Issue150

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Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop Edition reaches end-of-life
    2. Community Council: Nominations
    3. Call for testing: KVM in Jaunty proposed
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Infamous Bugs
    3. Translation Stats Jaunty
    4. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. MOTU Council
  6. LoCo News
  7. New in Karmic Koala
  8. Launchpad News
  9. Ubuntu Forums News
    1. Tutorial of the Week
    2. Ubuntu Community Interviews
  10. The Planet
    1. Tutorial: Installing Review Board on Ubuntu Jaunty
  11. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu's maker: Chrome OS 'no slam dunk' just because Google announces it
    2. Koala will be 'a definitive shift' for Ubuntu Linux
    3. Ubuntu’s Jono Bacon: Open Source Code Priority Should Begin at Security, then Quality, then Performance
    4. Windows 7 is the same as Ubuntu
    5. Jono Bacon on the Value of Good Communities
    6. Smoother Transitions to Ubuntu With Virtual Machines and Wubi
    7. The Desktop is to be Dapper No More
    8. What to expect from the next version of Ubuntu
  12. In The Blogosphere
    1. Is Google Stealing Ubuntu’s Thunder?
    2. Mono Now Safe?
    3. Stop piling on Mono already
    4. KDE 4.3 RC1 in Kubuntu 9.04 - Overview & Screenshots
    5. Ubuntu Sets Example by Defying Mono Threats
    6. Ubuntu User, You Have Some Big Issues
    7. Dell is sticking with Ubuntu
    8. How Chrome OS Will Help Ubuntu
  13. In Other News
  14. Meeting Summaries
    1. Ubuntu Server Team Meeting: July 7th
  15. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Sunday, July 12, 2009
    2. Monday, July 13, 2009
    3. Tuesday, July 14, 2009
      1. Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting
      2. Technical Board Meeting
      3. Server Team Meeting
      4. Desktop Team Meeting
      5. Kernel Team Meeting
      6. Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting
    4. Wednesday, July 15, 2009
      1. Ubuntu Learning Team Meeting
      2. Foundation Team Meeting
      3. QA Team Meeting
      4. Ubuntu-ie LoCo IRC Meeting
      5. Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting
    5. Thursday, July 16, 2009
      1. Ubuntu Java Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Translations Meeting
      3. Global Jam Meeting
      4. Packaging Training: Mono packaging: quick, easy, and awesome (directhex)
      5. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
    6. Friday, July 17, 2009
      1. Karmic Weekly Release Meeting
    7. Saturday, July 18, 2009
  16. Community Spotlight
  17. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
  18. UWN #: A sneak peek
  19. Archives and RSS Feed
  20. Additional Ubuntu News
  21. Conclusion
  22. Credits
  23. Glossary of Terms
  24. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  25. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #150 for the week July 5th - July 11th, 2009. 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

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop Edition reaches end-of-life

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop will reach end of life on Tuesday, July 14, 2009. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop. Server Edition will continue to receive maintenance updates through June 2011. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is via Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades. For further Ubuntu support, including commercial support options, see http://www.ubuntu.com/support. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2009-July/000123.html

Community Council: Nominations

In order to get the Community Council from four to eight members again, we are going to have an election in a few weeks. All Ubuntu members are eligible to vote.

I will announce the details of the election soon. What we want from you now is nominations.

If you know somebody in the Ubuntu community, who

  • has been an Ubuntu member for a while
  • is dedicated to the project
  • is well-respected and known for balanced views and good leadership
  • has a good overview over various aspects of the project
  • is organised and has some organisation talent

(or you know that this all applies to you), please send an email to daniel.holbach at ubuntu dot com with the subject “[CC Nomination]” until July 17th, 12:00 UTC. If you can confirm that the person is willing to stand for election, please do so. http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=443

Call for testing: KVM in Jaunty proposed

There is a package in jaunty-proposed[1] that needs to be pushed to jaunty-updates before the Hardy and Intrepid backports can take place. In order to promote the package to jaunty-updates, Dustin Kirkland need users to verify that the new package fixes the four bugs that he thinks it fixes, and does not cause regressions.

  1. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm

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

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/

The Planet

Tutorial: Installing Review Board on Ubuntu Jaunty

http://alephnullplex.appspot.com/blog/view/2009/07/09/tutorial-installing-review-board-on-ubuntu

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

Sunday, July 12, 2009

  • None listed as of publication

Monday, July 13, 2009

  • None listed as of publication

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting

Technical Board Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Server Team Meeting

Desktop Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Ubuntu Learning Team Meeting

Foundation Team Meeting

  • Start: 16:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

QA Team Meeting

Ubuntu-ie LoCo IRC Meeting

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 21:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-ie
  • Agenda: None listed as of publicaation

Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting

  • Start: 20:30 EDT
  • End: 21:30 EDT
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-pa
  • Agenda: None as of publication

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Ubuntu Java Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Ubuntu Translations Meeting

Global Jam Meeting

  • Start: 18:00 UTC
  • End: 19:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Packaging Training: Mono packaging: quick, easy, and awesome (directhex)

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

  • Start: 21:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Friday, July 17, 2009

Karmic Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, July 18, 2009

  • None listed as of publication

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

Archives and RSS Feed

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • John Crawford
  • Craig A. Eddy
  • Dave Bush
  • Nathan Handler
  • Liraz Siri
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

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