Chicago Kubuntu Gremlins Excised: The stories about Ubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu 7.04 posted

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-21

Due to some Kubuntu gremlins from Chicago, the stories for the Ubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu 7.04 releases was slightly delayed. However, this problem has now been dealt with and us such, we are proud to publish, a few hours late, the release announcements for Ubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu 7.04. You can read more about Ubuntu 7.04 (and see all the new features), Edubuntu 7.04 and Xubuntu 7.04.

The Funky Feisty Competition

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-20

Want to celebrate the Feisty release in style, have some fun and possibly win some great prizes as well? Well, you need to read on … this is going to be fun. 🙂

The competition is open to both individuals and teams.

For individuals:

The task is simple – upload a picture of yourself with a logo from one of the Ubuntu family of distributions that has had a Feisty release.

Be inventive! How about a picture of you in front of a famous landmark? Maybe be in the fancy dress of a well known Ubuntu contributor? Use your imagination – the most interesting pictures win!

In this competition the first prize wins $500USD, signed Feisty CD by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu t-shirt, Ubuntu book and the runner-up wins $250, Ubuntu t-shirt, Ubuntu book so get snapping!

And for groups:

The task is simple – upload a picture of your group recreating one of the logos from the Ubuntu family of distributions that has had a Feisty release.

Be inventive! Why not recreate the Ubuntu logo with a number of people laid on a large playing field? Why not recreate the Kubuntu logo with playing cards? Why not recreate the Edubuntu logo with school books? Use your imagination – the most interesting pictures win!

In this competition the first prize wins $500USD, signed Feisty CD by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu t-shirt, Ubuntu book and the runner-up wins $250, Ubuntu t-shirt, Ubuntu book so get snapping!

Go and see The Funky Feisty Competition website to see how to get involved!

Ubuntu Open Week is back!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-20

Mon 23rd Apr 2007 – Sat 28th Apr 2007

All next week, Ubuntu Open Week will be back, filling the week with over 40 IRC tutorial sessions covering many aspects of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, and covering subjects such as packaging, patching packages, marketing, LoCo teams, Launchpad, the desktop team and much, much more. Each of these sessions is delivered by leaders in the Ubuntu community, there to share their experience and knowledge.

We also have some Q+As planned with Mark Shuttleworth and Jono Bacon will be there on tap in some sessions too. The last Ubuntu Open Week was a blast, and this one is going to be incredible. 🙂

Go and see the Ubuntu Open Week website

Weekly News: Issue 36

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-20

Issue #36 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, covering the week of April 8th – 14th, 2007, is now available. In this issue you can find these stories:

  • Next Ubuntu release: Gusty Gibbon
  • Feisty Release Parties
  • Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn RC delayed
  • LoCo Teams started in Finland
  • Ubuntuforums Council Meeting summary
  • Apport: Automatic crash reports

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

The Weekly News is brought to you by the Marketing Team.

Kubuntu 7.04 Released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-19

Kubuntu 7.04 ReleaseThursday, April 19, 2007 – The Kubuntu development team is proud to announce the release of Kubuntu 7.04, development codename “The Feisty Fawn”. Kubuntu prides itself on working towards the perfect KDE GNU/Linux solution, and with this latest release the development team worked harder than ever to do just this. Kubuntu is based on the award winning Ubuntu Linux operating system, however Kubuntu sports the latest in the K Desktop Environment. This latest release includes many updates, new features, and the latest releases of your favorite applications. Starting with KDE 3.5.6 for the desktop, Kubuntu also ships with K3b version 1.0, Amarok 1.4.5, OpenOffice.org 2.2, Kopete 0.12.4, and more. The Kubuntu development team has worked hard to incorporate the best usability and accessibility features, to tame the edginess, and to provide yet another stable and secure computing environment for everyone.

The Kubuntu development team would also like to thank all of its users for the testing and input provided during the development cycle, and of course a big thank you to the entire development community involved with this release.

For the complete release information and download information please review the Kubuntu 7.04 Release Notes.