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## Data pulled from mailing lists and http://fridge.ubuntu.com
## Either use bullets or sub-headings to organize content.
## Format:
##
## === Friday, March 16, 2007 ===
##
## ==== MOTU Meeting ====
## * Start: 10:00
## * End: 12:00
## * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
## * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Meetings

== Community Spotlight ==

## Specification Spotlight

## This section highlights an approved specification that is going to be implemented
## in Feisty. See the list at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/feisty
## In general, choose user visible features, as the audience are mostly end users.
## Also try and group specs together that belong together, such as network or X.

## Feature of the week

## Pick a feature, piece of software, or package that you'd like to feature.
## Give a brief description, whats so special about it, who works on it,
## where to find it/install it, etc.

## Team of the week

## Pick a team (a ubuntu team) that you'd like to feature.
## Give a brief description of the team, what they work on, what they've
## accomplished, who is involved, how to get involved/join, etc. 		=== Wednesday, November 13, 2007 ===

==== New York Loco Meeting ====
 * Start: 18:00 America/New_York
 * End: 19:30 America/New_York
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-newyork
 * Agenda: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/NewYorkTeam


==Community Spotlight===
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## http://www.ubuntu.com/usn
## List all security advisories since last UWN.
## Format: * USN-###-#: <package name> vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-###-#
## Ex: * USN-389-1: GnuPG vulnerability - [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-389-1		  * [USN-539-1] CUPS vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2007-November/000619.html
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## https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes
## List all uploads since last UWN.
## Format: * <packagename> - <link to mailing list message>
## Ex: * lvm2 2.02.02-1ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2006-November/012305.html		  * None Reported

=== Ubuntu 6.10 Updates ===

 * None Reported
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## https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes
## List all uploads since last UWN.
## Format: * <packagename> - <link to mailing list message>
## Ex: * lvm2 2.02.06-2ubuntu3.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-March/008083.html		  * None Reported
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## https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes
## List all uploads since last UWN.
## Format: * <packagename> - <link to mailing list message>
## Ex: * tzdata 2007h-0ubuntu0.7.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2007-October/009951.html		  * Accepted: cryptsetup 2:1.0.5-2ubuntu2.1 (source) - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2007-November/010010.html
 * Accepted: network-manager 0.6.5-0ubuntu16.7.10.0 (source) - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2007-November/010011.html
 * Accepted: qt4-x11 4.3.2-0ubuntu3.1 (source) - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2007-November/010012.html
 * Accepted: rutilt 0.15-0ubuntu5.1 (source) - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2007-November/010013.html
 * Accepted: logcheck 1.2.61ubuntu0.1 (source) - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2007-November/010014.html
 * Accepted: dates 0.4.3-1ubuntu2.1 (source) - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2007-November/010015.html
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## Bug stats only take a second to do.
## Data can be found at: http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
## See last week's UWN to calculate change over last week.
## NOTE: To be done ONLY on the release date of the UWN (or latter if late).

    * Open (#) +/- # over last week
    * Critical (#) +/- # over last week
    * Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
    * Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
    * All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week		  * Open (37080) +397 # over last week
 * Critical (19) +/-0 # over last week
 * Unconfirmed (20176) +290 # over last week
 * Unassigned (28432) +326 # over last week
 * All bugs ever reported (134699) +1065 # over last week
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== Translation Stats ==

## Translation stats only take a second to do.
## Data can be found at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy (or current release)
## See last week's UWN to calculate change over last week.
## NOTE: To be done ONLY on the release date of the UWN (or latter if late).

 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		 == Translation Stats == (See: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy, untranslated column, and previous week's newsletter. Subtract last week's from this weeks for each. Plus (+) indicates amount increase. Minus (-) indicates amount decrease.)

 1. Spanish (16413) -141 # over last week
 2. French (37555) +503 # over last week
 3. Swedish (48083) -1666 # over last week
 4. English-UK (50455) -607 # over last week
 5. German (65372) -25 # over last week		 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #65 for the week November 4th - November 10th, 2007. In this issue we cover...

UWN Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forum News

This week's interview features Matthew, one of the Forum Council members, admin on UF, and our troll expert. Please read the complete interview here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/an-interview-with-matthew/.

