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Hands-on: Ubuntu goes social, gains Me Menu in 10.04 alpha 3
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| Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu
| Linux distribution, is planning to overhaul
| the desktop panel and integrate social
| networking features in Ubuntu 10.04,
| codenamed Lucid Lynx. One of the key
| components of this effort is the Me Menu,
| which shipped in the Lucid alpha 3 last
| week.
|
| The Me Menu, which Canonical unveiled in
| December, provides a unified interface for
| managing your presence on instant messaging
| and social networking services. A text box
| that is embedded in the menu allows users to
| publish status messages to all of their
| accounts. The menu also provides easy access
| to the standard account and identity
| configuration tools.
|
| [...]
|
| Ubuntu 10.04 is a Long-Term Support (LTS)
| release, which means that Canonical intends
| to provide updates on the desktop for three
| years instead of the usual 18 months. During
| the development cycle for an LTS release,
| the Ubuntu developers focus on stabilization
| rather than introducing a lot of new
| features. Feature freeze is now in full
| effect, which means that the developers are
| going to be working primarily on bugfixes
| between now and the final release in April.
| The first beta release will come next month.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/03/hands-on-ubuntu-goes-social-gains-me-menu-in-1004-alpha-3.ars
Matt Asayâs Top Priorities and Goals
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| At the beginning of February Matt Asay moved
| from Alfresco to Canonical, and Mattâs blog
| activity already reflects his career change
| and I asked Matt about his top priorities in
| the new role.
|
| It has now been three weeks since I
| started with Canonical, and each day it
| becomes clearer to me just how massive
| is the opportunity before Canonical and
| the Ubuntu community, as well as the
| great care that must be taken to ensure
| that we realize this potential.
|
| Itâs also becoming clear what I, in
| particular, can do to help, coming after
| the successful tenure of Jane Silber,
| who was Canonicalâs COO and is now our
| CEO:
|
| 1. Enterprise. When most people
| think of Canonical and Ubuntu, they
| think âdesktop.â This isnât
| surprising, given Ubuntuâs popularity
| on traditional desktops and industry-
| changing netbooks alike. I have been
| amazed by how deep and wide Ubuntuâs
| penetration is in this market. Itâs
| much bigger than Iâve ever seen
| reported.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/03/01/matt-asays-top-priorities-and-goals/
Interview With Melissa
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| PS: How did you get involved with Ubuntu and
| free software in general?
|
| MD: Whilst doing a web development diploma,
| a teacher, a BSD fanatic and probably the
| most influential teacher I ever had, was in
| the habit of interpreting syllabi modules
| such as "install an operating system" fairly
| openly. He taught his students how to
| install Linux and BSD as well as Windows
| (amusing aside: he also taught my mother to
| do the same!) and so began my obsession with
| Linux. I played around with live
| distributions for a while then installed
| Ubuntu on an old computer. I soon found I
| did not need XP any more.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1988
Launchpad Moving to Closed Source Auth
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| Soon there will be a new release of
| launchpad and along with some new feature
| and bug fixes will be the move to only using
| an OpenID provider for the authentication.
| (This incidentally is why ground control 1.5
| is broken currently)
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http://doctormo.ubuntu-ma.us/2010/03/01/launchpad-moving-to-closed-source-auth/
Recent:
Ubuntu 10.4: My first impressions
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| Ubuntu 10.4 is going to be an exciting
| release. I am only hoping that Canonical
| will get the music added as well as the
| stability of the Ubuntu Software Center
| and the themes straightened out. Other
| than that, you can finally look forward to
| that heralded 10 second boot time you have
| been waiting for!
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http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/27/ubuntu-10-4-my-first-impressions/
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