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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #62 for the week October 14th - October 20th, 2007. In this issue we cover...

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In This Issue

General Community News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-October/000347.html (UDS schedule)

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/10/16/31817.aspx (dell plans around 7.10)

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138625-c,linux/article.html

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/9b06395f0a01040800986975f732f1a0/pg0.htm

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14860/53/1/0/

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14856/1086/

http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9797909-39.html

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=95414

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14937/53/

http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS7453108793.html

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4371228443.html

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/988034e6-7d7f-11dc-9f47-0000779fd2ac.html

In The Blogosphere

• Linux4Coffee comments 7 reasons why Ubuntu is so successful: a vision and a strong background, easy installation, shipit of official CDs, Synaptic Package Manager, ubuntuforums and the community, user promotion, fragmentation of the "competitors" (other Linux distributions) when Warty was released. They are definitively other reasons why Ubuntu remains one of the top Linux distributions, beyond the scope of the article. Read the full story here:

http://linux4coffee.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/the-7-reasons-why-ubuntu-is-so-successful/

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/ubuntu-plans-eye-candy-for-desktop-computers-and-beyond/

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=577927 (former linspire CEO, we need a better place for stuff like this)

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/10/17/dr-shuttleworth-or-how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-op/

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/10/16/mark-shuttleworth-talks-ubuntu-7-10/

http://lunapark6.com/ubuntu-710-gutsy-desktop-edition-review.html

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/10/18/gobuntu-has-already-failed

http://polishlinux.org/linux/ubuntu/ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon-critical-review/

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9799636-7.html

<p>However, several Debian developers commented on an apparent lack of attribution to the great work Debian provides to Ubuntu. Lucas Nussbaum started wondering with his <a href="http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=257">Credit where credits due post</a>. Several other users asked the same question, including <a href="http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2007/10/18#giving-credit">Christian Perrier</a>, before Jose Luis Rivas Contreras correctly pointed out that, in fact, <a ubuntu is still based a> and Stefano Zacchiroli expanded that to say that <a href="http://www.bononia.it/~zack/blog//posts/2007/10/debian_on_ubuntu_com_just_a_bug.html">it is just a bug</a>, which he then filed: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/154274">Bug 154274</a>. Should be interesting to see what becomes of this.</p> *fix and make wiki friendly*

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
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/

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