Issue24

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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 linux 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
  • 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 Smashing Success

The week long Ubuntu Open Week 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 to allows individuals to test drive the Ubuntu Community. During UOW, we were treated to sessions such as "Ask Mark", where you were you could ask Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth your questions about Ubuntu; A how-to on becoming a 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 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 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://www.technalign.com/

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 Feisty

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

Launchpad News

In The Press

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

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 Linux and how he feels that Ubuntu Linux 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).

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 (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

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 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

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Conclusion

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