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## Make each article a subsection, via ===
## These are big articles that don't fit within another section		 === Track the Desktop Team and UNE in Maverick ===

Rick Spencer, Canonical Desktop Team Manager, in this post goes over the highlights of what to expect from the Desktop in the Ubuntu 10.10 cycle. Highlight include:

 * Software Center
The software center will get many UI improvments. However, the biggie is that we are going to figure out how enable application developers to target the current stable release for new apps! This means new apps that don't modify the underling Ubuntu platform and libraries will be made available in software-center even if the app was written after that version of Ubuntu released. See the blueprint here.


 * Gnome Changes
We always decide at UDS what to take from new Gnome and how. We are very excited about Gnome 3.0, but due to tight release schedules, we are going to be cautious about Gnome 3.0 for Maverick. We will update to the current platform, and we will deliver gsettings and latest versions of apps as appropriate. As usual, we will make gnome-shell available to users who choose to use it. See the blueprint here.

 * Browsers and Apps
We're going to try for Chromium by default in UNE, though we are sticking with Mozilla as the default in the Desktop Edition.

We are also changing to Shotwell as the default image library application.

 * xorg-xserver
Interesting decision here is to hold off on promise of 3D support for -intel 8xx series graphics. If the -intel driver is not providing sufficient stabiliy we may support those chips with Vesa, and perhaps deliver an older intel driver for community support for those 8xx users who want to give it a go.

 * Social From the Start
We'll work on gwibber start up time and robustness, but also work bake more integration of social services into the desktop.

To find out more about the Desktop team go to:

http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/05/track-desktop-and-une-in-maverick.html

=== Why Launchpad Rocks: Great Bug Tracking ===

Jono Bacon continues with his series on why launchpad rocks. In this installment Jono talks Launchpads Bug Tracking features.

Jono notes, "The general consensus seems to be that everyone thinks that all bug trackers suck. A strong view, but one not entirely without merit given the fact that a vast majority of bug trackers do indeed suck. In the past I have mainly used Trac, SourceForge, Mantis and Bugzilla, and I have to say that I find Launchpad best suited to my needs and more importantly, most usable by my users who I expect to file a bug when something goes belly up.

I just want to zip through some of the reasons why I find bug tracking in Launchpad a breeze and well suited to all of my applications."

Jono breaks those reasons into the following areas:

 * Simplicity
 * Bug Linking
 * Fixes
 * Extensibility

To read the more about the Bug Tracking features Launchpad offers please go to:

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/05/24/why-launchpad-rocks-great-bug-tracking/


=== Welcome: New Ubuntu Members ===

The Asia Oceania Membership Board accounced that Roman Azarenko (BasicXP) became an Ubuntu Member on April 27th, 2010. Known as BasicXP, Roman Azarenko contributues to translation, Q&A, bug tracking and is part of Moscow Lo``Co Team.

More about BasicXP at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BasicXP

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-May/001072.html
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 * Users don't know which application they need
 * Ubuntu Control Center
 * Automatically select the user in GDM if there's only one
 * ubuntu softaware center don't remove file configuration
 * Error messages in non-english languages		  * Users don't know which application they need - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24921/
 * Ubuntu Control Center - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24934/
 * Ubuntu Software Center doesn't remove file configuration - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24963/
 * Automatically select the user in GDM if there's only one - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24977/
 * Error messages in non-english languages - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24974/
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## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name ===
## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc.		 === Ubuntu NC LoCo Team: Guitars to Goat Festivals: Ubuntu For All ===

Amber Graner, of the North Carolina LoCo team, as well as Pete Graner and Jeremy Fooshee, Ubuntu Kernel Team members, attended the 1st Annual American Dairy Goat Festival, held in Spindale, on May 22, 2010. There were between 1000 and 1500 people who reportedly visited the Festival between 9am and 7pm last Saturday. Amber notes that there were some users of Ubuntu who live in the area. She also states that she talked to local businesses and individuals about migrating to Ubuntu.

To Read more about Guitars and Goat Festivals go to:
http://akgraner.com/?p=471

=== Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Team: Ubuntu @ Intel LAN Party ===

Martin Owens of the Massachusetts LoCo Team describes his participation in this yearly event where some local Ubuntu advocates go and attempt to convince local hard core gamers to try and have a duel boot of Ubuntu and see what progress is being made on gaming in the platform.

