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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #173 for the week December 13th – December 19th, 2009 is available. In this issue we cover: * Mark Shuttleworth: My new focus at Canonical * Lucid Community Team Plans * Michal Zajac (quintasan) Interview * Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Notification * Ubuntu Stats * New update for the [...] Canonical has revealed plans to bring social networking integration and GNOME panel improvements in the next major version of Ubuntu. Notification area icons will be replaced by a new application indicator system. The panel will also feature a new Me Menu for setting messaging status. Canonical has lifted the curtains on some ambitious plans to [...] We’re currently developing a website for the Linux Mint community where you’ll be able to do the following: Have ideas to improve Linux Mint, comment and rate other people’s ideas (similar to a light version of “Brainstorm”) Register your hardware devices, find people with the same hardware as you and if it doesn’t work for [...] In a morning press call on December 17th, 2009 Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was stepping down as head of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. In his place, Jane Silber, the current Chief Operating Officer who has been with Canonical since 2004 will take over as CEO. Shuttleworth added that he will not, in any [...] I’ve been using Ubuntu since version 5.04, in 2006. Since then it has only gotten better. Here is why I think Ubuntu excels in many points. 1 – Free Read more at Ubuntu Geek One of Ubuntu’s most useful but rarely discussed features is one-click installation of a variety of popular webapps via Mozilla’s Prism. Here’s a look at what Prism can do in Ubuntu, with some thoughts on why Canonical should work harder to push features like this. In Mozilla’s words, “Prism is an application that lets users [...] Ubuntu is more than a desktop operating system. That continues to be the message from Canonical, which is promoting another Ubuntu Server Edition user survey in a bid to better understand how customers are deploying the server operating system. Here’s the scoop. No doubt, Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SUSE linux maintain [...] Ubuntu Software Center (initially Ubuntu Software Store) was released with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and it currently has only a few of the features it was designed for, being just stage 1 out of 4. The Ubuntu Software Center is a graphical utility for package management in Ubuntu. In version 1, it builds on the [...] It’s not like I actually did anything, but my issues regarding my Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptop from the long-ago year 2001 and its Intel 82830 (aka 830m) video not working all that well in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) have mostly disappeared. By that I mean when GNOME decides to turn on the screensaver, I’m able to [...] |
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