Issue238
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 238 for the week October 17th - 23rd, 2011.
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu 12.04 to feature extended support period for desktop users
Canonical announces that the Long Term Support (LTS) versions of Ubuntu for desktop users will be supported for five years instead of three years. This change will start for the 12.04 release cycle and will help with the increasing demand for Ubuntu desktops in corporate environments.
http://www.canonical.com/content/ubuntu-1204-feature-extended-support-period-desktop-users
Precision Planning; Prepping for 12.04 LTS
Mark Shuttleworth lays out some of the upcoming steps in preparation for the upcoming 12.04 release of Ubuntu.
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/810
Mobile schedule for UDS
Jorge Castro shares the Guidebook mobile application. In this post he shares with readers how and where to get guidebook so UDS-P attendees can not only see the schedule schedule for UDS-P but plan, tweet, and keep their personal schedules updated.
http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/11654089782
Seven Years Old
Jono Bacon writes, “Seven years ago the very first Ubuntu version 4.10, the Warty Warthog, was released” In this post, Jono Bacon looks back ove the past seven years, welcomes the next seven and offers “Thank-you’s” for the first seven.
http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/10/20/seven-years-old/
Mini Leadership Summit at the Ubuntu Developer Summit
Jono Bacon explains in this blog post the intention of the upcoming Mini Leadership Summit scheduled to take place during the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL. The community survey results suggest that many people feel a sense of leadership, but also feel that improvements could be made to empower them to join in as leaders.
http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3737
Ubuntu Packaging Guide – we need help!
In this post, Daniel Holbach's blogs, some of the in's and out's of packaging that a newcomer might like to check out.
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1082
Ubuntu (11.10) Open Week Summary
Ubuntu Open Week for the Ubuntu 11.10 was a great success. This week of online tutorial geared toward new Ubuntu users and based on the latest Ubuntu release continued to be popular as attendees asked questions and interacted with the community and the various sessions leaders through out the week.
There were topics how to get started with Ubuntu development, translations, how to get the most out of Ask Ubuntu, become a more proficient Unity user, leadership, how to find support in Ubuntu, Ubuntu Friendly, Canonical and Community and much much more. Don’t worry if you missed a session or the whole week you can find all the session titles and logs on the Open Week Wiki.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekOneiric
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
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- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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 Oneiric
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
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Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Oncelot", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
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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/
Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com
LoCo News
Ubuntu Wisconsin – Friendly Testing
The Ubuntu WIsconsin team hosted an IRC-based night of Ubuntu Friendly testing on October 18th. The post quickly explains the Friendly program and the simple requirements for doing testing, and as they say “It’s fast, easy, and you can do it while watching TV.”
http://anthonyrhook.com/blog/?p=554
Alan Bell: Free Ubuntu 11.10 CDs for the UK
Alan announces that the Ubuntu UK team has received their shipment of Ubuntu CDs for the cycle from Canonical and when he’s not talking about his chickens he’s explaining the procedure for UK residents to request a CD from the team.
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2011/10/18/free-ubuntu-11-10-cds-for-the-uk/
Sergio Meneses: Oneiric Release Party!
On October 16th the Columbian team hosted an Oneiric release party, complete with discussion of Ubuntu news, how the team can help more with development and Barbecue! Check out the post for a link to their photo gallery from the event.
Post (in Spanish): http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/oneiric-release-party/
Elizabeth Krumbach: Northern California Ubuntu Hours and SF Release Dinner!
This past week in Northern California the team hosted an Ubuntu Hour in San Francisco and Mountain view, as well as a release dinner at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company in San Francisco. A link to a photo gallery with photos from all three events is included at the end of the post.
http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=5184
The Planet
Ara Pulido: The first week of Ubuntu Friendly Beta
Ara shares stats that she has collected from the first week of the Ubuntu Friendly Beta, including over 350 submissions and a quick breakdown of the hardware ratings to date.
Jono Bacon: Documenting Great Ubuntu Community Best Practice
Jono revisits the collection of “BuildingCommunity” wiki pages which were started a few years ago, but weren’t being regularly updated. Given the growth of the community and the increasing need to support and motivate leaders as well as regular contributors, Jono presents a call to action to tap the resources of our diverse community to revitalize this documentation.
http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3753
Charles Profitt: Ubuntu Leadership
Charles writes about the new Ubuntu Leadership team and reflects upon his own leadership experiences from retail management to work in the US Army. He discusses how the Ubuntu community differs from other leadership experiences and highlights the important ways in which leadership and motivation are the similar regardless of distance, compensation or culture.
http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/?p=740
Victor Tuson Palau: Ubuntu 11.10 on ARM
Victor discusses his experience thus far with Ubuntu on ARM (“It Rocks!”) and gives links to ARM hardware that Ubuntu supports, including the Toshiba AC100 Netbook, TI OMAP4 Panda Board and Freescale IMX53 QuickStart Board.
http://victorpalau.net/?p=1259
Myriam Schweingruber: When is a bug report useful?
Myriam--bug triager, documentation writer and application tester--outlines some key things that make a good bug report. In her post she includes: reporting against currently supported versions of the software, giving instructions so that it’s reproducible, giving concise description of the problem in English, being unique, providing a proper backtrace. Additionally she notes that the individual reporting be available to give feedback, be patient and polite with bug fixers. She also includes some bug statistics from the KDE bug tracker.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=415
Amber Graner: How to get involved with Ubuntu Weeks and more.
