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

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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

  • Why I liked Ubuntu (and my thoughts on Gutsy Werewolf, aka Fedora 8) - One of the reasons Colin Charles likes Ubuntu is because they have a really swanky commercial repository, and they make it easy for me to get some commercial software, without pulling an RMS-styled “Freedom is a feature” on me. When Gutsy Gibbon got released, I couldn’t wait to update to the next, best thing. You expect things to move forward, never regress right? Well, Sun’s software still works. As does Opera. But VMWare, has since, stopped working. Kernel 2.6.22-14 does not come with appropriate VMWare modules. Yes, that means, there’s no vmmon or vmnet loaded (or even, loadable, to be exact). Effectively, they’ve broken VMWare. He moved to using Ubuntu daily, and did it to get away from the frustration of having to build things himself. He did it, for the “Just Works”(tm) experience. So he's come to the realization that things are broken, and he's going to have to do things manually, if he wants them to work. This is irrespective of if I run Ubuntu or Fedora. Being just an “end user” is hard, if almost impossible. 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

  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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