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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #209

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:10:42 +0000

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #209 for the week August 29th – September 4th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

Farewell Ian
Ubuntu 10.10 Beta (Maverick Meerkat) Released
Xubuntu Winning Artwork
New Ubuntu Lucid Proposed Kernel
Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week!
Welcome New Members
Why do you use Ubuntu?
First Kernel Triage Summit
Ubuntu in Education
Ubuntu Stats
LoCo Team Banners for Approved Teams
LoCo Testing Team HowTo
Ubuntu 10.10 Installfests
Ubuntu Global Jam – Another Success Due to LoCo Teams Participation
Testing your multitouch device
Incredible Stories Of Free Software and Open Source
Why I Have Nothing Interesting to Say
Understanding Membership Structures in Debian and Ubuntu
What I do
How My Work Benefits Free Software
Multitouch testers in the Hall of Fame
Using the Ubuntu Stack Exchange
Ubuntu 10.10 Countdown
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
HCI at Canonical
Thinking different at Canonical
Building Apps for the Cloud: How KnowledgeTree Used Ubuntu for Rapid Development of Its SaaS Offering
GUADEC 2010 Videos
IBM DB2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Canonical: Take 60 seconds with Henrik Omma
Embedded Linux Conference, April 2010 Videos
Ohio LinuxFest Proves Real FOSS Diversity
Featured Podcasts
Monthly Team Reports: August 2010
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Updates and Security
UWN Sneak Peek
And Much Much More
Amber Graner
J Scott Gwin
Liraz Siri
Nathan Handler
Penelope Stowe
Mike Holstein
Nigel Babu
And many others

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Xubuntu Winning Artwork

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:10:05 +0000

AND THE WINNER IS …

I want to thank all the artists that submitted artwork for Xubuntu Maverick Meerkat, soon to become Xubuntu 10.10. We certainly got some great images from you. The artwork was selected by vote of the Xubuntu Team after some discussion. The actual wallpaper is now in Maverick Meerkat.

All of the submitted art is on display at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artwork/Maverick. The winning wallpaper is Xubuntu 10.10 / Balls/Curve. We also selected the GTK Theme that was submitted, Zuki Blues.

The Shimmer Project team did the final polishing of the theme for Xubuntu, including the Elementary Icon set. The final package is called Bluebird, and is really good. With the addition of Bluebird, Xubuntu has both an excellent dark theme, named Albatross, and an excellent light theme, called Bluebird. Albatross will remain a working, usable theme in Xubuntu.

Back to the title, the real winner here is all the Xubuntu users, who will once again have great artwork in the new release. With the addition of Bluebird, users have a real choice between light and dark. Again, many thanks to those who did submit art and to the Shimmer Project (http://shimmerproject.org/) for their fantastic work.

[Discuss the Xubuntu Winning Artwork on the Forum]

Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox released!

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:18:18 +0000

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox.

Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox

New features at a glance:

Tint2 panel
New Thunar Move to Trash and Delete options
New Software Manager
- 30,000 packages
- Review applications straight from the Software Manager
- APT daemon
- Visual improvements
New Backup Tool
- Incremental backups, compression, integrity checks
- Backup/Restoration of the software selection
Better look & feel
- Backgrounds
- Welcome screen
- Update Manager
System improvements
- Husse quotes
- USB Creator
- Local repository
- Apt hold/unhold/held commands
Project changes
- Community Website
- Community Editions
Upstream improvements
- Faster boot
- Long Term Support

For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox“.

Known problems:

Splash screen resolution
Moonlight
Windows installer
Theme issues
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
Upstream issues

To get more information about these problems and their solution, read the “Known problems” section of the release notes.

System requirements:

x86 processor
256 MB of system memory (RAM)
4 GB of disk space for installation
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
CD-ROM drive or USB port

Upgrade instructions:

To upgrade from a previous version of Linux Mint follow these instructions.
To upgrade from Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox RC, simply apply any level 1 and 2 updates (if any) available in the Update Manager.

Download:

Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox is available in 32-bit as a liveCD, via Torrent and HTTP download:

Download Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!

“Synaptic Is Going Bye Bye Soon”

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:24:10 +0000

Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.

We all knew this was going to happen at some point since there is a lot of work going on for the Ubuntu Software Center, but here’s a confirmation: Paul Tagliamonte, an Ubuntu LoCoCouncil and BeginnersTeam Council member confirmed in a comment on Reddit that Synaptic will soon be removed from Ubuntu.

First Kernel Triage Summit

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:36:43 +0000

On Saturday September 11th the Kernel Team will take the first in what I hope to be a series of steps toward educating ourselves and our community in the triage of the thousands of bugs that pass our way daily.

