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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.

Upcoming for next week:

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 Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2126936,00.asp

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6634195.stm

http://www.businessweek.com/print/globalbiz/content/may2007/gb20070509_681142.htm

http://www.sys-con.com/read/373486.htm

http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39167038,00.htm

http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18002572D7000AE210

http://www.maximumpc.com/linux

In The Blogosphere

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=396

http://www.librarian.net/stax/2042/do-you-ubuntu/

http://www.techbookreport.com/tbr0296.html

http://pablospoint.blogspot.com/2007/05/dellighted-about-ubuntu.html

http://blog.fon.com/en/archive/technology/adios-microsoft.html

http://blog.fon.com/en/archive/technology/ubuntu-day-two.html

http://blog-of-gentoo.blogspot.com/2007/05/ubuntu-is-superos.html

Meetings and Events

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Kernel Team Meeting

• Start: 15:00
• End: 16:00
• Location: #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Launchpad Users Meeting

• Start: 08:00
• End: 09:00
• Location: #launchpad

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaunchpadUserMeeting/2007-05-16

Edubuntu Meeting

• Start: 12:00
• End: 13:00
• Location: #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuMeetingAgenda

Community Council Meeting

• Start: 13:00
• End: 16:00
• Location: #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

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

Friday, May 18, 2007

Forum Council Meeting

• Start: 20:00
• End: 22:00
• Location: #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumCouncilAgenda

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

• USN-458-1: MoinMoin vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-458-1

• USN-457-1: elinks vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

• elinks 0.10.6-1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-May/012418.html

• moin 1.5.2-1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-May/012419.html

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

• elinks 0.11.1-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-May/008327.html

• moin 1.5.3-1ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-May/008328.html

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

• elinks 0.11.1-1.2ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-May/008594.html

• moin 1.5.3-1.1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-May/008595.html

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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Conclusion

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