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## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections. === Seif Speaks: Interviewing Mr. Gwibber (Ryan Paul) ===

Ryan Paul introduces himself as the Linux and open source editor at Ars Technica and the lead developer of the Gwibber project in this OMGUbuntu interview. See this article for more information about Ryan Pauls projects and responisiblities, and how these jobs are balanced with the help community contributions. There's lots of Gwibber information rangeing from the inspiration to future plans. There is also a fun "whats hot and what's not" list.

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http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/seif-speaks-interviewing-mr-gwibber.html
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=== Seif Speaks: Interviewing Mr. Gwibber (Ryan Paul) ===


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The OpenLuna Foundation was founded to return mankind to the moon through private enterprise. With Obama administration deciding to scrap NASA's moon mission once and for all, the role of private enterprise in future space endeavorers of humankind has grown ever larger. The Open``Luna Foundation was founded to return mankind to the moon through private enterprise. With Obama administration deciding to scrap NASA's moon mission once and for all, the role of private enterprise in future space endeavorers of humankind has grown ever larger.
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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. N-imal?
    2. Join the fun at the Ubuntu Global Jam
    3. Welcome New Ubuntu Members
    4. Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10
    5. Multi-touch Support Lands in Maverick
    6. Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Ricardo Pérez (Spanish Translation Team)
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. August 17th Ubuntu LoCo Council IRC Meeting
    2. Ubuntu-BR @ FISL 11
    3. Ubuntu Chicago Global Jam
  5. Launchpad News
  6. The Planet
    1. Herald Sitter: Ubuntu One Technical Aspects
    2. Jono Bacon: Thankyou, Debian
    3. Jonathan Riddell: Planet KDE Update
    4. Duane Hinnen: Beginners Team
    5. Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu at the Creative Arts Charter School
  7. In The Press
    1. Massive Changes Coming to Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' Installer
    2. Shuttleworth: Oracle's Java Lawsuit 'An Extremely Unsophisticated Move'
    3. Ubuntu's growing plans to add more Cloud contributors to the Open Source Atmosphere
    4. AppArmor makes it into the 2.6.36 Upstream Kernel
    5. Ubuntu to bring multitouch features to Linux
    6. ARM backs Linux server chip start-up
  8. In The Blogosphere
    1. Love an upstream project? Want it well tested?
    2. Ubuntu Gets Touchy: Canonical Announces uTouch 1.0
    3. Xubuntu 10.10: Becoming More Unique
    4. Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade fails
    5. The Canonical Multitouch and Gestures, Thoughts on the Architecture of Multitouch, & Decoding Aplle's Magic Trackpad
    6. Gaming Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux
    7. Ubuntu Studio Sound Theme is Old But Still Really Good
  9. In Other News
    1. Seif Speaks: Interviewing Mr. Gwibber (Ryan Paul)
    2. Geode Driver Update
    3. Puppy 5.1 codename Lucid is out- Now is compatible with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx package
    4. Oracle puts OpenSolaris to rest
    5. KDE & GNOME cross-desktop development
    6. OpenLuna - An Open Source Project Aimed at Returning Humankind Back to the Moon
    7. Ohio LinuxFest Schedule
  10. Featured Podcasts
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Tuesday, 24 August 2010
    2. Wednesday 25 August 2010
    3. Thursday 26 August 2010
    4. Friday 27 August 2010
    5. Saturday 28 August 2010
    6. Sunday 29 August 2010
    7. Monday 30 August 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 207 for the week August 15th - 21st, 2010.

In This Issue

General Community News

N-imal?

Mark Shuttleworth announced the code name for Ubuntu 11.04.

Oh yes, it’s that time of year again, when numerate pollsters make nasal proclamations about the naming of the next next version of Ubuntu. When gazers of balls crystal provide nifty suggestions for new new features and, of course, suitable nomenclature to match.

And so, we come swiftly to a conclusion: allow me to introduce the Natty Narwhal, our mascot for development work that we expect to deliver as Ubuntu 11.04.

To read more about Natty Narwhal and what Mark had to say about the thought process behind the name go to:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/478

Join the fun at the Ubuntu Global Jam

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/join-the-fun-at-the-ubuntu-global-jam/

Welcome New Ubuntu Members

The approval results from the August 19th Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

Cesar Sevilla

Cesar has done a truly extraordinary amount of advocacy work in the form of events for Ubuntu Venezuela (and his local Linux Users Group) throughout Venezuela. He is currently Coordinator of the Academy of Free Software Regional Zulia and is actively participating in the Free Software migration at the national level.

John Baer

John is a software development project manager who is an active member of the ubuntu-art team, working on everything from Gtk themes, to Usplash themes, to being the artist behind the popular Lucid Colors countdown banner. He also blogs about Ubuntu and is driven by dedication to a bringing the best user experience possible to the desktop.

