The Ubuntu project would like to completely implement Upstart for version 10.04 with the first changes appearing on version 9.10. The question is whether the Debian project will follow suit. Debian developer Petter Reinholdtsen was not without reservations regarding this move which lead to discussion on how the transition could be made as convenient and simple as possible. In addition to the required code updates, a continuous cooperation to extend beyond the conference in has been proposed.

A clear position, and a very pragmatic one. Some of you might wonder why we hammer on about Mono, but the reason for that is simple: a lot of our readers find this a very important issue. They think Mono is a threat to Free software, and seeing Microsoft’s track record when it comes to Linux and open source, they have a very compelling reason to be wary of Mono.

Firefox 3.5 comes with several great new features, like the private browsing mode or the support for open video integration (full review here).

Another guide to the same installation here

We pieced together the video for The VAR Guy’s sister site, WorksWithU (the independent guide to Ubuntu). But I know The VAR Guy’s readers closely watch open source, so here’s the clip.

“In short, at the moment, Mono is very well-maintained in Ubuntu and there appears to be no significant cause for concern over its IP situation. We will attempt to clarify in suitable places what developers and/or rights holders should do in the event that they have evidence of a problem.”

Oracle wouldn’t need to pay billions for Red Hat, only to undermine the value of that deal by cutting the price of RHEL. Oracle could pay exactly $0.00 to establish a partnership with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Ubuntu’s already significant traction–both in personal computers and in servers–would do the rest.

If Oracle wants to beat Windows, it needs to get Windows-like distribution. Its applications help drive its databases, but if it wants a bottom-up distribution strategy to complement its sales force, it couldn’t do better than Ubuntu, the leader in community Linux.

It appears that Ubuntu is still the most popular Linux distribution. According to some stats, it’s more popular now than ever. Of course, these stats don’t really tell us how many people actually use Ubuntu. They do, however, give an interesting insight into Ubuntu’s relative popularity on the internet. They also re-emphasize just how far Ubuntu (and Linux in general) have to go to catch up with Mac and Windows

While some may be touting that Debian is obsolete now that Ubuntu rules the roost, I have to whole-heartedly disagree. Debian provides a solid, stable environment that you can really trust and rely on. Ubuntu, on the other hand, appears to have put more priority on a timely release over stability and, as a result, seem to rush out half-baked releases. There’s nothing that Ubuntu can do that Debian can’t – it’s just a matter of how simple that task is.

Ksplice operates in way strikingly similar to Ubuntu’s built-in Update Manager, checking for the latest vulnerabilities and fixes posted by Linux system administrator and builders around the globe and pinging you when updates are available. The difference is that Ksplice makes the fixes without requiring you to reboot at all.

More here: Never reboot again with Linux and Ksplice

Ubuntu 9.04 does something strange with the names of each device, so if you go and try to use any of the utilities that were just installed (wacomcpl and xset wacom being just a few of what is included in the above), it can’t find the actual input devices. In order to remedy this, we need to install a short script from the Ubuntu forums.

Internet Explorer is still the most used web browser. More than 50% of ATOzTOA users use IE, the remaining 50 split across some 20 other browsers. Firefox takes around 30%.

== UWN Translations ==

* Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of
linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the
information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

== In This Issue ==

* MOTU Council
* New Ubuntu Members
* First Paper Cut milestone reached
* Tracking Ubuntu Community Issues
* Kubuntu Tutorials Day
* Introducing the Ubuntu NGO team
* Ubuntu Stats
* Extra options when filing bugs
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast Quickie #7
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

== General Community News ==

=== MOTU Council ===
Ahmed El-Mahmoudy’s (أحمد المحمودي) great work on packages, his
interaction with Debian and work on the Sabily distributions left us no
other choice but to say +1.

After an interesting discussion about Java packaging, the Server team
and cheese the MC found out that they would very much like to see
Thierry Carrez in ~ubuntu-core-dev. Hence our recommendation.

