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| === Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users as Lucid Linux Desktop Nears === Sean Michael Kerner of Linux``Planet reminds us that Ubuntu Linux is gearing up for the debut of its latest release with Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed "the Lucid Lynx" and scheduled for general availability at the end of the month. The Lucid release could also help to further accelerate adoption of Ubuntu, which has been growing over the last several years. In 2008, Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu, pegged the number of Ubuntu users at 8 million. It's a figure that could have increased by as much as 50 percent or more since then, insiders say. "We have no phone home or registration process, so it's always a guesstimate. But based on the same methodology that we came up with for the 2008 number, our present belief is that it's somewhere north of 12 million users at the moment," Chris Kenyon, vice president for OEM at Canonical, told Internet``News.com. Usage numbers aside, the upcoming Lucid release from Ubuntu is a big one for the Linux distribution as it is the first new Long-Term Supported (LTS) release in two years. Kenyon expect that users still running the 8.04 LTS will now make the jump to the 10.04 LTS when it becomes available. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7032/1/ === New Ubuntu look too destructive === ZDNet's Chris Duckett says take a good hard look at your screen and ask yourself if it is possible to accidentally close an application while reaching for the File menu. In most cases the answer is a clear no, but for users of Ubuntu, it has become a very real and dangerous use case. All the fuss began in March when the decision was taken to refresh Ubuntu's look and branding, which included a set of new default themes that moved the trio of minimise, maximise and close buttons from the PC standard right-hand side to the left side of the title bar. Suffice to say that despite the positives of the updated Ubuntu look, users overwhelmingly detested the movement of the window buttons — as shown by the over 630 comments, the vast majority of which are intensely negative, on this bug report. Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's founder and patron, responded to the criticism by saying that moving the icons to the left opened up the space on the right of the title bar for experimentation further down the line, and thanking users for their feedback but reminding them that Ubuntu was not a democracy and the design team had made its decision. Since that posting the mob may have received some compromises from Shuttleworth, but Ubuntu has now taken a step which means everyone will lose something. Whether it be data, tabs, or that important email they were writing. http://www.zdnet.com.au/new-ubuntu-look-too-destructive-339302224.htm === Beta 2 Arrives For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" === Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that in just three weeks Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" will be released, but before that happens there is a final beta and one release candidate that needs to make it out into the hands of Ubuntu testers. On April 8th the second beta was released and is ready for testing. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 really isn't anymore interesting than the first beta that came towards the middle of March, but there are bug-fixes and a few remaining updated packages (like for the GNOME 2.30.0 desktop). Being released along side Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta 2 proper is similar updates to Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, and the various other Ubuntu flavors like Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Server for UEC/EC2 cloud computing platforms. The release announcement for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta 2 can be read on the Ubuntu announcement list.[1] The final release of this Canonical Long-Term Support release is expected on the 29th of April. [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-April/000131.html http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEzNg |
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=== Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Strategy Extends to China === http://www.workswithu.com/2010/04/07/dells-ubuntu-strategy-extends-to-china/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WorksWithU+%28Works+With+U%29 === Eye On Ubuntu 10.10 === http://www.workswithu.com/2010/04/08/eye-on-ubuntu-10-10/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WorksWithU+%28Works+With+U%29 === Linux: The Best New User Distribution is not Necessarily Ubuntu === http://blog.eracc.com/2010/04/07/linux-the-best-new-user-distribution-is-not-necessarily-ubuntu/ === Lubuntu not joining the ubuntu family until 10.10 === http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/lubuntu-not-joining-ubuntu-family-until.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29 === Ubuntu 10.04 drops yahoo! will use google as search engine === http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-drops-yahoo-will-use-google.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29 === What's coming in the new Ubuntu Linux desktop? === http://blogs.computerworld.com/15889/whats_coming_in_the_new_ubuntu_linux_desktop |
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #188 for the week April 4th - April 10th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 Gets Cloud-Based Contact Syncing
