Thanks to the awesome work of Joey Stanford and Matthew Nuzum, the Fridge has had a long overdue upgrade and complete re-design. We now have:
If you happen to run into any bugs, please report them in Launchpad so we can take care of them.
The Fridge is an information hub for the Ubuntu community, bringing together news, grassroots marketing, advocacy, team collaboration, and great original content.
Just like the family fridge at home, this is where we - the Ubuntu family - can put our best work on display for everyone to see. Whether you’re working on advocacy and local marketing in a LoCo team, creating wonderful new worlds of Ubuntu in a derivative team, or building the freedom and technology of the future in a development team, we want to help you tell the community about your success.
Full Circle - the Ubuntu Community Magazine is proud to announce the release of issue #2, which contains:
English language only at the moment, translations on the way…
Free Geek is a not for profit community organisation that recycles old computer parts and equipment and supplies them to under-privileged people, schools, and non-profit organisations in exchange for community service. They install Linux on all the machines they distribute.
Sadly, the Free Geek organization was recently the victim of burglary. The value of the stolen hardware has been estimated to be worth approximately $4,500. Numerous people and non-profit organisations are feeling the effects of this, most importantly the local school system. Read the full statement concerning the burglary.
The community around Free Geek are rallying their support to help the organisation with its loss, and the Fridge editors hope that many in the Ubuntu community will also lend a hand.
Interested in donating or helping out? You can donate either money or computer equipment.
For Fridge readers living in the Portland/Oregon area, please keep an eye out for laptops being sold with Linux pre-installed. The stolen laptops will be branded with a white Free Geek inventory sticker. Any information or leads can be reported at (503)232-9350.
The Ubuntu Documentation Team have kicked off an awesome new project — the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter!
Welcome to the first issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. Each week we will bring you news from in and around the Ubuntu community related to anything and everything about Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu. We hope you will enjoy these weekly newsletters, we certainly will enjoy keeping you informed about significant events each week. Read, stay informed and enjoy!
In this very special first issue, UWN covers:
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Fridge undercover reporter Jonathan Carter reports that the Ubuntu cake war is on! What is it about Ubuntu that inspires such delicious sugary treats? Only Fabio has made Ubuntu Bolognese. What will be next — an Ubuntu layered cocktail? Breakfast cereal? Soup? Now there’s a challenge.
Update: Gauntlet thrown, challenge met!
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.
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Some Ubuntu servers were offline for at least 6 1/2 hours on Sunday September 25th. This included both archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com, two servers used by many Ubuntites when doing package upgrades. The cause of the outage is still unknown. According to IRC logs obtained by The Fridge, the first reports of a problem started appearing on IRC at 5:26 UTC. The servers were back online shortly before 11:48 UTC. The outage generated a lot of questions on the IRC channel #ubuntu during that period, and the two main workarounds suggested to users were to use ftp instead of http in their apt sources.list, and to use official mirrors.
