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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 18 for the week of Oct , 8 - 14 2006. In this issue we cover ...
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In This Issue
General Community News
The Free Desktop Turns 10
The free desktop is 10 years old this week as KDE celebrated its 10th birthday on Saturday 14th. In honour of the momentous anniversary your intrepid Kubuntu developers all stayed at home to fix bugs in time for the Edgy release candidate. But in a warehouse somewhere in outer Bavaria the finest free software developers got together to party at the 10 years of Linux Desktop rave.
http://events.kde.org/10years/
One of the keynote speakers was the Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon who announced that Mark Shuttleworth was now the first Patron of KDE. This prestigious title shows an ongoing finantial and technical commitment to KDE. Thanks to Mark for signing up to this new scheme.
http://ev.kde.org/supporting-members.php link to dot story when we get one
At the party Jono won a German book on Qt 4. Not speaking German he's giving it away to the person who will write the best Qt 4 application.
http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=783
OpenOffice 2.0.4 is out
The latest of the OpenOffice releases is out. You can download it [http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/index.html now]. See [http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=26173&highlight= this forum post] for local installation instructions. Local installation means you do not have to be root during the installation and that you do not have to tweak / change / upgrade your OpenOffice as it came with Ubuntu.
Changes In Edgy
Launchpad News
In The Press
The Daily Cup of Tech takes a look at the involved and lengthy Ubuntu installation process. You can read it all at http://www.dailycupoftech.com/?page_id=47
This week brings two book reviews. The first is of the Apress book, Beginning Ubuntu Linux. The review notes several times that the this book is for new Ubuntu and Linux users and overall gives the book a very favourable review. You can read more at http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/book_review_beginning_ubuntu
The second review is of the Official Ubuntu Book. This time by ArsGeek, again giving high reviews and noting the book is very useful for new Ubuntu and Linux users. In their words: "So should you go out and buy this book? If you’re a Linux/Ubuntu expert then you can probably forgo it. Anyone else who’s interested in Ubuntu either as a primary operating system, or as a means to learn a lot more about Linux should pick this up. It’s a great reference and has everything you’ll need from install to working productively in one easy place. It also comes with the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS DVD, saving the new user from trying to download and burn a copy – a time saver in the least." You can read more at http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=625
(Time for another full disclosure. The Chief Editor of the Ubuntu Weekly News, Corey Burger, is one of the primary authors of the Official Ubuntu Book.)
An interview with one of the Ubuntu developers, Matt Zimmerman, featured on [http://www.osdir.com/Article9414.phtml OSDir]. The interview topics ranges from FOSS to Ubuntu and to Zimmerman's personal life. The full text of this and previous interviews can be found [http://behindubuntu.org/interviews/MattZimmerman/ at "behindubuntu"].
[http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/10/06/152232.shtml?tid=16 Newsforge] reported that Nexenta, an open source operating system, is combining the Open Solaris kernel with GNU utilities and Ubuntu in its alpha 5 release.
[http://www.technewsworld.com/story/53513.html Technewsworld] has an article on Ubuntu, where Ubuntu is reported to be similar to the Mac OS X of Linux according to IT-Harvest Chief Research Analyst Richard Stiennon, who also "...downplayed Ubuntu's support for Sun hardware, [saying] it would take a bigger player, such as HP... or Dell... to propel Ubuntu further into the business world, where it potentially could function as leverage against incumbent Red Hat."
Meetings and other similar events
Upcoming Events
Feature of the Week: Elinks
Elinks is a feature-rich text mode web browser. It can render both frames and tables and is highly customizable.
Ever got a broken X and didn't know what to do next? Elinks is easy enough for an average user to browse ubuntuforums.org without having X running to find answers and recover from such problems.
Try it out: sudo apt-get install elinks
Learn more about it: http://elinks.or.cz/
Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
Bug Stats
New Bugs: # BR Closed Bugs: #
Infamous Bugs
Additional Ubuntu News
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Conclusion
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Credits
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