Andrea Gasparini did a great work in the MOTU community, working on lots
of different packages. His great love for QA and working with Debian and
love for the Italian LoCo sealed the deal: +1 from all present MC members.

Andreas Moog’s great work on Desktop and other packages, his great
attention to detail and work with Debian made the decision pretty easy.
He’s just joined the MOTU team.

=== New Ubuntu Members ===

The approval results from the last Americas Membership meeting are as
follows:

Christian Reis: Christian manages the Launchpad engineering team. In
addition to his
core work with Launchpad itself, having been involved since January
2005 he has attended multiple UDS sessions and discussed features and
their execution plans. He has also worked directly with Ubuntu itself
both with QA, working with upstream and fixing some minor bugs. Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChristianReis Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~kiko

Henrique P. Machado: Henrique is part of the team of
translators/reviewers for pt_BR in
Ubuntu. He has working been with Ubuntu since 6.06, but contributing
since 8.04. A member of the Ubuntu Brasil team, he also gives support
on the #ubuntu-br channel. He also contributes upstream to Gnome doing
translations. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HenriquePMachado Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~zehrique

Marc Deslauriers: Marc a member of the Ubuntu Security team, if you’re
running Ubuntu, a
third of the security updates from packages in main are from him. He
has also started doing some proactive security work and in addition to
his work in main he sponsors people who submit debdiffs for packages
in universe. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarcDeslauriers Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-June/000608.html

The approval results from the last Asia Oceania Membership meeting are
as follows:

We have Andrew from Australia as our new member following the Asia
Oceania Membership Board Meeting held on 23 Apr 2009. Andrew has been
contributing to Ubuntu Forums for some years now, besides playing an
active role at Ubuntu Beginners Team. Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/andrew.46 Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~andrew.46

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-June/000610.html

We’re very happy to welcome these very deserving new members to the project!

=== First Paper Cut milestone reached ===

The first One Hundred Paper Cuts milestone was completed on time! Ten
Ubuntu paper cuts and one Kubuntu paper cut were fixed. One hundred
paper cuts is a project led by Canonical’s Design and User Experience
team to improve user experience in Ubuntu by identifying 100 small
points of pain for users, or “paper cuts”, and healing them!

1. Width of notifications seem arbitrarily small:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/notify-osd/+bug/336110

2. “Archive Manager” doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know what an
“archive” is:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/15495

3. “Write in this folder” is confusing terminology:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-share/+bug/385801

4. Drag and drop of images is dangerous in evince and too easy to
perform: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/379403

5. ‘Open With’ Nautilus list is unsorted:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/360553

6. Set “open” animation to glide 2, not glide 1:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/195737

7. Search button does not toggle search field:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/57210

8. Spellcheck in [Pidgin], Evolution, gedit etc doesn’t recognize
“Ubuntu”:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aspell-en/+bug/15200

9. volume is set to zero when changed in fullscreen mode:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/137041

10. “Clean up by name” -> “Arrange items by name”:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/388949

11. PowerDevil plasma applet is too skinny, clipping off the sides of
the applet:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/+bug/379192

Now it’s time to get working on next week’s milestone, or any of the
other paper cuts targeted for Karmic. One thing desperately needed is
more people writing patches. If you are able to patch applications like
Nautilus, please grab a paper cut and have at it. Many of the fixes are
one-liners, so they’re an easy way to score some karma.

* Next week’s milestone:
https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+milestone/round-2
* Other open paper cuts:
https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/karmic

http://blog.davebsd.com/2009/06/28/first-paper-cut-milestone-reached/

=== Tracking Ubuntu Community Issues (Jono Bacon) ===

Recently Melissa wrote a post about how we track problems with
community, and how she feels that blogging about community problems is a
reasonable approach. As part of her post she says: Blogging about
problems we see in our community should be seen as a good thing, not a
bad thing. Why? Because this blogging is action. The alternative is no
action, and that is much worse.