It was a very positive event with a great number of people exclaiming their pain at not being able to run their most cherished games on Ubuntu. Almost everyone knew about Ubuntu and a great number of them loved it… if it wasn’t for some of the pain you have to go through to make it work.

That’s where getting the word out about playonlinux and getdeb… programs and sites that can really make a difference to the average PC gamer trying out Ubuntu.

To see the pictures from the event and to learn more about Martin Owens and the Massachusetts LoCo Team go to: http://doctormo.org/2010/05/24/ubuntu-intel-lan-party/

=== Ubuntu Colombia Team:Week Day Expression and Free Software based Tulua Valle University ===

(I need to find someone to translate this and write up the summary)

http://www.hollmanenciso.com/?q=es/content/semana-de-la-expresion-y-jornada-de-software-libre-universidad-del-valle-sede-tulua

=== David Planella: Ubuntu Lucid release party in Valencia ===

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/ubuntu-lucid-release-party-in-valencia/
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ === Matt Zimmerman: The behavioral economics of free software ===

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/25/the-behavioral-economics-of-free-software/

=== Thierry Carrez: Return of the Ubuntu Server papercuts ===

http://fnords.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/return-of-the-ubuntu-server-papercuts/
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## Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent.
## We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest.
## Just pulling one example from my memory, the story about Indiana schools piloting
## a classroom Linux deployment, a portion of which was Ubuntu, are good. Ubuntu
## release reviews are also common items in this section.		 === Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed ===

Yet another 10.04 review, this one pits the previous 8.04 LTS against 10.04 and the progress that Canonical has achieved shines through.

Adam Overa at Tom's Hardware writes a very detailed review of Ubuntu 10.04. He specifically compares it against 8.04, Hardy Heron, which was the Ubuntu release that converted him to fulltime Linux use and to Ubuntu, specifically. Adam gives information on the methodology used to test both the 64-bit and 32-bit desktops.

The first thing covered is the Ubuntu Software Center, where Adam sees some improvements to the Ubuntu Software Center in Karmic (which he very much did not like), however, feels like there are still things that he misses from Add/Remove Programs. Next he moves onto covering the new changes to Ubuntu, including the panel indicators, F-Spot instead of The GIMP, split panes in Nautilus, Gwibber, PiTiVi, and the Ubuntu One Music store. He continues to talk about the look and feel with the new Ambiance and Radience themes, rebranding of Ubuntu, and the window controls on the left.

After this information about the changes in Lucid, Adam gives an overview to what he experienced and saw with the various test systems. He tested the 64-bit & 32-bit on desktops. He also tested using a notebook and even installed Ubuntu Netbook Edition on a netbook. Finally, he also tested running the system off a USB stick.

From there, Adam moved on to a series of benchmark results. He started with boot, hibernate, wake, and shut down times, which were mostly an improvement over Hardy (the exception being the time it takes to go into hibernate). Next he looks at the times for file copy and compression, which are are again mostly improved in Lucid compared to Hardy. He goes on to look at multimedia applications by testing Handbrake, Lame, POV-Ray, Blender and Raw Therapee; again, Lucid is generally faster than Hardy. The next benchmarks reported are Peacekeeper (using Firefox) and Geekbench, where Lucid again performed well.

In the UNiGiNE Heaven benchmarch testing, the testers discovered that there is something in the desktop effects settings in Lucid that slows framerates considerably. To fix this, they disabled the desktop effects setting, at which point Lucid outperformed Hardy, again. For the benchmark results on Tropics, Sanctuary, and Lightsmark things were mixed. In most cased Lucid with desktop effects disabled outperformed Hardy, except for Lightsmark 2008, where Hardy does much better than Lucid. The last benchmark results checked are those for games. These were all very close with Lucid winning some and Hardy winning others. Clearly, however, disabling desktop effects did much to improve Lucid's performance.

Adam concludes that Lucid is the desktop Linux distro king, however, worries that it will get quickly replaced in advertising by 10.10, which he fears will not be as good.

