Issue160
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #160 for the week September 13th - September 19th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...
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In This Issue
General Community News
Karmic Alpha 6 released
Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha 6, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10. Pre-releases of Karmic are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
Alpha 6 is the sixth in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Karmic development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Karmic. You can download it here:
Ubuntu Server for UEC & EC2: http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-6/
Ubuntu ARM http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/karmic/alpha-6/
Kubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-6/
Xubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-6/
UbuntuStudio: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/karmic/alpha-6/
Mythbuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-6/
Edubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-6/
Information on Mirrors, bug reporting, changes, and development announcements is available at the link below.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-September/000618.html
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
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- 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
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Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
Translation Stats Karmic
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Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/
# NEEDS UPDATING. # #=== 5-a-day bug stats === # #==== Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days ==== # # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # #==== Top 5 teams for the past 7 days ==== # # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # #5-A-Day stats. http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/five-a-day/
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/
LoCo News
Swedish LoCo Bug Jam: Linköping
The 3rd of October the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo will arrange a Bug Jam at Linköping University. This in correspondence with the Ubuntu Global Jam happening that weekend. See http://ubuntu-se.org/wiki/Global_Jam for more information.
http://www.andreasolsson.se/2009/09/19/ubuntu-bug-jam-in-linkoping/
New in Karmic Koala
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
Ubuntu Tutorial of the Week
DSDT (Differentiated System Description Table) is in the BIOS and this is where the OS looks for hardware and configuration info. It sometimes needs to be adjusted, in particular regarding ACPI. 67GTA (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=231204) has written a comprehensive tutorial for Ubuntu and Linux Mint: "HOWTO Fix A Buggy DSDT File" which currently works only up to Jaunty 9.04 release. I'm not sure I understand all the details, but reading through the thread, members seem to be able to fix a large range of ACPI related issues.
Credits to unutbu (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=518895) who suggested the tutorial. As unutbu puts it: "It is kind of amazing (at least to me) that fixing one file can solve such a variety of problems."
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1036051
Ubuntu Community Interviews
joeb454 has taken over the UF interview series and started out with elisabeth (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=10746), who is also pleia2 on IRC. Elisabeth is a debian sysadmin, runs the Philadelphia LUG and is much involved in the ubuntu-women, ubuntu-classroom, ubuntu-learning and ubuntu-beginners projects. Wow!
http://blog.joeb454.com/2009/08/an-interview-with-pleia2/
The second interview is with nhandler (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=148906), from Chicago. He is part of the ubuntuforums Beginners and Unanswered Posts Teams. He currently serves on the Ubuntu Beginners Team Council. He's also a MOTU and serves on the MOTU Council. Nathan is one of these members who make the forums and the community a better and friendly place.
http://blog.joeb454.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-nhandler/
Enjoy!
In The Press
Ubuntu releases last 9.10 Alpha
Ubuntu's crew of developers has just released the sixth and expected last alpha version of the next Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala version of its Linux OS. The first thing that Ubuntu users will notice is that there is no more Usplash. The boot splash screen has disappeared as part of a cunning plan to speed up boot times. The GNOME desktop environment has been updated to version 2.28 RC1 (2.27.92), the Linux kernel packages are now at version 2.6.31-10.34 and they are based on the final version of Linux kernel 2.6.31. AppArmor has also been greatly improved and new profiles are available.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1534043/ubuntu-releases-alpha
In The Blogosphere
Cave Dwellers Give Ubuntu Two Thumbs Up
http://www.daniweb.com/news/story223037.html
My thoughts on Ubuntu
http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/my-thoughts-on-ubuntu/
Pidgin vs. Empathy: Feature Comparison
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/09/15/pidgin-vs-empathy-feature-comparison/
In Other News
Linux-ready mini-PC powers up
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Linutop-3/
The Art of Community Available For Free Download
When Jono started work on The Art of Community he was really keen that it should be a body of work that all communities have access to. He also wanted to write a book that covered the major areas of community leadership, distilling a set of best practices and experiences, and illustrated by countless stories, anecdotes and tales. But to give this book real value, he was keen to ensure the book could be freely accessed and shared. Jono is pleased to announce the general availability of The Art Of Community under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. With this license that the book is under you have the following freedoms with the entire content:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to Remix — to adapt the work…with a few requirements:
- Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
- Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
While the book is ready to download right now, the book is available to buy in print, on Kindle, and other electronic book formats and I would like to encourage you to buy a printed copy of the book for a few reasons:
- Firstly, buying a copy sends a tremendous message to O’Reilly that they should continue to publish books (a) about community and (b) under a Creative Commons license.
- Secondly, it will encourage O’Reilly to invest in a second edition of the book down the line, which will in turn mean that communities around the world will have a refreshed and updated edition that is available to them.
- Thirdly, aside from the voting-with-your-feet side of things, it is just a really nice book to own in print. It is really well made, looks stunning and feels great to curl up with in a coffee shop or on the couch.
The book is available to buy on all the major Amazon sites:
United States: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596156715?ie=UTF8&tag=jobaho-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0596156715
United Kingdom: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Community-Building-New-Participation/dp/0596156715/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241304996&sr=8-1
You can download your free copy of the The Art of Community here: http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/downloads/jonobacon-theartofcommunity-1ed.pdf
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/18/the-art-of-community-available-for-free-download/
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
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