Issue272
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 273 for the week July 2 - 8, 2012.
In This Issue
General Community News
12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 2 Released!
"Welcome to the Quantal Quetzal Alpha 2 image set, which will in time become the 12.10 release.
Pre-releases of Quantal Quetzal 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 as we work towards getting this release ready.
Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the Quantal development cycle, in addition to our daily development images. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Quantal. You can download them here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/quantal/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server)"
More details, including links to the other images released for Alpha 2, available here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2012-June/000965.html
Welcome New Members
Results for the 1200 UTC Regional Membership Board Meeting, Wednesday the 27th of June 2012:
(Joel Addison https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JoelAddison | https://launchpad.net/~joeladdison)
James Henstridge (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JamesHenstridge | https://launchpad.net/~jamesh)
Mohamed Alaa (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MohamedAlaa | https://launchpad.net/~m-alaa8)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-June/001590.html
Welcome New Members
Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- 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 Precise
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
- heading
- heading
- heading
- heading
- heading
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
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
Ubuntu Cloud News
The Planet
Canonical News
In The Press
Which Linux Is Best for File Servers? Survey Says: Debian and Ubuntu
Katherine Noyes of PC World shares results from a recent survey of 100 small and medium-sized business users shows that for file servers, they prefer Debian and Ubuntu distros over a RHEL, and CentOS distros. This survey is done by a company named Symform who is in the cloud storage business.
Canonical will use Intel's efilinux in Ubuntu for UEFI secure boot
Lawrence Latif of the INQUIRER reports on the news that Canonical will be dropping Grub2 and switch to Intel's efilinux which will allow them to work with Microsoft’s new UEFI Secure Boot they are pushing to hardware vendors.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2186842/canonical-intels-efilinux-ubuntu-uefi-secure-boot
Ubuntu Unity: Making the desktop seriously efficient again
Despite some criticism from some people saying Unity is not a usable desktop environment, Jack Wallen of Tech Republic claims that it is even more efficient then the desktop environments of the past. Wallen’s review covers some of the useful default keybindings, how HUD has simplified use of some of his commonly used applications and features of the Dash.
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Full Circle Magazine #62
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our sixty-second issue.
This month:
- Command and Conquer.
How-To : Beginning Python - Part 34, LibreOffice Part 15, and Linux Astronomy Apps.
- Graphics : GIMP - The Beanstalk Part 3, and Inkscape Part 2.
- Linux Lab - Tweet Screen Part 1.
- Review - Installing Software.
- Closing Windows - Linux Equivalents.
- Audio Flux - some CC music tracks.
plus: Ubuntu Games, My Desktop, My Opinion, My Story, and much much more!
Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-62/
Google Currents Edition: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowntbsAQ/full_circle_magazine_62_lite
Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 is now available!
Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 has been published! You can download a copy of the new manual from our website at http://ubuntu-manual.org/ or purchase a printed copy via http://ubuntu-manual.org/buy/gswu1204/
Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 is a comprehensive beginner's guide designed for the Ubuntu operating system. It is written under an open source license and is free for you to download, read, modify, and share.
This manual will help you become familiar with everyday tasks such as surfing the web, listening to music, and scanning documents. With an emphasis on easy-to-follow instructions, it is suitable for all levels of experience.
Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 is created by a team of volunteer authors and editors. If you'd like to join the team and help produce the next version of the manual, you can find more information at http://ubuntu-manual.org/getinvolved
Other Articles of Interest
Debian Project News - June 25th, 2012 - http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/13/
Nine reasons to choose GNOME 2 clones - http://www.datamation.com/open-source/nine-reasons-to-choose-gnome-2-clones-1.html
GRUB 2.00 boot-loader release is imminent - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyODA
GRUB 2.00 released - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2012-06/msg00093.html
NetworkManager 0.9.6 Will Have Better IPv6 Support - http://news.softpedia.com/news/NetworkManager-0-9-6-Will-Have-Better-IPv6-Support-278493.shtml
Featured Podcasts
Burning Circle Episode 75
In this episode, Stephen from the Ohio LoCo talks about UEFI and Secure Boot. Also discussed is the idea of asking Canonical to consider releasing a cheap, simple computer based on the PandaBoard with Ubuntu preinstalled to help better incarnate and actualize Ubuntu for those outside the Ubuntu community currently.
http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/103
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
# Edubuntu Team, Lubuntu, Studio and Xubuntu currently (01/2012) have active regular meetings.
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, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Subscribe
Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news
Archives
You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
Additional Ubuntu News
As always you can find more news and announcements at:
and
Conclusion
Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.
See you next week!
Credits
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
- Your Name Here
- And many others
Glossary of Terms
Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary
Ubuntu - Get Involved
The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate
Feedback
This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Weekly News Team. If you have a story idea or suggestions for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-news-team and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas. If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please send them to [email protected].
Except where otherwise noted, this issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License 