Ubuntu Weekly Report: 2nd - 8th March, 2008

On Monday, a San Francisco non-profit foundation joined swords with Untangle, a San Mateo-based open-source vendor in order to co-sponsor an all-day "Installfest for Schools" event. The new approach to install-fests targets 500 refurbished computers with older hardware that will be donated to underprivileged students attending the nearby schools.

On Tuesday, Dell started to offer Ubuntu 7.10 on the Inspiron 530n desktop to customers in China, because of the high number of requests from the clients. Unfortunately, DVD playback will not be supported on Ubuntu 7.10, in China.

Many of you asked about this Ubuntu theme (click me!), which is actually a mockup, and they wanted to have such a beauty on their desktops. Therefore, we created a tutorial, about how to create your own "sexylicious" Ubuntu desktop! In other words, to change its looks:

from this	to this

Last but not least, as expected, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Alpha 6 has been released on Friday and it comes with new technologies, such as ActiveDirectory integration, iSCSI support, memory protection, a brand-new firewall, the latest and greatest 2.6.24.3 Linux kernel and many many more.

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

• [USN-583-1] Evolution vulnerability
• [USN-584-1] OpenLDAP vulnerabilities
• [USN-582-2] Thunderbird vulnerabilities

The updates for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS are:

• gnatsweb 4.00-1ubuntu0.6.06
• evolution_2.6.1-0ubuntu7.2
• openldap2.2_2.2.26-5ubuntu2.6
• langpack-locales 2.3.18.9
• mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15
• lighttpd 1.4.11-3ubuntu3.7

Next, the updates for Ubuntu 6.10:

• gnatsweb 4.00-1ubuntu0.6.10
• evolution_2.8.1-0ubuntu4.2
• openldap2.2_2.2.26-5ubuntu3.3
• tzdata 2007k-0ubuntu0.6.10.1
• mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15
• lighttpd 1.4.13~r1370-1ubuntu1.5

The updates for Ubuntu 7.04 are:

• gnatsweb 4.00-1ubuntu0.7.04
• evolution_2.10.1-0ubuntu2.1
• openldap2.3_2.3.30-2ubuntu0.2
• tzdata 2007k-0ubuntu0.7.04.1
• mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15
• lighttpd 1.4.13-9ubuntu4.4

And finally, the updates for Ubuntu 7.10 are:

• gthumb 3:2.10.6-0ubuntu1.1
• ubuntu-docs 7.10.5
• evolution_2.12.1-0ubuntu1.1
• openldap2.3_2.3.35-1ubuntu0.2
• phpmyadmin_2.10.3-1ubuntu0.2
• tzdata 2007k-0ubuntu0.7.10.1
• parallels 2.2.2226-1gutsy1
• lighttpd 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.2

As you can see, the major updates this week are Evolution, Thunderbird and LightHTTPd! See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report and keep your Ubuntu up-to-date!

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