Jono agrees with Melissa that we need a better way to track issues with
community. While blogging has become a tremendous tool in online
communities and enabled community members to have a platform in which to
share their opinions, ideas, perspectives and achievements, he doesn’t
feel blogging is the most suitable means of tracking community issues,
improvements and regressions.

Blog entries are single shot capsules of feedback, wisdom and opinion
ejected onto the Internet and often aggregated in places such as Planet
Ubuntu. They are typically highly personalized, lurking in
personally-driven locations (such as a homepage or personal blog), have
no facilities for applying status, assignment, milestones or priority,
provide little or no means to subscribe to specific problems, and lack
facilities for communicating when a problem has been solved: if the
issue is resolved the blog is sometimes updated and sometimes not.

Aside from more elegant and better directed methods of communicating
that a problem exists, we ideally want to attach problem-solving
capabilities to the reporting of an issue: I care only a small amount
about hearing the problem, what I am really interested in is
collaborating with that person and others in trying to find a solution.
Blog entries are not really cut out for that kind of collaboration. Bugs
are though!!

Bug reporting systems were designed to allow people to collaborate
around defects in software and include facilities to identify, track,
prioritize, milestone, subscribe and share information. Although
everyone complains about bug reporting systems, they are generally
productive in finding problems, developing solutions and having
visibility over the lifespan of a problem.

Jono thinks it could be useful for us to use Launchpad for filing bugs
for community, process and governance issues. To this end he has
registered the Ubuntu Community project in Launchpad which we can use
for tracking these kinds of bugs.
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community

There are some benefits to this:

* Visibility – this is going to help everyone keep visible on
community issues. On a slightly selfish note, this will also help me
keep visibility over issues for me and my team at Canonical. This should
mean more bang for your buck with your friendly horsemen.

* Tracking / Triage – this will make tracking, prioritization,
feedback and potential milestoning much easier.

* Assignment – this improved visibility will help us assign bugs
better to the right people.

* Familiar – many of us live and breath bug reports: the interface is
part of the furniture. No new systems to learn, no random blog entries
to keep an eye on.

Jono just set up the project, and we will need some documentation,
guidance and best practice written and shared around these bugs, and
this will take a little while to be developed. As such, you may have
some questions which we will need to document the answers to over the
coming weeks. In the meantime we can work with existing bugs and file
new bugs there. Feedback on this is of course welcome!

http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/06/27/tracking-ubuntu-community-issues/

=== Kubuntu Tutorials Day ===

The development team is working hard on Kubuntu Karmic. Join them in
these tutorials to learn how to help out with Kubuntu and KDE generally.

* When is it? Monday June 29th from 19:00UTC

* Where is it? On freenode IRC chat network in the #kubuntu-devel channel

Visit the link below to see the schedule of sessions available.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay

=== Introducing the Ubuntu NGO team ===

The Ubuntu NGO team had it’s first meeting recently in IRC. What does
NGO stand for?

According to Wikipedia “Non-governmental organization (NGO) is a term
that has become widely accepted for referring to a legally constituted,
people from non-governmental organization created by natural or legal
persons with no participation or representation of any government. In
the cases in which NGOs are funded totally or partially by governments,
the NGO maintains its non-governmental status therefore it excludes
government representatives from membership in the organization. Unlike
the term intergovernmental organization, ‘non-governmental organization’
is a term in generalized use but not a legal definition, in many
jurisdictions these type of organizations are defined as ‘civil society
organizations’ or alternative terms.”

Many of these NGOs do great work all around the world and the Ubuntu
community shares a lot of the NGO ideals and spirit: Ubuntu means “I am
what I am because of who we all are” and it’s what brings us together.
Currently there are great initiatives within the Ubuntu Community to
share the technological expertise with NGOs. The Ubuntu-NGO team seeks
to ensure that Ubuntu becomes a very resourceful platform for NGOs and
it re-energizes the great work done by teams across the world. We want
to make Ubuntu work great for NGOs and make it help them in their daily
work.

