Issue31

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #31 for the week March 1st - March 10, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

New Team: Xubuntu Testers

  • " At the last Xubuntu meeting, we decided that we needed a dedicated team working on ensuring that Xubuntu and the Xubuntu ISOs are well tested. As such, I'd like to introduce everyone to Jim Campbell who will be leading this new team. If you are interested in finding out more or even helping out, you can visit their launchpad page at https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-testers . There is work also under way on the wiki to make sure getting involved is easy at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing"

To read the full e-mail, see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2007-February/003142.html

Linspire to be Based on Kubuntu, Ubuntu First New Distro for Click and Run

Linspire announced that they will be switching to base their distribution off Ubuntu. With their polished KDE desktop this makes Linspire the latest in the impressive list of operating systems based off Kubuntu.

It was also announced that Linspire's Click and Run install programme would be added to the Ubuntu archive, giving users of all Ubuntu distributions easy access to a large range of free and proprietry software.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuDerivedDistros http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=213 http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter_archives.php?id=40

LoCo News

This Week's Quiz

Thanks to the UbuntuTrivia Team, we had another exciting quiz this week.

Quizmaster

Champion

tonyyarusso

Sponsor

mc44

Prize

Ubuntu 6.10 DVD edition

Upcoming for next week:

Sponsor

Prize

More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTrivia

To participate in the quiz, join #ubuntu-trivia on irc.freenode.net on Friday and/or Saturday UTC-nights - the topic will usually tell you when the next quiz is scheduled.

For more info on prizes, donating, quizzes and giving quizzes see the above link.

Changes In Feisty

Launchpad News

In The Press

"Heise open", the open source portal of Germany's leading computer magazine, writes about Ubuntu and the latest steps Canonical has taken in building new business models. The article mentions the co-operation with SpikeSource and Linspire as signs of continuous growth within the Open Source market. Read the full story in (it's in German): http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/85411

http://linux.sys-con.com/read/326942.htm http://linux.sys-con.com/read/335927.htm http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=658&num=3 http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/open_letter_to_mark_shuttlewor.html

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

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

UWN #: A sneak peek

Archives and RSS Feed

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

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  • Cody A.W. Somerville
  • Martin Albisetti
  • Markus Wimmer
  • And many others

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