Ahmed Shams interviews Amber Graner about the details and organizing of the Ubuntu Weeks in Ubuntu Classroom held each cycle. Amber then shares her checklist for Ubuntu Open Week which gives a behind-the-scenes look at preparation for these events and an opportunity for more members of the community to get involved.
Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Tat
Jono Bacon shares an image of the new tattoo that Benjamin Kerensa of the Ubuntu Oregon LoCo team received recently. Benjamin shows off his Ubuntu spirit by getting some new ink: an Ubuntu Tattoo.
http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3749
Dustin Kirkland: The Magic Number 4
Dustin discusses other “4th releases” in operating system history and expresses excitement for this 4th LTS release of Ubuntu. He reflects upon past LTS releases and discusses the historical progression.
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/10/magic-number-4.html
Ubuntu Cloud
Ubuntu Cloud deployment with Orchestra and Juju
Ahmed Kamal introduces the new Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure based on OpenStack which ships in Ubuntu 11.10. He gives tips for developers and testers who want to play with the new infrastructure. There is also a quick rundown of basic requirements for folks who wish to deploy the infrastructure on a production scale.
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=29523
Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Ubuntu Cloud in your pocket – Video demo
Ahmed Kamal demonstrates the basics of using the Ubuntu Cloud Live iso in a youtube video.
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=29535
In The Press
Which Ubuntu Variant is Right For You?
In this article, Bruce Byfield, discusses the different Ubuntu variants and how users can use different desktop interfaces, yet still run Ubuntu.
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/which-ubuntu-variant-is-right-for-you-1.html
Ubuntu 11.10 review
Darien Graham-Smith of PC Pro, provides a complete, positive review of 11.10. Discussed is Unity’s nicer graphical effects and prettified icons. Darien also discusses the improved performance on netbooks, customisable appearance, behaviour of the Launcher and changes in how to access preferences. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software/370621/ubuntu-11-10
As Ubuntu Linux Turns 7, 'Precise Pangolin' Planning Begins
Katherine Noyes, PC World, notes that the Ubuntu 12.04 planning is underway, and this release is going to be about polishing and making Ubuntu very stable for all users.
Vodafone brings ARM and Ubuntu together for South African Webbook
Terrence O'Brien, Engadget, writes about the south African Company Vodafone which is releasing a Ubuntu powered netbook that features Ubuntu 11.10 and has available data plans to go along with it.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/19/vodafone-brings-arm-and-ubuntu-together-for-south-african-webboo/
In The Blogosphere
Can I Install Amd64 Ubuntu On My Intel 64-bit Machine? [MTE Explains]
Curious about whether you as a user should be using a 32 or 64 bit proccessor? In this article, Damien Oh, discusses the differences between the two and which one is right for you as an Ubuntu user.
http://maketecheasier.com/can-i-install-amd64-ubuntu-on-my-intel-64-bit-machine/2011/10/17
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
Looking to set up a Ubuntu-powered desktop featuring applications found in Windows? What about those applications doing what some windows applications can do? Falko Timme and Christian Schmalfeld show readers how to set up the perfect Ubuntu desktop to help replace Windows.
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-11.10-oneiric-ocelot
How To Enable Ubuntu’s Global Menu in Xubuntu 11.10
Are you an Xubuntu/XFCE user, but have used the Unity interface and liked the global menu idea behind it? This OMG! Ubuntu! article, Joey Sneddon, tells readers how to set up the global menu in Xubuntu.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/how-to-enable-ubuntus-global-menu-in-xubuntu-11-10/
Introducing Ubuntu 11.10 Without Unity
Marius Nestor reviews at a remix version of Ubuntu with the Gnome shell running on top. He notes this is not an official derivative, however, if you would like to try this version out Nestor provides download link in this post.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Introducing-Ubuntu-11-10-Without-Unity-228425.shtml
Adventures in Ubuntu 11.10 Live
Here, Dmitry (DarkDuck) reviews booting into a live usb of Ubuntu 11.10 and how it preformed on his machine.
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/10/adventures-in-ubuntu-1110-live.html
Unity’s Technical Lead Neil Patel Talks Plans For Ubuntu 12.04
Benjamin Humphrey of OMG! Ubuntu! interviews Neil Patel of CanonicL about the upcoming plans for Ubuntu 12.04.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/neil-patel-precise/
In Other News
Featured Podcasts
Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Q+A Videocast Today
This is an hour of Q+A where all questions about Ubuntu, Canonical, or anything else are welcome.
The Q&A session for Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 can be found at:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17977168
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for October 18th, 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2011-10-18
Ubuntu ARM Team Meeting Minutes for October 13th, 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Meeting/2011/20111020
Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
Upcoming Meetings and Events
For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/
Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
Other Articles of Interest
How to disable the guest account in Oneiric - http://mdeslaur.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-disable-guest-account-in-oneiric.html
LibreOffice heads for the web and mobile - http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/web-apps/2011/10/17/libreoffice-heads-for-the-web-and-mobile-40094201/
Randall Ross: My Ubuntu Open Week Session - http://randall.executiv.es/uow-oneiric-session
Ubuntu 12.04 - Precise Pangolin planning prepared - http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-12-04-Precise-Pangolin-planning-prepared-1364032.html
Introducing Ubuntu 11.10 on ARM - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Introducing-Ubuntu-11-10-on-ARM-228573.shtml
Ubuntu 11.10 and the Oddly Oneiric 'Countdown' - http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/73550.html
My Desktop is Changing - http://1roxtar.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-desktop-is-changing.html
Ubuntu 11.10 - http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2011/10/18/ubuntu-11-10/
Happy Birthday, Ubuntu! - http://adnan.quaium.com/blog/2396
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