By visiting the link below you can read an interview with team members
and get a better feel for the team.

http://ubuntungo.wordpress.com/?p=3

== Ubuntu Stats ==

=== Bug Stats ===

* Open (58283) +563 over last week
* Critical (21) +2 over last week
* Unconfirmed (27235) +216 over last week
* Unassigned (50249) +430 over last week
* All bugs ever reported (291506) +1876 over last week

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

=== Translation Stats Jaunty ===

* Spanish (13454) -101 over last week
* French (42432) -25 over last week
* Brazilian Portuguese (52283) -708 over last week
* Swedish (54416) ±0 over last week
* English (United Kingdom) (59005) ±0 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope,” see
more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/

=== Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week ===

* Give Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus a unified look and feel:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20423/
* Move disk space warning (karmic) from a dialog window to a
notification: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20430/
* Prevent multiple printing with a notification:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20396/
* packages.ubuntu.com needs translation:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20435/
* Speed up installation with ready locale settings:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20383/

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your
ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against
another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

== Launchpad News ==

=== Extra options when filing bugs ===

There are now two new levels of options for those filing bugs. The
first, for the average person, is that they can now set tags when filing
bugs. It’s not yet wired up with the magical tag auto-completer that
you can use on the bug page itself, but that’s coming. For bug
supervisors, there are some new options in the “Extra options” area to
set initial status, the importance and milestone of the bug, and to
assign it to someone to work on.
http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/extra-options-when-filing-bugs

== In The Press ==

=== Berlin art colleges switch to Linux ===

Heise Online reports that Berlin’s art colleges are completely switching
over to Linux. Most of the productivity software on the workstations has
already been swapped for free alternative products as part of a project
that started over eighteen months ago. Starting in June, their
workstation PCs will switch to Ubuntu Linux and their servers will use
Debian. The change is being made because the existing hardware cannot be
upgraded to Windows Vista or Windows 7 and the colleges would have had
to spend five-figure sums to buy newer hardware and pay additional
license fees for Windows. The money that they’ve saved is now going to
be spent on teaching. As part of the changeover, the colleges are also
developing platform-independent software to manage teaching and working
contracts. The application is being licensed under the GPLv3 and, after
its completion, will be available to all users.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/141153

=== Ubuntu may increase Mono-dependent apps ===

iTWire’s Sam Varghese says that the next release of the popular Ubuntu
distribution may include a third Mono-dependent application by default
according to Gerry Carr, a spokesman for Canonical. “That’s an
interesting question. Really, it is Ubuntu’s board of governance, not
Canonical whose policy you want as they decide what goes in the distro.
The board have been asked the same thing recently and are considering it
but I do not have a time line for a decision but I will track and push
as far as I can.” Mono is a software project begun some years ago by
current Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza to create an open source
clone of Microsoft’s .NET development environment.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25900/1231/

=== Shuttle XS29f: Linux Looks Great in Green ===

Paul Ferrill of Linux Planet notes that power and space saving computers
are in, and Shuttle has a winner with the XS29F. This little gem really
skimps on the power consumption to the tune of around 20-25 watts on
average. That’s less than half of that 60-watt light bulb shining down
on you right now. This system is really responsive running multiple
applications including the latest versions of Firefox, Open Office, the
GIMP and VLC. Ubuntu is especially great about helping you find the
right plugin for things like “other” media formats when it doesn’t
recognize something. The Shuttle XS96f is a great little box for the DIY
user looking for a small form factor with an eye toward saving on the
power bill. We had our box up and running the latest Ubuntu release in
under 30 minutes, so you shouldn’t shy away thinking the “some assembly
required” part too tough.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6783/1/

