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The Ubuntu development team yesterday released a series of security fixes for PHP running on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.04, 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

The updates fix a number of security risks in PHP, including a problem with PHP not properly checking the length of the string parameter to the fnmatch function. An attacker could cause a denial of service in the PHP interpreter if a script passed untrusted input to the fnmatch function.

The fix also fixes a flaw in the cURL library that allowed safe_mode and open_basedir restrictions to be bypassed. If a

PHP application were tricked into processing a bad file:// request, an attacker could read arbitrary files.

Read more at Tectonic

Essentially, all major computer retail stores will carry computers with Ubuntu pre-installed by the end of 2008 or early 2009, predicted a Canonical manager who met with The VAR Guy at OSCON. But this isn’t another Linux desktop PC story. In this case, the computers are Netbooks (also known as sub-notebooks). Here’s the scoop.

At least two “multinational corporations” (translation: Big PC or consumer electronics companies) have agreed to preinstall Ubuntu Netbook Remix edition on forthcoming sub-notebook devices, according to Gerry Carr, a Canonical marketing manager.

Read more at The Var Guy

This evening at OSCON 2008, Mark Shuttleworth had keynoted and talked about driving innovation within free software, the Web, and Linux on mobile devices were among the topics during his 30 minute talk.

In addition, Mark had talked briefly about revision control systems / bug reporting. Of course, he mentioned Canonical’s Launchpad…

Read more at Phoronix

The Ubuntu Muslim Edition team is proud to announce the release of UbuntuME 8.04.1. This release is only available as an installable DVD.

Highlights:

• WebStrict (parental control tool) enabled by default (so as browsing the Internet is safe)
• Zekr 0.7.0 (Quran study tool) installed and configured to play Quran recitations
• Minbar and Firefox “Pray Times” addon installed
• Monajat (display Islamic prayers)
• Thwab (encyclopedia)
• UbuntuME artworks: usplash, login screen, islamic wallpapers, theme etc.

Quran recitations provided by www.versebyversequran.com: Muhammad Siddeeq al-Minshawi (16kbps, 193 MB), Huzify (24 kbps, 322 MB), Sa’ad al-Ghamadi (40 kbps, 433 MB) and Mishary Rashed Alafasy (128 kbps, 1.6 GB)

NEW WITH THIS RELEASE
Tons of useful softwares have been added on the DVD:

• multimedia: libraries for reading DVDs, codecs, flash player, vlc etc.
• Education: full suite of softwares for kids (kturtle, tuxmath, tuxpaint, gcompris etc.), stellarium, celestia etc.
• Miscellaneous: scribux, inkscape, virtualbox, Adobe Reader, skype, ubuntu tweak, envyng, and a lot of utilities (compizconfig-settings-manager, nautilus-open-terminal, glipper, galternatives, startupmanager, pessulus etc.)
• Arabic support: language-pack-ar, aspell-ar, acon, bicon

The full list of packages and their description is available here: www.ubuntume.com/contents

To get Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.04.1: www.ubuntume.com/installation

xPUD is a small and fast booting LiveUSB, usually boots into X within 15-seconds, and starts an easy-to-use UI as soon as possible.

Being a Ubuntu derivative with APT/dpkg system, the rootfs is quite small: only 67MB of core image, including Ubuntu 8.04 compatible kernel, Xvesa as xserver, web browser (firefox), media player (mplayer) and input method (scim).

This project is under heavy development, and we’re looking forward to any kind of feedback, please visit http://xpud.org/ for more information.

Best regards,
penk

To Ubuntu Look pages section is added new Ubuntu derivate - Maryan Linux.
What is Maryan-linux?
It is a linux distribution based on Ubuntu with Enlightment 17 as default desktop.
Maryan Linux aims to be the most polished user-friendly E17 OS with the greatest ‘Out of Box’ experience.
Maryan also includes the most lightweight desktops environments, all them are ready-to-use: Fluxbox, Pekwm, LXde
You won’t know Enlightment 17 until you download it.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #100 for the week July
13th - July 19th, 2008. In this issue we cover: UWN 100th Issue, UWN
Past & Present Staff Podcast, Mark Shuttleworth podcast, Comments from
Past & Present Editors, Joining the UWN staff, New Ubuntu QA team,
Call for nominations for Tech Board, Alpha 3 soft freeze, Next UDS,
Peru LoCo gives Ubuntu presentation at San Marcos University, Ubuntu
Ireland gets local press coverage, Ubuntu Nicaragua Continues with TV
shows, New Leader for Ubuntu France, Ubuntu-UK podcast #10, and much,
much more!

== UWN Translations ==

* Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of
linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for
the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

== In This Issue ==

* Ubuntu 100th Issue
* UWN Past & Present Editors Podcast
* Mark Shuttleworth podcast
* Joining the UWN staff
* New Ubuntu QA team
* Call for nominations for Tech Board
* Alpha 3 soft freeze
* Next Ubuntu UDS
* Ubuntu stats
* LoCo news
* Ubuntu Forums news
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu-UK podcast #10
* UWN podcast transcriptions
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
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Yesterday we shared that Dell has started shipping Ubuntu 8.04 PCs. Initially there are only three “Dellbuntu” PCs (two notebooks and one desktop) with this Long-Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu, but additional models will begin appearing as soon as next month…

Read more at Phoronix

It’s finally official. Dell’s Ubuntu Linux PCs now come with the latest build of the operating system, version 8.04. That may not seem like news, but it’s actually a significant move by Dell. Here’s why.

Microsoft recently began its latest Windows Vista offensive, this time trying to assure partners and customers that they can migrate to Vista with confidence. Sure, Dell supports Vista — but the PC giant also supports customer choice.
Dell began offering Ubuntu on selected consumer PCs about a year ago. The VAR Guy has one (and, full disclosure, he loves it). But this is the year that Ubuntu was supposed to move from geek users to a broader set of consumers — thanks to the release of Ubuntu 8.04 in April 2008.

Read more at The Var Guy

For the last couple of weeks, Jordan Mantha been working behind the scenes on creating a community Ubuntu QA (quality assurance) team. For quite a while Canonical has largely driven QA efforts in Ubuntu. The community can and should step up in this area (see this wiki page for more background information).

In short, a new community-driven Ubuntu QA team is up and running! The IRC channel is #ubuntu-quality and the mailing list is ubuntu-qa.

Read more at Fridge