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Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu @ Anime Boston was a success!
  6. New in Lucid Lynx
  7. Launchpad News
  8. Ubuntu Forums News
  9. The Planet
  10. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu 10.04 delivers usability, strength
    2. 50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect
    3. Canonical and MuleSoft partner to improve Tomcat packaging
    4. Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code
    5. Ubuntu 10.04 Is Hit By Major X.Org Memory Leak
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Release Candidate Is Here
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition – Win a new netbook!
    2. Ubuntu: How to Measure Canonical’s Business Progress
    3. Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman Talks Window buttons, mono & more
    4. OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star
    5. 5 Ways To Celebrate Ubuntu 10.04’S Release
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Release Candidate Released
    7. Ubuntu Manual Project To Release Quickstart Booklets For Ubuntu 10.10
    8. Ubuntu Improved Enough… No Desire for Windows anymore!
  12. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity
    2. Canonical Training Set To Announce New Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification
  13. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, April 26, 2010
      1. Developer Mentoring Reception Team
      2. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, April 27, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      2. Developer Membership Board
      3. Desktop Team Meeting
      4. Kernel Team Meeting
    3. Wednesday, April 28, 2010
      1. Server Team Meeting
      2. Foundation Team Meeting
      3. QA Team Meeting
      4. Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A
      5. Edubuntu Meeting
    4. Thursday, April 29, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Java Meeting
    5. Friday, April 30, 2010
    6. Saturday, May 1, 2010
      1. BugJam
      2. DC Loco IRC meeting
    7. Sunday, May 2, 2010
  15. Community Spotlight
  16. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    7. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  17. UWN #: A sneak peek
  18. Subscribe
  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 190 for the week April 18 - April 24, 2010. 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

Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-April/000132.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (78886) +146 over last week
  • Critical (28) -2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (35883) -1840 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translation Stats Lucid

  1. English (United Kingdom) (946) -512 over last week
  2. Spanish (11693) -46 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (36705) -566 over last week
  4. French (40289) -188 over last week
  5. German (55810) -426 over last week

1. English (United Kingdom) (946) -512 over last week Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

* Prevent from copying files larger than 4GB on fat32 fs as the copy starts - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24522/ 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

Ubuntu @ Anime Boston was a success!

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/04/thank-you-for-ubuntus-success-at-anime.html

New in Lucid Lynx

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

In The Press

Ubuntu 10.04 delivers usability, strength

IT World's Brian Proffitt says what finally convinced him that Ubuntu was worthy of the average desktop user: Proffitt installed it on his Mom's computer. Actually, this happened quite some time ago, so this is not necessarily news. But it's key to note that Proffitt indicated "average" desktop user. While he says he was very willing to recommend Ubuntu for users who just needed to handle day-to-day operations like surfing, e-mail, word processing, and the like, Proffitt was personally holding back from using it himself, preferring instead to use openSUSE, which enabled me to complete more advanced tasks, like video editing and conversion, pretty easily. Earlier versions of Ubuntu gave the feel of a pretty, shiny face over the old existing Linux strengths and limitations. Ubuntu 10.04 delivers a sense of a strong, cohesive operating system underneath. Beauty, for Ubuntu, has at last become more than skin deep. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/104760/ubuntu-1004-delivers-usability-strength

50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect

Focus.com recalls that it was not long ago when Microsoft Windows had a tight stranglehold on the operating system market. Walk into a Circuit City or Staples, it seemed, and virtually any computer you took home would be running the most current flavor of Windows. In the last decade, though, the operating system market has begun to change. Slightly more than 5% of all computers now run Mac, according to NetMarketShare.com. Linux is hovering just beneath 1% of the overall market share in operating systems. And although that might sound like a small number, Linux is far more than just a fringe OS. In fact, it's running in quite a few more places than you probably suspect. Focus.com then goes on to list fifty places where Linux is running in place of Windows or Mac, including places like the French parliament which opted in November 2006 to dump Windows in favor of Ubuntu Linux. According to Macedonia's ministry of education and science, every student in Macedonia uses a computer workstations powered by Ubuntu Linux, as part of that country's "A Computer For Every Child" program. Other places such as the Philippines, Georgia, Google, Wikipedia, and some systems from Dell all use Ubuntu. Follow this link to see a number of other places currently running Ubuntu.

