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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #221 for the week of June 14 – 20, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 11.10 Development Update Call for Nominations for the Americas Regional Membership Board Ubuntu Stats LoCo News Michigan LoCo sponsorship of MUG Launchpad News […]

The terms of 2 of the 9 members of the Americas Regional Membership Board (Greg Grossmeier and Martin Albisetti) shall soon expire, and new members must be selected. The Americas Regional Membership Board considers applications for Ubuntu membership by contributors in the North and South American timezone, meeting for about an hour once a month. […]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #220 for the week of June 6 – June 13, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Weekly Ubuntu Development Update Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS End of Life Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released Ubuntu Stats LoCo News Ubuntu […]

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2. Codenamed "Natty Narwhal", 11.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work since Beta 1, fixing bugs and getting things all nice and […]

Ubuntu announced its 8.04 Desktop release almost 36 months ago, on April 24, 2008. For the LTS Desktop releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 36 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop will reach end of life on Thursday, May 12, 2011. […]