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Ubuntu 9.04 Countdown Banners Wanted

If you’re wanting to put your creative energy to work to help out Ubuntu, here’s your chance to make a highly visible contribution. For a few releases now we’ve launched a “countdown banner” that is shown on the Ubuntu.com homepage and syndicated to sites across the net. For 8.10 we finally turned to the community […]

Ubuntu Developer News #2

Ubuntu Developer News Issue #2 has been released. Topics include: Karmic Koala Announced Jaunty Feature Freeze Per-package uploaders and developer team structure Python 2.6 Removal of aRts Progress of the Mono 2.0 transition Packaging large Java stacks Kernel Stable Release Updates White-listing external repositories in apturl Kernel changes in Jaunty Hardware Clock handling The Stracciatella […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #130

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #130 for the week of February 15th- February 21st, 2009 is now available. In this Issue: * Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala * Announcing the Karmic Koala UDS * Jaunty feature freeze – Alpha 5 freeze ahead * Kubuntu 8.04.2 released * New Ubuntu Members – Americas Board * A […]

Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala

Mark Shuttleworth has announced Ubuntu 9.10: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the Karmic Koala, the newest member of our alliterative menagerie. When you are looking for inspiration beyond the looming Jaunty feature freeze, I hope you’ll think of the Koala, our official mascot for Ubuntu 9.10. And if you’ll bear with me for […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #129

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #129 for the week of February 8th- February 14th, 2009 is now available. In this Issue: * Ubuntu LoCo Teams Meeting * New MOTU’s * Rockin’ LoCo Docs Day * Ubuntu Hug Day * Improved mail server stack: Testing needed * Drupal 5.x & 6.x LoCo Suite Released * Ubuntu […]