Issue34

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #34 for the week March 25th - March 31st, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Canonical Looking to Hire User Interface Developer

Canonical is looking for somebody who has excellent user interface design skills. No previous Linux experience is required. Anybody from Linux experts to computer game developers would be suitable for this role. You can read the full announcement at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023443.html

New Xubuntu Marketing Team

Recently, Freddy Martinez was named the head of the Xubuntu Marketing efforts. In a recent meeting of the Xubuntu developers, this decision was made. The process will begin by building a solid community around marketing Xubuntu and updating the website to match the new Drupal used by Ubuntu. Full announcement here, [FIXME link needs to be added]

Lionel Le Folgocto joins MOTU

Lionel Le Folgocto has joined the ranks of MOTUs, primarily working on packaging, Medibuntu, and makes an effort to help with reviewing and sponsoring packages. You can read the full announcement at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023477.html

LoCo News

New in Feisty Fawn

With Feisty getting closer to release and the Beta release out at the end of last week, there haven't been many changes in Feisty this week save that of the new OpenOffice.org 2.2, including a new Human theme. For the confused, Human is the default Ubuntu theme.

Feisty Release Bug Status

Tollef Fog Heen, Ubuntu Release Manager, recently posted the list of bugs which must be fixed before release. As of press, the email annoucing this was not available, but you can see the list of bugs at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-7.04

In The Press

OminiNerd has a 2006 Operating System Vulnerability Summary which discusses security issues of many popular OSs including Vista Ultimate, OS X, and Ubuntu. The report concluded that out of the box, Windows and OS X are vulnerable to remotely accessible vulnerabilities and without diligence "owners of Windows and OS X systems are the most susceptible to quick and thorough remote violations by hackers." On the other hand, Unix and Linux "generally maintained its integrity against remote attacks." Read the full article: http://www.omninerd.com/2007/03/26/articles/74

Ubuntu Receives Editor's Choice Award from PC Welt. Editor in chief, Andreas Perband, says "Within the Open Source category there was one clear winner, Ubuntu. I congratulate them on getting this well deserved award. We chose Ubuntu because of its dedication to releasing every six months - bringing the best of Open Source to its users, its ease of installation and its 'just works' philosophy." Read the full article: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/84097/

Peter Newton at PC World writes about Feisty and features like Beryl, Compiz, Gnome, and Xfce. Newton is impressed with the dearth of options available for Beryl. Read the full article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130110-c,linux/article.html

Linux.com reviews [http://system76.com/ System 76's] Ubuntu-certified Darter laptop recently and found that it has a few flaws, but overall provides a decent system for Linux users clamoring for a Linux-friendly vendor. Read the full article: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/1328237

At Windows IT Pro, Mark Joseph Edwards reviews Debian and Ubuntu. He is impressed by Ubuntu when his Orinoco network card, nVidia video card, sound card, and DVD drive all work without any configuration. Read the full article: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/95628/95628.html

In The Blogoshpere

"Only Ubuntu Linux" discusses new features in Feisty, like the migration tool, help center, and codec wizards. Screenshots of the new tools are included as well. http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/03/ubuntu-704-feisty-fawn-beta-preview.html

Connie Veneracion, a wife and mom in the Philippines, writes about replacing a desktop with a laptop and installing Ubuntu. Read more: http://houseonahill.net/2007/03/28/ubuntu-on-sams-msi-s425/

Xcerion, a Swedish start-up, has created an XML-based "Internet OS" and corresponding back-end software infrastructure that looks and mimicks any regular desktop OS. The back-end servers run Ubuntu. Read more: http://gigaom.com/2007/03/31/xcerion/#more-8592

In Free Market News, David Bond writes about being fed up with paying Microsoft for constant upgrades of Windows and Office. He is introduced to OSS with Firefox and eventually moves on to Open Office and Ubuntu. Read more: http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/39/7137/free.asp?nid=7137&wid=39

Steve at Seopher.com is "impressed with how simple Ubuntu makes things." He discusses that Feisty easily downloads and installs the appropriate codecs to play videos and "how generally the whole look and feel of Ubuntu give across a well-rounded feel." Read more: http://www.seopher.com/articles/review_of_ubuntu_feisty_fawn_alpha_5_for_new_users

Melissa Draper at philosophical geekess talks about four Feisty features that will 'sell' Ubuntu: codec grabbing, migration assistant, network manager, and desktop effects. Read more: http://www.geekosophical.net/?p=81

Meetings and Events

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Marketing Team Meeting

Monday, April 02, 2007

Community Question Time

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Community Council Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

Mozilla Team Meeting

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

  • Start: 16:00
  • End: 18:00
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

Community Spotlight

Ubuntu Easy-to-install Codec Wizards

The upcoming Feisty release will include a new guided wizard for installing codecs not shipped with Ubuntu that gives users a safe way of installing codecs they can legally use to view multimedia content. When a user tries to view a video without having the appropriate codecs, the application will suggest installing the correct codecs. If the appropriate repositories are not active, the wizard will set them up, then auto-detect and install the needed packages. The video will start playing without the need to restart the application. This wizard will prevent the need for users to follow complex instructions on installing codecs and using unknown respositories.

Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (25783) +858 # over last week
  • Critical (19) +1 # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (12166) +483 # over last week
  • Unassigned (18491) +690 # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (88561) +2901 # 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/

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Conclusion

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