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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

With over a year of inactivity, the latest alpha of nUbuntu 8.04 has finally surfaced.

With this comes many new bug fixes and updates. All of the latest security and penetration tools are included to make this you’re primary pentesting livecd.

We’ve been working hard over the past month to bring you this update and the day has finally come and all the hard work paid off.

If you’re ready to download this, head on over to our download page here:

http://nubuntu.org/downloads.php

This release is much more stable and secure than any of its predecessors.

Please let us know of any bugs and anything you would like to see in the final version of this by posting at

http://forums.nubuntu.org

Join in the chat on IRC with your fellow nUbuntu’ers, we’re on the FreeNode IRC Network in #nubuntu

I would personally like to say thank you to all of our mirrors for donating their bandwidth.

-Phobos

Estobuntu 8.01 is released. Estobuntu is a remastered Kubuntu Gutsy Live CD that uses Estonian by default where ever possible, includes media codecs, Java, Firefox plugins and modifications for the Estonian ID-card to work out of the box with the most common Smart card readers in Estonia. After 8.01 release, team will look forward to Ubuntu 8.04 base distribution.

According to the Ubuntu development team and Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu derivative Gobuntu has been sucking up too many resources and will therefore be dropped in favour of an installation option in Ubuntu that installs only free software.

Almost a year ago the Ubuntu developers founded Gobuntu in order to offer a version of Ubuntu that did not include any proprietary components. Gobuntu was supposed to be a distro that stringently followed the guidelines of the Free Software Foundation. Free software licenses allow users to study the source code and modify the software to their liking without any limitations. Many people refuse to run proprietary software because they do not want to be limited by a license in what they can do with their computers.

Read more at Linux.com

Technology Alignment has announced the release of Pioneer Linux 3.2, a desktop distribution based on the recently released Ubuntu 8.04: “Technology Alignment sponsored and community open source projects, today announced the availability of Pioneer Explorer and Basic 3.2, the latest version of its open source Linux operating system….

Read more at DistroWatch

Stanislav Hoferek has announced the release of Greenie Linux 3.0.2, an enhanced, Ubuntu-based distribution designed primarily for Slovak and Czech-speaking users. Some of the most important changes since Greenie Linux 2.x series include: based on Ubuntu 8.04; new versions of included applications; improved Bash aliases for easier execution of certain commands;

Read more at DistroWatch

The release of Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 is running a few days behind schedule, but an interesting announcement has come out of the Canonical camp this morning. Gobuntu is an official Ubuntu-based distribution that’s funded by Canonical and its mission is to ship a distribution composed entirely of software packages that are approved by the Free Software Foundation…

Read more at Phoronix

A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system.

This particularly affects the use of encryption keys in OpenSSH. This vulnerability only affects operating systems which (like Ubuntu) are based on Debian. However, other systems can be indirectly affected if weak keys are imported into them.

We consider this an extremely serious vulnerability, and urge all users to act immediately to secure their systems. The following Ubuntu releases are affected: Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

ISOs available already on ubuntu.com and mirrors will not be updated with the new packages, but using the Update Manager to get security updates will replace the impacted packages. Users should then regenerate new keys.

ShipIt has stopped mailing CDs.

The 8.04.1 point release, expected in July, will include the updated packages.

Please see usn-612-2 for the latest information regarding updating your system and taking appropriate protective measures.

Ubuntu Fridge

The Ubuntu Muslim Edition team is proud to announce the final version of UbuntuME 8.04. It includes an installable live Desktop CD, a second CD with additional softwares (OpenOffice, Arabic language packs, Quran recitations etc.), an installable DVD (with more Quran recitations), and a script to convert standard Ubuntu installations to UbuntuME.
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