Monthly Archives: November 2010

Ubuntu 9.04 end-of-life reached on October 23, 2010.

By nhandler | Published: 2010-11-12

This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 9.04 formally ended on Friday, October 23, 2010, and Ubuntu Security Notices no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.04. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 9.04 is via Ubuntu 9.10. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 217

By Jonathan Carter | Published: 2010-11-08

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter This is Issue #217 for the period October 17th, 2010 – November 7th, 2010 and is available in full here. In this issue we cover: UWN Catchup, Help the Graner Family Ubuntu 11.04 to Ship Unity Unity on Wayland Emmet Hickory replaces Richard Johnson on Community Council Ubuntu Cloud […]

Unity on Wayland

By nhandler | Published: 2010-11-04

The next major transition for Unity will be to deliver it on Wayland, the OpenGL-based display management system. We’d like to embrace Wayland early, as much of the work we’re doing on uTouch and other input systems will be relevant for Wayland and it’s an area we can make a useful contribution to the project. […]

Official Bug Tags

By nhandler | Published: 2010-11-04

I’ve recently landed a change in Launchpad that allows members of the bug supervisor team for a product or distribution to modify the official bug tags for that object. For Ubuntu this means that members of ubuntu-bugcontrol can now add and remove official bug tags. This is done by clicking the "Edit official tags" link […]

Call for New Operators in the #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #ubuntu-ops channels

By nhandler | Published: 2010-11-03

The IRCC is now taking applications for a number of new operator positions in the following channels: #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #ubuntu-ops. So if you’re active on our IRC channels and you are available in the specified times (or at least part of them), and if you’ve been aching to help, you should consider applying! You […]