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…
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:
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:
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
Read the rest of this entry »
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…
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.
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.
Ubuntu Linux isn’t just for desktop users anymore. That will be the key message when Canonical and Openbravo demonstrate open source ERP software on Ubuntu servers at Linuxworld in August, The VAR Guy has learned. Here’s the scoop, directly from Openbravo CEO Manel Sarasa (pictured).
First, a little about Openbravo. Based in Spain, Openbravo is an open source company that focuses on enterprise resource planning (ERP) and point-of-sale (POS) software. Yes, open source ERP and POS — a killer combination for a market that needs disrupting, The VAR Guy believes.
Linux Mint 5 XFCE Community Edition RC1 (BETA 025) is out and available for download. We’re planning to release the stable version of this edition in two weeks so I hope you’ll be numerous to test it and we’ll receive plenty of feedback.
Please find all relevant information about this release at this address: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_elyssa_xfce.php
I’d also like to thank and congratulate Merlwiz79 for maintaining this edition and for making it better and better with each release.
Have fun with it and don’t forget to give us feedback by replying to this thread.
Clem.
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