Feisty translations now open!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-03-12

Ubuntu Feisty translations are now open in Launchpad!

The Launchpad team have imported existing translations both from Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) and directly from upstream projects. You can see how much of each language remains untranslated on the Feisty translations overview page.

During the import, there were some problems converting from OpenOffice.org’s language pack format to the .po format used by Launchpad. Unfortunately, this means that OpenOffice.org isn’t yet available to translate. We’re sorry for the pain this will cause. We have, though, created a workaround to fix the import problem and OpenOffice.org should be ready for translation later this week.

If you have any questions or comments, please join us in #launchpad or on the launchpad-users mailing list.

Matthew and the rest of the Launchpad team.

Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #31

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-03-12

Issue #31 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, covering the week of March 1st to March 10th, is now available. In this issue you can find these stories:

  • Linspire now based on Ubuntu
  • Statistics of Ubuntuforums
  • Ohio US Team approved and official
  • Weekly Quiz Update
  • Upcoming meetings and events
  • 6.06 & 6.10 updates and security notices
  • Bug Stats
  • Highlighting the Xubuntu Testers

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.

The French Parliament switches to Kubuntu

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-03-10

The French Parliament looks to be the next big organisation to switch to one of the Ubuntu family, in this case Kubuntu. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the tax-payers according to the government study.

Following this recommendation two companies, Linagora and Unilog, have been selected to provide the members of the Parliament as well as their assistants new computers containing free software. This will amount to 1,154 new computers running Kubuntu prior to the start of the next session which occurs in June 2007.

More detailed information can be read in French at ZDNet.fr and latribune.fr. There is also an article available in English from November 2006 pertaining to this same exact report at ZDNet.com.

Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #30

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-03-08

A new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter for the weeks January 28th to February 28th has been published. In this issue you can find these stories:

  • New Team: Ubuntu Scribes
  • Feisty Fawn Herd5 Released
  • No Composite by default in Feisty
  • Weekly Quiz Update
  • Changes in Feisty
  • Upcoming meetings and events
  • 6.06 & 6.10 updates and security notices
  • Bug Stats

You can read Issue 30 of the Ubuntu Weekly News on the wiki.

Do you have a story idea for the Weekly News? Submit it via email or on the wiki!

The Weekly News is brought to you by the Marketing Team, who are always seeking new people to help with their many projects. Go help them out!

Feisty Fawn Herd 5 Released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-03-08

The latest development milestone release (Herd 5) for the Ubuntu project’s next release, Feisty Fawn, has been released. This release will become Ubuntu 7.04 on April 19th 2007.

Pre-releases of Feisty are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system, or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are however recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. Installing a milestone and then upgrading through the release cycle should leave you with a close approximation of the final release.

Herd 5 is the fifth (and last one before the beta version) in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Feisty development cycle. The Herd images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing current snapshots of Feisty.

The primary focus during the time from Herd 4 has been bug fixing. Please refer to this link for information on changes in Ubuntu, and this link for changes in Kubuntu.

You can read the complete release announcement which also contains links to the mirrors where you can get Herd 5.