, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.10. Alpha 5 is the fifth 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. You can download it here:

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.

Alpha 5 includes a number of software updates that are ready for large-scale testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha5 for information on changes in Ubuntu. Please visit the link below to learn more about the Intrepid Alpha 5 release.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-September/000480.html

KDE Community Stabilizes Desktop with KDE 4.1.1

September 3, 2008. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.1.1, the first bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.1.1 is a monthly update to KDE 4.1. It ships with a basic desktop and many other packages; like administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

Most all applications have received the developers' attention, resulting in a long list of bugfixes and improvements. The most significant changes are:

More information can be found at http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1.1.php

KDE 4.1.1 available for Kubuntu 8.04

KDE 4.1.1 has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu 8.04, the Hardy Heron. These packages install to /usr/lib/kde4 and can be installed along side your existing KDE 3 installation. The updated packages for Kubuntu 8.04 are located in the Kubuntu Member's KDE 4 Personal Package Archive (PPA) repositories. To update to KDE 4.1.1, please follow these instructions:

Thanks to Harald, Jon, Steve, Guillaume for preparing these packages. Special thanks to Scott for doing a late night shift to get emergency uploads into Kubuntu Intrepid Alpha 5. To help out, you can join the Kubuntu Team. More information is available on the Kubuntu Wiki: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu To update to KDE 4.1.1, please follow the instructions at the link below.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1.1

Wanted: Moderators for Ubuntu Brainstorm!

In an effort to improve the quality of ideas received by Ubuntu Brainstorm, they will be initiating a Sandbox where ideas can be reviewed by moderators before going into the mainstream. They are asking for people with good moderation experience to join the team. Moderators will review the ideas in the Sandbox, help authors to structure them, and approve or reject the ideas. Interested persons should send a message to the team mailing list, [email protected] before joining the team. For additional information, join #ubuntu-brainstorm on IRC. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~brainstorm-moderators

http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/25

Ubuntu Developer Week Summary

Ubuntu Developer Week just ended and was a big success. Ubuntu Developer Week was a series of online workshops where you could:

If you missed any of the sessions, you can read the logs by visiting https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek Clicking on the title headers under "The Timetable" will take you to the IRC chat logs of each session.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

PackageKit: Call for testing

The APT backend for Packagekit 3.0 series has made progress, and now has:

Those interested in furthering PackageKit for a freeze exception should test it and report any bugs. Information on the location of the repository and what packages to download can be found at the link.

http://www.glatzor.de/blog/blog-details/select_category/1/article/packagekit-call-for-testing/?tx_ttnews[backPid]=4&cHash=394ae6b1d7

Two Years Going Strong

Two years ago today Jono Bacon came to work at Canonical as the Ubuntu Community Manager. When he started at Canonical, it was just him working with Mark to define his role and focus, and to determine what he wanted to do to help grow and facilitate our stunning community. Since then he has become part of the wider Ubuntu team at Canonical, and he has expanded his own team with the help of his fellow horsemen Daniel Holbach, and Jorge Castro. Jono is looking forward to continuing to grow the team and to helping our community to do amazing things. http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1270

MOTU

New MOTU

We're very pleased to announce that Devid Antonio Filoni just joined the MOTU team. After months of hard work and good feedback from his peers, we're glad he now is part of the team. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~d.filoni Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevidAntonioFiloni

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-September/004704.html

Ubuntu Package Status Pages

The QA Team has released its first set of Package Status Pages for the wider audience to view: http://status.qa.ubuntu.com/ For those of you unfamiliar with these pages, the idea was first generated from one of our QA Team specs[1]. The intention of these pages are to help package maintainers, developers, and other interested parties measure the current state of a package. The pages, for example, provide interesting bug metrics and statistics than can help focus development efforts and locate useful entry points for getting involved.

The plan is to continue modifying, updating, and improving the content provided in these pages. The team has already set up a feedback wiki[2] to document many of the changes they plan to implement. You are encouraged to please add any other feature requests or ideas to that wiki as well.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/2008-September/000252.html

New Proposed WikiGuide Page

Allan Day has been working on a new WikiGuide page and while it's only a draft there seems to be favorable commits on it and it looks to be an improvement over the previous version. Improvements can still be add of course, but this seems to be enough of an improvement to consider implementing it in place of the older version. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2008-September/011510.html

Call for feedback on new wiki theme

Recently Matthew East has been developing a new theme which is intended to replace the existing themes on the documentation wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community. The intention of the theme is to make reading the wiki easier for a user (a cleaner interface) and for an editor (an editbar at the bottom of the screen which follows the window as you scroll).

This is a call for testing and feedback of the theme. Matthew would really like to implement a similar theme for the development wiki at wiki.ubuntu.com if the feedback is positive. To test the theme, log into the help wiki and go to the preferences page (User Preferences). Set the theme to 'ubuntunew' (you can easily set it back later). Then just edit a few pages and see what you think. Please send comments to: <mdke AT ubuntu DOT com>

https://lists.canonical.com/archives/ubuntu-website/2008-September/000338.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translation Stats Hardy

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

5-a-day bug stats

Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

LoCo News

Ubuntu-ko LoCo team

The Korean Ubuntu Users' meeting was held in Seoul on August 23rd, 2008 from 2:00PM to 6:00PM. Many users (mostly from Seoul area) showed up to:

All in all, the team had a lot of fun meeting other Ubuntu users and helping each other out. picture : http://ubuntu.or.kr/download/file.php?id=1051

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-September/000173.html

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu UK podcast #13: Don’t Be Cruel

In this episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast:

The podcast can be downloaded in ogg and mp3 formats, or viewed in your browser or pop-up window in mp3 format.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/08/30/s01e13-dont-be-cruel/

Say Ubuntu!!!

Top students in Chennai, India are presented with free laptops loaded with Ubuntu. Picture at http://planetoss.com/detail.php?id=17

KDE Usability Project (Akademy 2008 Video and Slides)

Celeste Lyn Paul, an ubuntu member, and heavy contributor to the KDE project, has posted the links to her talk on the KDE Usability Project. The video is in ogg format, and the slides are in a pdf file. http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/kde-usability-project-akademy-2008-video-and-slides/

Atlanta Linux Fest

The Atlanta Linux Fest is the place to come and learn, discuss, and discover your next favorite system! Atlanta Linux fest will be host to dozens of the top distributions: Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE -- all on the bleeding edge of innovation. If you are curious about what makes Linux the ultimate operating system, you definitely want to attend this event! There will be Live CDs available so you can try out the latest releases without installing.

There will be demos of all the major distributions, installation help, user support for all your favorite distributions, and drawings for prizes! All you have to do is register to come (it's free!) and there will be pizza available for a $5 donation to the event.

When is it?

Saturday, September 20, 2008, 11 - 6pm

Where is it?

IBM Hillside Conference Center 4111 Northside Pkwy Atlanta, GA. 30327

http://atlantalinuxfest.org/

http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog/2008/09/05#1220655775

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Server Team Meeting

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

QA Team Meeting

Platform Team Meeting

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Desktop Team Meeting

Friday, September 12, 2008

Ubuntu Release Meeting

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Xubuntu Community Meeting

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Archives and RSS Feed

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You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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