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* Weekly Ubuntu Development Update * Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS End of Life * Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released * Ubuntu Stats * Lo``Co News * Ubuntu Community Week * Lo``Co Team Re-Approvals * Launchpad News * New Ubuntu Members through Forums Council * Raphaël Hertzog: Official Debian/Ubuntu packages for Dropbox * Matt Zimmerman: DEX finishes first batch of derivative patches for Debian * Victor Palau: Ubuntu Certification Going Forward * Jorge Castro: Unity Community Contributor plans for 11.10 * Nigel Babu: Cleaning up the Planet * Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly Squad * Daniel Holbach: Getting people involved * Jono Bacon: Community Team Plans For Oneiric * PCWorld: Tony Bradley: 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux * Braid is now available in the Ubuntu software center * Tom's Hardware: Adam Overa: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Reviewed In Depth * Full Circle Issue #49 is released * Featured Podcasts * Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings * Upcoming Meetings and Events * Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 |
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| ## Make each article a subsection, via === ## These are big articles that don't fit within another section === Ubuntu Wiki relicensed: CC-BY-SA 3.0 === For around six years the Ubuntu Wiki (wiki.ubuntu.com) has lived without a clarified license. The Documentation team fixed a similar issue on their wiki (help.ubuntu.com) three years ago. They chose a Creative Commons license, which made it much easier to redistribute content and give contributors clarified rights regarding their contributions. After a longer discussion, the Community Council agreed to use a similar decision process and the same license. Six weeks ago (15.02.2011), the Community Council reached out to every single Ubuntu Wiki contributor and asked for feedback. Also did we publish the same text in a couple of Ubuntu-related blogs and discussed the relicensing in a Community Council meeting. Here is the feedback we received in the last six weeks: * Huge number of +1. * Disagreement with the process. A handful of contributors were unhappy that we didn't ask for explicit approval of every single contributor to the wiki. While that makes sense in theory, it's simply not feasible with 15000+ contributors. We feel we did our best in reaching out to everybody and asking for feedback. Also did all of these contributors have no objections against the license itself. * Question about "DRM clause" in CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. One contributor wondered if we could dual-license the wiki to avoid the "DRM clause" in the Creative Commons license. Although we are sympathetic to this request, doing so would mean maintaining the wiki under two licenses and would mean that we could not incorporate BY-SA licensed materials, like material from Wikimedia projects. We have opted for the simpler strategy of using a single license. Without further ado, we'd like to thank every single contributor to the Ubuntu Wiki for their work and congratulate everyone to having more rights regarding their Wiki content now: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ === Ubuntu Developer Week === UbuntuDeveloperWeek unfortunately is over, but it was a great success. Thanks a lot to all the speakers and all the helpers. Without your gracious help this wouldn’t have been possible at all. The great thing about these tuition weeks is that even if you couldn’t attend them, there’s logs later on, so here’s the executive summary for you, read the logs, get up to speed on what’s cooking and get involved! '''Monday''' 1. Getting Started with Ubuntu Development: I was lucky enough to take the first two sessions and do a quick introduction to Ubuntu development and help everyone to get set up. I was amazed by all the great questions and the fun that people seemed to be having. It was just fantastic. 1. Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development (UDD): Next up was the rocking and unstoppable Barry Warsaw who did a action-packed session that explained how we use Bazaar and Launchpad for Ubuntu Development. By the end of the session you could see loads of new development branches coming in. Awesome! 1. Taking bite out of Unity: Jason Smith and Jorge Castro seem to have had a great time talking about Unity and how to get started fixing bugs and getting involved. The session is fun to read, so make sure you have a look if you didn’t have time yesterday. 1. Getting your fixes into Ubuntu, how to make sponsors happy: The exceptional Stefano Rivera took the last slot of the day and talked about how to actually get your fix into Ubuntu. An additional focus of the session was how to avoid common mistakes. There were heaps of questions and loads of great answers, so I expect more and more good fixes coming in soon. :-D '''Tuesday''' 1. How to write a compiz plugin: Sam Spilsbury gave an excellent session about compiz and its plugin structure. Everything you need to get going to write your own plugin was explained nicely. If you want to bring more bling to Ubuntu, go ahead and check out the log, it also contains links to additional docs. 1. How Stable Release Updates work: Next up was the unstoppable Jean-Baptiste Lallement, who gave a great overview over how the Stable Release Updates (SRU) process works, how to avoid problems and how to fix bugs for millions of users out there. 1. The Ubuntu One App Developer Programme: Stuart Langridge brought us up to speed on what’s happening in the Ubuntu One world and how easily you can hook up your app with the cloud. It was a really exciting session with loads of ideas kicking around, putting pepperoni on top of a pizza definitely being the most boring one. :-) 1. Rocking with Zeitgeist: Manish Sinha and Seif Lotfy gave a great session about using Zeitgeist and how to bring more fun to the world of apps and giving a user a better way of finding out what’s going on. Awesome. 1. Getting your fixes into Debian, how to make community happy: Gerfried Fuchs was up last and alone in this session, as Nigel unfortunately couldn’t make it. Still the session was totally worth reading as it was full of information about how Ubuntu and Debian collaborate and how they are slightly different. '''Wednesday''' 1. TestDrive: First of the day was Andres Rodriguez who talked about TestDrive and how to make use of it for testing and toying around with various Ubuntu (and other Linuxes’) releases. Andres also tried to settle the question where Pisco was originally invented. 1. LoCo Directory Hacking: An awesome session delivered by Michael Hall about loco.ubuntu.com and how it is developed. If you are into web development, would like to see more LoCos use the service, check out the logs and get involved. 1. Ubuntu ARM and the OMAP4 images: Next up was Oliver Grawert who gave a great introduction into what’s happening in ARM land right now and how Ubuntu developers are putting great work into porting everything necessary. His classy answer to the question of “arm?” was “yes :) “. 1. Developing IRC bots: Terence Simpson gave a session about IRC bots, how they are used, how to implement a bot, etc. A really insightful and interesting session. Also he actively contradicted me: it seems he didn’t start hacking on IRC bots when he was 5, probably closer to 6. :-) 1. Rocking out with libunity: Mikkel Kampstrup had the last session of the day and gave a well-structured and nicely prepared session, explaining how to interact with Unity, add places and integrate with the launcher. Super interesting stuff. I hope people make great use of it soon. '''Thursday''' 1. Integrating your package with Launchpad Translations: David Planella kicked off the day and gave a sterling session on getting most out of Launchpad’s Translations goodness in a pain-free and fun way. 1. Getting Started with Unity 2D: We started with 5 minutes delay, but the session was entirely worth the waiting time. Florian Boucault gave a great session explaining the foundations of Unity 2D, the plans and how to get involved. 1. Q+A with Ubuntu Engineering Director: A super interesting session with everyone’s favourite Rick Spencer. Rick got quite a bunch of good questions, so check out the log and find out what Rick does and how things work out in Ubuntu development. 1. Getting your app into Ubuntu (Post-release): Stéphane Graber is a member of the Application Review Board (ARB) and so he was in the perfect position to explain how the process works, what the requirements are and how to bring fun apps to Ubuntu. 1. Good stuff in ubuntu-dev-tools: Benjamin Drung did an awesome job explaining our favourite toolset and the gems hidden in it. Check out the log, make good use of them and maybe you want to add your own tools to it? :) '''Friday''' 1. Getting better bug reports: The day kicked off with Brian Murray and Nigel Babu, who explained how to use and extend Apport for packages that you are interested in. Seriously good stuff that prevents a lot of bug conversation ping-pong. 1. Introducing boto EC2 Cloud API: Ahmed Kamal did a terrific job of explaining the boto EC2 Cloud API. It’s simple, easy to use and super useful whatever you might want to get done. 1. Introduction to Django Development: Łukasz Czyżykowski was up next and gave an excellent session explaining how to get started using Django for developing websites. He zipped through an interesting and small example that showcases how beautiful and powerful Django is. 1. Getting started with daily builds in Launchpad: I’m glad we had Michał Zając (and Philip Muškovac) giving a session about Daily Builds in Launchpad. A super-helpful service that will give you latest upstream goodness to play with in a very pain-free way. 1. Project Lightning Talks: This was an experiment, but I’m quite sure that it’s here to stay. It was quite exciting to learn about loads of new projects that are going on. So if we can give all of them a platform for introducing themselves and attracting new users and contributors, we should definitely do that. Check out the log – seriously good stuff! |