In The Press

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3709051

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3709221

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15214/1023/

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-review.ars/1

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39290670,00.htm

In The Blogosphere

  • Ubuntu 7.10: Inflection Point or Tipping Point? - Dave Shields has just upgraded two of his Ubuntu boxes from 7.04, “Feisty Fawn,” to 7.10, “Gutsy Gibbon.” In the past, he has almost always done major upgrades in Linux by doing a full reinstall. However, this time he decided to try the upgrade option, and within a half hour or so the update was complete. It took only a few minutes for him to realize that … Something Had Changed. Though it was impressive that Ubuntu was able to upgrade a major level, he was even more impressed to find that his box was qualitatively different. Ubuntu just looked better, more professional and more polished than Windows XP. A couple of the most impressive things he noticed right off, were the newer version of Amarok, and Ubuntu 7.10 noticed that MP3 support wasn’t available … and then offered to install it! "These Ubuntu/Linux folks are getting better and better." http://daveshields.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/ubuntu-710-inflection-point-or-tipping-point/

  • Mandriva 2008 VS Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon - Mitch Meyran is a Mandriva user. Recently though, he took an interest in Ubuntu: He installed version 7.04 on a laptop, and it did look interesting, enough to make him doubt his commitment to Mandriva’s products. Thus, when 7.10 came out with a bang in the media, and he got another laptop to de-borgify, he downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 ISO along with the install CD for Mandriva 2008.0 Free. Installing Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) from the LiveCD was indeed comfortable and felt very stable. Both distributions have their pros and cons. Mandriva has recently consolidated its product lines and offers, allowing users afraid to be on their own the reassurance of paid for support while leaving a very convincing offer available to free software users, while Ubuntu is appearing more and more often pre-installed on consumer computers—and version 7.10 should be even easier to pre-install. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/mandriva_2008_vs_ubuntu_7_10_gutsy_gibbon

  • The Ubuntu Plunge - Day 3: Epiphany! - A funny thing happened to Randal Kennedy on the way to the web this morning. He had justed booted back into Vista x64 to check on a couple of schedule items when he noticed an alert coming from Windows Defender. It seems that the anti-spyware utility had been unable to download new malware definitions for over a week. It also noted what it believed to be some “suspicious” behavior on the part of a particular executable. So, naturally, he did what most veteran (i.e. been burned before) Windows users do when faced with a potential malware infection: Panic! How could this have happened? It's a nearly fresh (2 weeks old) install of Vista! He had UAC enabled and all the security patches in place! He even installed the SP1 Beta! Then it hit him: he had just wasted over an hour of his life chasing down a phantom malware infection. It was a disturbing sensation, more so since he hadn't experienced anything like it in several days...ever since he started my odyssey into Linux-land. And, he couldn't help but think of all the things he's missing since booting back into my “Gutsy Gibbon” install: spyware; viruses; and (most importantly) fear. http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/11/the_ubuntu_plun_2.html

  • The Ubuntu Plunge – Day 4: A Small Detour - Randall Kennedy has been exploring the use of Ubuntu as a Windows Vista replacement, and has become quite enamored with it. The ability to “skin” almost every aspect of the UI – combined with the simplicity of the package management system (application “tire kicking” is now a pleasurable experience) – makes it ridiculously easy to explore the wide world of FOSS. However, they say the “grass is always greener” somewhere else, and he couldn't help but admire the snazzy looking screen shots of openSUSE 10.3. He decided to take a side trip into SUSE-land to see what all the fuss was about. It was a short trip. First-off, the installation process is far more involved than Ubuntu. At the end of his first week running Ubuntu he's managed to carve out a very functional, and highly personalized, workspace. His goal is to completely master Ubuntu and to reach a point where, at the end of my 30 day odyssey, he not only no longer needs to go back to Windows, but he doesn't want to, either. http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/11/the_ubuntu_plun_3.html

http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/11/08/why-i-liked-ubuntu-and-my-thoughts-on-gutsy-werewolf-aka-fedora-8

http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/episode-84-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon/

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=909

http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/archives/043596.html

In Other News

http://crunchbang.org/archives/2007/11/08/a-merry-ubuntu-christmas/

Meetings and Events

Wednesday, November 13, 2007

New York Loco Meeting

==Community Spotlight===

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, and 7.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (37080) +397 # over last week
  • Critical (19) +/-0 # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (20176) +290 # over last week
  • Unassigned (28432) +326 # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (134699) +1065 # 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 == (See: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy, untranslated column, and previous week's newsletter. Subtract last week's from this weeks for each. Plus (+) indicates amount increase. Minus (-) indicates amount decrease.)

  1. Spanish (16413) -141 # over last week
  2. French (37555) +503 # over last week
  3. Swedish (48083) -1666 # over last week
  4. English-UK (50455) -607 # over last week
  5. German (65372) -25 # 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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