For all the details of Adam's review:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-10.04-lucid-lynx,2634.html

=== Ubuntu's Unity Desktop: Reality vs. Rationales ===

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3884051_1/Ubuntus-Unity-Desktop-Reality-vs-Rationales.htm
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## In this section we want to highlight the blogs that are exceptionally well-written and in-depth.
## Blogs tend to make it easy for low-quality content, so be extra careful on what goes here.
## We should encourage bloggers to spread the word, so this section might be a good way to do so.		 === Five Usability Improvements in Ubuntu 10.04 ===

Christopher Tozzi at WorksWithU writes about five features that are in Ubuntu 10.04 (some started in Ubuntu 9.10) which improve usability. He notes that they may be so small that you don't notice them, however, they are things that make Ubuntu a more intuitive operating system to use.

Christopher focuses on these five usability enhancements:

 * Screenshot Utility
 * Syntax Highlighting in Nano
 * Archive Mounter
 * RAR Files
 * Better PDF Reader

While he notes that there is still more work, Christopher says the usability improvements in 9.10 and 10.04 show a real commitment to usability and he's looking forward to see what comes next.

For more information about what Christopher thinks of the usability changes in 10.04 see:
http://www.workswithu.com/2010/05/25/five-usability-improvements-in-ubuntu-10-04/

=== HTML5 Video on Ubuntu ===

Christopher Tozzi at WorksWithU tried out HTML5 on Ubuntu using Google Chrome. Christopher is not a fan of Flash, partially because it is closed and proprietary, but also because it is slow, insecure, and buggy. While Adobe has worked to improve Flash, these improvements do not help a Linux user.

HTML5 has the potential to replace flash with the <video> tag included in the codec. The main concern with HTML5 for Christopher is that most video currently used on sites using HTML5 use the H.264 codec, which is not free. This means that Firefox does not support HTML5 videos on sites such as YouTube which use H.264. As a result, Christopher downloaded Google Chrome to test HTML5. His actual experience using HTML5 on YouTube was that it worked well with little effort.

For more information on Christopher's experience with HTML5:
http://www.workswithu.com/2010/05/25/html5-video-on-ubuntu/

=== Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 Will Get a Global Menu By Default ===

Web``Up``D8 reports that Mark Shuttleworth has announce that Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 (and only Ubuntu Netbook Edition) will have a global menu. The reason for using a global menu is that it should increase availible vertical space. Mark clarified on the Ayatana mailing list the details of how the menu will work. When the window is not maximised, the menu will be in the panel. When maximised, the panel will contain the window controls, the window title, and the indicators. When you mouse towards the window title, or press Alt, it will chance to the menu.

Web``Up``D8 questions what will happen for switching between running applications, as Mark has stated it will be addressed separately. The writer for WebUpD8 wonders if this will mean that a dock-like application will be added.

Web``Up``D8 also provides instructions for installing the Global Menu in your current version of Ubuntu.

For more information see:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/ubuntu-1010-will-get-global-menu-by.html
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## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections.

== Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR> ==

## Team Reports are published in the UWN on the first Sunday of every month.
## Nathan Handler (nhandler) has a script to help format the Team Reports for
## the UWN. You can get this script by entering this command in a terminal:
## bzr branch lp:~uwn/+junk/team-reports
## Team Reports can be found at:
## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/<MONTH><YEAR>
## For example, the report for January 2009 is at:
## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/January2009		 === Landscape 1.5 Released with new Enterprise Features ===

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=396

=== Canonical Landscape 1.5 Extends Ubuntu Linux Management for Enterprises ===

Landscape 1.5 debuts this week and is closely tied to the 10.04 LTS release, newest features include LDAP and ActiveDirectory authentication for enterprises.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7073/1/

=== Canonical Pushes Skype into Ubuntu Repository ===

The popular closed source VOIP application, Skype, can now be found in the Ubuntu Repositories.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI4Mg

=== Puppet Labs : Puppet in the Ubuntu Cloud ===

http://www.puppetlabs.com/blog/puppet-in-the-ubuntu-cloud/

== Featured Podcasts ==

=== Ubuntu UK: Three Friends ===

Laura Cowen and Tony Whitmore introduce a special post-developer-summit episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Lo``Co Team featuring three interviews from UDS

What we've been doing
Interviews with:
 * Robbie Williamson (@undacuvabrutha), the platform lead for Ubuntu 10.04
 * Kees Cook (@keescook) from the SecurityTeam
 * Rick Spencer (@rickspencer3) the Desktop Team lead.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org

