Weekly Newsletter #77

By boredandblogging | Published: 2008-02-11

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 77 for the week February 3rd – February 9th is now available. In this issue we cover MOTU Elections, Clutch BitTorrent WebUI, Parallels in the Ubuntu partner repository, Firefox 3 in 7.10, and much, much more.

  • MOTU Release Team Election
  • Clutch BitTorrent WebUI Package
  • In The Press & Blogosphere
  • Upcoming Meetings & Events
  • Firefox 3 for 7.10
  • Updates & Security
  • Bug & Translation Stats

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Weekly Newsletter #76

By boredandblogging | Published: 2008-02-03

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 76 for the week January 27th – February 2nd, 2008 is now available. In this issue we cover: Hardy Alpha 4 released, Server Team focuses on KVM, new Ubuntu banners for your website or blog, new MOTU and Council election results, Hug Day 5 February 2008, a new Ubuntu based distro, and much, much more!

  • Hardy Alpha 4 Released
  • Ubuntu Server Team Focuses on KVM
  • New Ubuntu Advocacy Banners
  • New MOTU and Council Election Results
  • Hug Day, 5 February 2008
  • Interview with Soren Hansen
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Upcoming Meetings & Events
  • Updates & Security
  • Bug & Translation Stats

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Weekly Newsletter #75

By boredandblogging | Published: 2008-01-27

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 75 for the week January 20th – January 26th, 2008 is now available. In this issue we cover the upcoming Alpha 4 freeze, the release of 6.06.2 LTS, MOTU Council elections, an Ubuntu Demo Day in Swindon, UK, upcoming Hug Day, Full Circle Magazine #9, the Launchpad logo competition, and, as always, much much more!

  • Alpha 4 Freeze Ahead
  • 6.06.2 LTS Released
  • MOTU Council Election Open
  • Ubuntu Demo Day, Swindon, UK
  • Hug Day January 29th, 2008
  • Launchpad Logo Competition Continues
  • Full Circle Issue 9 Available
  • In The Press & Blogosphere
  • Meeting Summaries
  • Upcoming Meetings & Events
  • Updates & Security
  • Bugs & Translation Stats

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Full Circle Magazine Issue 9 Released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2008-01-25

Full Circle – The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine is proud to announce the release of issue nine containing:

  • OpenGEU – Step-by-step install from OpenGEU creator Luca De Marini.
  • How-To : Directory Server, Ubuntu on an iBook, Installing the OpenTTD game (Transport Tycoon Deluxe)
  • Create Your Own Server: Part 1
  • Review of KDE 4.0.
  • Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, Ubuntu Women, Top5 and more!

Get it while it's hot at fullcirclemagazine.org.

DARPA Urban Challenge Winner Based on Ubuntu

By boredandblogging | Published: 2008-01-21

The DARPA’s Urban Challenge is an engineering competition to develop an autonomous vehicle capable of navigating urban streets safely while obeying traffic regulations and covering the 60 mile course in 6 hours or less. The goal is to develop vehicles that can one day self navigate through dangerous urban environments.

The winning team, Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan Racing, took home the $2 million first prize. Their Chevy Tahoe, named Boss, used 12 Intel Core Duo CPUs to run the C++ application software comprising 200,000 lines of code and used Ubuntu 6.06 LTS as their operating system foundation. The team developed their system using the open source development stack of GCC, Valgrind and the Boost framework and were aided by McCabe IQ, a commercial software quality management suite which was ported to Ubuntu by McCabe.