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:

• Barry deFreese (bddebian)
• Scott Kitterman (ScottK)
• Michael Bienia (geser)
• Mario Limonciello (superm1)

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

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.

Stephan Hermann has blogged about the new wine team and has created an Ubuntu-wine team on Launchpad. The Ubuntu Wine Team will take care about the WINE application in Ubuntu and plans to support all wine related projects as well.

He has also created a wine-doors launchpad project for this tool and pushed two bzr branches to the team directory and has plans to add a few upstream branches later this week. If you have a Launchpad account, you can join them using the Launchpad links provided above.