Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 239

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 239 for the week October 24 – 30, 2011. == Links to UWN ==  * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue239 == In This Issue ==  * Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS-P) * Ubuntu Community Survey Results * Ubuntu Community Survey Next Steps: Leadership * Ubuntu Community Survey Next Steps: Enhancing Recognition and Credit * Ubuntu [...]

CAELinux 2011, Based on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, Is Now Available

CAELinux 2011 has been released bringing with it new versions of its main packages, the computer-aided engineering software it’s built for. There aren’t that many new features from the previous release, if any, but it does bring newer packages all around, thanks to the updated Ubuntu underneath. “Today we are really proud to announce our [...]

Canonical and Dell Push Ubuntu PCs Into China

Ubuntu has found some new horizons in China. In a post on Canonical’s blog, it was announced that Canonical and Dell will bring PCs loaded with Ubuntu to the Chinese market. According to the post: “The stores will feature Ubuntu on a range of Dell computers, and will carry branded marketing collateral in-store, trained staff [...]

Review: Kubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”

You can consider this to be the second part of a series of reviews of the relatives of Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot. Today I’m reviewing Kubuntu. I’ve said some bad things about Kubuntu in the past. Mainly, it has to do with how a couple years ago on Ubuntu, KDE and GNOME would not mix [...]

Canonical and Red Hat Join Forces to Stop Secure Boot

Red Hat and Canonical, both announced a few minutes ago, October 28th, on a short press release that it published a white paper called UEFI Secure Boot Impact on Linux. The companies are also collaborating with The Linux Foundation, in order to make hardware manufacturers think twice before implementing the new “Secure Boot” feature of [...]

Canonical Changes OEM Strategy to Reflect New Customer Base

What do you do when your partners also become some of your most important customers? That’s a challenge Canonical executives grappled with recently as they moved to restructure Canonical’s relationship with OEMs. Here’s what’s changed at the company, and what it means for the open source channel. As Canonical CEO Jane Silber pointed out in [...]

Canonical Pursues Enterprise Customers with LTS Change

Canonical’s commitment to longterm support for Ubuntu just got longer, with businesses running Ubuntu on their desktops targeted as the chief beneficiaries. Here’s the scoop and what it says about Canonical’s strategy. In a recent announcement, Canonical reported that Ubuntu 12.04, the next longterm support (LTS) version of the operating system and slated for release [...]

Zentyal Migration Tool for Windows Server available!

Hi Zentyal users, We are glad to announce the availability of a new version of our Active Directory synchronization package for Windows (formerly known as Zentyal AD Sync), which has now been renamed to Zentyal Migration Tool. This first version allows to export basic DHCP and DNS settings from Windows servers to Zentyal, making the [...]

Ubuntu 11.10 review

Ubuntu Desktop 11.10, code-named Oneiric Ocelot, is the latest stable release of Ubuntu, a Linux distribution whose development is sponsored by Canonical Ltd., a Linux software provider with headquarters in the UK. Aside from Ubuntu, Canonical also sponsors Kubuntu (based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment), Lubuntu (LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), Xubuntu (Xfce), [...]

Ubuntu Development Update

Wow, one week into the release cycle and already and by the time of writing, we had 921 uploads to precise coming in already. This is very exciting, because a bunch of things are happening at the same time: new features and bug fixes are brought in from Upstream (including Debian) the delta between Ubuntu [...]