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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 226 for the week July 24 - 30, 2011.
[size="5"]In This Issue[/size]
- Unity Progress Report - Alt-Tab style
- New ISO images available : Lubuntu
- Ubuntu 11.10 Development update
- Ubuntu Stats
- [REMINDER] Please file your re-approvals, if your team is due!
- Let There Be Jam!
- Launchpad News
- Stephane Graber: State of IPv6 in Ubuntu Oneiric
- Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Cloud Days complete, logs available
- Jorge Castro: A retrospective of the first year of Ask Ubuntu
- A big thanks to our 1 million users: have some storage on us!
- Featured Podcasts
- Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
- And much more!
[size="5"]General Community News[/size]
*[size="3"]Unity Progress Report - Alt-Tab style[/size]*
A look at the progress that has been made in Unity for the past week with a special look at the new alt-tab style that will be landing in Oneiric. Unity Contributors contributions, bugs fixed in Oneiric as well as steps on how to get involved round up this report.
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/07/26/unity-progress-report-alt-tab-style/
*[size="3"]New ISO images available : Lubuntu[/size]*
Julien Lavergne shares the news of the latest ISOs of Lubuntu which are now available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/. Julien also mentions that he hopes that the next release of Lubuntu will be the first official release of Lubuntu as part of the Ubuntu family.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-July/033774.html
*[size="3"]Ubuntu 11.10 Development update[/size]*
Next week the 3rd Alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 is due and everybody is trying to get ready for the release. The switch from Gnome 2.32 in Ubuntu 11.04 to Gnome 3 for Ubuntu 11.10 is going really well with the Gnome 3 team consisting of mostly non-Canonical contributors. Also meet a new contributor, Christian Titze from Germany.
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/07/28/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-5/
[size="5"]Ubuntu Stats[/size]
*[size="3"]Bug Stats[/size]*in
- Open (84306) -88 over last week
- Critical (159) +6 over last week
- Unconfirmed (46566) -161 over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
*[size="3"]Translation Stats Oneiric[/size]*
- Spanish: (10568) -3 over last week
- English (United Kingdom) : (50477) +500 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese: (51937) -3239 over last week
- French: (71226) +436 over last week
- German: (75903) -185 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Oncelot", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations
*[size="3"]Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week[/size]*
- Streamline boot-up process when using full-disk encryption: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28317/
Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
*[size="3"]Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week[/size]*
- How to use "grep" command to find text including subdirectories: http://askubuntu.com/questions/55325/how-to-use-grep-command-to-find-text-including-subdirectories
- What do "." and ".." mean when in a folder?: http://askubuntu.com/questions/54900/what-do-and-mean-when-in-a-folder
- Is there any Window Manager like the Windows 7's for Ubuntu?: http://askubuntu.com/questions/54881/is-there-any-window-manager-like-the-windows-7s-for-ubuntu
- Is the command line structure the same for Linu