=== Weekly Ubuntu Development Update === Daniel Holbach posted a summary of the current state of Oneiric development. It includes upcoming dates and milestones relevant to developers, a discussion with Paolo Sammicheli on his experiences as a developer, and tips about getting involved with Ubuntu. More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1013 === Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011 === The support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011. Ubuntu Security Notices no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10. More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-May/000148.html === Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) End of Life === On June 1st, 2006, Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" was released. Ubuntu supplies security updates and critical fixes for a period of 5 years for the server edition of LTS (long term support) releases. The period in which these fixes and updates are supplied has now ended for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server. More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-June/000149.html === Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released === The first Alpha release of Oneiric Ocelot is out. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Oneiric. Pre-releases of Oneiric Ocelot are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-June/000853.html |
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=== Translation Stats Maverick === 1. English (UK) (8) -4378 over last week 2. Spanish (5858) -2836 over last week 3. Brazilian Portuguese (27205) -2772 over last week 4. French (34565) -4995 over last week 5. Turkish (43273) -8114 over last week |
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| * Unity Dash - Contact Lens - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27584/ * Add some choice to categories in the Dash - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27593/ * Add Gnome 3 traditional layout in Ubuntu 11.10 - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27614/ * PPPoE Support for IPv6 - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27586/ * Closing unity windows from expo with middle click - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27581/ * Unity: Alt-F2 shows 6 usually unrelated history entries on its pane - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27551/ * Awkward visual transition from login to desktop - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27496/ * Multiple Audio Output - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27442/ * Multiple Audio Output - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27442/ * Ubuntu needs better default bluetooth manager - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27429/ * Ubuntu needs better default bluetooth manager - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27429/ * Ubuntu needs better default bluetooth manager - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27429/ * Do not allow updates when disk space is low to avoid broken systems - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27342/ * Libre Office must be made more compatible with MS Office - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27296/ * Auto eth0 isn't very user friendly. Many people wont know what it is. - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27250/ * Proprietary printer and scanner drivers support - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27216/ * Update manager tries to update even without internet connection - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27159/ * Update manager tries to update even without internet connection - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27159/ * Change the keyboard layout icon - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27103/ * Change the keyboard layout icon - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27103/ * Change the keyboard layout icon - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27103/ * Untrusted Packages stops Installation - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27045/ * Links using favicons - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27003/ * Links using favicons - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27003/ 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/ |
* Switch windows more easily using Unity launcher - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28065/ * Option for invisible mouse cursor. - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28094/ * Login screen appears to "freeze" after entering password - not a bug - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28063/ * Using Ubuntu on USB is quite not easy - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28091/ * Bluetooth Applet only shows in deprecated Notification Area - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28067/ 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/ |
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=== Ubuntu Community Week: It's New! === A new learning event titled "Ubuntu Community Week" is starting this cycle which aims to help Ubuntu users find the community, participate in the community, create their community, and much more. This event is scheduled to take place from Mon 18 July - Fri 22 July, 2011. More information can be found at http://randall.executiv.es/ucw . If you're interested in presenting, there's a call for presenters at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-June/005413.html === We want to know about the best LoCo Team Blogs! === If you have a blog that you use to post about the awesome things your Lo``Co Team does, then you should add it to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoPortalFeeds . The new loco.ubuntu.com will use some of those feeds to provide people with an overview of all of the amazing things going on in the Lo``Co community. More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-June/005401.html === Planet Ubuntu-it gets new theme === The theme for Planet Ubuntu-it has been updated to match the Ubuntu website style. The code is available on Launchpad for people to modify. More information can be found at: http://en.leoiannacone.com/?p=182 === LoCo Team Re-Approvals Are Underway === One week after being announced, 3 Lo``Co teams out of a total of 27 teams have submitted applications for re-approval. The Lo``Co Council is using bugs on Launchpad to track re-approval statuses. Teams can also request to have their applications reviewed at the Lo``Co Council's monthly IRC meeting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda More information can be found at: http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=1037 === Ubuntu UK LoCo CDs === Alan Bell announced that while his chickens might enjoy playing with the CDs, the Ubuntu UK Lo``Co would rather send them to people who need them. People on dialup can request a CD by emailing alanbell [at] ubuntu.com with a clear subject saying you would like a CD and then sending a stamped self-addressed envelope large enough to hold a CD to the address he replies with. The Lo``Co will also be giving CDs to people distributing recycled PCs pre-installed with Ubuntu so that they can also include a CD with the computer, and to people representing Ubuntu at events and conferences. More information can be found at: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2937 |
