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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #92 for the week May 18th - May 24th, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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General Community News

http://www.youtube.com/ubuntudevelopers

Ubuntu Stats

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 Hardy

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
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Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/

LoCo News

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

The Launchpad team have started a new podcast, with the superb name Launchpod!

Each week they're planning to give the latest news from the Launchpad team, have interviews with people who've done interesting things with Launchpad and answer questions from listeners.

They've published two episodes so far:

http://news.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-episode-1-rescuetime http://news.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-episode-2-uds-prague

Send your questions or feature suggestions to feedback@launchpad.net

Subscribe to the podcast feed at http://news.launchpad.net/category/podcast/feed

Ubuntu Forums News

Ubuntu Forums Interview

CptPicard, from Finland, is another member active in the Programming Talk section (we already had LaRoza and Wybiral in the past weeks). A former gentoo user, his Linux journey started with Slackware 3.4.0... As he says it: " (I) try to enlighten people about the general, universal nature of computation." Please read the whole interview here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/an-interview-with-cptpicard/

Tutorial of the Week

If you have a small home network or manage an Ubuntu lab, you might be interested in this week's tutorial pick: coolen's "HOWTO: Share updates across multiple machines".

This is a well-built and well-designed howto that gives plenty of informations about the apt-cacher tool and how to set it up right. It also makes mention of how to reverse the changes, and coolen is updating his instructions quite frequently -- both hallmarks of a superior howto.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=564301

In The Press

  • Why Linux isn't yet ready for synchronized release cycles - This discussion is likely to continue for some time as the major stakeholders articulate their various perspectives. Communication has already moved the debate forward in many ways and brought to the surface some compelling alternatives and variations on the initial proposal. The final outcome could have some broad implications for how open-source software programs and distributions handle release management, but right now none of the proposed ideas are mature enough for widespread implementation. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080521-why-linux-isnt-yet-ready-for-synchronized-release-cycles.html

  • Linux on the desktop? Why not? - The out-of-the-box experience here is incredible. Ubuntu comes with everything I need to work -- an email reader, the Firefox browser, instant messaging client, softphone, and the OpenOffice productivity suite. It includes tools for managing and playing music and movies, for managing and editing photos, and for burning CDs and DVDs. It even includes several games for when you need a little play time. http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/05/21/linux-desktop-why-not

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/22/internet.software

In The Blogosphere

  • Ubuntu - 8.04 (Review) - Ubuntu, the popular Linux distro that seems to be on the doorsteps of mainstream acceptance, gets better and better with each release. Their latest release 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is certainly no exception and in fact is their most polished release to date. Hardy Heron is the second ever “LTS” (long term support) release from Ubuntu which entails 3 years of support for desktop versions and 5 years of support for server versions. With that in mind, it seems the developers from Ubuntu concentrated squarely on stability for Hardy Heron. http://techpark6.com/ubuntu-804-review.html

http://techpark6.com/ubuntu-804-review.html

In Other News

Will Every Linux Distro Soon Look the Same?

A flurry of release news this week led to the recurring question: Is Linux growing homogenous? If it is, is that such a bad thing? Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth played a role, suggesting that perhaps the distros should coordinate their release cycles to all hit at the same time. http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Will-Every-Linux-Distro-Soon-Look-the-Same-63048.html

http://www.e-linux.it/news_detail.php?id=5224 (Nick, you might want to check the placement of this)

New group advocates for FOSS in libraries

A new advocacy group, the Public Software Foundation (PSF)[1], is working to make free and open source software available to local libraries so it can be checked out and used just like a book or video. The premise is simple: hand out one CD and maybe you've taught one person; make it available in a library and perhaps you'll reach hundreds or thousands. http://www.linux.com/feature/134393

[1] http://publicsoftwarefoundation.org/

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

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