At the beginning of this week, Canonical announced the Ubuntu Desktop Training program, a good way for corporate and home desktop users to learn and get used with Ubuntu. After taking the Ubuntu Desktop Training course, users will be able to understand the concepts of open source and how they tie in with Ubuntu, customize the look and feel of the Ubuntu desktop, navigate through the file system and search for files, connect to and use the Internet, perform basic word-processing and spreadsheet functions using OpenOffice.org, install and play games, add, remove and update applications, view, draw, manipulate and scan images, play, edit and organize music and video files, seek help on Ubuntu from free and commercial sources, create partitions and dual-boot options.

On Wednesday, AMD announced a new version of their video driver for ATI/Radeon graphic cards, a version which introduces early support for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

On Thursday, the Ubuntu Open Week was announced and it will take place from Mon 28 April 'till Sat 3 May, 2008, on IRC in the #ubuntu-classroom channel. If you participate in the Ubuntu Open Week, you could learn about the Ubuntu landscape, talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project, find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical, participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, and much more.

If you are anxious to get your hands on some nice CDs with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) as soon as possible, then you should know that Ubuntu's ShipIt service started to take orders on Thursday morning, FREE of charge. Go and order your Ubuntu CDs right now!

And finally, on Friday, Canonical released the RC version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, which is very similar to the final release (due for release on 24 April, 2008).

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

￭ [USN-601-1] Squid vulnerability
￭ [USN-603-1] poppler vulnerability
￭ [USN-603-2] KOffice vulnerability

The updates for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS are:

￭ squid_2.5.12-4ubuntu2.4
￭ mysql-dfsg-5.0 5.0.22-0ubuntu6.06.10
￭ poppler 0.5.1-0ubuntu7.4
￭ koffice 1:1.5.0-0ubuntu9.4

Next, the updates for Ubuntu 6.10:

￭ squid_2.6.1-3ubuntu1.7
￭ lighttpd 1.4.13~r1370-1ubuntu1.7
￭ poppler 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.4
￭ koffice 1:1.5.2-0ubuntu2.4

Here are the updates for Ubuntu 7.04:

￭ squid_2.6.5-4ubuntu2.2
￭ libapache2-mod-python 3.2.10-3ubuntu1.1
￭ lighttpd 1.4.13-9ubuntu4.6
￭ poppler 0.5.4-0ubuntu8.3
￭ koffice_1.6.2-0ubuntu1.3

And finally, the updates for Ubuntu 7.10 are:

￭ squid_2.6.14-1ubuntu2.2
￭ update-manager 1:0.81.3
￭ lighttpd 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.4
￭ poppler 0.6-0ubuntu2.2
￭ koffice_1.6.3-0ubuntu5.2

As you can see, the major updates this week are Lighttpd, Squid and KOffice. See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report and always remember to keep your Ubuntu up-to-date!

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