Ubuntu Weekly Report: 23rd - 29th September

Another full week for the Ubuntu community has ended. This week was special, as the Beta version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was released and there were a lot of reviews out there about the new features it will bring. Keep on reading to find out more!

I'm sure many of you already installed this beta to see if their hardware works better and to see the new things it brings. However, let's have a quick look over some of the new features to be included in Ubuntu 7.10:

￭ Desktop Highlights: Compiz Fusion, Printer installation, Free Flash support with Gnash and Automated Firefox plugin installation.
￭ Server Highlights: App`Armor and Pre-configured installation options
￭ Edubuntu Highlights: Faster thin clients
￭ Kubuntu Highlights: In addition to the above Desktop Highlights, Dolphin file manager, Strigi desktop search and Restricted-manager.

In other news, the Florida Loco Team was approved this week, because of their advocacy, community involvement and charitable donations. The Florida Loco Team was very active in the Community Expo's, Software Freedom Day events, Bar Camp and Bar Camp Orlando. They will release a Florida Team LiveCD and they will collaborate with the Alabama Loco Team and the Georgia Loco Team on a multi-state Linux Fest.

Moreover, the Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania LoCo Teams participated in the Ohio LinuxFest 2007, the fifth annual event that took place on September 29, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio. Over 2000 people visited the Ohio LoCo booth!

Let's move on to the updates and fixes for 6.06 LTS, 6.10, 7.04 Ubuntu releases. Some common security fixes for all of them are:

￭ USN-517-1 kdm vulnerability
￭ USN-518-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
￭ USN-519-1 elinks vulnerability
￭ USN-520-1 fetchmail vulnerabilities
￭ USN-521-1 libmodplug vulnerability
￭ USN-522-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Let's start now with the older version, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and see what updates were made for it:

￭ kdebase 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu27.2
￭ linux-source-2.6.15 2.6.15-29.60
￭ elinks 0.10.6-1ubuntu3.2
￭ fetchmail 6.3.2-2ubuntu2.2
￭ libmodplug 1:0.7-5ubuntu0.6.06.1
￭ openssl 0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.4

Now let's see what updates were made for Ubuntu 6.10:

￭ kdebase 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3.6
￭ linux-source-2.6.17 2.6.17.1-12.41
￭ elinks 0.11.1-1ubuntu2.2
￭ fetchmail 6.3.4-1ubuntu4.2
￭ libmodplug 1:0.7-5ubuntu0.6.10.1
￭ openssl 0.9.8b-2ubuntu2.1

And finally, the updates for Ubuntu 7.04:

￭ kdebase 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu20.3
￭ linux-source-2.6.20 2.6.20-16.32
￭ realplay 10.0.9-0feisty3
￭ kdebase 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu20.4
￭ elinks 0.11.1-1.2ubuntu2.2
￭ fetchmail 6.3.6-1ubuntu2.1
￭ kdebase 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu20.5
￭ openssl 0.9.8c-4ubuntu0.1

Now that the beta version has been released, everyone is welcome to install and test it, and I'm pretty sure it will make a lot of waves in the Linux world. See you next week with more great news about Ubuntu! Oh, and don't forget to check our website on 18th October for the final release of Ubuntu 7.10.

You can read more on the official Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

You can download the Beta version of Ubuntu 7.10 (for testing purposes only) right now from Softpedia.

You can download Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now from Softpedia.

You can download Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now from Softpedia.

You can download Xubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now from Softpedia.

You can download Edubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn right now from Softpedia.