 * OGG download High: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e08_high.ogg
 * OGG download Low: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e08_low.ogg
 * MP3 download High: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e08_high.mp3
 * MP3 download Low: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e08_low.mp3
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=== Monday, May 30, 2010 ===

==== Meeting Name ===

 * Start:
 * End:
 * Location
 * Agenda:

=== Tuesday, May 31, 2010 ===

=== Wednesday, June 1, 2010 ===

=== Thursday, June 2, 2010 ===

=== Friday, June 3rd, 2010 ===

=== Saturday, June 4, 2010 ===

=== Sunday, June 5, 2010 ===		 === Monday, May 31, 2010 ===

==== Docs, Learning, Manual Meeting ====

   * Start: 16:00 UTC
   * End: 17:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: Discuss blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-documentation-teams-collaboration

==== Security Team Catch-up ====

   * Start: 17:00 UTC
   * End: 17:30 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Weekly Ubuntu Security Team catch-up meeting. Anyone is welcome to join if they want to watch, contribute, etc.

=== Tuesday, June 1, 2010 ===

==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====

   * Start: 13:00 UTC
   * End: 14:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting

==== Technical Board Meeting ====

   * Start: 14:00 UTC
   * End: 15:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: None given at time of publication

==== Desktop Team Meeting ====

   * Start: 16:30 UTC
   * End: 17:30 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

==== Kernel Team Meeting ====

   * Start: 17:00 UTC
   * End: 18:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: Not listed as of publication

==== LoCo Teams Meeting ====

   * Start: 17:00 UTC
   * End: 18:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: Not listed as of publication

==== Server Team Meeting ====

   * Start: 18:00 UTC
   * End: 19:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting

==== EMEA Membership Meeting ====

   * Start: 19:00 UTC
   * End: 20:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA

==== Community Council Meeting ====

   * Start: 19:00 UTC
   * End: 20:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda Per CC Agenda page, as of 11/29/08

=== Wednesday, June 2, 2010 ===

==== Cameroonian LoCo Team monthly IRC meeting ====

   * Start: 14:00 UTC
   * End: 16:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-cm on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CameroonianTeam/NextMeeting

==== Foundation Team Meeting ====

   * Start: 16:00 UTC
   * End: 17:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== QA Team Meeting ====

   * Start: 17:00 UTC
   * End: 18:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

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

   * Start: 18:00 UTC
   * End: 19:00 UTC
   * Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
   * Agenda: This is a weekly videocast by the Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon in which he discusses a range of topics and also provides a regular weekly Q+A.

=== Thursday, June 3, 2010 ===

==== Ayatana UX Team Meeting ====

   * Start: 12:00 UTC
   * End: 12:30 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

==== Ubuntu Java Meeting ====

   * Start: 14:00 UTC
   * End: 15:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: none listed as of publication

==== Ubuntu Translations Meeting ====

   * Start: 15:00 UTC
   * End: 16:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/Events/Meetings

=== Friday, June 4, 2010 ===

=== Saturday, June 5, 2010 ===

==== DC LoCo Team BugJam ====

   * Start: 20:00 UTC
   * End: 22:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: none listed as of publication

==== DC LoCo IRC meeting ====

   * Start: 22:00 UTC
   * End: 23:00 UTC
   * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc on irc.freenode.net
   * Agenda: none listed as of publication

=== Sunday, June 6, 2010 ===

None listed as of publication
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 * USN-944-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-944-1
 * USN-945-1: Clam``AV vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-945-1		  * USN-944-1 GNU C Library vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2010-May/001096.html
 * USN-945-1 ClamAV vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2010-May/001097.html
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 * None Reported  * glibc- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2010-May/012845.html
 * clamav (delayed)- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2010-May/012846.html
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 * None Reported  * glibc_2.7-10ubuntu6_i386_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-May/012470.html
 * clamav_0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.04~hardy2.4_sparc_translations.tar.gz (delayed)- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-May/012471.html
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 * None Reported  * glibc_2.9-4ubuntu6.2_ia64_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-May/010072.html
 * clamav_0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.04.2_lpia_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-May/010073.html
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 * None Reported  * eglibc_2.10.1-0ubuntu17_ia64_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-May/012379.html
 * clamav_0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.2_powerpc_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-May/012380.html
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 * nvidia-graphics-drivers 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-May/011320.html
 * gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.30.1-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-May/011321.html		  * eglibc_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1_amd64_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-May/011319.html
 * nvidia-graphics-drivers 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-May/011320.html
 * gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.30.1-0ubuntu2    - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-May/011321.html
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 * clamav_0.96.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.10.04.1_armel_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-May/011324.html
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== UWN #: A sneak peek ==

