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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 ...
In This Issue
General Community News
Technalign chooses Kubuntu for TaFusion Linux
Canonical announced that US company Technalign has chosen to base its TAFusion 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://prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb485213.htm
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/
Changes In Fiesty
Launchpad News
In The Press
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 Linux distribution 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.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/59/
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/11/the_open_source_1.html
The OpenSUSE email
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 magazine 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/
Meetings and other similar events
Upcoming Events
Specification Spotlight
This week's specification spotlight will focus on several different x-server (This program draws the windows and performs all tasks required to draw on the screen and accept user input) related specifications.
Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
Ubuntu 6.10 Updates
Bug Stats
- Open () over last week
- Critical () over last week
- Unconfirmed () over last week
- Unassigned () over last week
- All bugs ever reported () over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs
Check out the bug statistics: [WWW] http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/
Infamous Bugs
Archives and RSS Feed
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Conclusion
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