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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week of Oct 29 - Nov 4th, 2006. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

gnewsense

A new Ubuntu derivative launched. Supported by the Free Software Foundation, Gnewsense will be a distribution entirely free of non-free software but otherwise very similar to Ubuntu.

http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense

New KDE 4 Packages Available

A second developers release of KDE 4 was made available and packages of the core modules are available for Kubuntu Edgy. This version can be run successfully in a full session.

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde4-3.80.2.php

Amarok 1.4.4 Released

Music player Amarok made a new release featuring integration with the Magnatune online music shop. Packages are available for Kubuntu Edgy.

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/amarok-1.4.4.php

Start of Ubuntu Developer Summit - Mountain View

https://features.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-mtv

Changes In Fiesty

Launchpad News

In The Press

This week we have [http://xkcd.com/c178.html a roundup] of the post launch news of Ubuntu 6.10.

Mark Shuttleworth was interviewed by [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/10/shuttleworth_oracle/ The Register] on Oracle's fork of Red Hat and on Novell's controversial deal with Microsoft.

Meetings and other similar events

Upcoming Events

Mark talks to the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/10/shuttleworth_oracle/

Feature Of The Week - ???

Updates and security releases for 6.06 and 6.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Bug Stats

New Bugs: # BR Closed Bugs: #

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

Check out the bug statistics: [WWW] http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/

Infamous Bugs

Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!

Credits

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