=== System76 Bonobo Professional ===

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reminds us that back in March Phoronix
reviewed the System76 Serval Professional Notebook and found it to be an
excellent contender at the time. One of the new notebooks to recently
leave the System76 facilities is the Bonobo Professional, which packs an
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 processor and an impressive NVIDIA GeForce GTX
280M discrete graphics processor. The System76 Bonobo Professional
starts out at $1,769 USD and can go all the way up to $4,754 if
factoring in the highest-end hardware available through System76 and
backing it with a three-year warranty and three years worth of technical
support. The build quality of this notebook is also great and the
features like eSATA connectivity, Firewire, a large keyboard, and web
camera are all excellent too. Of course, with this notebook coming from
System76, there is complete Ubuntu Linux support for this notebook.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=system76_bonobo_pro&num=1

=== Ubuntu’s First 100 Paper Cuts, Some Bandaged ===

Phoronix’s Michael Larabel tells us that last week the first ten Ubuntu
paper cuts were exposed via Launchpad, which are small annoying
usability problems with Ubuntu (and upstream applications) that are
quite easy to address but simply have not been carried out. In time for
the release of Ubuntu 9.10, Canonical hopes to have 100 of these “paper
cuts” addressed. In less than a week, 100 of these paper cuts have been
tagged in Launchpad and there’s a few more in there too for the KDE
version of Ubuntu, Kubuntu. These Ubuntu paper cuts are split into ten
groups and at least one group of bugs should be addressed per week.
However, some of the bugs in the later groups are already being
addressed at this time. These small bugs range from missing thumbnails
on OpenDocument files to over-sized dialog boxes. The 100 paper cuts for
Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” can be found on Launchpad.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzM0NQ

=== Ubuntu tech board plays down Mono IP concerns ===

Sam Varghese of iTWire reports that the Ubuntu technical board appears
to have decided that there is no significant cause for IP concern over
Mono, the contentious clone of Microsoft’s .NET development environment.
The Ubuntu Foundation’s technical lead Colin Watson wrote on June 16:
“In short, at the moment, Mono is very well-maintained in Ubuntu and
there appears to be no significant cause for concern over its IP
situation. We will attempt to clarify in suitable places what developers
and/or rights holders should do in the event that they have evidence of
a problem.” http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25949/1231/

=== Is Ubuntu Linux Ready for the Enterprise? ===

eWeek’s Don Reisinger says that Linux is an enigma. It’s a robust
operating system, it’s free, it’s superior to both Windows and Mac OS X
on a variety of fronts, and in recent years it has become more
user-friendly than ever before. It’s a fantastic operating system with a
slew of distributions that would satisfy any user. And yet it’s not even
close to capturing a significant portion of the market. But one of the
operating system’s most popular distributions– Ubuntu–has the best
chance of changing that. Unlike many of its alternatives, it can appeal
to the average consumer with limited knowledge of the Linux environment.
It’s designed to be easier to use than other Linux distributions. And
thanks to Dell, it’s quickly gaining mass-market appeal. Thanks to
Ubuntu, Linux can finally appeal to the mainstream, and in the process,
become a compelling alternative for enterprise users who are tired of
running in a Windows world.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Is-Ubuntu-Linux-Ready-for-the-Enterprise-568056/

=== Android Apps on Ubuntu: The MID’s Return? ===

The Linux Loop asks if we remember before netbooks arrived when everyone
thought MIDs would take over the world? MIDs are mobile Internet
devices. They are supposed to be small computers you can carry around in
your pocket, but they never really took off. Ubuntu MID edition might be
able to bring them back, though. Thanks to the iPhone, the primary value
of most smart phones comes from their applications. Regardless of the
controversy Apple’s app store created, it certainly changed the game for
mobile devices. Since then, we have learned about plans to make it
possible to run Android applications on Ubuntu. This could give some new
life to MIDs. Imagine if on your MID, in addition to doing whatever
normal things you would do on a MID, you could run applications,
preferably from different sources. For example, this would allow you to
take advantage of the applications created for different phone systems,
without having multiple devices.
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2009/06/27/android-apps-on-ubuntu-the-mids-return/