My goal for this event is to begin the process of training those interested in helping with kernel bugs in the way we process our bug tickets. This first event is meant to help us both educate and document. The information on the first ever Triage Summit is located on the wiki here.

As with everything we do, your feedback is appreciated. Please don’t hesitate to send us e-mail to the team list at kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com or even on the wiki page itself. Your feedback will go a long way toward our plans for future events like this.

The schedule for Saturday is as follows:

1) at 1400 UTC we will hold a General session centered around providing information as to where to locate us, who our upstreams are and where to find them as well as the new subsystem breakdown of bugs to help us gather related issues more easily and get them in front of the right people.

2) at 1500 UTC there will be a session on Graphics and all of its related bits and bytes. There will be a focus on basic, effective triage for this subset as well as locations to find troubleshooting information and further reading on Graphics issues

3) at 1600 UTC there will be a session on audio bugs and the related subsystem parts involved there. This session will also have a basic troubleshooting and location portion so as to guide those interested in triaging audio bugs with further information.

4) at 1700 UTC we will have something of a lightning round in which we briefly discuss the USB/Firewire and Bluetooth stacks as well as helpful debugging and triage steps for this subset of bugs

As stated before, your feedback on these sessions as well as the documentation that will be provided will be most helpful to us. You are also welcome to approach us for other avenues of support. We are always looking for more help on a variety of kernel related areas such as documentation, bugs and spelling/grammar applications so please don’t hesitate to ask how you can help.

[Discuss the First Kernel Triage Summit on the Forum]

How to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat from ubuntu 10.04 lucid, karmic| Desktop & Server

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:36:21 +0000

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta is released! If you have ubuntu 10.10 Lucid Lynx or older version of ubuntu installed and you want to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, you can do it by following these instructions.ubuntulogo1
- Desktop Upgrade:

So to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 or older on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type in update-manager -d into the command box. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ’10.04′ is available ( See screenshot bellow).
Before to upgrade remember that is important to update your system first then click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions:

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta Has Been Released! Screenshots And Videos Inside (Both Ubuntu Desktop And Ubuntu Netbook Edition)

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:35:44 +0000

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta has been released seconds ago.

There have been many changes and updates in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat since Alpha 3, so let’s take a look at what’s new – in both Desktop and Netbook editions. We’ve already posted most of these changes when the packages were updated in Maverick, but as always, we’ll take a closer look at what’s new with each alpha/beta release. Watch out, huge post ahead!

Ubuntu (Desktop edition) 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta

The Light Themes were updated and use more orange now. Also, Radiance has been modified to look more like Ambiance. The developers say these themes should not be seen as different themes but different flavours.

Read and look more at WebUpd8

Ubuntu 10.10 beta – an insider’s view

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:36:25 +0000

Some of the features we are seeing in Maverick are, as usual, newer versions of applications. This release potentially has a larger jump in versions, as Lucid synchronised and merged from Debian Testing; but Maverick reverted to the usual practice of importing from Debian Unstable, which has higher version numbers. One of the surprises that came out of Debconf (the Debian conference) was the announcement of their feature freeze, which meant that Debian stabilisations commenced mid-cycle for Maverick in preparation for their next stable release.

The superb timing, which I believe is less than accidental, is actually beneficial to both distributions. It allows Ubuntu to maintain an approach of largely getting the latest and greatest, whilst also maintaining quality of bug fixes only. The benefit to Debian is that it is easier for Ubuntu developers to pass patches back to Debian, as the chance of running the same version (with same bugs) in both projects is greater. I feel this is partly the realisation of Mark Shuttleworth’s controversial suggestion of unification of development cycle ‘cadences’, although this could equally be good fortune.

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Beta Screenshots Gallery

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:35:45 +0000

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Maverick Meerkat Beta is the beta release of Ubuntu 10.10, bringing with it new features for the next version of Ubuntu.

This is a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released on October 10, 2010.

This screenshots gallery includes new installer,applications and more

Look the gallery at DebianAdmin

Ubuntu 10.10 ‘Maverick Meerkat’ enters beta

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:27:21 +0000

The first beta release of Canonical’s next Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.10 ‘Maverick Meerkat’ is now available and promises a more refined desktop and netbook experience in preparation for the final release in October.

Meerkat will arrive six months after the previous 10.04 release dubbed ‘Lucid Lynx’ and is aiming to be a “Perfect 10”, according to Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth.

For the 10.10 desktop edition, the GNOME desktop environment has been updated to the 2.31 version and the Evolution groupware suite is version 2.30, which is said the be much faster compared with the version the previous release, 10.04.