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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 73 for the week January 6th - January 12th, 2008. In this issue:

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In This Issue

General Community News

Hardy Alpha 3 released

Alpha 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Hardy development cycle. Alpha 3 includes several new features that are ready for large-scale testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha3 for information on changes in Ubuntu and https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HardyHeron/Alpha3/Kubuntu for changes in Kubuntu. See: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000367.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-training-support/2007-December/000077.html

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php

New Member

https://edge.launchpad.net/~jussi01

New MOTU

  • After rocking work in the MOTU team, with a particular preference for GNOME- and gstreamer-related packages, [https://launchpad.net/~pochu Emilio Pozuelo Monfort] was deemed a great addition to the MOTU team. Warm welcome to the team!

  • We have another Italian MOTU to announce. [https://launchpad.net/~micheleangrisano Michele Angrisano] put a lot of work into merges and Universe fixes and just joined the team!

  • [http://launchpad.net/~shermann Stephan Hermann] put a lot of work into his MOTU comeback. After lots of Security work and other Universe uploads he is back in the team.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-January/024927.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-January/134271.html

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-January/002957.html (maybe move up)

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-January/002971.html

Ubuntu Forum News

Ubuntu Forums Interview

popch is a Swiss government IT department head with more than 30 years of programming and computer experience. Being a volunteer for a local housing cooperative, is also a valuable, helpful and knowledgeable community member. Read more here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-interview-with-popch/

Tutorial of the Week

The tutorial of the week for Jan. 7, 2008 is PmDematagoda's explanation of the Magic SysRq keys -- and how to use them to recover your system, if it becomes unresponsive. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=617349

Learn about the key sequences, and how to safely use them, in the tutorial.

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

http://koplowicz.com/?p=462

http://blog.nethazard.net/2008/01/11/kde4-with-ubuntu-gutsy-first-impressions/

In Other News

  • Driver-Free Car Runs Ubuntu Linux - At CES, Michael Larabel has spotted a very interesting car: the driver-less Carnegie Mellon vehicle. And it runs Ubuntu!! Sponsors include Google, NetApp, and Intel, and this car won this year's DARPA challenge. "This automated vehicle uses a dozen Intel Core 2 processors, but at the bottom of the software stack is Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" Linux. Ubuntu 6.06 was chosen for being an LTS (Long Term Support) release. Perhaps next year's vehicle will be running Ubuntu 8.04?" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI3NA

Meetings and Events

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Edubuntu meeting

  • Start: 12:00 UTC
  • End: 14:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: No agenda listed as of the publication

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Desktop Team Development Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

  • Agenda: Beyond the normal reporting by each team member, additional agenda items will be listed on the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting Meeting wikipage].

Friday, January 18, 2008

MOTU Meeting

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Chicago Ubuntu LoCo Meeting

  • Start: 13:00 US/Central
  • End: 15:00 US/Central

  • Location: 2nd floor, Institute of Design, 125 N, LaSalle St. Chicago, Illinois

  • Agenda: The meeting is in conjunction with the Chicago GNU/Linux Users Group.

Community Spotlight

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (38966) +190 # over last week
  • Critical (18) -1 # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (19902) +82 # over last week
  • Unassigned (29386) +267 # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (144859) +1410 # 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 (12476) -113 # over last week
  2. French (37728) +/-0 # over last week
  3. Swedish (49184) +/-0 # over last week
  4. English-UK (26764) -783 # over last week
  5. German (66656) +/-0 # 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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