Ubuntu Look

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #105 for the week of August 17th - August 23rd, 2008 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Major update of Ubuntu Brainstorm: Call for testing
* Ubuntu Arabic Team
* New Xubuntu Developer: Michael Casadevall
* MOTU News
* Ubuntu Stats
* Software Freedom Day:Ubuntu Maryland
* Ubuntu New Jersey 2008 BBQ/LAN party
* Atlanta Linux Fest 2008
* Launchpad 2.1.8
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Blogger Wanted
* Happy Birthday Linux
* Meeting Summaries
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

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

I’ve just released the LiveCD for gNewSense 2.1, the second full release of DeltaH.
This bring in a number of updates, fixes and improvements.

Changes since 2.0 include:
- Linux-ubuntu-modules cleared of non-free blobs
- Usplash added, thanks to Jean
- New theme and artwork, thanks to Patricio, Briareo and Leo
- Readded fix for module-init-tools for eepro100
- Builder: LiveCD no longer asks for password on sudo
- Builder: Added support for extra repositories in python-apt
- Builder: Various tweaks, fixes and improvements from Karl

Download links:
LiveCD: http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-livecd-deltah-2.1.iso
LiveCD Torrent: http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-livecd-deltah-2.1.iso.torrent
LiveCD Source: http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-cdsource-deltah-2.1.tar

Upgrading from 1.9/2.0: Follow the upgrade notifications in Gnome. There’s no need to download the 2.1 CD.
To change to the gNewSense theme in Gnome, go to System -> Preferences -> Appearance. Select ‘gNewSense’ in the ‘Themes’ tab and press ‘Close’.

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As always, we’re in #gnewsense on irc://chat.freenode.net.
More details about gNewSense can be found at http://www.gnewsense.org

Yours,
Brian Brazil
gNewSense Head Developer