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The latest version of gnome-app-install features better integration of the popularity contest data (http://popcon.ubuntu.com/). It can sort against by this information and it will also take it into account when calculating the ranking for searches. To help making it really efficient, please make sure to enable it on your system! Go to System/Administration/Software Properties and click on the "Statistics" tab there. 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week of Sept, 10 - 16, 2006. In this issue we cover ...

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at:: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) Mountain View - details emerging at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperSummitMountainView (or maybe this belongs in the meetings section?)

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

New Apps In Edgy

Chuck Short has uploaded a new develpment snapshot of Xen, with a lot of bugfixes and support a large number of network cards, including via ndiswrapper.

The latest version of gnome-app-install features better integration of the popularity contest data (http://popcon.ubuntu.com/). It can sort against by this information and it will also take it into account when calculating the ranking for searches. To help making it really efficient, please make sure to enable it on your system! Go to System/Administration/Software Properties and click on the "Statistics" tab there.

Other new versions in Edgy

postfix 2.2.3 (bug fix release) pygoocanvas 0.4.1 gcin 1.2.5

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

Launchpad News

Bug Stats

New Bugs: # BR Closed Bugs: #

Infamous Bugs

In The Press

Reuters takes a very high profile look at Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu:

"Ultimately open source is the platform of the future," Shuttleworth told Reuters. "It's one of those enormous waves that is taking over everything -- like the Internet."

Shuttleworth's "Ubuntu" family of software programmes is based on the Linux open source operating system, which works on the principle that software is free and can be modified at no cost by anyone to suit local and specific needs -- unlike rival Microsoft's proprietary software.

With quirky names for its programmes like 'Hoary Hedgehog' and 'Warty Warthog', Ubuntu -- an African word that means caring for your community and humanity for others -- is meant to be simpler to use than other Linux systems.

PC World magazine last year named Ubuntu as the 26th best product of the year -- ranking it above Apple's iTunes media player which was in 34th spot.

Read the whole piece at http://tinyurl.com/oytwh (Reuters.co.uk)

Meetings and other similar events

Upcoming Events

Feature Of The Week - ???

Additional News Resources

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Conclusion

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

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