Demonstration of uTouch on Ubuntu Unity

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-14

To see a demonstration of uTouch on Ubuntu Unity click here.

Originally posted on Ubuntu Developers on blip.tv.

Launchpad read-only 22.00 UTC 13th October 2010

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-13

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around two hours on Wednesday the 13th of October, while we roll-out new Launchpad code.

Starts: 22.00 UTC 13th October 2010
Expected back: 00.00 UTC 14th October 2010

Originally posted here by Matthew Revell on October 12th, 2010 at 9:49 am

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 213

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-12

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #213 for the weeks of September 26th – October 10th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Invitation to Ubuntu Open Week – October 11 -15, 2010
  • Ubuntu 10.10 is Released
  • Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, Edubuntu
  • 10.10 10:10:10 – thank you and Happy Maverick Day!
  • Asia-Oceania RMB Positions Available
  • Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type
  • Ubuntu Fridge: We’re moving!
  • Forum Code of Conduct Updated
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo News
  • Ubuntu on ARM, the best since sliced bread
  • … and we’re live
  • Multi-touch at UDS-N in Orlando, October 25th-29th
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Ubuntu in the Cloud
  • Interview with Leann Ogasawara
  • Canonical to expand cooperation with PC vendors
  • TurnKey community development contest: let the judging begin!
  • Featured Podcasts
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: September 2010
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security
  • UWN Sneak Peek

And Much Much More This issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Amber Graner
  • Jonathan Carter
  • Liraz Siri
  • Daniel Calab
  • Nathan Handler
  • Alex Lourie
  • 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.

Invitation to Ubuntu Open Week – October 11 -15, 2010

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-11

You’re invited

to

Ubuntu Open Week

Where: Online in IRC – #ubuntu-classroom & #ubuntu-classroom-chat

When: Monday October 11, 2010 through Friday October 15, 2010

Time: 14:00 UTC – 18:00 UTC

  • Want to find out more about what’s happening in and around Ubuntu as well as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio?
  • Want a chance to ask Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu project , a few questions about the project?
  • Want to know more about how you, your LoCo team and your project can be more effective?
  • How about translations – want to know how you can get involved and help in this effort?

If you are interested in Ubuntu Open Week in Spanish go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek_ES

There is an exciting line up there as well!
If you answered yes to any of those questions then Ubuntu Open Week is for you. However, that’s not all. Below is a list by day of the scheduled sessions. Take a look I’m sure you’ll find something you would like to know more about. If so join #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat on freenode.net on Monday, October 11 through Friday, October 15, 2010.
Reminder all times are listed in UTC. For more information go to http://www.timeanddate.com/ Here’s the exciting line-up for next week’s sessions:

Monday, October 11, 2010

1400 UTC – Introduction and Random Q&A – Jono Bacon and Jorge Castro
1500 UTC – Helping LoCo Teams Help themselves – Laura Czajkowski
1600 UTC – Kubuntu is Awesome -Riddell
1700 UTC – How to contribute to Ubuntu – Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi – devildante

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

1400 UTC – Get started translating Ubuntu David Planella
1500 UTC – How to go from user to contributor: Finding your place in the Ubuntu Community – Laura Czajkowski
1600 UTC – How to Make Posters using Inkscape -Martin Owens
1700 UTC – Qimo 4 kids – Michelle Hall

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

1400 UTC – Accessibility is Important – Charlie Kravetz
1500 UTC – Intro to Ubuntu Development -bilalakhtar
1600 UTC – Intro to Ubuntu and Cloud, running your 1st Ubuntu Server on EC2 -AhmedKamal
1700 UTC – Deploying Web Applications in the Cloud – DustinKirkland

Thursday, October 14, 2010

1400 UTC – Ask Mark – Mark Shuttleworth
1500 UTC – Xubuntu-Alive and Well -Charlie Kravetz
1600 UTC – Screencasting How-to – duanedesign
1700 UTC – Ubuntu in Education -Belinda Lopez

Friday, October 15, 2010

1400 UTC – Best Practices for Translation Teams David Planella
1500 UTC – Ubuntu Studio Q&A – Scott Lavender
1600 UTC – Have you tried turning it off and then on again? – Jessica Ledbetter and Cheri703
1700 UTC – Bug Triaging: Do’s and Do not’s -hggdh

For more information on Ubuntu Open Week go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

Hope to see you there!

Originally posted here by Amber Graner on Sunday Oct 10, 2010

Ubuntu 10.10 is Released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-10-10

Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and Everything. To this end, a small band of these Debians built an incredibly powerful distribution, Ubuntu. After this great computer programme had run (a very quick 3 million minutes…or 6 years) the answer was announced. The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is…42, and in its’ purest form 101010. Which suggests that what you really need to know is ‘What was the Question?’. The great distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set of successors, marked by a circle of friends…to ultimately bring Unity to all things living…Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the ultimate answer.

And with that, the Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.10. Codenamed “Maverick Meerkat”, 10.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Read more about the features of Ubuntu 10.10 in the following press
releases:

Desktop and Netbook editions
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-edition
Server edition
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-10.10-server-edition

Canonical has also launched the ‘Ubuntu Server on Cloud 10’ program. Anyone will be able to try out Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition on Amazon EC2 for free for one hour. Visitors to the download pages will now be able to choose to experience the ease and speed of public cloud computing and Ubuntu. For a direct link to the trial, please go to
http://10.cloud.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu 10.10 will be supported for 18 months on desktops, netbooks, and
servers.

Thanks to the efforts of the global translation community, Ubuntu is available in 37 languages. For a list of supported languages and detailed translation statistics for these and other languages, see:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~dpm/ubuntu-10.10-translation-stats.html

Ubuntu 10.10 is also the basis for new 10.10 releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu:

Kubuntu http://kubuntu.org/news/10.10-release
Xubuntu http://xubuntu.org/news/10.10-release
Edubuntu http://edubuntu.org/news/10.10-release
Mythbuntu http://mythbuntu.org/10.10/release
Ubuntu Studio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/10.10release_notes

To Get Ubuntu 10.10
——————-

To download Ubuntu 10.10, or obtain CDs, visit:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu

Users of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 10.10 via Update Manager. For further information about upgrading, see:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010

Find out what’s new in this release with a graphical overview:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010overview

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren’t sure, try asking on the #ubuntu IRC channel, on the Ubuntu Users mailing list, or on the Ubuntu forums:

#ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

Helping Shape Ubuntu
——————–

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/

About Ubuntu
————

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, netbooks and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional services including support are available from Canonical and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit:

http://www.ubuntu.com/support

More Information
—————-

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this release on our
website:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu’s very low volume announcement list at:

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