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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 24, for the week of November 26th - December 3rd, 2006. In this issue we cover Ubuntu Open Week's smashing success, Technalign and Ubuntu, LoCo news, the Kurdish Ubuntu investigation, Mark Shuttleworth's open letter to OpenSUSE, several x-server specifications, and much more.

In This Issue

Ubuntu Open Week
Technalign Chooses Kubuntu
LoCo News
Mark Shuttleworth's Letter to OpenSUSE
Ubuntu in South Australian Parliament
In the Press
Upcoming Events & Meetings
Specification Spotlight
Updates and Security for 6.06 and 6.10
Bug Stats

General Community News

Ubuntu Open Week's Smashing Success

The week-long Ubuntu Open Week (UOW) that took place in #ubuntu-classroom between Mon 27th Nov and Sat 2nd Dec 2006 was, without a doubt, a smashing success. The UOW, organized by Canonical's Community Manager Jono Bacon, was a series of workshops intended to allow individuals to test drive the Ubuntu Community. During the UOW, we were treated to sessions such as "Ask Mark", where you were you could ask Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, the SABDFL, your questions about Ubuntu; A how-to on becoming an Ubuntu Member with Jono Bacon; numerous package and packaging related sessions with Martin Pitt, Brandon Holtsclaw, Daniel Holbach, and Jordan Mantha; Launchpad related sessions with Jordi Mallach, and Christian Reis; Information and question sessions about the Ubuntu Sister projects (ie. Edubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu) with Oliver Grawert, Brandon Holtsclaw, and Cody Somerville respectively; and many many more including a special "FRESHERS' DAY" on Friday where you could ask any questions you'd like. The week was a lot of fun, very educational, and did we mention it was a lot of fun?

You can find more information about the Ubuntu Open Week event (and review the logs) at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

Technalign chooses Kubuntu for TaFusion Linux

Canonical announced that U.S.-based company Technalign has chosen to base its Pioneer GNU/Linux distribution off Kubuntu. Technalign sell CDs of their distribution, which includes Crossover, Cedega and other tools and also sell it through OEM hardware resellers.

http://www.technalign.com/

http://prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb485213.htm

http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/9267.html

LoCo News

Ohio Team inaugural meeting

A month ago, the Ohio team did not exist, but this Wednesday, the 6th of December, the team of more than 20 Ubuntu enthusiasts will hold their first IRC meeting. So, if you call Ohio home and love Ubuntu, #ubuntu-ohio is the place to be. The team wiki page, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OhioTeam describes the team and their introductory meeting in more detail.

Kubuntu in Urmia, Iran

Kubuntu CDs were given away at the Urmia IT Fair in Iran. Photos at:

http://jasmine.19inch.net/~jr/away/2006-12-04-urmia/

MOTU news

We have three new MOTUs since the last TB meeting:

Vladimír Lapáček, who likes to work on Java related packages.
Soren Hansen, who made his first package contributions to Breezy already.
Michael Bienia, who simply rocked on the merge and sync front.

If you want to join too, start here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU

Changes In Feisty

For a full list of changes in Feisty, please see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/

Launchpad News

Ubuntu in South Australian Parliament

South Australian Family First MLC, Hon. Dennis Hood, made submissions in the South Australian Legislative Council on the 6th of December - calling for schools and libraries to embrace Ubuntu. He noted that Ubuntu "has significant advantages over proprietary software. With developers all over the world freely and constantly improving the software, it is little wonder that many Open Source solutions are now outpacing Microsoft solutions". He also gave out Ubuntu CDs to all South Australian parliamentarians.http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1496417232&eid=-255

In The Press

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54507.html

http://www.linuxforums.org/security/locking_down_ubuntu.html

Kurdish Ubuntu under investigation in Turkey

In the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue23#head-8b649a307b51e7f9b5a0049b13d7fd51129ebe05 UWN #23], we reported that Kurdish Ubuntu has been promoted with a reception in Diyarbakir, Turkey. You can find more information and pictures from the reception here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu_in_Diyarbakir . You can also find some screenshots of the Kurdish distro here: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kurdish_Linux_launched_in_Turkey .