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| ## This section is for news from the Launchpad Blog at http://blog.launchpad.net/ | === Initializing page JavaScript from the JSONCache === JSONCache is a nice way to initialize on-page Java``Script. It is only available for users who are logged in, but allows you to get any object you might need on any page. More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/initializing-page-javascript-from-the-jsoncache === Getting started with launchpadlib === Are you interested in writing a script to pull information from Launchpad, but put off due to not being a developer? In this new series of blog posts, a user in this exact situation attempts to show that even a non-developer can learn to use launchpadlib to interact with Launchpad from a Python script. More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/api/getting-started-with-launchpadlib === JavaScript development: YUI testing === YUI tests are a fast and easy way to do test-driven development. They feel like a safety net when making changes and are a good way to test your model code and HTML changes. YUI testing is being utilized by several members of the Launchpad team. More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/javascript-development-yui-testing |
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| ## This section is provided to include any interesting updates from the Ubuntu Forums. | === Congratulations to the new Ubuntu Members === The Forum Council has recently started granting Ubuntu Membership to people who primarily contribute on the forum. They have just finished their first round of membership approvals, granting Ubuntu Membership to 19 individuals. More information can be found at: http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/congratulations-to-the-new-ubutnu-members/ |
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| ## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ | === Raphaël Hertzog: Official Debian/Ubuntu packages for Dropbox === Dropbox is a popular service to synchronize files between multiple computers. However, due to some issues, the Ubuntu packages that Dropbox provides do not work on Debian. Raphaël went ahead and prepared new packages for Debian, which are now available to install with 'apt-get install nautilus-dropbox' from Debian's non-free repository, Ubuntu's multiverse repository (oneiric only), or ppa:hertzog/nautilus-dropbox . He is also looking for someone to take over maintaining the package. More information can be found at: http://raphaelhertzog.com/?p=1624 === Matt Zimmerman: DEX finishes first batch of derivative patches for Debian === The DEX team has completed their first project! Several hundred Ubuntu patches whose status wasn't clear have now been cleaned out or merged into Debian or upstream. DEX's next major project is called "big-merges" and will focus on identifying packages with big differences between the Ubuntu and Debian versions and getting them as close to identical as possible. Also, Allison Randal is working on Python 2.7 in Ubuntu and Debian, Nathan Handler is developing tools for cross-distribution work as part of Google Summer of Code, and Stefano Zacchiroli added a derivatives BoF to Deb``Conf 11. More information can be found at: http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2011/06/08/dex-finishes-first-batch-of-derivative-patches-for-debian/ === Victor Palau: Ubuntu Certification Going Forward === Victor Palau writes about changes to Ubuntu certification this cycle. The "Ubuntu Ready" program will be closed down before the release of Oneiric in favor of the Ubuntu Certified program, which will be Canonical's only official certification program going forward. There will also be a community-based Ubuntu Friendly program using Canonical Platform Services' remote testing tools. More information can be found at: http://victorpalau.net/2011/06/06/ubuntu-certification-going-forward/ === Jorge Castro: Unity Community Contributor plans for 11.10 === The Unity team is continuing their effort to make it easy to contribute to Unity by adding a list of "backlog bugs" which are approved by the design team and just need to be implemented. Focusing on these bugs will hopefully improve the Unity experience significantly, and can be done early in the cycle. There's also a new Launchpad team to help organize people who want to work on bugs like this. More information can be found at: http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/06/07/unity-community-contributor-plans-for-11-10/ === Robbie Williamson: Interested in the progress towards Ubuntu Server 11.10? === Robbie Williamson highlights the Ubuntu Server work item status page for people interested in how the Server team is doing this cycle. The page has a burndown graph for work items and lists relevant topics, blueprints, and assignees. More information can be found at: http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/interested-in-the-progress-towards-ubuntu-server-11-10/ === Nigel Babu: Cleaning up the Planet === One privilege that goes along with Ubuntu Membership is the ability to add a blog to Planet Ubuntu. One issue that has come up is that there no easy way to remove the feeds of all people who have let their membership expire. Therefore, the Community Council has decided that the 'nick' field should contain the Launchpad ID of an Ubuntu Member that will be responsible for it. This policy also applies to blogs for teams and other organizations. More information can be found at: http://nigelb.me/ubuntu/2011/06/10/cleaning-up-the-planet.html === Jono Bacon: Future LoCo Team Portal Plans === Jono discusses his plans to make the Lo``Co Directory more tab-worthy, a hub of activity, and to encourage teams to share updates and other achievements. He is going to be having phone calls with several people to try and make these goals a reality. He has also prepared an initial design for how this Lo``Co Team Portal could look. More information can be found here: http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/05/26/future-loco-team-portal-plans/ === Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly Squad === The Ubuntu Friendly program (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFriendly) is a community-driven hardware validation program. They have just created the Ubuntu Friendly Squad (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-friendly-squad) for people to start participating in the program. People participating at this stage will be helping to get the team organized. There is a mailing list and a Launchpad project (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-friendly) for people interested in getting involved. More information can be found here: http://arapulido.com/?p=389 === Daniel Holbach: Getting people involved === Daniel discusses his top 3 ideas for getting people involved in contributing to Ubuntu. They are: 1. The project needs to be exciting. The atmosphere needs to be welcoming and friendly. 2. The documentation needs to be clear. 3. Contributors need to find their first tasks easily. He also mentions that people are still actively working on revamping the Packaging Guide and that the ubuntu-dev-tools package contains a bitesize script for marking bugs that are appropriate for new contributors to work on. More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1000 === Jono Bacon: Community Team Plans For Oneiric === Jono talks about the different projects that the members of the community team (Jono Bacon, Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, David Planella, and Ahmed Kamal) will be working on during the Oneiric development cycle. Some other miscellaneous activities that they will be working on include: * A mentoring program * Various Classroom events * Release Parties * Ubuntu Developer Summit * and bringing Lo``Co teams to the next level More information can be found at: http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3415 |
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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. |
=== PCWorld: Tony Bradley: 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux === Tony Bradley at PCWorld has decided to look at Ubuntu for his second "30 Days With" project. He's just under two weeks into his review, and has given his thoughts on a lot of the basic points of the Ubuntu experience, including Ubuntu's installation process, Software Center, Unity, hardware compatibility, and Libre``Office. More information can be found at: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/229187/30_days_with_ubuntu_linux.html === Braid is now available in the Ubuntu software center === On Monday, June 6th, braid-game.com announced that Braid (a platform game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles) is now available in the Ubuntu Software Center. A special thanks is given to Ryan C. Gordon for doing the port and Jonathan Beilin for doing the legwork for getting the game in the Software Center. More information can be found at: http://braid-game.com/news/?p=703 |
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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. |
=== Tom's Hardware: Adam Overa: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Reviewed In Depth === Here is a very in-depth review from Tom's Hardware. If you haven't checked out Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), or if you are trying to persuade someone to give it a look, check out this article. Adam Overa gives an excellent overview of everything from the installation process to in-depth looks at the UI, as well as benchmarks. Also, don't miss the section on essential Unity tweaks. More information can be found at: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-11.04-natty-narwhal,2943.html |