Congratulations and welcome to these new members!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-August/001155.html

Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/455

Multi-touch Support Lands in Maverick

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=414

Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Ricardo Pérez (Spanish Translation Team)

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2102

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (77246) +567 over last week
  • Critical (30) +2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37589) +269 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) (0) +/-0 over last week
  2. Spanish (8873) +94 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (33852) -685 over last week
  4. French (37844) -8 over last week
  5. German (54113) +99 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

August 17th Ubuntu LoCo Council IRC Meeting

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-August/004838.html

Ubuntu-BR @ FISL 11

Andre writes about his experience at FISL 11 (Free Software International Forum) in July, 2010 where Ubuntu-BR was representing Ubuntu.

For more information and photos go to:

http://en.andrenoel.com.br/2010/08/21/ubuntu-br-fisl-11/

Ubuntu Chicago Global Jam

http://nhandler.wordpress.com/?p=171

Launchpad News

The Planet

Herald Sitter: Ubuntu One Technical Aspects

Herald goes into some detail on the Ubuntu One implementation in Kubuntu. He covers how it does authentication, how the libraries work as well as the user interfaces.

It's certainly educational if you're interested in how the Ubuntu One client works. Herald also calls for help for more contributors on the Kubuntu Ubuntu One client.

http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/ubuntu-one-technical-aspects/

Jono Bacon: Thankyou, Debian

Debian is 17 years old this year, Jono blogs about this major milestone for the project and provides some links for finding out more about the Debian project. As part of its birthday celebrations, Debian also added an appreciation site where users can post messages of thanks to developers.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/08/17/thankyou-debian/

Jonathan Riddell: Planet KDE Update

Jonathan has updated the KDE Planet abrogator to include different types of feeds. This means that feeds can be added for different languages or even feeds that aren't strictly developer related. To find out more, and for information on adding your own feed, visit Jonathan's blog post entry below.

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4308

Duane Hinnen: Beginners Team

Duane writes "The Beginners Team has been around in the community for over 3 years. In those 3 years it has grown from a small group of people helping out on the Ubuntu Community Forums to a team that not only helps new users with Ubuntu but helps them get involved in the community."

The Beginners team is split into focus groups, it also aims to mentor users so that they're able to give back to the community.

http://okiebuntu.homelinux.com/blog/?p=207

Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu at the Creative Arts Charter School

Elizabeth visits a school running Ubuntu in their computer lab and gave a hand with installing 4 new systems. The school uses the Ubuntu text-based installer over PXE to provision Hardy images to the systems, which was all set up by people who provide volunteer services at the school.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3315

In The Press

Massive Changes Coming to Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' Installer

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/08/massive-changes-coming-to-ubuntu-1010.html

Shuttleworth: Oracle's Java Lawsuit 'An Extremely Unsophisticated Move'

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, is among those in the community who don't see a positive outcome from Oracle's lawsuit, which was based around claims of Linux-based Android wrongfully treading on Oracle's patented Java code and copyrights. For the full story, read more below:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3898791/Shuttleworth-Oracles-Java-Lawsuit-An-Extremely-Unsophisticated

Ubuntu's growing plans to add more Cloud contributors to the Open Source Atmosphere

Amber Graner interviews the newest Ubuntu community member, Ahmed Kamal, who has been tasked with growing the Ubuntu Cloud Community. To find out the details of his plans regarding the Cloud Community, read the full interview below:

http://www.ubuntu-user.com/content/view/full/1312

AppArmor makes it into the 2.6.36 Upstream Kernel

Ubuntu User's Amber Graner brings us another interview, this time regarding the introduction of AppArmor into the upstream 2.6.36 kernel version. The interview is with John Johansen, upstream AppArmor maintainer and member of the Canonical Kernel Team with comment from Pete Graner, Canonical Kernel Team Manager, and Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO, regarding what this inclusion means:

http://www.ubuntu-user.com/content/view/full/1311

Ubuntu to bring multitouch features to Linux

Mark Shuttleworth has recently announced that multi-touch support will be introduced into Maverick Meerkat, Ubuntu 10.10. The article below goes into detail on the challenges presented by incorporating multi-touch and some of the ideas that the Canonical team has to overcome them.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20013760-264.html

ARM backs Linux server chip start-up

A US start-up chipmaker called Smooth-Stone has raised tens of millions of dollars to develop and sell ARM-based processors for servers, which ARM says will likely run Linux.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/servers/2010/08/16/arm-backs-linux-server-chip-start-up-40089825/

In The Blogosphere

Love an upstream project? Want it well tested?

The Desktop Testing Team writes about the infrastructure they've developed for tracking test results. They have a wiki with testcase descriptions and a strong community going for testing Maverick, but they need your help with getting more upstream projects tested for Maverick. They're looking for more people either involved already in upstreams or willing to work on testing upstreams. If you're interested please contact them and they are happy to work with you to get things started.

http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/love-an-upstream-project-want-it-well-tested/

Ubuntu Gets Touchy: Canonical Announces uTouch 1.0

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/08/17/ubuntu-gets-touchy-canonical-announces-utouch-1-0/

Xubuntu 10.10: Becoming More Unique

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/08/16/xubuntu-10-10-becoming-more-unique/

Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade fails

http://insidesocal.com/click/2010/08/ubuntu-804-to-1004-upgrade-fai.html

The Canonical Multitouch and Gestures, Thoughts on the Architecture of Multitouch, & Decoding Aplle's Magic Trackpad

Chase Douglas of the Canonical Kernal team posted a series of articles talking about multitouch devices and Ubuntu 10.10. In the first article he discusses the creation of the new Canonical Multitouch team: why it was created and what they're doing[1]. The second article discusses how the architecture works for multitouch on Ubuntu and the deals of why it can be so difficult [2]. The third article discusses the specifics of how Apple's Magic Trackpad works and his experience with getting it to work on Ubuntu[3]. For more information please read the articles or find the Multitouch Team in #ubuntu-multitouch on freenode.

