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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 179
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| Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter,
| Issue #179 for the week January 31st -
| February 6th, 2010. In this issue we cover:
| Open source industry veteran Matt Asay
| joins Canonical as COO, Lucid Translations
| now open, Ubuntu Developer Week Re-Cap,
| Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Maintenance release,
| Lucid Ubuntu Global Jam Announced, Project
| Awesome Opportunity, New Ubuntu Review
| Team: Reviewing bug with patches, Jane
| Silber Interview, Dustin Kirkland
| Interview: Encryption in Ubuntu, Nicaraguan
| LoCo Team's Third Anniversary, Report on
| Launchpad down-time of 4th Feb 2010,
| January Team Meeting Reports, and much,
| much more!
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue179
Project Awesome Opportunity
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| In the continued interests of making Ubuntu
| a rocking platform for opportunistic
| developers, today we formulated the plan
| for Project Awesome Opportunity. The goal
| is simple: build an opportunistic
| development workflow into Ubuntu. You will
| install one package from Universe and your
| Ubuntu will be hot-rodded for opportunistic
| application development, making development
| more fun and more accessible for a glorious
| itch scratching smackdown.
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http://www.linux.com/distrocentral/distroblogs/283608:project-awesome-opportunity
Portable Ubuntu
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| Last week, I made note of one of the more
| intriguing software packages I have come
| across in a long time: Portable Ubuntu. I
| said at the time that, as a means of
| bringing the convenience of Unix utilities
| to my Windows workstation...
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http://gusvanhorn.blogspot.com/2010/02/portable-ubuntu.html
Ubuntu Development: Quickly, Lernid, and Ground Control
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| The Lucid (10.04) development cycle has
| some really interesting ... er ...
| developments with regard to ... uh ... the
| development landscape. Wow. That was an
| awful sentence.
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http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2010/02/ubuntu-development-quickly-lernid-and.html
Indicator and me menu, lucid looking awesome
http://shanefagan.com/2010/02/06/indicator-and-me-menu-lucid-looking-awesome/
KSM Now Enabled in Ubuntu Lucid
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/02/ksm-now-enabled-in-ubuntu-lucid.html
Recent:
Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 brings Pitivi, panel changes
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| The Ubuntu development community announced
| today the availability of Ubuntu 10.04 alpha
| 2, a new prerelease of the next major version
| of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. This alpha
| is the first Ubuntu release to completely omit
| HAL, a Linux hardware abstraction layer that
| is being deprecated in favor of DeviceKit.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/01/ubuntu-1004-alpha-2-brings-pitivi-panel-changes.ars
Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 2
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| The Ubuntu developers have announced the
| availability of the second alpha release of
| Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, code named "Lucid Lynx".
| The latest development milestone is the
| second of three planned alpha releases,
| which will be followed by two beta releases
| and then a release candidate.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-releases-Ubuntu-10-04-LTS-Alpha-2-905001.html
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 2 Has Plymouth
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| A few minutes ago, the Ubuntu development
| team unleashed the second alpha version of
| the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
| operating system, due for release in late
| April this year. As usual, we've downloaded
| a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-
| date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu
| 10.04 LTS development.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-10-04-LTS-Alpha-2-Has-Better-Support-for-Nvidia-132086.shtml
Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 Removes HAL
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| "HAL" unfortunately isn't the heinous
| supercomputer from Kubrick's film 2001, but
| Ubuntu's Hardware Abstraction Layer between
| Ubuntu's hardware and software. It has now
| disappeared entirely from the current
| Ubuntu 10.04 test version, it's function
| being taken over among other things by
| DeviceKit. The advantage to this, according
| to the official announcement, is that
| Ubuntu has a faster boot and startup from
| hibernate time.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-10.04-Alpha-2-Removes-HAL
Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 Benchmarks With Early Fedora 13 Numbers
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| Overall, there are both good and bad
| performance improvements for Ubuntu 10.04
| LTS Alpha 2 in relation to Ubuntu 9.10.
| Most of the negative regressions are
| attributed to the EXT4 file-system losing
| some of its performance charm. With using a
| pre-alpha snapshot of Fedora 13 and the
| benchmark results just being provided for
| reference purposes, we will hold off on
| looking into greater detail at this next
| Red Hat Linux update until it matures. You
| can run your own tests though if you wish
| using our open-source Phoronix Test Suite
| benchmarking platform.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_lucid_alpha2&num=1
What's Coming In Lucid Alpha 2?
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| The second Alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04
| Lucid Lynx is due for release next Thursday
| (14th January) but what can you expect to
| find inside it?
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http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/01/whats-coming-in-lucid-alpha-2.html
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