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| ## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections. === TurnKey Linux 11 released: 45 ready-to-use Ubuntu-based solutions === This week Turn``Key Linux announced part one of the Turn``Key Linux 11 release, spanning 45 ready-to-use, Ubuntu-based solutions which can be deployed in minutes to bare metal, virtual machines or launched on-demand in the cloud: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/turnkeylinux-11-part1 Highlights: * Upgraded base distribution to Ubuntu 10.04, the latest Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release. * Includes TKLBAM: a smart, automated backup and restore facility, powered by the Amazon S3 storage cloud. The system is designed to make it easy to move or clone a Turn``Key system anywhere along with any changed files, databases, packages and users. * No default passwords: Users no longer have to worry about changing default passwords as Turn``Key now helps them configure all passwords on first boot. * LVM support: instead of installing to a fixed size partition, a Logical Volume is first created by default, and this may later be expanded, even across multiple physical devices. * Availability of Turn``Key AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) in the Amazon EC2 Asia pacific region also. * New ESX4 / vSphere optimized OVF builds. * 5 new appliances for Magento, Presta``Shop, Status``Net, vTiger and Joomla 1.6 Part two of the Turn``Key Linux 11 release is coming soon. It will more than double the size of the Turn``Key solutions library with the nearly 50 new virtual appliances that have been developed in collaboration with the open source community over the last year. |
=== Full Circle Issue #49 is released === Full Circle Magazine issue #49 was published on May 27th. This issue features a top 5 web management tools list, a review of virtual machines, the part 2 of 'swappiness' from the Linux Lab, as well as Python programming how-tos and much much more. More information is available at: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/?p=1283 |
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| ## Ubuntu UK Podcast ## Full Circle Magazine Podcast ## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV ## Lococast.net |
=== Full Circle Podcast #20: A Dutch Pirate with False Teeth === In this episode, Google IO news, UDS and your feedback * OGG: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1285/0/fullcirclepodcast_ep20_290511.ogg * MP3: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1285/1/fullcirclepodcast_ep20_290511.mp3 More information is available at: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2011/05/29/full-circle-podcast-20-a-dutch-pirate-with-false-teeth/ === Lococast.net Episode 17 – Extreme Blabbermouth Edition === * Intro * Events: Penguicon, Py``Ohio, MUG * Feedback * Natty is out and people are responding, loads of stories: Unity, XFCE, quality testing, Ubuntu power users project, UDS, Documentation, Books More information is available at: http://lococast.net/archives/488 === At Home With Jono Bacon 06/08/11 === Catch up on the latest with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon with the latest in his weekly videocast: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15248751 === Ubuntu UK Podcast: S04E08 – Caught Somewhere in Time === Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are in Studio A again (with podcasts) for episode 8 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Lo``Co Team! In this week’s show: * We talk about photographing weddings, quietening PCs, buying a Proliant Microserver, and pimping Laura’s online survey * In the news * We mention upcoming event, Ogg``Camp11 (http://oggcamp.org/) * At listener Jason Simmons’ suggestion, we discuss making Linux servers easier to use. * We interview Frank Karlitschek about his ownCloud project (literally, a cloud of your very own). Try it out or get involved (http://owncloud.org/) * We have a Bit About Ubuntu * ..and a bit that’s Not About Ubuntu * And we had some Command Line Love * Finally we have your feedback More information is available at: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/06/08/s04e08-caught-somewhere-in-time/ |
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| ## Change date to reflect the latest meeting date and verify link then just remove the comment out marks ## * Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for June 22nd, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-06-22 ## * Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from June 22nd, 1010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20100622 ## * Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for June 22nd, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100622 ## * Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for June 22nd, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2010-06-22 ## * Ubuntu Foundations Team Meeting Minutes for June 23rd, 2010 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0623 ## * Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for June 25, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-06-25 == 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 |
* Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for June 7th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2011-06-07 * Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from June 9th 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2011/20110609 * Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for June 7th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2011-06-07 * Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for June 9th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-06-09 |
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| ##=== [DAY], [DATE: Month day, YEAR] === (see http://fridge.ubuntu.com/event, click on meeting name for each meeting in coming week for information. Repeat as necessary) ##==== [Meeting Name] ==== (Repeat as necessary) ## * Start: [Time - include TimeZone] ## * End: [Time - include TimeZone] ## * Location: [USE FORMAT: IRC channel #{channel name}] ## * Agenda: [Copy from "Info:"] == Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10 == |
For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at ubuntu-news.org: http://ubuntu-news.org/calendars/ == Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 == |
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| * USN-1108-1: DHCP vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1108-1 * USN-1109-1: GIMP vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1109-1 * USN-1110-1: KDE-Libs vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1110-1 === Ubuntu 6.06 Updates === * dhcp3 3.0.3-6ubuntu7.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2011-April/012908.html |
* USN-1144-1: Subversion vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1144-1 * USN-1122-3: Thunderbird regression - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1122-3 * USN-1146-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 * USN-1145-1: QEMU vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1145-1 |
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| * dhcp3 3.0.6.dfsg-1ubuntu9.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-April/012645.html * gimp 2.4.5-1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-April/012646.html * adobe-flashplugin 10.2.159.1-0hardy1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-April/012647.html === Ubuntu 9.04 Updates === |
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| === Ubuntu 9.10 Updates === * ffmpeg-extra 4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2011-April/012621.html * dhcp3 3.1.2-1ubuntu7.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2011-April/012622.html * gimp 2.6.7-1ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2011-April/012623.html * kde4libs 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2011-April/012624.html * adobe-flashplugin 10.2.159.1-0karmic1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2011-April/012625.html |
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| * dhcp3 3.1.3-2ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012250.html * gimp 2.6.8-2ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012251.html * kde4libs 4:4.4.5-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012252.html * vlc 1.0.6-1ubuntu1.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012253.html * xdg-utils 1.0.2-6.1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012254.html * puppet 0.25.4-2ubuntu6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012255.html * pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012256.html * libvirt 0.7.5-5ubuntu27.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012257.html * python-gasp 0.3.3-0ubuntu1.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012258.html * evolution-data-server 2.28.3.1-0ubuntu6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012259.html * samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012260.html * nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012261.html * adobe-flashplugin 10.2.159.1-0lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-April/012262.html |
