Ubuntu Weekly Report: 30th September - 6th October

Last week was full of events for the Ubuntu community: the freezing of the Gutsy archive, a countdown script for websites, the release of UbuntuBolivia by the Bolivian LoCo Team and a lot more!

Gutsy's Archive is Frozen

The archive for the upcoming Gutsy release has been frozen and only uploads that fix specific release-relevant bugs will be accepted until the official release.

The Countdown Script for Gutsy

A countdown script created by Matthew Nuzum was added on the Ubuntu.com homepage. The script can be added to a website by copying the code from here and pasting it on your site. Each day the image will change, showing the remaining days until the release. Also, you will have the freedom to modify the image as you like.

UbuntuBolivia - a Bolivian Flavor of Ubuntu

The Bolivian LoCo team, in collaboration with 7th Bolivia's Free Software National Congress have created a custom edition of Ubuntu called "Ubuntu Bolivia". The distribution of 1000 packs with a hardcover including two CDs and "Powered by" stickers will begin this week.

The persons targeted by this distribution are those who don't have an Internet connection, so they can enjoy a complete Ubuntu system. The packs contain a Live CD and installer plus an add-on CD with additional software. The next version will be based on Gutsy Gibbon and will include native language support for quechua, aymara and guarani.

In a very publicized article, Larry Magid at the NY Times provides an overview of using Linux and Ubuntu on the desktop, where he quotes Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, as saying: "Linux is a political idea — an idea of freedom. They don’t want to be tied to Microsoft or Apple. They want choice. To them it’s a greater cause."While "Linux has always had a reputation of being difficult to install and daunting to use...those reasons for rejecting Linux are disappearing."

This week also gave more updates and fixes for 6.06 LTS, 6.10, 7.04 Ubuntu releases. Let's see the common security fixes for all of them:

• USN-523-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities
• USN-524-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerability
• USN-525-1: libsndfile vulnerability
• USN-526-1: debian-goodies vulnerability

For Ubuntu 6.06 LTS were made the following updates:

• openldap2.2 2.2.26-5ubuntu2.3
• vlc 0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu6.1
• dokuwiki 0.0.20050922-4ubuntu1.2
• ircii-pana 1:1.1-4ubuntu0.1
• imagemagick 6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.7
• openoffice.org-amd64 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.5-1
• openoffice.org 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.5
• libsndfile 1.0.12-3ubuntu1
• debian-goodies 0.23ubuntu0.6.06.1
• lilo-installer 1.14ubuntu4

The next in line is Ubuntu 6.10:

• apticron 1.1.16-0ubuntu0.1~prop1
• dokuwiki 0.0.20060309-5ubuntu0.1
• ircii-pana 1:1.1-4ubuntu1.1
• imagemagick 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.10ubuntu0.4
• upstart 0.2.7-7.2
• openoffice.org 2.0.4-0ubuntu7
• libsndfile 1.0.16-1ubuntu0.6.10.1
• debian-goodies 0.23ubuntu0.6.10.1
• vnc4 4.1.1+xorg1.0.2-0ubuntu1.6.10.2

And finally, the updates for Ubuntu 7.04:

• dokuwiki 0.0.20061106-6ubuntu0.1
• ircii-pana 1:1.1-4ubuntu2.1
• imagemagick 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14ubuntu0.2
• openoffice.org 2.2.0-1ubuntu5
• libsndfile 1.0.16-1ubuntu0.7.04.1
• debian-goodies 0.27ubuntu0.1
• vnc4 4.1.1+xorg1.0.2-0ubuntu4.1
• xen-3.0 3.0.3-0ubuntu10.1

I am sure this week will be as busy as the last one. If you are an anxious person, go get the countdown script and add it to your website. This way, you will know for sure how many days there still are until the release of Gutsy Gibbon. Remember, it will be on 18th this month!

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.