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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Numero 12

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Numero #12 per la settimana dal 27 Agosto -al 2 Settembre , 2006

Benvenuti. Questa è l’edizione settimanale della newsletter di Ubuntu (UWN). In questo numero ci sono gli articoli relativi all’immagine del prodotto e un appello per effettuarne le prove, un riassunto dei progetti estivi del Codice prodotto dagli studenti di Google Estate ed una breve panoramica di un altro progetto ‘upstart’ a cura del programmatore di Ubuntu Scott James Remnant, preparato per modificare, per la prima volta in 30 anni, il sistema di avviamento di Unix/Linux.

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In Questo Numero

• Rilasciata Edgy Eft Knot 2
• Upstart: dettagli
• Risultato finale del progetto: Google Summer of Code
• Aggiornamenti sulla sicurezza
• Aggiornamenti per Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
• 6.06 backports
• Edgy: nuove applicazioni
• Statistiche dei Bug
• La stampa dice
• Caratteristica della settimana - Gobby
• UWN via RSS

Rilasciata Edgy Eft Knot-2

Knot-2, l'ultima versione di sviluppo di Edgy Eft (che diventerà Ubuntu 6.10), è stata rilasciata. Questa release porta, insieme a diverse applicazioni desktop completamente nuove (come per esempio Tomboy, una applicazione per prendere delle annotazioni e F-Spot, un gestore di foto), un nuovo tema per Kubuntu e molto altro. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili sulla [http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/knot2 the Knot-2 pagina di Knot-2 su ubuntu.com] (in lingua inglese) oppure potete [http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/edgy/knot-2/ scaricare Knot-2]

Upstart: dettagli

Upstart, il nuovo sistema di gestione dei servizi basato sugli eventi, è arrivato in un punto in cui può rimpiazzare il pacchetto sysvinit. Molti progressi sono in corso da parte dell'autore Scott James Remnant, che lavora con l'obiettivo di rimpiazzare sysvinit con upstart per renderlo come sistema di avvio predefinito per Edgy. Maggiori informazioni che includono cosa e come testare sono disponibili sul [http://www.netsplit.com/blog/work/canonical/upstart2.html Blog di Scott] (lingua inglese), dove parla anche dei vari tipi di eventi e di come partecipare al progetto. Upstart adesso ha anche un logo, creato da Alexandre Vassalotti, come si può notare nel blog di Scott.

Risultato finale del progetto: Google Summer of Code

I progetti del Google Summer of Code sono stati avviati il 21 agosto e adesso possiamo vederne i risultati finali. Come riportato in precedenza, Ubuntu è partita con 22 progetti, come si può vedere alla [http://code.google.com/soc/ubuntu/about.html pagina di Google sui progetti di Ubuntu] (in lingua inglese). Si prega di notare che questa lista è stata compilata secondo le ricerche diligenti di alcuni membri del team Ubuntu marketing e quindi potrebbe non essere completamente corretta. Se manca qualcosa ci scusiamo in anticipo.

Per prima cosa diamo un'occhiata ai progetti specifici di Ubuntu.

Progetti Ubuntu

I progetti specifici di Ubuntu coprono una serie differente di argomenti, includendo un tool per il backup delle sessioni e un assistente alla migrazione.

GUI per Samba di Camille Percy

• Stato - 0.1 Rilasciata

• Pagina del progetto - http://socg2006.googlepages.com/ubuntu-config-samba

• Blog - http://socgguisambaconf.wordpress.com/

Ubuntu Welcome Centre di Parag M. Baxi

• Stato - Rilasciato

• Pagina del progetto: http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-welcome-center/

• Blog: http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~jigtopi/ghee22_blog/

Panel Switcher e Session Back (in origine "Applications to Improve Ubuntu") di Peter Moberg

• Stato - entrambi rilasciati

• Pagina del progetto: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PanelSwitcher e https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SessionBackup

• Blog: http://blog.nurd.se/hype/

GLaunchpad/Consiel: Frontend GNOME per Launchpad di Lionel Dricot

• Stato - Rilasciato

• Blog e pagina del progetto - http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?115-conseil-001-in-the-middle-of-the-boxes

Desklet Google Calendar di Teresa Thomas

• Stato - alcune parti completate, non si sa se rilasciato

• Pagina del progetto - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EsyncPlugins

• Blog - http://2006.planet-soc.com/blog/249

Creazione di un pacchetto di installazione/aggiornamento offline per Ubuntu di Baishampayan Ghose

• Stato - sconosciuto, design iniziato

• Pagina del progetto - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OfflineUpdateSpec

• Blog - http://g33k.wordpress.com/

Assistente di migrazione per Ubiquity di Evan Dandrea

• Stato - Rilasciato e caricato negli archivi come migration-assistant

• Pagina del progetto - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigrationAssistance

• Blog - http://www.evalicious.com/blog/

Aggiornamenti incrementali per pacchetti Debian di Felix Feyertag

• Stato - Incompleto

• Pagina del progetto - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/apt-sync

"Network Authentication" by Andrew Mitchell

• Stato - Sconosciuto, apparentemente finito

• Pagina del progetto - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/network-authentication

Progetti Kubuntu

There were 4 Kubuntu specific projects. Jonathon Riddell, the lead developer of Kubuntu, has created a [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KubuntuSummerOfCode2006 status page on the Ubuntu wiki]

LVM support in Kubuntu installer by Armindo Manuel Sampaio da Silva

• Status - Released

• Download - http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/qtparted-SoC.tgz