* subversion 1.6.6dfsg-2ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012336.html * adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012337.html * lupin 0.29.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012338.html * xserver-xorg-video-openchrome 1:0.2.904+svn827-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012339.html * qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012340.html * oss4 4.2-build2002-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012341.html * libimobiledevice 0.9.7-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012342.html * flashplugin-nonfree 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012343.html * multipath-tools 0.4.8-14ubuntu11.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012344.html * ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-14ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012345.html * dkms 2.1.1.2-2ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012346.html * dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012347.html * sysvinit 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012348.html * qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.9 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012349.html * unbound 1.4.1-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012350.html |
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| * wireshark 1.2.11-6+squeeze1build0.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009326.html * ffmpeg-extra 4:0.6-2ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009327.html * dhcp3 3.1.3-2ubuntu6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009328.html * kdebase-workspace 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009329.html * kde4libs 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009330.html * oxygen-icons 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009331.html * kdewebdev 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009332.html * kdeutils 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009333.html * kdetoys 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009334.html * kdegraphics 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009335.html * kdesdk 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009337.html * kdeplasma-addons 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009336.html * kdebase 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009338.html * kdenetwork 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009339.html * kdemultimedia 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009340.html * kdegames 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009341.html * kdebase-runtime 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009342.html * bzr 2.2.4-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009343.html * kdepimlibs 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009344.html * kdeedu 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009346.html * kdebindings 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009345.html * kdeartwork 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009348.html * kdeaccessibility 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009347.html * kdeadmin 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009349.html * meta-kde 5:63ubuntu7.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009350.html * kde-l10n-lv 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009351.html * kde-l10n-lt 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009353.html * kde-l10n-ko 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009352.html * gimp 2.6.10-1ubuntu3.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009354.html * kde-l10n-ptbr 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009355.html * kde-l10n-fy 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009357.html * kde-l10n-ar 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009356.html * kde-l10n-sv 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009358.html * kde-l10n-pa 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009359.html * kde-l10n-uk 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009360.html * kde-l10n-ru 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009361.html * kde-l10n-ja 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009362.html * kde-l10n-ia 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009363.html * kde-l10n-pl 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009364.html * kde-l10n-zhtw 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009366.html * kde-l10n-ro 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009365.html * kde-l10n-de 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009368.html * kde-l10n-id 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009367.html * kde-l10n-et 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009369.html * kde-l10n-fr 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009371.html * kde-l10n-wa 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009370.html * kde-l10n-bg 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009373.html * kde-l10n-kk 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009372.html * kde-l10n-tr 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009374.html * kde-l10n-ga 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009376.html * kde-l10n-eu 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009375.html * kde-l10n-km 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009377.html * kde-l10n-cs 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009378.html * kde-l10n-hu 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009379.html * kde-l10n-sk 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009380.html * kde-l10n-th 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009381.html * kde-l10n-is 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009383.html * kde-l10n-sr 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009382.html * kde-l10n-es 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009386.html * kde-l10n-hi 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009384.html * kde-l10n-gl 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009385.html * kde-l10n-fi 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009387.html * kde-l10n-el 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009388.html * kde-l10n-nds 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009389.html * kde-l10n-ca 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009390.html * kde-l10n-nn 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009394.html * kde-l10n-da 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009391.html * kde-l10n-nl 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009392.html * kde-l10n-sl 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009393.html * kde-l10n-kn 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009395.html * kde-l10n-engb 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009396.html * kde-l10n-eo 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009397.html * kde-l10n-ca-valencia 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009398.html * kde-l10n-he 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009399.html * kde-l10n-gu 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009400.html * kde-l10n-nb 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009401.html * kde-l10n-it 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009402.html * kde-l10n-hr 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009403.html * kde-l10n-zhcn 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009404.html * kde-l10n-pt 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009405.html * kde-l10n-ml 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009406.html * kde4libs 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu8.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009407.html * vlc 1.1.4-1ubuntu1.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009408.html * kdebase-workspace 4:4.5.5-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009409.html * plasma-widget-yawp 0.3.5-0ubuntu1~maverick2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009410.html * xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-1ubuntu0.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009411.html * ubuntuone-client 1.4.6-0ubuntu3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009412.html * python-gasp 0.3.3-1ubuntu0.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009413.html * nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-April/009414.html * adobe-flashplugin 10.2.159.1-0maverick1 - 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* subversion 1.6.12dfsg-1ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009488.html * adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0maverick1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009489.html * lupin 0.32.