## Articles that should have made it into this release but have been deferred should be listed here.
## Delete if unnecessary.
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 * J. Scott Evan

Contents

Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Track the Desktop Team and UNE in Maverick
    2. Why Launchpad Rocks: Great Bug Tracking
    3. Welcome: New Ubuntu Members
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu NC LoCo Team: Guitars to Goat Festivals: Ubuntu For All
    2. Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Team: Ubuntu @ Intel LAN Party
    3. Ubuntu Colombia Team:Week Day Expression and Free Software based Tulua Valle University
    4. David Planella: Ubuntu Lucid release party in Valencia
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
    1. Tutorial of the Month
    2. Ubuntu Forums Staff Selection
  7. The Planet
    1. Matt Zimmerman: The behavioral economics of free software
    2. Thierry Carrez: Return of the Ubuntu Server papercuts
  8. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed
    2. Ubuntu's Unity Desktop: Reality vs. Rationales
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Five Usability Improvements in Ubuntu 10.04
    2. HTML5 Video on Ubuntu
    3. Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 Will Get a Global Menu By Default
  10. In Other News
    1. Landscape 1.5 Released with new Enterprise Features
    2. Canonical Landscape 1.5 Extends Ubuntu Linux Management for Enterprises
    3. Canonical Pushes Skype into Ubuntu Repository
    4. Puppet Labs : Puppet in the Ubuntu Cloud
  11. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu UK: Three Friends
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, May 31, 2010
      1. Docs, Learning, Manual Meeting
      2. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, June 1, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      2. Technical Board Meeting
      3. Desktop Team Meeting
      4. Kernel Team Meeting
      5. LoCo Teams Meeting
      6. Server Team Meeting
      7. EMEA Membership Meeting
      8. Community Council Meeting
    3. Wednesday, June 2, 2010
      1. Cameroonian LoCo Team monthly IRC meeting
      2. Foundation Team Meeting
      3. QA Team Meeting
      4. Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A
    4. Thursday, June 3, 2010
      1. Ayatana UX Team Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Java Meeting
      3. Ubuntu Translations Meeting
    5. Friday, June 4, 2010
    6. Saturday, June 5, 2010
      1. DC LoCo Team BugJam
      2. DC LoCo IRC meeting
    7. Sunday, June 6, 2010
  13. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  14. UWN Translations
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives and RSS Feed
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 195 for the week May 23rd - May 29th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Track the Desktop Team and UNE in Maverick

Rick Spencer, Canonical Desktop Team Manager, in this post goes over the highlights of what to expect from the Desktop in the Ubuntu 10.10 cycle. Highlight include:

  • Software Center

The software center will get many UI improvments. However, the biggie is that we are going to figure out how enable application developers to target the current stable release for new apps! This means new apps that don't modify the underling Ubuntu platform and libraries will be made available in software-center even if the app was written after that version of Ubuntu released. See the blueprint here.

  • Gnome Changes

We always decide at UDS what to take from new Gnome and how. We are very excited about Gnome 3.0, but due to tight release schedules, we are going to be cautious about Gnome 3.0 for Maverick. We will update to the current platform, and we will deliver gsettings and latest versions of apps as appropriate. As usual, we will make gnome-shell available to users who choose to use it. See the blueprint here.

  • Browsers and Apps

We're going to try for Chromium by default in UNE, though we are sticking with Mozilla as the default in the Desktop Edition.

We are also changing to Shotwell as the default image library application.

  • xorg-xserver

Interesting decision here is to hold off on promise of 3D support for -intel 8xx series graphics. If the -intel driver is not providing sufficient stabiliy we may support those chips with Vesa, and perhaps deliver an older intel driver for community support for those 8xx users who want to give it a go.

  • Social From the Start

We'll work on gwibber start up time and robustness, but also work bake more integration of social services into the desktop.