Ubuntu was the first operating system FIXME(was it the first OS or just the first Linux) to fully implement Kurdish localization. Kurdish localization in Linux was an important milestone for Turkey due to ethnic conflicts (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_turkey ). However, according to a number of sources, the Diyarbakir Attorney General started an official investigation on the mayor of Sur (a town in Diyarbakir) and on Ubuntu most probably because of the use of Kurdish as the primary language. Details of the investigation are unknown. News item with links at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kurdish_operating_system_under_investigation_by_Turkish_attorney_general ).

http://www.jubling.com/eight-reasons-why-ubuntu-is%20the-linux-poster-child.html

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=732

http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/59/

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/11/the_open_source_1.html

Mark Shuttleworth's letter to openSUSE

Here are some links to press coverage and blog posts about the OpenSUSE email of Mark's. Please don't start writing a story around this yet.

press- http://osnews.com/story.php/16562/Mark-Shuttleworth-Entices-OpenSUSE-Developers http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/11/26/0152225.shtml http://community.linux.com/community/06/11/25/028237.shtml?tid=12&tid=96 http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7486/997/1/1/ http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7246655736.html

blog posts http://andreasjaeger.blogspot.com/2006/11/ubuntus-open-week-and-opensuse.html http://www.suseblog.com/?p=165 http://daniel.molkentin.de/blog/index.php?/archives/58-Ubuntus-Quest-for-OpenSUSE-Developers.html http://www.advogato.org/person/Burgundavia/diary.html?start=113 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/81 http://www.mdke.org/?p=66 http://robitaille.wordpress.com/2006/11/26/various-things/ http://jonathancarter.co.za/?p=62 http://blogs.ubuntu-nl.org/dennis/2006/11/26/thank-you-steven/ http://mindwarp.net/?p=39 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/82

mailing list posts https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-November/022578.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-11/msg03765.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-11/msg03788.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-11/msg03777.html

Ubuntu edges into December's edition of PC World Hungary

The Hungarian LoCo Team's localised build of Ubuntu 6.10 seems to have been well received. This month's edition of the Hungarian PC World Magazine includes the Desktop image localised by the LoCo. Congratulations to the Hungarian LoCo and Thank You to PC World Hungary. A blurb about the CD can be seen (in Hungarian only) at http://pcworld.hu/tartalom.php?cmd=reszletes&id=54 .

The blurb, kindly translated by Szilveszter Farkas, reads: "Free operating system - Ubuntu Linux 6.10 - Ubuntu is thought to be the friendliest Linux distribution. This could be proved now by our readers, because we have placed the operating system's newest installer disk (6.10, Hungarian version) ISO image onto our DVD insert."

c't magazin features Ubuntu

The latest issue of what is perhaps the most notable computer magazine in Germany: c't magazin, features a series of articles about Ubuntu. The articles include "Linux in a nutshell", "first steps with Ubuntu" and "enhance and configure your system". There are a total of about 10 pages, and the magazine is accompanied by an Ubuntu DVD. An excerpt (German only) of the articles can be found online: http://www.heise.de/ct/06/25/100/

Ubuntu: The Ideal Windows Replacement

Technology News World ran an interesting article this week about Ubuntu and Windows. Jack M. Germain shares his experiences with Ubuntu and how he feels that it is an ideal replacement for Microsoft's flagship product, Windows.

"Having been raised on DOS and the early generations of Windows, I rediscovered that sense of excitement in a pure computing experience when I first tried other Linux versions over the years. However, they required a steep learning curve and caused too much frustration with setup and obscure command-line options. Not so with Ubuntu Linux."

Read the full article at http://www.technewsworld.com/story/54507.html (Tech News World).

Josh Berkus switches to Kubuntu

"I stuck with SuSE for eight years because they supported KDE, my chosen desktop, because YaST was excellent for server installs, and because there was never a good reason to switch. My loyalty to SuSE ends today"

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/goodbye-suse-hello-kubuntu-13033

Upcoming Meetings

Some upcoming meetings include:

Technical Board Meetings have resumed and occur biweekly on Tuesday nights at 22:00 UTC.
Ubuntu Development Meetings have also resumed and occur weekly on Thursday nights.
Edubuntu meetings continue to occur weekly on Wednesday nights.

See http://fridge.ubuntu.com/event (The Fridge's Event Calendar) for more information.

Specification Spotlight

This week's specification spotlight will focus on several different x-server related specifications (This program draws the windows and performs all tasks required to draw on the screen and accept user input).

Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10

Weekly Bug Stats

Open (20323) +302 over last week
Critical (20) -2 over last week
Unconfirmed (10734) +106 over last week
Unassigned (15436) +282 over last week
All bugs ever reported (66898) +1003 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs your 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

Archives and RSS Feed

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at:: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

http://www.ubuntu.com/news

and

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/

Conclusion

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

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

Cody Somerville
["towsonu2003"]
[:JendaVancura: Jenda Vančura]
anyone else that contributes
And many others

Feedback

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Marketing Team. Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or suggestions by either sending an email to ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com or by using any of the other methods on the Ubuntu Marketing Team Contact Information Page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam).

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