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009490.html * libimobiledevice 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009491.html * qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009492.html * flashplugin-nonfree 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009493.html * dovecot 1:1.2.12-1ubuntu8.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009494.html * lintian 2.4.3ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009495.html * ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-15ubuntu2.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009496.html * qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009497.html * unbound 1.4.5-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009498.html === Ubuntu 11.04 Updates === * amarok 2:2.4.0-0ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011928.html * sandboxgamemaker 2.6.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011929.html * unscd 0.47-2build0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011930.html * icedtea-web 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011931.html * unity-place-applications 0.2.46-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011932.html * empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011933.html * pyside 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011934.html * foolscap 0.6.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011935.html * system-config-printer 1.3.1+20110222-0ubuntu16.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011936.html * ipython 0.10.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011937.html * gnome-user-docs 3.0.0+git20110406ubuntu10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011938.html * subversion- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011939.html * adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011940.html * flashplugin-nonfree- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011941.html * lyx 2.0.0-1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011942.html * bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011943.html * libwx-perl 1:0.98-1build0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011944.html * emerald 0.7.2-0ubuntu6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011945.html * aeskulap 0.2.2b1-7ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011946.html * compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011947.html * compiz-plugins-main 0.9.4+bzr20110527-0ubuntu1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011948.html * mini-dinstall 0.6.28.1ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011949.html * cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011950.html * xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.3.99+git20110116.0e27ce3a-0ubuntu12.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011951.html * foo2zjs 20110210dfsg-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011952.html * ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-15ubuntu2.11.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011953.html * qemu-kvm 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011954.html * vlc- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011955.html |
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 220 for the week of June 6 - June 13, 2011.
In This Issue
- Weekly Ubuntu Development Update
- Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS End of Life
- Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released
- Ubuntu Stats
LoCo News
- Ubuntu Community Week
LoCo Team Re-Approvals
- Launchpad News
- New Ubuntu Members through Forums Council
- Raphaël Hertzog: Official Debian/Ubuntu packages for Dropbox
- Matt Zimmerman: DEX finishes first batch of derivative patches for Debian
- Victor Palau: Ubuntu Certification Going Forward
- Jorge Castro: Unity Community Contributor plans for 11.10
- Nigel Babu: Cleaning up the Planet
- Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly Squad
- Daniel Holbach: Getting people involved
- Jono Bacon: Community Team Plans For Oneiric
- PCWorld: Tony Bradley: 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux
- Braid is now available in the Ubuntu software center
- Tom's Hardware: Adam Overa: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Reviewed In Depth
- Full Circle Issue #49 is released
- Featured Podcasts
- Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
General Community News
Weekly Ubuntu Development Update
Daniel Holbach posted a summary of the current state of Oneiric development. It includes upcoming dates and milestones relevant to developers, a discussion with Paolo Sammicheli on his experiences as a developer, and tips about getting involved with Ubuntu.
More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1013
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011
The support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011. Ubuntu Security Notices no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10.
More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-May/000148.html
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) End of Life
On June 1st, 2006, Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" was released. Ubuntu supplies security updates and critical fixes for a period of 5 years for the server edition of LTS (long term support) releases. The period in which these fixes and updates are supplied has now ended for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server.
More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-June/000149.html
Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released
The first Alpha release of Oneiric Ocelot is out. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Oneiric. Pre-releases of Oneiric Ocelot are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-June/000853.html
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (89375) +8842 over last week
- Critical (135) +97 over last week
- Unconfirmed (49726) +4198 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 Maverick
- English (UK) (8) -4378 over last week
- Spanish (5858) -2836 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (27205) -2772 over last week
- French (34565) -4995 over last week
- Turkish (43273) -8114 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
Switch windows more easily using Unity launcher - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28065/
Option for invisible mouse cursor. - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28094/
Login screen appears to "freeze" after entering password - not a bug - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28063/
Using Ubuntu on USB is quite not easy - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28091/
Bluetooth Applet only shows in deprecated Notification Area - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28067/
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 Community Week: It's New!
A new learning event titled "Ubuntu Community Week" is starting this cycle which aims to help Ubuntu users find the community, participate in the community, create their community, and much more. This event is scheduled to take place from Mon 18 July - Fri 22 July, 2011.
More information can be found at http://randall.executiv.es/ucw . If you're interested in presenting, there's a call for presenters at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-June/005413.html
We want to know about the best LoCo Team Blogs!
If you have a blog that you use to post about the awesome things your LoCo Team does, then you should add it to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoPortalFeeds . The new loco.ubuntu.com will use some of those feeds to provide people with an overview of all of the amazing things going on in the LoCo community.
More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-June/005401.html
Planet Ubuntu-it gets new theme
The theme for Planet Ubuntu-it has been updated to match the Ubuntu website style. The code is available on Launchpad for people to modify.
More information can be found at: http://en.leoiannacone.com/?p=182
LoCo Team Re-Approvals Are Underway
One week after being announced, 3 LoCo teams out of a total of 27 teams have submitted applications for re-approval. The LoCo Council is using bugs on Launchpad to track re-approval statuses. Teams can also request to have their applications reviewed at the LoCo Council's monthly IRC meeting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda
More information can be found at: http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=1037
Ubuntu UK LoCo CDs
Alan Bell announced that while his chickens might enjoy playing with the CDs, the Ubuntu UK LoCo would rather send them to people who need them. People on dialup can request a CD by emailing alanbell [at] ubuntu.com with a clear subject saying you would like a CD and then sending a stamped self-addressed envelope large enough to hold a CD to the address he replies with. The LoCo will also be giving CDs to people distributing recycled PCs pre-installed with Ubuntu so that they can also include a CD with the computer, and to people representing Ubuntu at events and conferences.
