Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #159

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-13

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #159 for the week September 6th – Septenber 12th, 2009 is available.

In this issue we cover:

* Karmic Alpha 6 freeze ahead
* UI freeze in place for Karmic
* Ubuntu One has moved
* New Ubuntu Developers
* New Ubuntu Members
* Ubuntu Stats
* US LoCo Wiki Doc Day 2009
* Ubuntu Pennsylvania
* Launchpad meet-up: Sept. 28th in London
* Meet Deryck Hodge
* Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Post Team Meeting
* An interview with Nathan Handler
* Screencasting using Ubuntu: Part 1
* Jono Turning ?? – Wishlist Predictable
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Jolicloud Innovates Atop Ubuntu Netbook Remix
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

This issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Daniel Holbach
* Liraz Siri
* Sayak Banerjee
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons LicenseAttribution 3.0 License

Ubuntu One is moving from ubuntuone.com to one.ubuntu.com

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-08

Hi! Ubuntu One will be moving from https://ubuntuone.com to https://one.ubuntu.com later today.

Expect a few minutes of downtime, and ubuntuone.com will be set up to redirect to one.ubuntu.com to avoid breaking old links, etc. We’ve tried to plan things carefully to make it go as smoothly as possible, but there may be a bump or two during the transition. We’re doing the move now before Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) goes into beta so that we can minimize the impact on users.

This doesn’t imply any servers moving, or any data shifting around, so no risk to user data. As mentioned before, the web UI will be offline for a few minutes but the background syncing of your files should not be affected as we’ll keep some servers running at the old addresses for a couple of weeks to give everyone time to update to the new packages.

If you run into any problems related to the move or Ubuntu One in general, as always please let us know by filing bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone/+filebug

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #158

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-06

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #158 for the week August 30th – Septenber 5th, 2009 is available.

In this issue we cover:

* Karmic Koala Alpha 5 released
* New Ubuntu TechBoard 2009
* Jono Bacon: Three Years at Canonical
* Canonical Adds Advanced Ubuntu Service & Support
* Ubuntu Stats
* LoCo News: Global Jam, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Sweden & Massachusetts
* Karmic gets another cloud tool: Tahoe-LAFS
* Ubuntu Developer Week Summaries
* Help fill in the Ubuntu IRC channels
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast Quickie #11
* Ubuntu-UK Podcast: The Android Invasion
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

This issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Isabelle Duchatelle
* Liraz Siri
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons LicenseAttribution 3.0 License

Karmic Alpha 5 released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-04

Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha 5, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10.

Pre-releases of Karmic are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 5 is the fifth in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Karmic development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Karmic. You can download it here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu)
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Ubuntu ARM)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-5/ (Mythbuntu)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.

Alpha 5 includes a number of software updates that are ready for large-scale testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a list of known bugs (that you don't need to report if you encounter), please see:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha5

If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Karmic, have a look at the karmic-changes mailing list:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/karmic-changes

We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list if you're interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

[Discuss Karmic Alpha 5 on the Forums]

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Steve Langasek on Thu Sep 3 17:24:42 BST 2009

TechBoard 2009

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-01

Thank you to everyone who voted in the Tech Board election, which came to a result last night. We had 84 votes from 130 eligible voters. The new Tech Board in reverse alphabetical surname order is:

  • Matt Zimmerman
  • Mark Shuttleworth
  • Scott James Remnant
  • Martin Pitt
  • Kees Cook

Detailed results are available at:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_e09bf9bea196cfff

Thanks also to Mario and Evan, who made it a far more interesting race, and to the rest of the new Board for their willingness to lead in this capacity.

[Discuss the New Tech Board on the Forums]

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Mark Shuttleworth on Tue Sep 1 16:02:31 BST 2009