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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #49 for the week July 15th - July 21st, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

German LoCo announces Ubucon 2007

The first Ubuntu Conference for Germany has been set for October 20th and 21st of this year. Whether you are a tech savvy computer expert or just an everyday user, the German Ubucon is the place to be in October. Their goal is to give everyone a deeper insight into the Ubuntu Linux distribution by focusing on presentations, talks, workshops, tutorials, and getting to know the other community members. Like Ubuntu, this Ubucon is free, but you need to register, so follow the link to find out more! http://the-space-station.com/blog/?p=14

LoCo News

United States of Ubuntu: LoCo Team State of the Union

Christer Edwards aka Zelut has written the State of the Union Summary for the Ubuntu US LoCo Teams. The project is just past the half way point and has 25 teams up, running, and working toward approval. But, like any project, help is needed. Christer makes a impassioned plea to all US Ubuntu users to find or start a LoCo Team in your state. Please visit the link below to see if your state has a team already in place to join, or needs someone to start a team. Ubuntu advocacy, could there be a better project? http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/14/united-states-of-ubuntu-state-of-the-union/

New in Gutsy Gibbon

The Avivo Driver On Ubuntu

The Avivo Driver for ATI Radeon X1000 (R500) has been introduced to the public. It requires X server version 1.3 which will be standard in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. The driver contains RandR 1.2 support, support for a variety of R500 graphics cards, and most recently support for Shadow Framebuffer was added. While it still isn't comparable when it comes to the features found in the fglrx driver or even the open-source Radeon driver for the R200/300/400 series, it is a work in progress and should improve as time goes by. Instructions on installing this new driver can be seen by clicking the link. We should also note that Ubuntu users of Feisty Fawn will also find instructions on installing the required X server necessary to support and use this new driver. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=777&num=1

Launchpad News

Launchpad Coming Features

For those of you who don't know, Lauchpad brings out a new version of it's development about every four weeks, with the new version 1.1.7 due out now. This is quite an accomplishment considering that right now, they’ve got: five main applications, 3,397 registered projects, 1172 teams, a staggering 1,121,443 people registered and a heck of a lot of code. A few of the new features in version 1.1.7 are: Easier adding of dependency for projects with large numbers of projects, Support for email upstreaming of bug trackers, Importation and search of Debian bugs, Smart Server to make it quicker to create a new Launchpad-hosted branch, Searchable translations, and many more improvements. Find out more about the other improvements by clicking the link below. https://help.launchpad.net/ComingFeatures

In The Press

  • "Intel launches mobile Linux initiative" - Intel has unveiled an ambitious project aimed at developing open source software for mobile devices. The Moblin project comprises a Linux kernel, UI framework, browser, multimedia framework, and embedded Linux image creation tools, along with developer resources such as documentation, mailing lists, and an IRC channel. Moblin is the upstream project from which several components of Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded are being derived. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9302797289.html

  • "Windows Guy Tries Ubuntu 7.04" - Tom Baker gives us a time line of his experiences with running Feisty Fawn from the live CD on his Dell Latitude 620. After spending a few hours playing around with all the goodies on the live CD, he decides to go for the install. Impressed by the speed of the installation, 30 minutes, and the ease of use, he concludes that Feisty Fawn is the first Linux desktop OS that is ready to use by anyone. http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/328

  • "Open-Xchange Express Edition Announced" - Designed to make it easy for small and mid size businesses to take advantage of the cost savings of Open Source, without requiring prior Linux experience, is the main goal of OXEE. The package includes all the tools required to turn a bare bones computer into a fully functional collaboration server running Ubuntu Linux. This kind of ready to use software will make it easier for SMB's to increase productivity and spur innovation while reducing their IT costs.http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9241467025.html

  • "NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office" - The NZ Automobile Association has just announced that it is dropping Open Office and switching back to MS Office. According to their CIO, 'Microsoft Office is not any cheaper, but it was almost impossible to work out what open-source was actually costing because of issues such as incompatibility and training.' In addition, 'you have no idea where open-source products are going, whereas vendors like Microsoft provide a roadmap for the future.'" About 500 seats are involved. MS conceded to letting Office users run the software at home as well. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/A6AB17B34B1BA81ECC2573160079BFBC

  • "Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 CD Released" - The Ubuntu Fridge has announced the release of the Tribe 3 release of Gutsy Gibbon. For more details what has been included in this release, goto: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe3

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=9532

http://reviews.cnet.com/4326-3671_7-6581735-12.html?tag=ss_nxt

In The Blogosphere

  • Securing Your Freenode Connection - Ubuntu Member Aaron Toponce aka atoponce, brings us another informative how to on Securing your Freenode connection. Aaron first describes how to cloak your host name to deter a DOS attack. Ubuntu Members are given a free cloak with their membership, one of the added perks of Ubuntu Membership. However, percentage wise, there are many more non members than members. The second part of the how to is devoted to avoiding a specific router exploit called DCC by switching the port that you connect to. Everyone who uses IRC and Freenode should take the time to read and implement these security features. Thanks Aaron! [http://www.pthree.org/2007/07/15/securing-your-connection-on-freenode/ Freenode Security by Aaron Toponce]

  • Psychocats Sets A Standard for New Users - Click on the link below and you will be directed to a page with options. What's so great about that you ask? Well, for new users, clicking on the Ubuntu Tutorials will take you to a place that will rock your world. Forum Administrator Aysiu has put together a instructional that includes most everything a new Ubuntu user could want to know. From burning the ISO's, partitioning, installation, setting up the extra repositories, and security to multimedia and aptitude versus apt-get. I have referred many people to this wonderful guide over the years. Oh, and you can double your fun by clicking the link entitled UbuntuCat Blog and reading some of Aysiu's personal opinions. Thanks Aysiu, from many of us for your devotion to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Community. http://psychocats.net/

  • Ubuntu Feisty On Your USB Drive - This blogs how to is a very in depth tutorial with screen shots showing you how you can have a pocket version of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn that you can actually save your preferences on. It contains everything necessary to be able to set up your USB Drive to boot your favorite operating system, Ubuntu, on any computer you happen to be sitting in front of. How cool is that? For those of you who would rather have one with Xubuntu, there is a link to a separate tutorial for that. http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/ubuntu-feisty-on-your-usb-drive-finally/

http://scitech.teambio.org/2007/07/14/windows-guy-tries-ubuntu-704/ http://allaboutubuntu.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/hp-launching-ubuntu-pcs/ http://techiqmag.com/2007/07/16/four-surprises-in-the-linux-market/

Meetings and Events

Monday, July 23, 2007

Ubuntu Live Conference

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Ubuntu Live Conference

Kernel Team Meeting

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Edubuntu Team Meeting

Xubuntu Developers Meeting

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

  • Start: 15:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: No agenda set yet

Friday, July 27, 2007

MOTU Team Meeting

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 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

Translation Stats

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining string to translate in Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/

Infamous Bugs

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