[1] http://voices.canonical.com/chase.douglas/2010/08/16/multitouch-gestures-project/ [2] http://voices.canonical.com/chase.douglas/2010/08/16/thoughts-on-the-architecture-of-multitouch-in-ubuntu/ [3] http://voices.canonical.com/chase.douglas/2010/08/16/decoding-apples-magic-trackpad/

Gaming Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux

At the beginning of this month we published workstation benchmarks comparing Windows 7 to Ubuntu Linux. In those tests, which were a continuation of tests from earlier this year when looking to see whether Windows 7 is faster than Ubuntu 10.04 and how fast is Windows compared to Mac OS X and Linux, the two operating systems performed quite closely in our workstation tests with only a few exceptions. Today, however, we are back to looking at the Linux vs. Windows performance of the Lenovo ThinkPad W510 and this time we are looking at the OpenGL gamingperformance between Windows 7 Professional and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

For more information go to:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_win7_ogl&num=1

Ubuntu Studio Sound Theme is Old But Still Really Good

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia enhanced Ubuntu variant packed with custom wallpapers, themes, screensavers, system sounds and more. With Canonical in the lookout for a new System Sounds theme for upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, all those who want to contribute may want to check out the original Ubuntu Studio sound theme for inspiration. They are pretty darn good IMO.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/08/ubuntu-studio-sound-theme-is-old-but.html

In Other News

Seif Speaks: Interviewing Mr. Gwibber (Ryan Paul)

Ryan Paul introduces himself as the Linux and open source editor at Ars Technica and the lead developer of the Gwibber project in this OMGUbuntu interview. See this article for more information about Ryan Pauls projects and responisiblities, and how these jobs are balanced with the help community contributions. There's lots of Gwibber information rangeing from the inspiration to future plans. There is also a fun "whats hot and what's not" list.

To read the interview in full go to:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/seif-speaks-interviewing-mr-gwibber.html

Geode Driver Update

In practice, this Geode 2.11.9 release mostly fixes the growing number of rendering issues that were exposed with each successive release of the X.org server core. Among other things, it fixes many rendering bugs and enhances performance.

This is one release that will definitely please users of the OLPC XO-1 and of thin client hardware running on LTSP!

http://q-funk.blogspot.com/2010/08/xorg-video-driver-geode-2119.html

Puppy 5.1 codename Lucid is out- Now is compatible with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx package

Puppy Linux 5.1, code-name 'Lucid' as it is binary-compatible with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx packages, has been released. The announcement and release notes say that because of the Ubuntu binary files, the development time to produce program packages that are tested and configured for Lucid Puppy is extremely short.

For more information go to:

http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/1095-puppy-51-codename-lucid-is-out-now-is-compatible-with-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx

Oracle puts OpenSolaris to rest

"Software giant Oracle has closed the book on open distributions of the enterprise operating system OpenSolaris..." Instead, Oracle plans to distribute an open-source version of the platform after a full commercial release.

For more information go to:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/application-development/2010/08/16/oracle-puts-opensolaris-to-rest-40089828/

KDE & GNOME cross-desktop development

If you want your application to have the widest reach possible, it would be a good idea to ensure they play nice with both KDE and GNOME. Follow Kunal Deo’s brief tutorial to find out how to get started...

http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/kde-gnome-cross-desktop-development/

OpenLuna - An Open Source Project Aimed at Returning Humankind Back to the Moon

The OpenLuna Foundation was founded to return mankind to the moon through private enterprise. With Obama administration deciding to scrap NASA's moon mission once and for all, the role of private enterprise in future space endeavorers of humankind has grown ever larger.

To find out more information go to:

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/08/openluna-open-source-project-aimed-at.html

Ohio LinuxFest Schedule

The Ohio LinuxFest wants to save the world with Free and Open Source! To encourage that, we're proud to announce our keynote speakers, Stormy Peters and Christopher "Monty" Montgomery! as well as a roster of excellent events and talks sure to inform and entertain all.

Check it there is an UbuCon Scheduled (More information coming soon) and there are several of the Ubuntu Community folks scheduled as speakers.

For More information go to:

http://www.ohiolinux.org/schedule.html

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Wednesday 25 August 2010

Thursday 26 August 2010

Friday 27 August 2010

Saturday 28 August 2010

Sunday 29 August 2010

Monday 30 August 2010

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

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN Translations

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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Amber Graner
  • Liraz Siri
  • Penelope Stowe
  • Daniel Caleb
  • Mike Holstein
  • Jonathan Carter
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

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