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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #55 for the week August 26th - September 1st, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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General Community News

Introducing Hardy Heron 8.04

Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), will be the next version of Ubuntu. It will succeed Gutsy Gibbon 7.10(due for release in October 2007). The Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. Everyone is welcome to think of and develop ideas for features that could be present in the Hardy Heron release. These ideas are written as specifications (detailed documents outlining how the idea would work and be implemented). https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu. In October 2007, we will hold the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and generate a schedule of sessions to discuss these specifications. The Ubuntu Developer Summit is a semi-virtual event in which those who cannot attend can dial in with VoIP and use IRC and collaborative editing with Gobby to take part in the summit. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-August/000336.html (hardy heron)

Full Circle Magazine - Issue# 4 Available

Full Circle - the Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud to announce our fourth issue. It contains:

* Edubuntu - What’s in it for the kids?

* How-To : Hosting Code on Launch`Pad, Learning Scribus part 4 and Keep your kids safe in Ubuntu.

* Preview of Miro 0.9.8. * Interview with Ubuntu Developer Colin Watson.

* Letters, Q&A, My`Desktop, MyPC, Top5 and more!

Get it while it’s hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-4/

Month Of Screencasts 2007

Ubuntu Month of Screencasts is a mad plan concocted by the Screencast Team to produce one full length screencast per day for the whole of one month. That month is September 2007. The goal is that each video will go into one subject in some depth, to help educate new users about Ubuntu. We will cover a wide range of topics which should answer some questions that new users to Ubuntu often ask. We aim to go into enough detail to be interesting, hopefully without being baffling or boring. Each screencast will be made available through the Ubuntu Screencast site in three sizes and two formats (OGG and Flash). The screencasts are licensed under the permissive Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License, so you're free to modify, pass on, sell or otherwise distribute them so long as the attribution to us stays intact. http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/MoS2007

TODO http://www.ubuntuhq.com/

MOTU

[https://launchpad.net/~superm1 Mario Limonciello] became a MOTU! After months of putting great work into Mythbuntu and other places of Ubuntu's Universe, we're happy to welcome Mario in the team! Go Mario!

After a lot of work on the migration-assistant, ubiquity and other installer related packages, lots of merges and updates to the Ubuntu Desktop finally [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-August/024180.html Evan Dandrea becomes a MOTU]. Welcome Evan - you rock!

If you want to become a MOTU yourself, read up on ["MOTU"] here.

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

  • Ubuntu Adds Ho-Hum Features In Latest 'Gutsy Gibbon' Alpha (By Alexander Wolfe) - Ubuntu, the Linux distro which I've personally found to be somewhat less than it's cracked up to be -- your mileage may vary -- is getting an update. Notable in Gusty (as compared with Feisty) is a new GUI tool to make it easier to configure your graphics card, set up your monitor resolution and refresh rate, and configure dual monitors. Such a tool has, of course, long been standard in Windows, the operating system many Linux users love to hate. Regardless, the maturation of the feature in Gusty Gibbon is both worthy and welcome. Ubuntu has set itself apart from the pack, mainly on the basis of the strength of its user community. Ubuntu's second significant boost toward the mainstream came earlier this year, when Dell decided to offer it on several laptops and desktops. Whether an upgraded release, focused on improved drivers, bug fixes, and some nice but not very revolutionary tools, can do anything additional to increase the already overblown publicity Ubuntu has received is doubtful. Still, it's hard to argue with success, and it's seeming more and more like Ubuntu is the face of consumer Linux future, whether it deserves to be or not. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/ubuntu_adds_hoh.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41945

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_aug28_2007

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2904210.ece

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136454-c,opensource/article.html

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/08/29/ubuntu-xorg-maintainer-demonstrates-bulletproof-x

In The Blogosphere

  • Matt Zimmerman on Ubuntu Mobile - Ubuntu Mobile is one of the most promising flavour for Canonical distro. It will run on different devices such tablet pc, Intel MID, UMPC and, probably, lots more. Our aim is to assemble a functional and free mobile operating environment which can be used as the basis for further development. For the initial 7.10 release, we’ll be focused on getting the infrastructure and basic features in place. http://www.ossblog.it/post/3021/matt-zimmerman-on-ubuntu-mobile

  • Ubuntu for Entrepreneurs: 15 Business Apps for Our Favorite OS - With the entire biz-world buzzing about cause marketing and corporate responsibility, it’s no surprise that in the truest democracy on the planet - the World Wide Web - Netizens have adopted Open Source as their moral code. Not only have many migrated to open-source applications like FireFox and OpenOffice from their Microsoft counterparts, but more and more people are making the leap to Linux, fueling its rise as one of the most powerful influences in computing today - consumer demand has also prompted Dell to finally offer factory-installed Linux PCs. In fact, Chairman and CEO Michael Dell himself uses the Feisty Fawn version of Ubuntu Linux at home on his Dell Precision M90 laptop. It is easy to understand why many entrepreneurs have crossed over Ubuntu Linux.http://www.businesscreditcards.com/bootstrapper/ubuntu-for-entrepreneurs-15-business-apps-for-our-favorite-os/

  • Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 - New Features: Ubuntu’s Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) slated for an October 18th release, has released their alpha “Tribe 5″ version - which includes a Feature Freeze for the Gutsy development cycle. What that means in layman’s term is that while the software is still in heavy development there won’t be any new features added to Gutsy Gibbon. As for the new features added in Gutsy Gibbon there are plenty, most of which are particularly well suited for new users to Linux. Some of the more notable new features are a Graphical Configuration tool for X, improvements in plug-in handling for Mozilla Firefox, revamped printing system with PDF printing by default, fast user switching, new desktop search (Tracker) application and the new App`Armor security framework.http://lunapark6.com/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-710-new-features.html

http://techplunder.blogspot.com/2007/08/10-advantages-of-ubuntu-over-vista.html

http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-interview/ubuntu-founder-mark-shuttleworth-on-productivity-and-linux-294941.php

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS 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/BugSquad

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
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  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/

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