To find out more about the Desktop team go to:

http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/05/track-desktop-and-une-in-maverick.html

Why Launchpad Rocks: Great Bug Tracking

Jono Bacon continues with his series on why launchpad rocks. In this installment Jono talks Launchpads Bug Tracking features.

Jono notes, "The general consensus seems to be that everyone thinks that all bug trackers suck. A strong view, but one not entirely without merit given the fact that a vast majority of bug trackers do indeed suck. In the past I have mainly used Trac, SourceForge, Mantis and Bugzilla, and I have to say that I find Launchpad best suited to my needs and more importantly, most usable by my users who I expect to file a bug when something goes belly up.

I just want to zip through some of the reasons why I find bug tracking in Launchpad a breeze and well suited to all of my applications."

Jono breaks those reasons into the following areas:

  • Simplicity
  • Bug Linking
  • Fixes
  • Extensibility

To read the more about the Bug Tracking features Launchpad offers please go to:

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/05/24/why-launchpad-rocks-great-bug-tracking/

Welcome: New Ubuntu Members

The Asia Oceania Membership Board accounced that Roman Azarenko (BasicXP) became an Ubuntu Member on April 27th, 2010. Known as BasicXP, Roman Azarenko contributues to translation, Q&A, bug tracking and is part of Moscow LoCo Team.

More about BasicXP at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BasicXP

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-May/001072.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (76831) -4377 over last week
  • Critical (30) +2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (36553) +3 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) (710) -0 over last week
  2. Spanish (10601) -83 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (35681) -129 over last week
  4. French (39486) -245 over last week
  5. German (54716) -142 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

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 NC LoCo Team: Guitars to Goat Festivals: Ubuntu For All

Amber Graner, of the North Carolina LoCo team, as well as Pete Graner and Jeremy Fooshee, Ubuntu Kernel Team members, attended the 1st Annual American Dairy Goat Festival, held in Spindale, on May 22, 2010. There were between 1000 and 1500 people who reportedly visited the Festival between 9am and 7pm last Saturday. Amber notes that there were some users of Ubuntu who live in the area. She also states that she talked to local businesses and individuals about migrating to Ubuntu.

To Read more about Guitars and Goat Festivals go to: http://akgraner.com/?p=471

Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Team: Ubuntu @ Intel LAN Party

Martin Owens of the Massachusetts LoCo Team describes his participation in this yearly event where some local Ubuntu advocates go and attempt to convince local hard core gamers to try and have a duel boot of Ubuntu and see what progress is being made on gaming in the platform.

It was a very positive event with a great number of people exclaiming their pain at not being able to run their most cherished games on Ubuntu. Almost everyone knew about Ubuntu and a great number of them loved it… if it wasn’t for some of the pain you have to go through to make it work.

That’s where getting the word out about playonlinux and getdeb… programs and sites that can really make a difference to the average PC gamer trying out Ubuntu.

To see the pictures from the event and to learn more about Martin Owens and the Massachusetts LoCo Team go to: http://doctormo.org/2010/05/24/ubuntu-intel-lan-party/

Ubuntu Colombia Team:Week Day Expression and Free Software based Tulua Valle University

(I need to find someone to translate this and write up the summary)

http://www.hollmanenciso.com/?q=es/content/semana-de-la-expresion-y-jornada-de-software-libre-universidad-del-valle-sede-tulua

David Planella: Ubuntu Lucid release party in Valencia

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/ubuntu-lucid-release-party-in-valencia/

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Tutorial of the Month

June 2010 - AppArmor

What a subject.. We'll step out of the T&T section this month to visit the Security Discussions area. bodhi.zazen (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=89054) spends a lot of time in this section, educating and providing support.

apparmor (Application Armor) does what its name suggests, it helps protecting the system if an application gets compromised. apparmor works with specific application profiles that regulate and define the applications access in addition to the usual system permissions (which apparmor can only restrict).

By default, Ubuntu comes with apparmor profiles for CUPS, evince, dhclient3, firefox (which is not enabled) and the guest session.

The first thread to read is Introduction to AppArmor (1) which is closed for posting. Two other threads are open for discussion: Share your AppArmor Profiles (2) and AppArmor Support Thread (3).

Enjoy the readings, test it out and report back in the threads!

  1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1008906

  2. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1008911

  3. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1049698

Ubuntu Forums Staff Selection

The process had never been formally documented so far.