Life Hacker's Kevin Purdy tells us that along with a built-in music store, Ubuntu 10.04, the free Linux distribution arriving later this month, will offer a 30-day trial of cloud-based contact syncing through its Ubuntu One storage service. It's a promising peek into nifty features to come. "Promising" because, at the moment, Ubuntu One contact syncing is a kind of alpha feature that's being offered as a 30-day trial, free to users of Ubuntu One's standard 2 GB of web storage. It uses Funambol, a background push/sync service often mentioned in the comments around here, and there's already an Ubuntu-branded iPhone app—though any Funambol client on most any phone can also sync to Ubuntu One, as can phones that support SyncML. Adventurous Ubuntu users can read the Phone Sync FAQ for help and suggestions. You'll need an Ubuntu One account to try out contact syncing, which you can create here. [1]
Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users as Lucid Linux Desktop Nears
Sean Michael Kerner of LinuxPlanet reminds us that Ubuntu Linux is gearing up for the debut of its latest release with Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed "the Lucid Lynx" and scheduled for general availability at the end of the month. The Lucid release could also help to further accelerate adoption of Ubuntu, which has been growing over the last several years. In 2008, Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu, pegged the number of Ubuntu users at 8 million. It's a figure that could have increased by as much as 50 percent or more since then, insiders say. "We have no phone home or registration process, so it's always a guesstimate. But based on the same methodology that we came up with for the 2008 number, our present belief is that it's somewhere north of 12 million users at the moment," Chris Kenyon, vice president for OEM at Canonical, told InternetNews.com. Usage numbers aside, the upcoming Lucid release from Ubuntu is a big one for the Linux distribution as it is the first new Long-Term Supported (LTS) release in two years. Kenyon expect that users still running the 8.04 LTS will now make the jump to the 10.04 LTS when it becomes available. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7032/1/
New Ubuntu look too destructive
ZDNet's Chris Duckett says take a good hard look at your screen and ask yourself if it is possible to accidentally close an application while reaching for the File menu. In most cases the answer is a clear no, but for users of Ubuntu, it has become a very real and dangerous use case. All the fuss began in March when the decision was taken to refresh Ubuntu's look and branding, which included a set of new default themes that moved the trio of minimise, maximise and close buttons from the PC standard right-hand side to the left side of the title bar. Suffice to say that despite the positives of the updated Ubuntu look, users overwhelmingly detested the movement of the window buttons — as shown by the over 630 comments, the vast majority of which are intensely negative, on this bug report. Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's founder and patron, responded to the criticism by saying that moving the icons to the left opened up the space on the right of the title bar for experimentation further down the line, and thanking users for their feedback but reminding them that Ubuntu was not a democracy and the design team had made its decision. Since that posting the mob may have received some compromises from Shuttleworth, but Ubuntu has now taken a step which means everyone will lose something. Whether it be data, tabs, or that important email they were writing. http://www.zdnet.com.au/new-ubuntu-look-too-destructive-339302224.htm
Beta 2 Arrives For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx"
Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that in just three weeks Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" will be released, but before that happens there is a final beta and one release candidate that needs to make it out into the hands of Ubuntu testers. On April 8th the second beta was released and is ready for testing. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 really isn't anymore interesting than the first beta that came towards the middle of March, but there are bug-fixes and a few remaining updated packages (like for the GNOME 2.30.0 desktop). Being released along side Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta 2 proper is similar updates to Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, and the various other Ubuntu flavors like Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Server for UEC/EC2 cloud computing platforms. The release announcement for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta 2 can be read on the Ubuntu announcement list.[1] The final release of this Canonical Long-Term Support release is expected on the 29th of April.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEzNg
In The Blogosphere
Ubuntu: Canonical Focuses on Wall Street
Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Strategy Extends to China
Eye On Ubuntu 10.10
Linux: The Best New User Distribution is not Necessarily Ubuntu
http://blog.eracc.com/2010/04/07/linux-the-best-new-user-distribution-is-not-necessarily-ubuntu/
Lubuntu not joining the ubuntu family until 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04 drops yahoo! will use google as search engine
What's coming in the new Ubuntu Linux desktop?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15889/whats_coming_in_the_new_ubuntu_linux_desktop
In Other News
Canonical, Upgrading GNOME Bugzilla, and Commercial Sponsorship
http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/96/canonical-upgrading-gnome-bugzilla-and-commercial-sponsorship
Portable Ubuntu Tres Runs 9.10 on Windows Desktops
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