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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #150 for the week July 5th - July 11th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop Edition reaches end-of-life

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2009-July/000123.html

Community Council: Nominations

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=443

Call for testing: KVM in Jaunty proposed

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/07/call-for-testing-kvm-in-jaunty-proposed.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (58976) +246 over last week
• Critical (26) +1 over last week
• Unconfirmed (27544) -28 over last week
• Unassigned (50840) +204 over last week
• All bugs ever reported (294270) +1346 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 Jaunty

• Spanish (12849) -39 over last week
• French (40151) +9 over last week
• Brazilian Portuguese (50085) -1451 over last week
• English (United Kingdom) (55813) -2727 over last week
• Swedish (57006) +239 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

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Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

MOTU Council

• Andrea Veri rejoined the MOTU team. He plans to get back to all of his packages and help out with the MOTU-P2P team and mentoring new users. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~bluekuja Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bluekuja

• Chris Coulson joined the MOTU team. He has been working with the Ubuntu desktop team for some time now, and he plans to carry on with packaging work, bug-fixes and helping out with debugging issues. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChrisCoulson

LoCo News

New in Karmic Koala

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Tutorial of the Week

tinivole (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=490875, a moderator on the forums) has put together all the instructions to solve problems when using NViDIA video cards of the 8400 series and up. He is actively supporting his tutorial and many people have given input. Debugging steps are suggested if all does not go as per the book, as well as reverting the changes and going back to the ubuntu supported drivers.

The tutorial, HowTo: NViDIA 185.18 Drivers in Ubuntu, is located here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1125400

Enjoy and see you soon!

Ubuntu Community Interviews

This week, please meet with panickedthumb (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1132), who joined the forums in October, 2004 and has been a moderator since November, same year. He started with Ubuntu when the distribution did not have a name, yet, and has never looked back. He also started and co-admins the Virginia Ubuntu LoCo team. Travis is very fun to work with and hosts part of the forums memory. Well done, PT!

http://matthewhelmke.net/2009/07/08/an-interview-with-travis-newman/

In The Press

Ubuntu's maker: Chrome OS 'no slam dunk' just because Google announces it

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135365/Ubuntu_s_maker_Chrome_OS_no_slam_dunk_just_because_Google_announces_it?source=rss_opsys

Koala will be 'a definitive shift' for Ubuntu Linux

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/koala-will-be-a-definitive-shift-for-ubuntu-linux-613835

Ubuntu’s Jono Bacon: Open Source Code Priority Should Begin at Security, then Quality, then Performance

http://blog.coverity.com/posts/voices-of-scan-community/ubuntus-jono-bacon-open-source-code-priority-should-begin-at-security-then-quality-then-performance

Windows 7 is the same as Ubuntu

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2770

Jono Bacon on the Value of Good Communities

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/07/jono-bacon-on-the-value-of-goo.html

Smoother Transitions to Ubuntu With Virtual Machines and Wubi

http://www.linuxloop.com/2009/07/09/smoother-transitions-to-ubuntu-with-virtual-machines-and-wubi/

The Desktop is to be Dapper No More

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/desktop-be-dapper-no-more

What to expect from the next version of Ubuntu

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/what-to-expect-from-the-next-version-of-ubuntu-614458

In The Blogosphere

Is Google Stealing Ubuntu’s Thunder?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/08/is-google-stealing-ubuntus-thunder/

Mono Now Safe?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/07/mono-now-safe/

Stop piling on Mono already

http://blogs.computerworld.com/stop_piling_on_mono_already

KDE 4.3 RC1 in Kubuntu 9.04 - Overview & Screenshots

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/07/kde-43-rc1-in-kubuntu-904-overview.html

Ubuntu Sets Example by Defying Mono Threats

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/06/ubuntu-sets-example-by-defying-mono-threats/

Ubuntu User, You Have Some Big Issues

http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4501.html#

Dell is sticking with Ubuntu

http://blogs.computerworld.com/dell_is_sticking_with_ubuntu

How Chrome OS Will Help Ubuntu

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/10/how-chrome-os-will-help-ubuntu/

In Other News

Meeting Summaries

Ubuntu Server Team Meeting: July 7th

http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/server-team-20090707-meeting-minutes/

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

Security Updates

• USN-796-1: Pidgin vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-796-1

• USN-797-1: tiff vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-797-1

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

• None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

• linux 2.6.24-24.56 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012258.html

• debian-installer 20070308ubuntu40.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012259.html

• debian-installer 20070308ubuntu40.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012260.html

• open-iscsi 2.0.865-1ubuntu3.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012261.html

• debian-installer 20070308ubuntu40.11 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012262.html

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

• acroread 9.1.2-3intrepid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-July/009750.html

• linux 2.6.27-14.36 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-July/009751.html

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

• acroread 9.1.2-3jaunty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009848.html

• app-install-data-ubuntu 0.7.6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009849.html

• kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009850.html

• gourmet 0.14.5-2ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009851.html

• farsight 0.1.28-2build1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009852.html

• netbook-launcher 1.6.20-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009853.html

• samba 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009854.html

• linux 2.6.28-14.46 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009855.html

• linux-backports-modules-2.6.28 2.6.28-14.15 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009856.html

• linux-restricted-modules 2.6.28-14.18 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009857.html

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