For several years, integrating new Staff people has been a rather easy process : current Staff would suggest new names, the FC (in particular ubuntu-geek (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1) and matthew (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=17635)) would work on a list and selected people would get invited to join.

With the strong and steady expansion of our community, the process needed a better definition so that other FC members could handle it too. We will continue to ask the current Staff for suggestions, it has worked really well so far.

We have been adding new Staff roughly before every new Ubuntu release, before a jump in user number, so that people have time to adjust and learn the tools and habits. Two volunteering FC members will be delegated to handle the process.

Four main steps take place :

  • A post is created in the Staff area asking for suggestions
  • Two FC members compile a list of names from the suggestions
  • They present the list to the FC to vote on
  • They approach the new Staff by PM and ask them if they would like to join

After they accept, new Staff forums permissions are adjusted to place them in the UF Staff group and grant them access to the appropriate IRC channels.

Once a year, the delegated FC members will track Staff who are MIA.

bodhi.zazen (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=89054) and bapoumba (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=171805) have volunteered and been designed by the FC to take the lead on this project. Matthew will mentor them as he had been taking care of the process with UG so far.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9280735

The Planet

Matt Zimmerman: The behavioral economics of free software

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/25/the-behavioral-economics-of-free-software/

Thierry Carrez: Return of the Ubuntu Server papercuts

http://fnords.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/return-of-the-ubuntu-server-papercuts/

In The Press

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed

Yet another 10.04 review, this one pits the previous 8.04 LTS against 10.04 and the progress that Canonical has achieved shines through.

Adam Overa at Tom's Hardware writes a very detailed review of Ubuntu 10.04. He specifically compares it against 8.04, Hardy Heron, which was the Ubuntu release that converted him to fulltime Linux use and to Ubuntu, specifically. Adam gives information on the methodology used to test both the 64-bit and 32-bit desktops.

The first thing covered is the Ubuntu Software Center, where Adam sees some improvements to the Ubuntu Software Center in Karmic (which he very much did not like), however, feels like there are still things that he misses from Add/Remove Programs. Next he moves onto covering the new changes to Ubuntu, including the panel indicators, F-Spot instead of The GIMP, split panes in Nautilus, Gwibber, PiTiVi, and the Ubuntu One Music store. He continues to talk about the look and feel with the new Ambiance and Radience themes, rebranding of Ubuntu, and the window controls on the left.

After this information about the changes in Lucid, Adam gives an overview to what he experienced and saw with the various test systems. He tested the 64-bit & 32-bit on desktops. He also tested using a notebook and even installed Ubuntu Netbook Edition on a netbook. Finally, he also tested running the system off a USB stick.

From there, Adam moved on to a series of benchmark results. He started with boot, hibernate, wake, and shut down times, which were mostly an improvement over Hardy (the exception being the time it takes to go into hibernate). Next he looks at the times for file copy and compression, which are are again mostly improved in Lucid compared to Hardy. He goes on to look at multimedia applications by testing Handbrake, Lame, POV-Ray, Blender and Raw Therapee; again, Lucid is generally faster than Hardy. The next benchmarks reported are Peacekeeper (using Firefox) and Geekbench, where Lucid again performed well.

In the UNiGiNE Heaven benchmarch testing, the testers discovered that there is something in the desktop effects settings in Lucid that slows framerates considerably. To fix this, they disabled the desktop effects setting, at which point Lucid outperformed Hardy, again. For the benchmark results on Tropics, Sanctuary, and Lightsmark things were mixed. In most cased Lucid with desktop effects disabled outperformed Hardy, except for Lightsmark 2008, where Hardy does much better than Lucid. The last benchmark results checked are those for games. These were all very close with Lucid winning some and Hardy winning others. Clearly, however, disabling desktop effects did much to improve Lucid's performance.

Adam concludes that Lucid is the desktop Linux distro king, however, worries that it will get quickly replaced in advertising by 10.10, which he fears will not be as good.

For all the details of Adam's review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-10.04-lucid-lynx,2634.html

Ubuntu's Unity Desktop: Reality vs. Rationales

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3884051_1/Ubuntus-Unity-Desktop-Reality-vs-Rationales.htm

In The Blogosphere

Five Usability Improvements in Ubuntu 10.04

Christopher Tozzi at WorksWithU writes about five features that are in Ubuntu 10.04 (some started in Ubuntu 9.10) which improve usability. He notes that they may be so small that you don't notice them, however, they are things that make Ubuntu a more intuitive operating system to use.

