Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #139

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-26

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #139 for the week of April 19th- April 25th, 2009 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Ubuntu 9.04 released
* Announcing Ubuntu 9.04 for ARM
* Ubuntu Open Week Schedule
* MOTU Council News
* Ubuntu Stats
* German LoCo team launches new portal
* Ubuntu Live in Aalborg
* Chicago Style Release Party
* Rocked in Finger Lakes
* Ubuntu-CL: FLiSoL
* New Ubuntu US Teams Website
* Limited edition Jaunty Jackalope T-shirts
* Announcing Ubuntu Gaming Team
* Spread Ubuntu to go live soon
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Shuttleworth: Oracle’s Sun buy validates open source
* Ubuntu Podcast #25: Dustin Kirkland Interview
* Full Circle Magazine #24
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Nathan Handler
* Jeff Martin
* Dave Bush
* 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 License

Ubuntu 9.04 Released!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-23

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Read more about the features of Ubuntu 9.04 in the following press releases:

Ubuntu 9.04 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers. Users requiring a longer support lifetime may choose to continue using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS rather than upgrading to or installing 9.04.

Ubuntu 9.04 is also the basis for new 9.04 releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu:

To Get Ubuntu 9.04
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To download Ubuntu 9.04, or obtain CDs, visit:

Users of Ubuntu 8.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 9.04 via Update Manager. For further information about upgrading, see:

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at:

Find out what’s new in this release with a graphical overview:

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren’t sure, try asking on the #ubuntu IRC channel, on the Ubuntu Users mailing list, or on the Ubuntu forums:

Helping Shape Ubuntu
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If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #138

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-19

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #138 for the week of April 12th- April 18th, 2009 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Announcing Ubuntu 9.04 RC
* Announcing Ubuntu 9.04 RC for ARM
* Packaging Training Session Update
* Announcing Ubuntu Open Week
* New Ubuntu Members
* Ubuntu Stats
* Japanese Team release party
* Philippine Team release party
* Launchpod #18: What’s new in 2.2.3
* Karma: Where did mine go?
* Ubuntu Forums Interview: Codename
* Jorge Castro: Support your LoCo economy…
* Sayak Banerjee: KDE Brainstorm – 30 days, 700 ideas!
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu-UK podcast: The Waking Ally
* System 76: Ubuntu PC Maker’s Revenue up 61 percent
* Open-source server distro builds on Ubuntu
* Serve Team Meeting Minutes: April 14th
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Sayak Banerjee
* Isabelle Duchatelle
* Liraz Siri
* Kenny McHenry
* Jeff Martin
* 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 License

Ubuntu Drupal 5.2.0 and 6.3.2 Released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-17

It’s finally here. After much poking and prodding the developers of the Ubuntu Drupal have finally released a fully working version for Drupal 5.x.

For those of you that have been waiting for a stable 5.x release, it’s finally here and ready for you. It’s a little backward, but here none the less.

The 6.x release contains a few minor bug fixes which were found during the back-port process.

You can grab the latest:
5.x package at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-drupal-releases/5.x.
6.x package at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-drupal-releases/6.x.

Once installed, all the available options are listed in /admin/build/themes/settings/ubuntu-drupal. As always, you can see a working example at http://sd.ubuntu-us.org/.

Ubuntu Open Week

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-15

We are pleased to announce that this cycle’s Ubuntu Open Week will be held the week after Ubuntu 9.04’s release, from 27 April to 1 May on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. The sessions take place from 1500UTC to 2100UTC (With a special session on Monday night after-hours)

Ubuntu Open Week is a week full of IRC tutorial sessions on a range of subjects, designed to help people get involved in the Ubuntu community. It is given by many of the brightest, most capable members of the Ubuntu community, and covers a range of subjects including packaging, bug triage, translations, accessibility, automated testing, loco teams, mentoring, Launchpad, desktop team, training team and much more.

There will also be the always popular “sabdfl Q+A” session (Thu 30 Apr @ 15.00UTC) in which you have two hours to ask Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, your burning questions. Jono and Jorge will also be providing an Introduction and Community Q+A session (Mon 27 Apr @ 15.00UTC) in which you can ask your questions about the community, Ubuntu, Canonical and anything else.

New to this Open Week is nearly an entire day of Documentation team sessions, so now is the time to get involved. The schedule is up, so let’s get started! (A few slots left open, if you want them, holler at Jorge [jcastro])