Ubuntu Weekly Report: 24th February - 1st March, 2008

At the beginning of this week, not only that Canonical announced plans for Ubuntu Mobile, but WIBRAIN Korea launched its B1L UMPC device powered by none other than Ubuntu Linux. The device has a VIA 1GHz CPU and a huge 4.8-inch LCD display with a 1024 x 600 resolution.

System76 Inc., a leading provider of Ubuntu pre-installed laptops and desktops, announced on Tuesday that it would offer for sale its first line of certified, pre-installed servers that run Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition. The offer includes standard three-year parts replacement warranties and three years of operating system updates.

The great news this week was the launch of the incredible Ubuntu Brainstorm website, a place where anyone who cares about the future of the Ubuntu OS, and has a wonderful idea about how the system should look or perform in future versions, can post them for the Ubuntu developers to make these ideas reality (or not)!

In other news, Kubuntu released its first alpha version of the Kubuntu-KDE4 8.04 operating system, which includes version 4.0.1 of the popular and powerful KDE (K Desktop Environment) desktop.

In the end, I would like to mention, for those of you who like development releases, that the Alpha 6 of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (codename Hardy Heron) is on freeze and it's expected on Thursday, March 6.

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

• [USN-582-1] Thunderbird vulnerabilities

The updates for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS are:

• lighttpd 1.4.11-3ubuntu3.6
• lookup-el 1.4-4ubuntu0.6.06
• mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15

Next, the updates for Ubuntu 6.10:

• lighttpd 1.4.13
• lookup-el 1.4-4ubuntu0.6.10
• mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15

The updates for Ubuntu 7.04 are:

• lighttpd 1.4.13-9ubuntu4.3
• lookup-el 1.4-4ubuntu0.7.04
• mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15

And finally, the updates for Ubuntu 7.10 are:

• lighttpd, lighttpd 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.1
• thunderbird 2.0.0.12

The major update this week, and a surprise for everyone, was Mozilla Thunderbird mail client! See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report and keep an eye on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Alpha 6 this week!

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