More information can be found at: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2937
Launchpad News
Initializing page JavaScript from the JSONCache
JSONCache is a nice way to initialize on-page JavaScript. It is only available for users who are logged in, but allows you to get any object you might need on any page.
More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/initializing-page-javascript-from-the-jsoncache
Getting started with launchpadlib
Are you interested in writing a script to pull information from Launchpad, but put off due to not being a developer? In this new series of blog posts, a user in this exact situation attempts to show that even a non-developer can learn to use launchpadlib to interact with Launchpad from a Python script.
More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/api/getting-started-with-launchpadlib
JavaScript development: YUI testing
YUI tests are a fast and easy way to do test-driven development. They feel like a safety net when making changes and are a good way to test your model code and HTML changes. YUI testing is being utilized by several members of the Launchpad team.
More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/javascript-development-yui-testing
Ubuntu Forums News
Congratulations to the new Ubuntu Members
The Forum Council has recently started granting Ubuntu Membership to people who primarily contribute on the forum. They have just finished their first round of membership approvals, granting Ubuntu Membership to 19 individuals.
More information can be found at: http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/congratulations-to-the-new-ubutnu-members/
The Planet
Raphaël Hertzog: Official Debian/Ubuntu packages for Dropbox
Dropbox is a popular service to synchronize files between multiple computers. However, due to some issues, the Ubuntu packages that Dropbox provides do not work on Debian. Raphaël went ahead and prepared new packages for Debian, which are now available to install with 'apt-get install nautilus-dropbox' from Debian's non-free repository, Ubuntu's multiverse repository (oneiric only), or ppa:hertzog/nautilus-dropbox . He is also looking for someone to take over maintaining the package.
More information can be found at: http://raphaelhertzog.com/?p=1624
Matt Zimmerman: DEX finishes first batch of derivative patches for Debian
The DEX team has completed their first project! Several hundred Ubuntu patches whose status wasn't clear have now been cleaned out or merged into Debian or upstream. DEX's next major project is called "big-merges" and will focus on identifying packages with big differences between the Ubuntu and Debian versions and getting them as close to identical as possible. Also, Allison Randal is working on Python 2.7 in Ubuntu and Debian, Nathan Handler is developing tools for cross-distribution work as part of Google Summer of Code, and Stefano Zacchiroli added a derivatives BoF to DebConf 11.
More information can be found at: http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2011/06/08/dex-finishes-first-batch-of-derivative-patches-for-debian/
Victor Palau: Ubuntu Certification Going Forward
Victor Palau writes about changes to Ubuntu certification this cycle. The "Ubuntu Ready" program will be closed down before the release of Oneiric in favor of the Ubuntu Certified program, which will be Canonical's only official certification program going forward. There will also be a community-based Ubuntu Friendly program using Canonical Platform Services' remote testing tools.
More information can be found at: http://victorpalau.net/2011/06/06/ubuntu-certification-going-forward/
Jorge Castro: Unity Community Contributor plans for 11.10
The Unity team is continuing their effort to make it easy to contribute to Unity by adding a list of "backlog bugs" which are approved by the design team and just need to be implemented. Focusing on these bugs will hopefully improve the Unity experience significantly, and can be done early in the cycle. There's also a new Launchpad team to help organize people who want to work on bugs like this.
More information can be found at: http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/06/07/unity-community-contributor-plans-for-11-10/
Robbie Williamson: Interested in the progress towards Ubuntu Server 11.10?
Robbie Williamson highlights the Ubuntu Server work item status page for people interested in how the Server team is doing this cycle. The page has a burndown graph for work items and lists relevant topics, blueprints, and assignees.
More information can be found at: http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/interested-in-the-progress-towards-ubuntu-server-11-10/
Nigel Babu: Cleaning up the Planet
One privilege that goes along with Ubuntu Membership is the ability to add a blog to Planet Ubuntu. One issue that has come up is that there no easy way to remove the feeds of all people who have let their membership expire. Therefore, the Community Council has decided that the 'nick' field should contain the Launchpad ID of an Ubuntu Member that will be responsible for it. This policy also applies to blogs for teams and other organizations.
More information can be found at: http://nigelb.me/ubuntu/2011/06/10/cleaning-up-the-planet.html
Jono Bacon: Future LoCo Team Portal Plans
Jono discusses his plans to make the LoCo Directory more tab-worthy, a hub of activity, and to encourage teams to share updates and other achievements. He is going to be having phone calls with several people to try and make these goals a reality. He has also prepared an initial design for how this LoCo Team Portal could look.
More information can be found here: http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/05/26/future-loco-team-portal-plans/
Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly Squad
The Ubuntu Friendly program (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFriendly) is a community-driven hardware validation program. They have just created the Ubuntu Friendly Squad (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-friendly-squad) for people to start participating in the program. People participating at this stage will be helping to get the team organized. There is a mailing list and a Launchpad project (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-friendly) for people interested in getting involved.
More information can be found here: http://arapulido.com/?p=389
Daniel Holbach: Getting people involved
Daniel discusses his top 3 ideas for getting people involved in contributing to Ubuntu. They are:
- The project needs to be exciting. The atmosphere needs to be welcoming and friendly.
- The documentation needs to be clear.
- Contributors need to find their first tasks easily.
He also mentions that people are still actively working on revamping the Packaging Guide and that the ubuntu-dev-tools package contains a bitesize script for marking bugs that are appropriate for new contributors to work on.
