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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10971  * How to install Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (Linux is no longer Windows' scary alternative) - You can download a complete version of Ubuntu Linux from the Ubuntu website. The ISO (or CD) image is around 700MB. Two versions of Ubuntu are supported: 6.06 and 7.04 - we're using 7.04 for this walk through. To follow suit, select Desktop Edition, Ubuntu 7.04. Create a CD containing the downloaded image file, and then follow these instructions to install and configure Ubuntu on your computer today. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10971 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #61 for the week October 7th - October 13th, 2007. In this issue we cover...

UWN Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 7.10

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Release Candidate for version 7.10 of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Gobuntu, and Xubuntu codenamed "Gutsy Gibbon". The Release Candidate includes installable live Desktop CDs, server images, alternate text-mode installation CDs, and an upgrade wizard for users of the current stable release. Desktop highlights: Compiz Fusion, Printer installation, Free Flash support with Gnash, and Automated Firefox plugin Installation. While this release candidate is considered complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user, it should not be used for production machines. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-October/000104.html

Ubuntu Open Week

Ubuntu is a freely available, simple to use Linux desktop and server. The Ubuntu project has developed a strong reputation for technical excellence and a commitment to the free software community, and we are always keen to grow and extend our community where possible. In just two years, Ubuntu has become the most popular Linux distribution in the world with millions of users and a spot regularly at the top of Distrowatch. Ever wondered what all the fuss is about? How we've achieved such a great feat in such a short space of time? Here's where you can find out. Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can:

  • learn about the Ubuntu landscape
  • talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project
  • find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical

  • participate in an open Q & A with Mark Shuttleworth, founder fo Ubuntu

  • and much, much more

Click on the link to see the time table of the programs you can participate in during Ubuntu Open Week. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

MOTU

  • Having been away for a while, [https://launchpad.net/~jpatrick Jonathan Patrick Davies] finally has time for doing work in the ["MOTU"] team again, so his MOTU membership was re-activated. Welcome back!

  • The ["Telepathy"] team has brought us a new ["MOTU"] team member: [https://launchpad.net/~bigon Laurent Bigonville] who has done kick-ass work already, and will make ["Telepathy"] rock even harder in the Hardy cycle.

Ubuntu Gutsy Release Parties

Leaving in Anchorage? Want to join the Release Party in Marseille? No problem at all, please find all the relevant infos in GutsyReleaseParties page. Feel free to add the release party you have scheduled in your area, and spread the fever, once again!

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

Launchpad bug statuses

With the janitor glitch that happened earlier, it became obvious the bug statuses in Launchpad were not used and seen the same way by LP developers, project teams and users. Please read the LP blog post to find out about all the 9 different statuses for bugs. http://news.launchpad.net/general/of-bugs-and-statuses

Restoring the status of automatically expired bugs

Shortly after we released Launchpad 1.1.9 (on 21 September), Launchpad's housekeeping system - the Launchpad Janitor - expired 2,862 Incomplete bugs. We estimate that around 900 of these bugs should not have been expired. We're sorry for the confusion and inconvenience that this caused. We will restore the "Incomplete" status of all bugs that the Launchpad Janitor expired. This process will begin at 12.00 UTC on 10th October. To find out the details of what went wrong and how Launchpad plans to fix this problem, follow the link. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-October/002458.html

In The Press

  • How to install Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (Linux is no longer Windows' scary alternative) - You can download a complete version of Ubuntu Linux from the Ubuntu website. The ISO (or CD) image is around 700MB. Two versions of Ubuntu are supported: 6.06 and 7.04 - we're using 7.04 for this walk through. To follow suit, select Desktop Edition, Ubuntu 7.04. Create a CD containing the downloaded image file, and then follow these instructions to install and configure Ubuntu on your computer today. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10971

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10970

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34293/144/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7034828.stm

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6358901134.html

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/91429/index.html

In The Blogosphere

http://techiqmag.com/2007/10/08/dell-preps-for-next-linux-desktop-release/

http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/ (interviews with Mark, Jane Siber, Tim Gardner, Daniel Holbach, Jono Bacon, Matt Zimmerman)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/04/open_season_four_shuttleworth/

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Ubuntu Forums Interviews

bapoumba has accepted to be next (see UWN #60 for details). Read the whole interview here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/an-interview-with-bapoumba/.

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 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
  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/

UWN #: A sneak peek

Archives and RSS Feed

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Nick Ali
  • Isabelle Duchatelle
  • Dawid van Wyngaard
  • John Crawford
  • And many others

RSS

You can subscribe to the UWN feed at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Feedback

If you would like to submit an idea or story you think is worth appearing on the UWN, please send them to ubuntu-marketing-submissions@lists.ubuntu.com. This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Marketing Team. Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or suggestions by either sending an email to ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com or by using any of the other methods on the Ubuntu Marketing Team Contact Information Page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam). If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please send then ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com.

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