== In The Blogosphere ==

=== Canonical’s Four Most Important Ubuntu Partners (So Far) ===

Of course there’s Amazon with the EC2 cloud and Dell with it’s variety
of Ubuntu loaded computers. Both names have helped push Ubuntu’s
popularity with consumers and small businesses. Now, Canonical has
moved into the IT channel by providing IT training through Bridge
Education and Fast Lane. Marc Alumbaugh of Fast Lane and the Bridge
Education representatives are in discussion with Billy Cina, Canonical’s
training programs manager, discussing accelerating Ubuntu training.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/22/canonicals-four-most-important-ubuntu-partners/

=== Should Oracle’s Linux strategy be…Ubuntu? ===

Matt Asay, of CNet News, questions why Oracle continues to push its
Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) when the figures clearly show that Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has the majority of the customer base. In
addition Ubuntu’s popularity on desktops and in enterprise environments
is on the rise. He suggests that it would be better for Oracle to
reconsider and either go with Red Hat or Ubuntu. See his reasons at:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10272966-16.html

=== Spreading the Ubuntu Brand Too Far? ===

Christopher Tozzi of Works With U questions the suggestion mentioned on
the wiki page for the branding package[1] for adding branding to some of
the applications in Ubuntu. It’s his opinion that adding Ubuntu
branding to packages like OpenOffice.org and GIMP would give users the
wrong idea about who developed them, and could cause difficulties with
the developers of those programs. In his words, “The fact that an
application runs on Ubuntu doesn’t make it part of Ubuntu, and users
should be kept aware of the distinctions between the operating system
and the programs it runs.”
1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/branding

Read his argument at:
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/23/the-problem-with-ubuntu-branding/

=== How to Track Ubuntu Deployments Worldwide ===

WorksWithU’s Joe Panettieri asks “Who’s running Ubuntu — and why?” You
can find the answers in WorksWithU’s 1000 survey and associated research
report — which will ultimately track 1000 businesses, schools,
government agencies and non-profit organizations running Ubuntu servers,
desktops and mobile devices. To see the the WorksWithU 1000 results so
far, visit the WorksWithU 1000 center. Also, be sure to participate in
the WorksWithU 1000 survey. They’ve received more than 380 survey
responses to date, and they intend to march quickly toward 1,000
responses.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/23/how-to-track-ubuntu-deployments-worldwide/

== In Other News ==

=== Ubuntu Podcast Quickie #7 ===

* One Hundred Paper Cuts
* Ubuntu Global Jam
* Empathy to replace Pidgin
* no more Mibbit on Freenode
* new Hall of Famer: Adi Roiban
* Ubuntu Satanic license issue

http://ubuntupodcast.net/2009/06/20/ubuntu-podcast-quickie-7-20-june-09/One

== Upcoming Meetings and Events ==

=== Sunday, June 28, 2009 ===
* None reported as of publication

=== Monday, June 29, 2009 ===

==== Live videocast of how to run a successful jam (Jono Bacon) ====
* Start: 18:00 UTC
* End: 19:00 UTC
* Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam

==== Kubuntu Tutorials Day: The next six months with Kubuntu (Roderick
Greening) ====
* Start: 19:00 UTC
* End: 20:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #kubuntu-devel
* Agenda: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay

==== Kubuntu Tutorials Day: Getting into Ruby (Harald Sitter) ====
* Start: 20:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #kubuntu-devel
* Agenda: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay

==== Kubuntu Tutorials Day: Packaging and Merging with the Ninjas
(Jonathan Riddell) ====
* Start: 21:00 UTC
* End: 22:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #kubuntu-devel
* Agenda: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay

==== Kubuntu Tutorials Day: Artwork The composition of an icon (Ken
Wimer) ====
* Start: 22:00 UTC
* End: 23:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #kubuntu-devel
* Agenda: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay

