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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #36 for the week April 8th - April 14th 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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General Community News

Linux Mint Now Available for KDE

Linux Mint have released a beta of a KDE version of their popular Ubuntu (and now Kubuntu) derivative.

http://linuxmint.com/20070405.html

This adds to the impressive list of distributions derived from Kubuntu.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuDerivedDistros

Feisty Release Party in London

Canonical is sponsoring a Feisty release party in London. All welcome. It will be held April 20th at [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=E1+6NH&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=51.521034,-0.074404&spn=0.002897,0.010493&om=1&iwloc=addr Corbet Place, Old Truman Brewery]. Mark Shuttleworth will be there among other well known Ubuntu personalities. You can read more at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2007-April/004032.html

Next Ubuntu Release announced: Gusty Gibbon

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000276.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000277.html

LoCo News

New in Feisty Fawn

Launchpad News

In The Press

Alastair Otter, at Tectonic, is reporting the Ubuntu release slated for October 2007 will be named Gutsy Gibbon. Gibbon will be even easier to install and will include composite-by-default. Alongside Gibbon, Mark Shuttleworth also announced an ultra-free version of Ubuntu. This version will contain "no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not include full source materials and come with full rights of modification, remixing and redistribution." Read the full artcile: http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1447 Mark's announcement: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000276.html

Steven Shankland, a staff writer for CNET News.com, covers the release of the beta version of Launchpad and how Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical hope that this will increase collaboration between open source projects, and in turn will allow the open source community to compete more effectively against Microsoft. Read the full article: http://news.com.com/Canonical+wants+open-source+cooperation/2100-7344_3-6174662.html

Distrowatch weekly showcases the new Mandriva 2007.1 Tour, calling it "an Ubuntu-style Wiki page listing detailed information about the new features". You can read the full Tour at http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2007.1/Tour and DistroWatch Weekly at http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070409

Our very own Mark Shuttleworth was interviewed by The Linux Action Show! podcast. Subjects covered are Mark's experiences in space, the new Launchpad version, the upcoming release of Feisty, and much more. Read the full artcle: http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=99

Jack Loftus, at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, writes about how Feisty is drawing more attention on servers. Ubuntu's developers have been running it on their servers since Warty. Virtualization tools have been included in Feisty, like KVMs and VMI support. Over the past year, Toshiba, PalmSource, and Harvard Medical School have all started using Ubuntu on servers. Ubuntu is also being noticed for thin clients, since it includes a pre-release of the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP). Read the full article: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1251013,00.html

A partnership between Ubuntu and IBM allows for easy installation of the latest version of DB2 on the 6.06 LTS release. "Partnering with IBM enables us to combine the stability and ease of use of Ubuntu with IBM's leading database solution, ensuring that enterprise customers get the fully supported low-cost and robust solution they demand," says Mark ShuttleWorth. Read the full article: http://www.crn.com/software/199000232

Steven Shankland, a staff writer for CNET News.com, discusses how Feisty creates crash reports and can automatically send them to developers. One advantage is that developers get to hear about issues users don't bother to report. Second, the crash reports contain more technical details than most users can provide. Mark Shuttleworth is also quoted as saying Feisty+2 (April 2008) will most likely be the next LTS release. Read the full article: http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6175365.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

In The Blogosphere

Will Lee, at Internet Marketing Fool, talks about trying out Ubuntu when realizing the cost of upgrading to Vista. He covers the ease of trying out a Live CD, installing and upgrading software, and hardware compatibility. Read more: http://www.internetmarketingfool.com/2007/04/09/ubuntu-who-needs-vista/

Max Limpag's "computing life has improved exponentially with Ubuntu." He says "I haven’t been gushing this profusely since I met my wife." Read more: http://max.limpag.com/2007/04/10/ubuntu-makes-me-work-faster-in-windows-xp/

Phil Bull counts down to the release of Feisty by covering a new feature or improvement every day. So far he has covered session management, the NetworkManager, disk usage analyzer, easy codec installation, restricted drivers manager, and more. Read more: http://philbull.livejournal.com/34930.html

Meetings and Events

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Kernel Team Meeting

Community Council Meeting

  • Start: 20:00
  • End: 23:00
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: hhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Ubuntu 7.04 Release

  • Start: 00:00
  • End: 23:59

Development Team Meeting

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 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Check out the bug statistics: http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/

Infamous Bugs

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