Christopher focuses on these five usability enhancements:

  • Screenshot Utility
  • Syntax Highlighting in Nano
  • Archive Mounter
  • RAR Files
  • Better PDF Reader

While he notes that there is still more work, Christopher says the usability improvements in 9.10 and 10.04 show a real commitment to usability and he's looking forward to see what comes next.

For more information about what Christopher thinks of the usability changes in 10.04 see: http://www.workswithu.com/2010/05/25/five-usability-improvements-in-ubuntu-10-04/

HTML5 Video on Ubuntu

Christopher Tozzi at WorksWithU tried out HTML5 on Ubuntu using Google Chrome. Christopher is not a fan of Flash, partially because it is closed and proprietary, but also because it is slow, insecure, and buggy. While Adobe has worked to improve Flash, these improvements do not help a Linux user.

HTML5 has the potential to replace flash with the <video> tag included in the codec. The main concern with HTML5 for Christopher is that most video currently used on sites using HTML5 use the H.264 codec, which is not free. This means that Firefox does not support HTML5 videos on sites such as YouTube which use H.264. As a result, Christopher downloaded Google Chrome to test HTML5. His actual experience using HTML5 on YouTube was that it worked well with little effort.

For more information on Christopher's experience with HTML5: http://www.workswithu.com/2010/05/25/html5-video-on-ubuntu/

Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 Will Get a Global Menu By Default

WebUpD8 reports that Mark Shuttleworth has announce that Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 (and only Ubuntu Netbook Edition) will have a global menu. The reason for using a global menu is that it should increase availible vertical space. Mark clarified on the Ayatana mailing list the details of how the menu will work. When the window is not maximised, the menu will be in the panel. When maximised, the panel will contain the window controls, the window title, and the indicators. When you mouse towards the window title, or press Alt, it will chance to the menu.

WebUpD8 questions what will happen for switching between running applications, as Mark has stated it will be addressed separately. The writer for WebUpD8 wonders if this will mean that a dock-like application will be added.

WebUpD8 also provides instructions for installing the Global Menu in your current version of Ubuntu.

For more information see: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/ubuntu-1010-will-get-global-menu-by.html

In Other News

Landscape 1.5 Released with new Enterprise Features

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=396

Canonical Landscape 1.5 Extends Ubuntu Linux Management for Enterprises

Landscape 1.5 debuts this week and is closely tied to the 10.04 LTS release, newest features include LDAP and ActiveDirectory authentication for enterprises.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7073/1/

Canonical Pushes Skype into Ubuntu Repository

The popular closed source VOIP application, Skype, can now be found in the Ubuntu Repositories.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI4Mg

Puppet Labs : Puppet in the Ubuntu Cloud

http://www.puppetlabs.com/blog/puppet-in-the-ubuntu-cloud/

Ubuntu UK: Three Friends

Laura Cowen and Tony Whitmore introduce a special post-developer-summit episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team featuring three interviews from UDS

What we've been doing Interviews with:

  • Robbie Williamson (@undacuvabrutha), the platform lead for Ubuntu 10.04

  • Kees Cook (@keescook) from the SecurityTeam

  • Rick Spencer (@rickspencer3) the Desktop Team lead.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, May 31, 2010

Docs, Learning, Manual Meeting

Security Team Catch-up

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Weekly Ubuntu Security Team catch-up meeting. Anyone is welcome to join if they want to watch, contribute, etc.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Technical Board Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: None given at time of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

LoCo Teams Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Server Team Meeting

EMEA Membership Meeting

Community Council Meeting

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Cameroonian LoCo Team monthly IRC meeting

Foundation Team Meeting

  • Start: 16:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

QA Team Meeting

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

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Ayatana UX Team Meeting

  • Start: 12:00 UTC
  • End: 12:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

Ubuntu Java Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: none listed as of publication

Ubuntu Translations Meeting

Friday, June 4, 2010

Saturday, June 5, 2010

DC LoCo Team BugJam

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: none listed as of publication

DC LoCo IRC meeting

  • Start: 22:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: none listed as of publication

Sunday, June 6, 2010

None listed as of publication

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

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Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

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