http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect/

Canonical and MuleSoft partner to improve Tomcat packaging

The H Online reports that middleware specialist MuleSoft, formerly Mulesource, has announced that it has partnered with Ubuntu sponsor Canonical. Under the agreement, MuleSoft will help to improve the Apache Tomcat packaging for Ubuntu and Debian. COO of Canonical Matt Asay said that, “We share MuleSoft’s goal in improving the experience for users of open source software,” adding that, “The work that MuleSoft is doing will dramatically simplify the installation, configuration and use of Tomcat for the Debian and Ubuntu communities.” The two companies hope that the contributions will improve the "out-of-the-box" usability of Tomcat in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, in Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" and future releases. Improvements to the Tomcat packaging – the latest stable 6.0.24 release – include Authbind as the standard method for binding Tomcat to ports lower than 1024, defaulting the security manager to the disabled state and implementing restarts with the init script. Additionally, the JSVC set of libraries and applications is no longer used by the package.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-and-MuleSoft-partner-to-improve-Tomcat-packaging-983242.html

Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code

The H Online advises us that Canonical, sponsor of the Ubuntu project, has announced that its Canonical Identity Provider code is now available as open source. The CIP Single Sign On (SSO) authentication software is a component that was not made available last July when Launchpad, the site and software that drives Canonical's open source and project collaboration, was open sourced. Canonical Identity Provider is part of Canonical Identity Systems, which is a series of projects to support Canonical's OpenID-based SSO platform, and is currently used by both the Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On facilities. More details about the Canonical Identity Provider can be found on the project's Launchpad page [1] (login required). Canonical Identity Provider code is released under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License [2] (AGPLv3).

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-open-sources-Launchpad-and-Ubuntu-Single-Sign-On-code-983946.html

Ubuntu 10.04 Is Hit By Major X.Org Memory Leak

Michael Larabel of Phoronix tips us off that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is set to be released next Thursday and a release candidate was just released on April 22nd, but there's some last minute problems within the Lucid Lynx camp. There's a last-minute X.Org Server update that's being looked at as a result of a "major memory leak" that has been found over the past week. An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as its left on until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable. The memory leak was tracked down to a set of patches that were made to fix some program crashes when the X.Org Server began supporting GLX 1.4. The bug surrounding this X.Org memory leak is titled GEM objects not deallocated [1] in reference to the Graphics Execution Manager. There's also details surrounding this troublesome regression on the Ubuntu Wiki via the GEMLeak page. [2] A message in regards to this problem has also been written to the ubuntu-devel mailing list [3] classifying this as an urgent problem.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE3MA

Ubuntu 10.04 Release Candidate Is Here

Phoronix's Michael Larabel notes that for those interested, distributions as part of the Ubuntu family (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, et al) have also been updated to their Lucid Lynx release candidate status. The mailing list announcement with all of the download links can be found on the Ubuntu mailing list. [1] By now most everyone should be familiar with Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", so there is not much more to say. The final release of this Long-Term Support release is expected a week from today.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE3Mg

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition – Win a new netbook!

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-women-world-play-day-competition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Ubuntu: How to Measure Canonical’s Business Progress

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/04/18/ubuntu-how-to-measure-canonicals-business-progress/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WorksWithU+%28Works+With+U%29

Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman Talks Window buttons, mono & more

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/canonical-cto-matt-zimmerman-talks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/omg-interviews-elizabeth-krumbach.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

5 Ways To Celebrate Ubuntu 10.04’S Release

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/5-ways-to-celebrate-ubuntu-1004s.html

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Release Candidate Released

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx-release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

Ubuntu Manual Project To Release Quickstart Booklets For Ubuntu 10.10

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-manual-project-to-release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

Ubuntu Improved Enough… No Desire for Windows anymore!

http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/2010/04/24/ubuntu-improved-enough/

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/04/24/full-circle-podcast-5-manual-dexterity/

Canonical Training Set To Announce New Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification

http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/Canonical-Training-Set-To-Announce-New-Ubuntu-Certified-Professional-Certification

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, April 26, 2010

Developer Mentoring Reception Team

Security Team Catch-up

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Developer Membership Board

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: Not listed as of publication
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

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

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Server 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

Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Ubuntu Java Meeting

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

Friday, April 30, 2010

None listed as of publication

Saturday, May 1, 2010

BugJam

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc and #ubuntu-bugs
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

DC Loco IRC meeting

  • Start: 22:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Sunday, May 2, 2010

None listed as of publication

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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