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Ubuntu Weekly Report: 10th - 15th February, 2008

Hardy Heron Alpha 5 coming this Thursday, Ubuntu top open source vendor, Firefox 3 Beta 3 and more...

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

18th of February 2008, 07:33 GMT

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Hot news ladies, gentlemen and fellow Ubuntuers, as on Monday, Alfresco, one of the leading open source alternatives for enterprise content management, announced that Ubuntu and Red Hat were Top Open Source Vendors after the results of their poll, started among its 35,000 members to see what operating systems are the most used. Read here for more information.

Everybody's talking these days about the brand new beta

release of Firefox 3, that it brings many improvements and memory leaks fixes, that it is extremely fast and polishes rough edges. Therefore, if you want to install Firefox 3 Beta 3 on Ubuntu 7.10 take a look at our extremely easy to use step-by-step tutorial, here.

Hardy Heron Alpha 5 is expected this Thursday and from now on until the final release, the development team will focus on polishing and bug fixing. Also, they officially announced that PulseAudio would be the default sound server in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, due to release on April 24.

Now, let's move on to the security updates and fixes for all the Ubuntu releases. First, the common security updates:

￭ [USN-577-1] Linux kernel vulnerability
￭ [USN-578-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

The updates for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS are:

￭ wzdftpd 0.6.1-1ubuntu1.2
￭ python-uncertainities 0.001-3.1ubuntu1.1
￭ vmware-player-kernel-2.6.15
￭ linux-source-2.6.15 2.6.15-51.66
￭ linux-backports-modules-2.6.15 2.6.15-51.9
￭ linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 2.6.15.12-51.2
￭ clamav_0.92~dfsg-2~dapper1ubuntu0.1
￭ update-manager-core 0.56

Next, the updates for Ubuntu 6.10:

￭ linux-source-2.6.17

The updates for Ubuntu 7.04 are:

￭ linux-source-2.6.20
￭ dspam 3.6.8-4ubuntu1.1
￭ clamav_0.90.2-0ubuntu1.6
￭ klavaro 1.0.1-1ubuntu1

And finally, the updates for Ubuntu 7.10 are:

￭ linux-source-2.6.22 2.6.22-14.52
￭ klavaro 1.0.3-1ubuntu1
￭ twill 0.9~b1-1ubuntu0.1
￭ clamav_0.91.2-3ubuntu2.3

Another important kernel update for this week, so you better keep your system up-to-date! See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report!

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Comment #1 by: Adam Watkin on 20 Feb 2008, 13:30 GMT	reply to this comment
I think that hardy will be a great movement in the right direction, and i hope that it is well polished in terms of the bug fixes etc. Does anyone know if the image is a real theme for ubuntu? i would love to have that on my machine!!!

Comment #1.1 by: marius.nestor on 20 Feb 2008, 14:40 GMT

Yeah, me too :) That's NOT real, it's a mockup. However, some tried to create a real theme that looks like that:

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Themes/Hardy-Theme-34507.shtml

It doesn't look that great, but it's a start :)

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