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WORK IN PROGRESS

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #1 for the week of May 28 2006 - June 3 2006

General Community News

www.ubuntu.com Gets A Facelift

Check out the great new look at: http://www.ubuntu.com/

Release Parties

New Apps

Late in the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS development cycle some new applications made there way into the distribution. SUN's Java and VMware's VMware Player made there way into Ubuntu 6.06 allowing them to be used and installed just like any other software in the archive.

SUN's Java

Sun's new CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, announced the new Distributor License for Java (DLJ) during his keynote at this year's JavaOne conference. This new license makes it possible for distributors, specifically Ubuntu and Debian, to ship Java packaged as part of the distribution. On top of that, Java has already been packaged up and is in Multiverse, ready for use. The JRE (Java Runtime Environment) package is named sun-java5-jre and the JDK (Java Development Kit) package is named sun-java5-jdk.

For more information about the announcement, see:

VMware Player

VMware Player is a popular operating system virtualization package which is great to machine consolidation and software testing. Installing VMware Player used to involve installing and compiling a bunch of stuff that can be difficult for new users. VMware Player is now availible in the Ubuntu archive in the Multiverse repository. The VMware Player package is named vmware-player.

Ubuntu

The following sections cover this weeks Ubuntu activity.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Released

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, codenamed "Dapper Drake". This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Screenshot Tour

OSDir has one of the first full screenshot tours of Ubuntu 6.06.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Since the release of Ubuntu 6.06 there have been the following updates. These updates fix bugs and translations.

  • deskbar-applet 2.14.2-0ubuntu1
  • evince 0.5.2-0ubuntu3
  • fast-user-switch-applet 2.14.2-0ubuntu1
  • file-roller 2.14.3-0ubuntu1
  • gnome-backgrounds 2.14.2.1-0ubuntu1
  • gedit 2.14.3-0ubuntu1
  • zenity 2.14.2-0ubuntu1
  • glib2.0 2.10.3-0ubuntu1
  • pessulus 0.9.2-0ubuntu1
  • epiphany-browser 2.14.2.1-0ubuntu1

Always remember to install your updates! Smile :)

Edgy Planning

Planning for the next release of Ubuntu, Edgy, has now begun. We are collecting ideas on the wiki page and will be converting them into specs for the developers summit in Paris later this month. Please add any ideas you have.

Matt Zimmerman, our fearless CTO, has a list of Edgy ideas as well:

Paris Developers Summit

The Ubuntu Developer Summit will be held in Paris this year at the Charles de Gaulle, Paris hotel from Monday 19th to Friday 23rd June 2006. Everyone is welcome! (but remember this is a hands-on, technical, working session). For moe information about the developer sumit in Paris see:

Also, for a list of attendees see:

Kubuntu

The following sections cover this weeks Kubuntu activity.

Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Released

After a hard week's testing we released Kubuntu 6.06 LTS. Highlights include free CDs from Shipit and the new live installer Ubiquity. Thanks to everyone who helped test this release.

Edgy Planning

Planning for the next release of Kubuntu, Edgy, has now begun. We are collecting ideas on our wiki page and will be converting them into specs for the developers summit in Paris later this month. Please add any ideas you have.

Paris Developers Summit

Attendees from Kubuntu at the Paris Developers Summit will include kubuntu-default-settings hero Anthony Mercantine, Adept author Peter Rockai, Guidance author Simon Edwards.

We will also have a number of invited guests from KDE, chosen by KDE e.V. Sebas Krugler, Ellen Reitmayr, Ken Wimer, Kevin Ottens and Aaron Seigo will all help make this a rocking summit for Kubuntu development.

Edubuntu

The following sections cover this weeks Edubuntu activity.

New Apps

Xubuntu

The following sections cover this weeks Xubuntu activity.

New Apps

In The Press

iTWire

The author of this iTWire article feels that Linux on SPARC may not be successful, we disagree but an interesting read nonetheless:

Article Quote:

"Now people just don't care because what they really want to buy is commodity servers. Commodity means low cost and high volume and for that people have traditionally bought Intel. In short, three years down the track Linux on Sparc, like Suse Linux on mainframes, will be considered just another interesting Linux diversion."

Top Tech News

Article Quote:

"The problem with Linux is that there are too many distributions available," said Joe Wilcox, an analyst at Jupiter Research. "What Ubuntu is trying to do is take the complexity out of Linux, which has been holding back more widespread acceptance."

Feedback

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Newsletter Team. Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or suggestions by either sending an email to ??? or by using any of the other methods on the ???. For previous issues see UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter.

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