Bug Day!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-18

Daniel Holbach has announced the next Ubuntu Bug Day. This is an event where users and developers gather on IRC and go through the bug tracking system. There they prioritize, assign, and confirm bugs reported by users; this process is called triaging.

If you ever planned to get involved anywhere in the Ubuntu world, bug triage is definitely a good place to start … Now is the best time to get into Ubuntu development as well.

You can get a head start by learning how to help with bugs and then heading over to #ubuntu-bugs on irc.freenode.net. How to report Bugs effectively is also a good place to start if you like to report bugs.

art.ubuntu.com

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-13

Nothing beats a nice custom touch to your newly minted Ubuntu installation. Many times a nicely done piece of wallpaper or icon can really liven up your desktop experience. You can indulge your artistic craving by stopping by the Art Team website at art.ubuntu.com, where you will find plenty of themes, icon sets, and backgrounds.

If you want to get involved in the process, check out the team’s mailing list and the Ubuntu Art Talk forum. You can find lots of great artwork from around the web in the related art sites thread.

IA64, HPPA and SPARC Ports Archive Open

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-13

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto has officially announced the Ports Archive for IA64 (Itanium), HPPA (1.1 or later), and UltraSPARC. A purely volunteer effort, the ports team will make Ubuntu available to communities sometimes neglected by other distributions. Find out more and say hello to the team in the #ubuntu-ports channel on freenode.

Announcing Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu 5.10

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-13

After a long six months of development, the Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu 5.10, also known as “Breezy Badger”. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network, a commitment to security updates for 18 months after each release and professional technical support from many companies around the world.

Coinciding with this release, Jonathan Riddell also announced Kubuntu 5.10:

The second release of Kubuntu, codenamed Breezy Badger, is now available for download. This release comes with the very latest KDE 3.4.3 and includes the new Guidance configuration tools. If you missed our testing releases for Breezy you will be pleased to see the other new additions in Kubuntu Breezy including Adept package manager, System Settings and KDE Bluetooth.

And last, but certainly not least, the Edubuntu team’s first release is also available. Developed in partnership with the K12-LTSP community, this is a great base distro for people working with FLOSS in schools:

Features include a built-in Linux Terminal Server, educational applications such as GCompris and the KDE Edutainment Suite, Tux4kids, and other quality software that you will also find in Ubuntu.

All three are available for the i386, PowerPC, and x86_64 hardware architectures. As always, ordering a complimentary copy of the official Ubuntu 5.10 CD — or a handful to give to friends, your school or LUG — is a snack with shipit! The Documentation team has whipped up a quick tour that you can peruse while waiting for your download. Also, don’t forget to read the release notes. Enjoy!

OSDL Desktop Linux Survey

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-12

The sabdfl calls! Ubuntu users far and wide, please participate in the OSDL Linux Desktop Survey:

This survey will help us understand what features are most important for the next release. We are just starting to set the feature list for Dapper (6.04) and would appreciate your knowledge and ideas.

In addition, if you have specific feature requests, now’s a good time to mail them to me. I’ll be preparing for the Ubuntu Below Zero (UBZ) conference over the next ten days, and ideas that come in before then could make it onto the agenda for the dev team.