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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: #

In The Press

Feature Of The Week - ???

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:

• Corey Burger
• Matt Galvin
• Jerome Gotangco
• Jonathan Riddell
• And many others of the Ubuntu Documentation and Marketing teams

Feedback

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