Official Ubuntu Server Book 3rd Edition

Prentice Hall has just released the 3rd Ed. of “The Official Ubuntu Server Book” authored by Kyle Rankin and Benjamin Mako Hill. As background, the 2nd Ed. published in 2010 and the book has since been updated to remain as the definitive, authoritative guide to getting up and running quickly with the newest, most powerful versions of Ubuntu Server. You can skim the complete Table of Contents and read a free sample chapter, #3, “Package Management”, here on the publisher site:

Prentice Hall will be pleased to ship approved LoCo teams each (1) free copy of this new edition. This will be a great addition to each team’s library of Ubuntu books! To keep this as simple as possible, you can request your book by following these steps. The team contact shown on our LoCo Team List (and only the team contact) should send an email to usergroups at informit.com and include the following details:

  • Your full name.
  • Which team you are from
  • If your team resides within North America, please provide:
    • Your complete street address (the book will ship by UPS)
  • If your team resides outside North America, you will first be emailed a voucher code to download the complete eBook bundle from the publisher site, InformIT, which includes the ePub/mobi/pdf files.

If you wish to be considered for a print copy, please provide:

  • Your complete street address
  • Your region
  • Your country
  • AND IMPORTANT: Your phone number, including country and area code.

Pearson will make its best effort to arrange shipment through its nearest corporate office.

A few notes:

  • Only approved teams are eligible for a free copy of the book.
  • Only the team contact for each team can make the request for the book.
  • There is a limit of (1) copy of each book per approved team.
  • Prentice Hall will cover postage, but not any import tax or other shipping fees.
  • When you have the books, it is up to you what you do with them. We recommend you share them between members of the team. LoCo Leaders: please don’t hog them for yourselves!
  • The deadline for getting your requests in SEPTEMBER 15, 2013.

If you have any questions or concerns, please directly contact Prentice Hall’s Heather Fox at heather DOT fox @ pearson DOT com. Also, for those teams who are not approved or yet to be approved, you can still score a rather nice 35% discount on the books by registering your LoCo with the Pearson User Group Program.

Originally posted to the loco-contacts mailing list on Wed Aug 14 20:18:48 UTC 2013 by Jorge O. Castro

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 329

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #329 for the week August 5 – 11, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
  • Paul White
  • Tiago Carrondo
  • Joel Braun
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 328

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #328 for the week July 29 – August 4, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
  • Paul White
  • Stephen Michael Kellat
  • Joel Braun
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 327

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #327 for the week July 22 – 28, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
  • Paul White
  • Nathan Dyer
  • John Kim
  • Joel Braun
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Alpha 2 Available

The second Alpha of the Saucy Salamander (to become 13.10) has now been released for testers and early adopters.

This alpha features images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, UbuntuKylin, and Xubuntu.

Pre-releases of Saucy Salamander are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready.

Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.

While these Alpha 2 images have been tested and work, except as noted in the release notes, Ubuntu developers are continuing to improve Saucy Salamander. In particular, once newer daily images are available, system installation bugs identified in the Alpha 2 installer should be verified against the current daily image before being reported in Launchpad. Using an obsolete image to re-report bugs that have already been fixed wastes your time and the time of developers who are busy trying to make 13.10 the best Ubuntu release yet. Always ensure your system is up to date before reporting bugs.

Kubuntu:

Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project.

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on Kubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Kubuntu

Lubuntu:

Lubuntu is a flavour of Ubuntu that targets to be lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI.

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on Lubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Lubuntu

Ubuntu GNOME:

Ubuntu GNOME is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME desktop environment.

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on Ubuntu GNOME Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/UbuntuGNOME

Xubuntu:

Xubuntu is Ubuntu flavour with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu;/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on Xubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Xubuntu

UbuntuKylin:

UbuntuKylin is a flavour of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users.

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on UbuntuKylin Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuKylin/1310-alpha-2-ReleaseNote

Regular daily images for Ubuntu (Unity) can be found at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

If you’re interested in following the changes as we further develop Saucy, we suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases and other interesting events.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Jonathan Riddell on Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:48 UTC