Author Archives: Ubuntu News Contributor

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #212

By Ubuntu News Contributor | Published: 2010-09-27

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #212 for the week September 19 – September 25, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end of life Announcing the Ubuntu Application Review Process Taking a Step Back With Fresh Eyes Behind the Circle: Gerfried Fuchs (Rhonda) Ubuntu Stats […]

Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end-of-life on October 23, 2010

By Ubuntu News Contributor | Published: 2010-09-24

Ubuntu announced its 9.04 release almost 18 months ago, on April 23, 2009. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 9.04 will reach end of life on Friday, October 23, 2010. At that […]

Behind the Circle: Gerfried Fuchs (Rhonda)

By Ubuntu News Contributor | Published: 2010-09-22

Avatar Desktop Age: 37 Location: Austria (no Kanagaroos) IRC Nick: Rhonda How long have you been using Linux, and which distributions have you used? My first contact with Linux was on the computer of my older brother 1994, but not really intensive. When I started to study Computer Science I had more intensive contact with […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #211

By Ubuntu News Contributor | Published: 2010-09-21

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #211 for the week September 12th – September 18th, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: Welcome New Ubuntu Members Welcome New Ubuntu Developers Ubuntu Open Week, request for instructors Ubuntu App Developer Week Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 10.10 Fixing Community […]

Ubuntu Open Week, request for instructors

By Ubuntu News Contributor | Published: 2010-09-16

Hi everyone, Here at Ubuntu we love to give training sessions over IRC. Since Developer and App Developer Week cover the more advanced end of the spectrum we have something for normal users — Ubuntu Open Week: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek If you look at the last schedule you’ll see that there’s still some pretty development focused sessions […]