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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue # for the week of MONTH, DAY - DAY+7 YEAR

You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

In This Issue

General Community News

Distro Sprint

The Canonical distro team and a couple of community developers met for a week's hacking in Wiesbaden in Germany. Much feature work was done as we came to the Edgy feature freeze.

On the Thursday local IT consultancy company CC GmBH, who run Kubuntu on all their desktops, invited us to their offices and cooked us a South African dinner in their impressive kitchen. The dinner was commented on as "the best food we've ever had at our conferences".

Our chefs with Mark and Matt: http://static.flickr.com/92/224474985_f130cd7833.jpg?v=0

Scruptious food photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/

Our office for the week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/221138809/

Backports Open for Business

Backports reopened thanks to Colin Watson adding support in our archive manager Soyuz. The first new package to be backported was KTorrent 2.0.

Other packages:

• foo
• bar

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

New Apps In Edgy

Don't forget quick installation notes, enable extra repository, package name, use g-a-i where possible, etc...

Digital Photography

• dcraw has been updated to 8.31 to improve the camera RAW file support with new cameras.
• UFRaw has been updated to 0.9.1.

Ubuntu

Kubuntu

New Artwork

Ken Wimer the Kubuntu Edgy artist in chief has been busy working on new artwork. The O2 theme has a definite purple feel to it is looking lovely.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Artwork/Incoming/Kubuntu-Edgy-Ideas-Feedback

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/EdgyEft/Knot2/Kubuntu?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=desktop.png

System Settings

Simon Edwards has reorganised the layout of System Settings based on ideas from Usability Ellen.

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2220

Power Management Applet

The kde-guidance package has gained a new power management applet in Edgy. This replaces the klaptopdaemon used in previous versions of Kubuntu. Try it out and let us know of your experiences.

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/57 https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuPowerManagementFeedback

New artwork coming soon.

HWDB Client

We have added a KDE version of the HWDB client. This programme uploads anonymous information about your computer to our database at http://hwdb.ubuntu.com which can then be used in bug reports and helps us know more about our target hardware.

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2261

New artwork for this also coming soon.

Edubuntu

Xubuntu

Bug Stats

New Bugs: # BR Closed Bugs: #

Infamous Bugs

In The Press

Feature Of The Week - ???

Additional News Resources

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/news

and

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Corey Burger
• anyone else that contributes
• And many others

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