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| Colin Watson and the rest of the Ubuntu Development Team have been preparing for the upcoming | Colin Watson and the rest of the Ubuntu Development Team have been preparing for the upcoming Ubuntu 6.06.1 point release. This is a first of what is likely to be several security and updates rollups that are going to be released during the 6.06 support lifecycle. If you are already running 6.06, there is no need to download this and install it, as your machine should already have all the security and updates already installed. This is a good time to make certain you are getting security updates... |
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| The ever busy Sebastian Bacher and Daniel Holbach, the former described by the GNOME hackers as sebuild (a play on their jhbuild, which is used to build bleeding edge GNOME) have finished uploading GNOME 2.15.91, otherwise known as Beta 2 for a final 2.16 release scheduled for September 6th. | The ever busy Sebastian Bacher and Daniel Holbach, the former described by the GNOME hackers as sebuild (a play on their jhbuild, which is used to build bleeding edge GNOME) have finished uploading '''GNOME 2.15.91''', otherwise known as Beta 2. GNOME 2.16, of which these are the betas, is scheduled to be release on September 6th. Chuck Short has been busy packaging '''Xen''' for Ubuntu and has recently uploaded support for amd64. |
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== Upcoming meetings == Various groups and teams in the Ubuntu community hold meetings on a regular basis. These meetings are held in ''#ubuntu-meeting'' on ''irc.freenode.org'' and are open all. A complete schedule can also be found in that channel or on the [http://fridge.ubuntu.com Fridge calendar] The Ubuntu Development team has a meeting scheduled for The Kubuntu Development team has a meeting scheduled for The Edubuntu team has a meeting scheduled for |
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #9
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #9 for the week of August 6 - 12, 2006.
You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
In This Issue
General Community News
Preparing for the 6.06 point release
Colin Watson and the rest of the Ubuntu Development Team have been preparing for the upcoming Ubuntu 6.06.1 point release. This is a first of what is likely to be several security and updates rollups that are going to be released during the 6.06 support lifecycle. If you are already running 6.06, there is no need to download this and install it, as your machine should already have all the security and updates already installed. This is a good time to make certain you are getting security updates...
Educating Ubuntu users and developers
Upcoming MOTU School Session
Have you always wanted to learn about development in Ubuntu?
Now you can enter the world of packaging and development in Ubuntu with this IRC lecture on "Ubuntu packaging basics" presented by raging Ubuntu-aholic MOTU [https://launchpad.net/people/mantha/ JordanMantha (LaserJock)], to be held at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=8&day=11&hour=01&min=0&sec=0 August 11 01:00 UTC] in #ubuntu-motu-school on irc.freenode.net.
More information is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School
Security Updates
USN-333-1 libwmf vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-333-1
New Apps in Edgy
The ever busy Sebastian Bacher and Daniel Holbach, the former described by the GNOME hackers as sebuild (a play on their jhbuild, which is used to build bleeding edge GNOME) have finished uploading GNOME 2.15.91, otherwise known as Beta 2. GNOME 2.16, of which these are the betas, is scheduled to be release on September 6th.
Chuck Short has been busy packaging Xen for Ubuntu and has recently uploaded support for amd64.
Don't forget quick installation notes, instructions for enabling extra repositories, using g-a-i when possible, etc...
Updates to 6.06 LTS
Summer of Code Updates
Ubuntu specific news
Kubuntu specific news
Edubuntu specific news
Xubuntu specific news
Bug Stats
New Bugs: # BR Closed Bugs: #
Upcoming meetings
Various groups and teams in the Ubuntu community hold meetings on a regular basis. These meetings are held in #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.org and are open all. A complete schedule can also be found in that channel or on the [http://fridge.ubuntu.com Fridge calendar]
The Ubuntu Development team has a meeting scheduled for
The Kubuntu Development team has a meeting scheduled for
The Edubuntu team has a meeting scheduled for
In The Press
Feature Of The Week - ???
Additional News Resources
As always you can find more news and announcements at:
and
Conclusion
Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!
Credits
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
- Corey Burger
- Matt Galvin
- Jerome Gotangco
- Jonathan Riddell
- And many others of the Ubuntu Documentation and Marketing teams
Feedback
This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Documentation Team. Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or suggestions by either sending an email to ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com or by using any of the other methods on the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Contact Ubuntu Documentation Team Contact Information Page].
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