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| 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: | Rick Spencer, Canonical Desktop Team Manager, gives an overview of what to expect for Desktop in the Ubuntu 10.10 cycle. Highlights include: |
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| Like last iteration, we’ll be reviewing and accepting blueprints proposed for Maverick [1] on a per milestone basis [2]. This week, we’ll review the work for Alpha2 and you’ll be able to track the progress on the work item tracker [3]. If you’d like to contribute to the Maverick release, please join us at our weekly IRC meetings [4] on Tuesdays between 1800 and 1900 UTC on #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net. We could especially use your help in the papercuts project [5] and bug triaging [6]! . [1] - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~jib/+specs?searchtext=server-maverick . [2] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickReleaseSchedule . [3] - http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-server-maverick-alpha-2.html . [4] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting . [5] - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-maverick-papercuts . [6] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/KnowledgeBase#Bug%20Triager |
Like last iteration, we’ll be reviewing and accepting blueprints proposed for Maverick on a per milestone basis. This week, we’ll review the work for Alpha2 and you’ll be able to track the progress on the work item tracker. If you’d like to contribute to the Maverick release, please join us at our weekly IRC meetings on Tuesdays between 1800 and 1900 UTC on #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net. We could especially use your help in the papercuts project and bug triaging! For more information on Ubuntu Server please go to: |
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| 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. |
Jono Bacon continues with his series on why launchpad rocks. In this installment Jono talks about Launchpad's 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, Source``Forge, 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. |
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| === Winners of the 1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Announced === Jono Bacon, announced the Winners of the 1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition via his UStreamTV cast on May 28th, 2010. The Community pick and winner of the Terra A20 Ubuntu Netbook is Photo #25 Orla O'Donohue. Canonical CEO, Jane Silber's pick and winner of the Dell Netbook is Photo #20 Jordan Mc``Carthy. The name drawn by Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, and winner of the Canonical Sponsored Ubuntu SWAG and Za``Reason USB Necklace is Photo #18 - Erika Hamilton. All winners listed above will also receive a complementary subscription, of their choice, to either Linux Pro or Ubuntu User magazine. If you haven't had a chance to look at all the photos submitted please do. CONGRATULATIONS to Orla O'Donohue, Jordan Mc``Carthy, Erika Hamilton! For more information on the Ubuntu Women World Play, sponsors, and winners go to: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2046 |
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| 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. | Amber Graner, of the North Carolina Lo''Co 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. |
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| 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. | Martin Owens of the Massachusetts Lo``Co 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. |
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| 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/ | To see the pictures from the event and to learn more about Martin Owens and the Massachusetts Lo``Co Team go to: http://doctormo.org/2010/05/24/ubuntu-intel-lan-party/ |
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| 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. | 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, Pi``Ti``Vi, 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. |
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| 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. | 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 You``Tube which use H.264. As a result, Christopher downloaded Google Chrome to test HTML5. His actual experience using HTML5 on You``Tube was that it worked well with little effort. |
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| 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 questions what will happen for switching between running applications, as Mark has stated it will be addressed separately. The writer for Web``Up``D8 wonders if this will mean that a dock-like application will be added. |
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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, gives an overview of what to expect for Desktop in the Ubuntu 10.10 cycle. Highlights 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
Ubuntu Server update for Maverick Meerkat
Canonical Server Team Manager, Jos Boumans, writes about what's in store for the next release of Ubuntu Server.
With the Maverick cycle kicking off and UDS-M just behind us, it’s time to take a look at what’s in store for the next release of Ubuntu Server. In broad strokes, these will be the likely topics:
- Better integration with Upstart
Further improvements to Mail & Cluster stack
Adopt Ceph & GlusterFS, MongoDB, Drizzle & Cassandra
Ease deployments & loadbalancing in the cloud
- For UEC: enabling kernel upgrades, virtio support, new admin UI, easier developer deployment, cloud on a stick and lots more testing
Adopt & improve the following Java stacks: Tomcat, Ehcache, Hibernate, Hadoop and Pig
Like last iteration, we’ll be reviewing and accepting blueprints proposed for Maverick on a per milestone basis. This week, we’ll review the work for Alpha2 and you’ll be able to track the progress on the work item tracker. If you’d like to contribute to the Maverick release, please join us at our weekly IRC meetings on Tuesdays between 1800 and 1900 UTC on #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net. We could especially use your help in the papercuts project and bug triaging!
For more information on Ubuntu Server please go to: http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/ubuntu-server-update-for-maverick-meerkat/
Why Launchpad Rocks: Great Bug Tracking
Jono Bacon continues with his series on why launchpad rocks. In this installment Jono talks about Launchpad's 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/
Winners of the 1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Announced
Jono Bacon, announced the Winners of the 1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition via his UStreamTV cast on May 28th, 2010.
The Community pick and winner of the Terra A20 Ubuntu Netbook is Photo #25 Orla O'Donohue.
Canonical CEO, Jane Silber's pick and winner of the Dell Netbook is Photo #20 Jordan McCarthy.
The name drawn by Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, and winner of the Canonical Sponsored Ubuntu SWAG and ZaReason USB Necklace is Photo #18 - Erika Hamilton.
All winners listed above will also receive a complementary subscription, of their choice, to either Linux Pro or Ubuntu User magazine.
If you haven't had a chance to look at all the photos submitted please do.
CONGRATULATIONS to Orla O'Donohue, Jordan McCarthy, Erika Hamilton!
For more information on the Ubuntu Women World Play, sponsors, and winners go to: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2046
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
- English (United Kingdom) (710) -0 over last week
- Spanish (10601) -83 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (35681) -129 over last week
- French (39486) -245 over last week
- 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
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/
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
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/
(I need to find someone to translate this and write up the summary)
http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/ubuntu-lucid-release-party-in-valencia/
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!
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 : 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
http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/25/the-behavioral-economics-of-free-software/
http://fnords.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/return-of-the-ubuntu-server-papercuts/
http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/05/27/rethinking-the-ubuntu-developer-summit/
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
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: 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/
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/
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
Canonical released the latest version of Landscape, an enterprise class systems management and monitoring service. Landscape 1.5 debuts this week and is timed to support the newest LTS release 10.04. Many new features have been integrated; such as SSO integration allowing users to log into Landscape with existing credentials, through authentication modules such as LDAP and Active Directory. Package configuration, pinning and improved LTS to LTS upgrades are now part of the standard feature set of the improved Landscape 1.5. Ken Drachnik, the Landscape Managere, covers all the important points here: http://blog.canonical.com/?p=396
The popular closed source VOIP application, Skype, can now be found in the Canonical Third Party Repositories. The Skype package is available in the Lucid 10.04 Partner Repositories, which can be enabled according to this tutorial [1] and then installed using the Software Center. Skype can be found on Launchpad [2] and package development can be followed at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/2.1.0.81-1ubuntu4 [1] - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#Adding%20Canonical%20Partner%20Repositories For more information see: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI4Mg
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our thirty-seven. Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-37/
http://www.puppetlabs.com/blog/puppet-in-the-ubuntu-cloud/
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: Kees Cook (@keescook) from the SecurityTeam 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
Agenda: Discuss blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-documentation-teams-collaboration
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda Per CC Agenda page, as of 11/29/08
Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/Events/Meetings
None listed as of publication
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
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
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
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
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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