More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1000
Jono Bacon: Community Team Plans For Oneiric
Jono talks about the different projects that the members of the community team (Jono Bacon, Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, David Planella, and Ahmed Kamal) will be working on during the Oneiric development cycle. Some other miscellaneous activities that they will be working on include:
- A mentoring program
- Various Classroom events
- Release Parties
- Ubuntu Developer Summit
and bringing LoCo teams to the next level
More information can be found at: http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3415
In The Press
PCWorld: Tony Bradley: 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux
Tony Bradley at PCWorld has decided to look at Ubuntu for his second "30 Days With" project. He's just under two weeks into his review, and has given his thoughts on a lot of the basic points of the Ubuntu experience, including Ubuntu's installation process, Software Center, Unity, hardware compatibility, and LibreOffice.
More information can be found at: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/229187/30_days_with_ubuntu_linux.html
Braid is now available in the Ubuntu software center
On Monday, June 6th, braid-game.com announced that Braid (a platform game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles) is now available in the Ubuntu Software Center. A special thanks is given to Ryan C. Gordon for doing the port and Jonathan Beilin for doing the legwork for getting the game in the Software Center.
More information can be found at: http://braid-game.com/news/?p=703
In The Blogosphere
Tom's Hardware: Adam Overa: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Reviewed In Depth
Here is a very in-depth review from Tom's Hardware. If you haven't checked out Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), or if you are trying to persuade someone to give it a look, check out this article. Adam Overa gives an excellent overview of everything from the installation process to in-depth looks at the UI, as well as benchmarks. Also, don't miss the section on essential Unity tweaks.
More information can be found at: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-11.04-natty-narwhal,2943.html
In Other News
Full Circle Issue #49 is released
Full Circle Magazine issue #49 was published on May 27th. This issue features a top 5 web management tools list, a review of virtual machines, the part 2 of 'swappiness' from the Linux Lab, as well as Python programming how-tos and much much more.
More information is available at: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/?p=1283
Featured Podcasts
Full Circle Podcast #20: A Dutch Pirate with False Teeth
In this episode, Google IO news, UDS and your feedback
OGG: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1285/0/fullcirclepodcast_ep20_290511.ogg
MP3: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1285/1/fullcirclepodcast_ep20_290511.mp3
More information is available at: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2011/05/29/full-circle-podcast-20-a-dutch-pirate-with-false-teeth/
Lococast.net Episode 17 – Extreme Blabbermouth Edition
- Intro
Events: Penguicon, PyOhio, MUG
- Feedback
- Natty is out and people are responding, loads of stories: Unity, XFCE, quality testing, Ubuntu power users project, UDS, Documentation, Books
More information is available at: http://lococast.net/archives/488
At Home With Jono Bacon 06/08/11
Catch up on the latest with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon with the latest in his weekly videocast: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15248751
Ubuntu UK Podcast: S04E08 – Caught Somewhere in Time
Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are in Studio A again (with podcasts) for episode 8 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:
- We talk about photographing weddings, quietening PCs, buying a Proliant Microserver, and pimping Laura’s online survey
- In the news
We mention upcoming event, OggCamp11 (http://oggcamp.org/)
- At listener Jason Simmons’ suggestion, we discuss making Linux servers easier to use.
We interview Frank Karlitschek about his ownCloud project (literally, a cloud of your very own). Try it out or get involved (http://owncloud.org/)
- We have a Bit About Ubuntu
- ..and a bit that’s Not About Ubuntu
- And we had some Command Line Love
- Finally we have your feedback
More information is available at: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/06/08/s04e08-caught-somewhere-in-time/
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for June 7th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2011-06-07
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from June 9th 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2011/20110609
Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for June 7th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2011-06-07
Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for June 9th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-06-09
Upcoming Meetings and Events
For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at ubuntu-news.org: http://ubuntu-news.org/calendars/
Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
Security Updates
USN-1144-1: Subversion vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1144-1
USN-1122-3: Thunderbird regression - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1122-3
USN-1146-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1
USN-1145-1: QEMU vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1145-1
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
- None Reported
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
subversion 1.6.6dfsg-2ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012336.html
adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012337.html
lupin 0.29.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012338.html
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome 1:0.2.904+svn827-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012339.html
qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012340.html
oss4 4.2-build2002-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012341.html
libimobiledevice 0.9.7-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012342.html
flashplugin-nonfree 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012343.html
multipath-tools 0.4.8-14ubuntu11.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012344.html
ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-14ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012345.html
dkms 2.1.1.2-2ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012346.html
dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012347.html
sysvinit 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012348.html
qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.9 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012349.html
unbound 1.4.1-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012350.html
Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
subversion 1.6.12dfsg-1ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009488.html
adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0maverick1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009489.html
lupin 0.32.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009490.html
libimobiledevice 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009491.html
qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009492.html
flashplugin-nonfree 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009493.html
dovecot 1:1.2.12-1ubuntu8.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009494.html
lintian 2.4.3ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009495.html
ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-15ubuntu2.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009496.html
qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009497.html
unbound 1.4.5-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009498.html
Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
amarok 2:2.4.0-0ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011928.html
sandboxgamemaker 2.6.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011929.html
unscd 0.47-2build0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011930.html
icedtea-web 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011931.html
unity-place-applications 0.2.46-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011932.html
empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011933.html
pyside 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011934.html
foolscap 0.6.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011935.html
system-config-printer 1.3.1+20110222-0ubuntu16.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011936.html
ipython 0.10.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011937.html
gnome-user-docs 3.0.0+git20110406ubuntu10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011938.html
subversion- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011939.html
adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011940.html
flashplugin-nonfree- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011941.html
lyx 2.0.0-1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011942.html
bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011943.html
libwx-perl 1:0.98-1build0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011944.html
emerald 0.7.2-0ubuntu6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011945.html
aeskulap 0.2.2b1-7ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011946.html
compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011947.html
compiz-plugins-main 0.9.4+bzr20110527-0ubuntu1~natty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011948.html
mini-dinstall 0.6.28.1ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011949.html
cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011950.html
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.3.99+git20110116.0e27ce3a-0ubuntu12.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011951.html
foo2zjs 20110210dfsg-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011952.html
ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-15ubuntu2.11.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011953.html
qemu-kvm 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011954.html
vlc- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/natty-changes/2011-June/011955.html
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