news 28 Posted April 26, 2010 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 190 for the week April 18 - April 24, 2010. In this issue we cover Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks, Ubuntu Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source, Mark Shuttleworth promotes Ubuntu Party of Paris, Farewell to the notification area, New Ubuntu Members, Lo``Co Council Meeting, Ubuntu's success at Anime Boston 2010!, LoCo Stories: the Asturian team drives the Asturian Language Academy migration to Ubuntu, Ubuntu Turkey LoCo Team Interviews Canonical CTO, Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu-NY Lucid release party, Launchpad in the second half of 2010, Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity, Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 RC released on time, OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star, Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition – Win a new netbook!, Ubuntu Manual Project To Release Quickstart Booklets For Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu: How to Measure Canonical’s Business Progress and much, much more! == UWN Translations == * Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations == In This Issue == * Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS * Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks * Ubuntu Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source * Mark Shuttleworth promotes Ubuntu Party of Paris * Farewell to the notification area * New Ubuntu Members * Ubuntu Stats * LoCo Council Meeting * Ubuntu's success at Anime Boston 2010! * LoCo Stories: the Asturian team drives the Asturian Language Academy migration to Ubuntu * Ubuntu Turkey LoCo Team Interviews Canonical CTO, Matt Zimmerman * Launchpad News * Lucid Community Team Review * Ubuntu IRC Bots Junior Tasks * Ubuntu, the family album * Ground Control 1.6 and Website * Unleash the Beagles !!! * 200 Artist/Designers! * In The Press & In The Blogosphere * Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity * Ubuntu Weekly Videocast * Canonical Training Set To Announce New Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification * Canonical and MuleSoft partner to improve Tomcat packaging * Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code * Upcoming Meetings and Events * Updates and Security == General Community News == === Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS === The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server Editions and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon's EC2, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition. Codenamed "Lucid Lynx", 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Edition and Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition continue the trend of ever-faster boot speeds, with improved startup times and a streamlined, smoother boot experience. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition provides even better integration of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, with its install-time cloud setup. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for UEC and EC2 brings the power and stability of the Ubuntu Server Edition to cloud computing, whether you're using Amazon EC2 or your own Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. The Ubuntu 10.04 family of variants, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu, also reach beta status today. The final release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is scheduled for 29 April 2010 and will be supported for three years on desktops and five years on servers. Before installing or upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, please review the instructions and caveats in the release notes: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004 In addition, there are a small number of known bugs in the release candidate that will be fixed before the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release, but warrant highlighting for your attention: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004overview#Known%20issues The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release. Here are ways that you can help: * Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS or Ubuntu 9.10 to the Release Candidate by following the instructions in the release notes referenced above. * Participate in installation testing using the Release Candidate CD images, by following the testing and reporting instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO To upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release Candidate from Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, follow these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades Please download using Bittorrent if possible. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent for more information about using BitTorrent. For a list of mirrors, how you can help with bugs or upgrading please visit the link below: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-April/000132.html === Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks === Share this post Link to post
