Issue150
WORK IN PROGRESS
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 Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
- Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
- All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # 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
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
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Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
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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
Koala will be 'a definitive shift' for Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu’s 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
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#
In Other News
Meeting Summaries
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Community Spotlight
Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
UWN #: A sneak peek
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Conclusion
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