Post-Holiday Catch Up

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-02

We hope everyone had a safe and prosperous holidays. Now that we’re all done stuffing ourselves from our real fridges, it’s time to catch up on what’s been going on in Ubuntu land.

  • Ben Collins is looking for AMD64 volunteers to help test the new SMP/Uniprocessor kernels.
  • Daniel Holbach has posted the latest Desktop Team minutes.
  • Alain Perry was wondering if there was a list of “Love Tasks” that volunteers could contribute for desktop specific tasks. Sebastien Bacher was happy to provide a nice TODO list of desktop work. Also, don’t be afraid to stop by #ubuntu-desktop on freenode.
  • Linux Journal has a thorough review of Jeff Waugh’s BadgerBadgerBadgerTour appearance in Toronto, Canada. (Lots of good Ubuntu stuff here).
  • Corey Burger pointed out that the wiki could use some help, check out their TODO page for some low hanging fruit.
  • Erast Benson from the Nexenta (an Ubuntu derivate using the OpenSolaris kernel) team has posted a small update on their progress porting the GNOME System Tools to their system.
  • Dennis Kaarsemaker keeps us updated with the latest Community Council minutes. This week saw Lucas Nussbaum and Irvin Piraman join the Ubuntu Team. Welcome!

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Asia Business Tour Ready to Roll

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-17

This past fall Jeff Waugh toured around North American and Europe in a grueling Badger Badger Badger Tour, bringing the spirit of Ubuntu to any LUG and LocoTeam willing to listen. The sabdfl has just announced his intent to expand the Ubuntu touring concept by visiting Asia and the surrounding area with the Asia Business Tour. Mark plans to lead a team of Ubuntu advocates spanning (so far) 17 major cities across 12 countries.

In each location listed below we plan to host a business breakfast/lunch with local companies, and then hold in-depth meetings with selected companies, as time allows. We would like to reach out to our local community in each location to help us build relationships with various entities, including government, technology companies, universities, and anyone who you can think would benefit from Ubuntu and what it has to offer.

The tour will take place during January and February of 2006, so heads up to all Ubunteros in Asia.

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UDN – Issue #1

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-16

Vincent Untz, perennial GNOME hacker and a member of the Desktop Team has published the first issue of the Ubuntu Desktop News (UDN). Highlights include gconf and rhythmbox improvements, Michael Vogt’s slick new click-and-install .deb tool, gdebi, and shots of the new logout window prototype.

Vincent caps off the first issue an interview with the GNOME packaging machine, aka Sebastien Bacher, who handles a large part of bringing desktop goodness into the distribution:

Some people call me “sebuild”, I’m kind of a “serial updater” :). Joke aside my main job is to update GNOME packages every time upstream roll a new tarball and to handle bugs we get about the GNOME packages (most of the desktop stuff).

In related Desktop Team news, the minutes from the first desktop meeting are up in case you missed them. If you’re interested in helping out the desktop folks, then Bug Day is a good day to start.

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Heavy Metal for Human Beings

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-14
September 2004:
Ubuntu 4.10 Preview launched to rave reviews. By all accounts, it was a smashing desktop… But deep underneath lay the foundations of a server powerhouse, waiting to be unleashed.
April 2005:
Ubuntu 5.04 ships with an minimal server profile option on the installation CD. A growing number of server administrators are realising the unique combination of benefits provided by the Ubuntu commitment and community – 6 month release cycles, 18 month support cycles, timely and reliable security updates, a rock solid server platform and mountains of systems administration experience in the Ubuntu and Debian communities.
October 2005:
Ubuntu 5.10 ships with a dedicated server installation CD, containing the minimal default server profile, and a ready-to-go selection of the popular Open Source server applications supported by the Ubuntu team. Already popular for edge services such as web, mail, database and firewalls, Ubuntu picks up interest in the High Performance Computing community. IBM’s DB2 is certified on Ubuntu, signifying its entry into the enterprise database platform market.
December 2005:
The Ubuntu Server Team is established to pursue short term, high impact goals for the Ubuntu 6.04 release, such as server hardware testing and kernel quality assurance. Plans are laid for future developments in “Just Works” server setup and operation.

Join the Ubuntu Server Team today, and bring the spirit of Ubuntu to the server world!

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Flight CD 2 Released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-12-14

Flight CD 2 is ready. This is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Dapper development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Dapper. You can download it from the following locations. Please use bittorrent!

A list of notable changes in this release across the whole distribution is available, thanks to Matt Galvin. For more information, see the complete announcement.

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