Ubuntu Weekly News #10

Sun Aug 20 08:51:36 BST 2006

= Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue 10 =

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue 10 for the week of August, 13 - 19 2006

You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

== In This Issue ==

 * Ubuntu wins Golden Penguin
 * Ubuntu at LinuxWorldExpo in San Francisco
 * Security updates
 * Ubuntu 6.06 LTS updates
 * Edgy new and updated apps
 * Summer of Code update
 * Weekly Developer meeting notes
 * Launchpad news and updates
 * Bug Stats
 * In the Press
 * Feature of the Week: GNOME Deskbar applet

== General Community News ==

=== Ubuntu wins the Golden Penguin Award ===

As reported in the Fridge, Ubuntu won the Golden Penguin Award at
LinuxWorld Expo 2006, playing against the Novell OpenAudio team. The
Ubuntu team, consisting of volunteers Jorge Castro, Corey Burger and
Canonical's Malcolm Yates, led the scoring from the very beginning and
despite the Novell team strong showing the the 3rd round, Ubuntu
finished ahead. Congrats to all the players. See more at the Fridge:
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/508

=== LinuxWorld Expo a great success ===

LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco recently finished, and both the
Ubuntu community and Canonical had a strong showing. Both booths were
very busy, with many people discussing how they used Ubuntu or
thanking us for making Ubuntu. The .org pavilion booth, run by the
Ubuntu California team, was busy demonstrating Ubuntu 6.06 and all the
great Ubuntu books currently out, while the Canonical booth focused on
working business to business relationships.

At the GNOME booth, Ubuntu and GNOME community members Jorge Castro
and Corey Burger helped the GNOME Foundation spread the message about
how great GNOME was, which included showcasing the many great features
coming both in GNOME 2.16 (due to be in Edgy) and beyond. Anecdotal
evidence suggests an overwhelming number of visitors to the GNOME
booth ran Ubuntu.

== Security Updates ==

USN-337-1 imagemagick  vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-337-1
USN 336-1 binutils vulnerablity http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-336-1
USN 335-1 heartbeat vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-335-1
USN 334-1 krb5 vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-334-1

More information and a full listing can be found at
http://www.ubuntu.com/security

== Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates ==

There were no updates to 6.06 this week.

== New Apps In Edgy ==

Glade 3 was uploaded this week. A description from the Gnome Journal
"The GUI designer tool that has been building your GTK+ applications
for years is back with a completely new generation of homegrown free
software. Supporting all the widgets in the gtk+ 2.8 family, gnomeui
widgets, the gnome canvas widget, and a whole new feature set; this
new tool is sure to raise a few eyebrows."

Other packages of note included:

 * sun java 1.5.0-08 - small upgrade to the Sun Java package
 * openoffice.org-starter-guide 1.0.0 -- a new package of a OpenOffice.org guide
 * xubuntu-at-speech 0.1 - new package, speech part of the
accessiblity support for Xubuntu
 * xubuntu-at-mag 0.1 - new package, screen magnifier part of the
accessiblity support for Xubuntu
 * agave 0.4 - colour schemer for GNOME
 * gshare 0.92 -  a new pacakge included easy user-level file sharing

== Ubuntu Summer of Code update ==

This week we profile Peter Moberg, who is currently working on two
tools for Ubuntu as part of SoC.

His first tool, called Panel Switcher, is designed to make switching
panel layouts, even quite complicated ones, very easy. Implemented in
Python and pyGTK, you can find more information at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PanelSwitcher

Session Backup, his second tool, allows a user to save and restore
multiple GNOME sessions. As it stores the data in a zipped file, it
also allows users to migrate that information to other computers. Also
implemented in Python and pyGTK, you can find more information about
Session Backup at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SessionBackup

== Weekly developer meeting ==

In the most recent developer meeting - 17 August at 23:00 UTC in
#ubuntu-meeting - the developers planned the list of topics to be
discussed at next week's Development Sprint in Wiesbaden, Germany.

A number of features were reported as implemented or complete, including:

 * the speakup kernel module
 * boot-message-logging
 * kubuntu-accessibility
 * Firefox 2.0 beta merge.

The desktop team is keeping very busy with bug triaging and fixing -
and could use your help!

== Launchpad News ==

This week's full Launchpad news is at
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2006-August/000536.html

Highlights include:

 * Details of the staging server at https://staging.ubuntu.com/
 * An answer to "Can I use Launchpad (Malone) to track bugs for my
software project?" (it's "yes", by the way).
 * Launchpad is now 100% hosted in Bazaar's native format, with over
600 branches registered.
 * Each distribution or upstream product now has a listing of its top
contributors, both general and per-activity.
 * Edgy translations should be open on Monday.
 * 30% speed improvement in the package publishing process.
 * Preparations under way for a move to per-application domains and a
secret new page layout.

To say up to date, join the launchpad-users mailing list:

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users

We'd be honored to have you with us.

== Bug Stats ==

 * Open  (14220)
 * Unconfirmed (7608)
 * Unassigned (9491)
 * All bugs ever reported (50805)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started,
please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

=== Infamous Bugs - Bug #56125 ===

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More: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/56125

=== Osnews covers Bug #1 ===

OSnews recently covered Bug #1, the "Microsoft has a majority
marketshare" one. You can read more information
athttp://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15554

== In The Press ==

=== Ubuntu and Other Distros Rolled Out to American Students ===

     ''"Students in Indiana are using new Linux desktops under a state
grant program to roll out low-cost workstations to schools.More than
22,000 kids have been Linuxed up under the programme which is being
run by the Indiana Department of Education. Mike Huffman, special
assistant for technology told CRN that Linux workstations were rolled
out for 22,000 students over the last year under the Affordable
Classroom Computers for Every Secondary Student (ACCESS) programme.
The plan is to expand that even further with Novell SUSE, Red Hat and
Ubuntu installations.Currently, 24 high schools are using Linux and
the plan is to increase that to 80."''

Read more at http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33756

== Feature Of The Week - GNOME Deskbar ==

Deskbar allows you to embed an incredibly powerful search interface in
a GNOME panel. Search across multiple search engines, enter an email
address to send email, jump straight to a web page by entering the
URL, or open files and folders by entering the path. There really are
too many features to list. To see them all, and what's in store for
future versions, visit Raphael Slinckx's blog at:
http://raphael.slinckx.net/deskbar/

To add the Deskbar applet to your desktop just right click on an
existing GNOME panel, select '''Add to Panel''', and select it from
the applets listed in the '''Accessories''' section.

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== 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 ==

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