==== Ubuntu Community Learning Project Meeting ====
* Start: 22:00 UTC
* End: 23:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning/Agenda

==== Kubuntu Tutorials Day: Amarok scripting (Sven Krohlas) ====
* Start: 23:00 UTC
* End: 24:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #kubuntu-devel
* Agenda: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay

=== Tuesday, June 30, 2009 ===

==== Kubuntu Tutorials Day: Kubuntu Q & A Ask us anything you want to
know ====
* Start: 00:00 UTC
* End: 01:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #kubuntu-devel
* Agenda: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay

==== Technical Board Meeting ====
* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: Not listed as of publication

==== Server Team Meeting ====
* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting

==== Desktop Team Meeting ====
* Start: 16:30 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

==== Kernel Team Meeting ====
* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: Not listed as of publication

==== Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting ====
* Start: 23:00 UTC
* End: 24:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings

=== Wednesday, July 1, 2009 ===

==== Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting ====
* Start: 12:30 UTC
* End: 13:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-pa
* Agenda: None as of publication

==== Cameroonian LoCoTeam monthly IRC meeting ====
* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-cm
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CameroonianTeam/NextMeeting

==== Foundation Team Meeting ====
* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 17:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== QA Team Meeting ====
* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

=== Thursday, July 2, 2009 ===

==== Ubuntu Java Meeting ====
* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== Ubuntu Translations Meeting ====
* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====
* Start: 21:00 UTC
* End: 22:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

=== Friday, July 3, 2009 ===

==== Karmic Weekly Release Meeting ====
* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2009-07-03

==== IRC Council Meeting ====
* Start: 23:00 UTC
* End: 24:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil/MeetingAgenda

=== Saturday, July 4, 2009 ===
* None listed as of publication

== Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 ==

=== Security Updates ===

* USN-790-1: Cyrus SASL vulnerability –
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-790-1
* USN-791-1: Moodle vulnerabilities – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-791-1
* USN-791-3: Smarty vulnerability – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-791-3
* USN-791-2: Moodle vulnerability – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-791-2
* USN-792-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-792-1
* USN-782-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities –
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-782-1

=== Ubuntu 6.06 Updates ===

* None Reported

=== Ubuntu 8.04 Updates ===

* None Reported

=== Ubuntu 8.10 Updates ===

* None Reported

=== Ubuntu 9.04 Updates ===

* poppler 0.10.5-1ubuntu2.2 –
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009839.html
* mesa 7.4-0ubuntu3.2 –
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009840.html

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For now, all I did was running a quick test. I had a USB stick with Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 lying around, so I booted from that, hooked up the wifi (man, connecting is fast with NetworkManager 0.7-something – another reason to upgrade…), downloaded ksplice-uptrack.deb, and installed it on the Live system (you also need network connectivity to fetch some dependencies from the Ubuntu repository).

What I ended up with was an Ubuntu box that is visually appealing to the end user while interacting with normal everyday routines. It does not slow down your machine at all and you get to enjoy many beautiful effects that compiz has to offer without fiddling with settings or self inducing the effect.

On paper Ubuntu Karmic koala 9.10 is the more efficient than Windows 7, but most will tend to use Windows 7 due to its glam quotient and marketing strategy. If only Canonical can find any efficient way to popularise Ubuntu the future will be open

Make sure though you run the TS3.exe file and not the Launcher; I’m not sure if it works that way. Only problem is they claim you can’t use the uploader to upload your Sims to the Sims 3 website.

I’m gonna try it out and see what happens though. Here’s the pics to show how it looks. In these pics are the girls from the band t.A.T.u., and yes, I made those Sims.

When asked about Canonical’s policy on Mono, Carr told iTWire on June 25: “That’s an interesting question. Really, it is Ubuntu’s board of governance, not Canonical whose policy you want as they decide what goes in the distro. The board have been asked the same thing recently and are considering it but I do not have a timeline for a decision but I will track and push as far as I can.”