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

LoCo News

This Week's Quiz

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

Quizmaster

Champion

Sponsor

Prize

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.

New in Feisty Fawn

Launchpad News

In The Press

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

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/

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

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Martin Albisetti
  • anyone else that contributes
  • And many others

Feedback

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