Kubuntu German Community at LinuxTag Live!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-05-30

The German Kubuntu Community is representing Kubuntu at the annual LinuxTag in Berlin. The booth is shared with the Ubuntu and Edubuntu Community as well as the Linux4Africa project.

Anybody who cannot visit the LinuxTag, but still would like to feel the atmosphere, has an opportunity to watch them via webcam. A periodically refreshed still image (every 30 secs) can be found at http://webcam.kubuntu-de.org. The webcam will be working every day between 07:00 and 16:00 UTC.

This Week in Universe: MOTU Q&A and Universe HUG Day

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-05-29

The Masters of the Universe (MOTU) have two big events planned for this week:

  • MOTU Q&A: the first of what will hopefully become a regular event is happening this Thursday. This is great time for people interested in learning about Universe maintainership, Ubuntu packaging, or how the Universe repository works to get their questions answered. Read more about it in Daniel Holbach’s announcement
  • Universe HUG Day: this Saturday (June 2nd) there will be a great opportunity to help the community simply by helping out with simple bug tasks. It can be as simple as getting the right information from the bug reporter to providing patches for fixes. Everybody is welcome. And remember, when you close a bug you get a hug! See Daniel Holbach’s announcement for more details.

Behind MOTU: Interviews with Universe contributors and maintainers

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-05-28

Behind MOTU is a blog by Universe maintainer Jordan Mantha that interviews Universe developers (known as Masters of the Universe) and frequent contributors. The goal is to show the fun and human side to the hard working volunteers that keep the Universe and Multiverse software repositories in good shape.

Interviews so far include:

Be sure to check back here at the Fridge for the latest installment!

Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #42

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-05-28

Issue #42 for the week May 21st – May 27th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover Dell’s long awaited release of computers with Ubuntu preinstalled, the newly created Wine team, a new planet has been added to our blog solar system for US LoCo Teams, an interview with Corey Burger (the newly appointed Community Council member), a quick summary on the new procedure to become an Ubuntu Core Developer, and the spotlight is on the Catalan LoCo Team which has been officially approved.

  • Dell computers with Ubuntu available
  • New Wine and Wine-doors Team
  • New Planet for US LoCos
  • Ubuntu featured on PC World 2007 Awards
  • Special discount for Ubuntu Live
  • Interview of the Week with Corey Burger
  • Team of the week: Catalan Team
  • New section: Did you know…?
  • UWN needs you

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News please submit it via email or on the wiki !

UWN is brought to you by the Marketing Team.

Dell offers Three consumer systems with Ubuntu 7.04

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-05-24

Today Lionel Menchaca, Dell's Digital Media Manager, announced the availability of three different systems with Ubuntu 7.04 installed: the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops as well as the Inspiron E1505n notebook. These systems will be available at the Dell website by 4pm CST today along with hardware support for their customers in USA.

Dell users can opt for the fee-based OS support provided by Canonical, including a 30-day Get Started, One-year Basic and one-year Standard or use the Dell community forum for help and also get the latest updates from the Dell-Linux team.