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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #6

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #6 for the week of July 2, 2006 - July 8, 2006

You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

In This Issue

General Community News

Cell Broadband Engine SDK/Simulator on Ubuntu Linux - Howto Get an early peak at the Cell Processor and how it works, by running the simulator on Ubuntu.

http://triplez.mine.nu/blog/CelllBroadbandEngineSDKSimulatorOnUbuntuLinux.aspx

New Chicago LoCo Team

A new Ubuntu LoCoTeam has organized it's first meeting. Meeting will be held on Thursday, July 27, 2006 at 6:00PM CST (2300 UTC). Meeting will be held at Buffalo's Wild Wings, located at 149 North York Street in Elmhurst, IL 60126. If you are interested in joining us, pleast reply via the Ubuntu Forums thread located at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=159657 . Thanks everyone and we hope to see you there!!!

Security Updates

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

• Fixes for numerous printing bugs

• Updates to the Add/Remove tool to make new commercial applications available (RealPlayer and Opera)

• A bug fix for upgrades of dovecot from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 ([https://launchpad.net/bugs/51038 bug #51038])

• A fix for a pmount bug which caused it to fail in certain locales ([https://launchpad.net/bugs/49655 bug #49655])

• Fix for [https://launchpad.net/bugs/38272 bug #38272], which fixes the EmulateWheelTimeout pointing device option in xorg.conf

New Apps In Edgy

Don't forget quick installation notes, enable extra repository, package name, use g-a-i where possible, etc...

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

At this week's development team meeting, we reviewed the status of the proposed feature specifications for the Edgy release. There are now 89 [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/edgy/+specs official feature goals for Edgy], and this list is nearly final. We also agreed to change the meeting time rotation so that it is more convenient for more developers.

Kubuntu

Kubuntu Meeting

At the Kubuntu Meeting we welcomed Kenny Duffus into membership and discussed several other issues. Thanks to nixternal for doing the minutes.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Meetings/2006-06-26

The next meeting is on Monday July 17th at 13:00UTC on #ubuntu-meeting.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Meetings

New Apps In Edgy

Don't forget quick installation notes, enable extra repository, package name, use g-a-i where possible, etc...

Edubuntu

New Edubuntu Community Members

This week we welcome new Edubuntu community members, Lisa Savage (Alias Vegas) and Rodrigo Parra Novo (rodarvus)! Unknown by many, Lisa was responsible for the Edubuntu-Young wallpaper that got shipped in Edubuntu 6.06, while Rodrigo is the Technical Lead for Edubuntu and employed by Canonical Ltd. Rodrigo used to work for Conectiva and Nokia and his past experience will definitely make an impact to the next version of Edubuntu due for release in October 2006!

Edubuntu community members are known for their high impact and sustaining contributions to the Edubuntu project, be it on coding or non-coding work. If you would like to be part of the Edubuntu community, join us and have yourself added for consideration at the next Edubuntu Council at https://launchpad.net/people/edubuntu-members.

Edubuntu Specs for Edgy Eft

The following Edubuntu-specific and Edubuntu-related specs were officially approved for development and inclusion for the Edgy Eft release:

• LTSP dhcp Config Autogeneration - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ltsp-dhcpd-autogeneration

• Provide user group driven menu profiles - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/edubuntu-dynamic-menus

• Thin clients: local device support - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/thinclient-local-devices

In The Press

Feature Of The Week - Baobab

Ever needed to find out how large an entire directory was, including all the files in all the sub-directories off that directory? That's exactly what Baobab is for.

Baobab is in Ubuntu's Universe repository; install it through Synaptic (System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager).

Use it by selecting a directory in Nautilus (Gnome's file manager, reachable through Places->Home Folder) then right-clicking and selecting Scripts->Open In Baobab or by choosing Applications->Accessories->Baobab.

The image below shows Baobab in action, with Nautilus behind it, both showing the same section of directories & sub-directories.

attachment:baobab_screenshot.png

Submitted by Brian Burger ([:Madpilot])

Additional News Resources

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/news

and

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Matt Galvin
• Jerome Gotangco
• Jonathan Riddell
• anyone else that contributes
• And many others

Feedback

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