KDE formatting tool by Mickael Minarie

• Status - Released and uploaded to the archives as kmformat

• Project Page - http://www.micoulou.info/kformat/

Kubuntu OEM Redistribution Tools by Anirudh Ramesh

• Status - Released

• Project Page - http://muse.19inch.net/~abattoir/oem-config/

KControl/KDE-guidance module for Wine by Yuriy Kozlov

• Status - In KDE SVN, under guidance module

• Project page - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KDEGuidanceWineSpec

• Blog - https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KDEGuidanceWineSpec/KdeGuidanceWineProgress

Yuriy Kozlov says: "The project is a configuration module goes in system settings to provide easy and logical access to configuration for running windows programs with wine it has all the features of winecfg and a bit more and is a bit more friendly. It's basically done, but i need to get a patch into wine for one of the settings to work right. Wine devs wanted my patch to change a bit more than i intended, so once that gets in i need to change that part of my module a little as well. Currently it's all in guidance in KDE svn."

Edubuntu projects

3 Edubuntu-specific projects were accepted, including the addition of a much needed content filter.

Willow (a content filter) package and configuration GUI by Travis Watkins

• Status - Released and in the Edgy universe repo as willow-ng

• Project Page - http://www.realistanew.com/category/projects/willowng/

Spec changed to creation of new filter, due to quality of code of Willow

pyeducation/pyq -A testing/quizsystem for Edubuntu by Ryan Rousseau

• Status - Released

• Project Page - http://sourceforge.net/projects/py-education/

• Blog - http://percentd.blogspot.com/

Safety Boat by Anselmo Lacerda Silveira de Melo

• Status - Unknown

• Blog - http://safetyboat.blogspot.com/

Accessibility projects

As part of the general effort to improve accessibility in Ubuntu, Henrik Omma led two students to create two new tools.

OnBoard - On-screen keyboard targeted at tablets by Chris Jones

• Status - Released

• Project page - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Projects/onBoard

Chris Jones says: "[The package is] reasonably feature complete and i'm getting quite a lot of positive feedback from users. Heno [Henrik Nilsen Omma], my SoC mentor and one of the Ubuntu-a11y team is hoping to get it in main for edgy and hopefully on the CD too. (...) It's an on-screen keyboard meant to be a simpler alternative to the current gnome on-screen keyboard. It concentrates on point-and-click based users, leaving GOK to handle switching scanning users."

XGL-based screen magnifier by Sven Jaborek

• Status - Unknown, apparently not released

• Project Page - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/compiz-mag

Bazaar projects

Bazaar, a distributed revision control system, also had 2 projects for Summer of Code, under the general umbrella of the Ubuntu project.

Olive - Graphical User Interface for Bazaar-NG version control system (bzr-gui) by Szilveszter Farkas

• Status - Released and uploaded to the Ubuntu archives as olive

• Project page - http://bazaar-vcs.org/Olive

• Blog - http://phanatic.hu/

Submit bzr merge requests by email by Hermann Kraus -

• Status - Unknown, apparently released

• Project Page - http://bazaar-vcs.org/SubmitByMail

Security Updates

There were no security updates this week

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 has been uploaded to dapper-proposed, the testing archive for updates to Ubuntu 6.06. Using the -proposed archive helps ensure new updates are free of serious bugs, such as the X.org issue, before they are released to the general -updates archive. If you are able, please help us test this update.

Backports

The backports team has been busy this week, and the following apps where backported to 6.06:

checkinstall 1.6.0-2ubuntu1~dapper1 config-manager 0.3-3~dapper bluefish 1.0.5-2~dapper1 amarok 2:1.4.2-0ubuntu2~dapper1 kboincspy 0.9.1-3~dapper1 seahorse 0.9.3-0ubuntu5~dapper1 konversation 1.0-0ubuntu1~dapper1 scribus-ng 1.3.3.2.dfsg-1~dapper1 kopete 4:3.5.4+kopete0.12.2-0ubuntu1~dapper1 debootstrap 0.3.3.0ubuntu3~dapper1 ilibtunepimp 0.4.2-3ubuntu3~dapper1 mod-cband 0.9.7.4-1~dapper1 libvisual 0.4.0-1~dapper1 xmoto 0.1.16-3~dapper1 xchat 2.6.6-0ubuntu1~dapper1 taglib 1.4-4~dapper1 squirrelmail 2:1.4.8-1~dapper1 spamassassin 3.1.3-1ubuntu1~dapper1 powersave 0.12.20-1ubuntu1~dapper1 phpmyadmin 4:2.8.1-1~dapper1 kpowersave 0.6.2-2ubuntu1~dapper1 gxine 0.5.7-1ubuntu4~dapper1 cacti 0.8.6h-3~dapper1

New Apps In Edgy

This week brought much D-Bus love to edgy. (For those who don't know, D-Bus is an "interprocess communication" tool. In laymans terms, it allows apps to talk to one another). A whole host of people, including Sebastian Droege, Michael Biebl, Sjoerd Simons, Anthony Baxter, Daniel Stone, DavidZeuthen, Michel Daenzer, Daniel Silverstone, Kevin Ottens, Daniel Holbach, helped close 56 bugs by working on dbus 0.92.

Giuseppe Borzi brought in keytouch-editor 2.2.1 , which should make people's lives easier with this program to configure the extra function keys of the keyboard.

Lucas Nussbaum working on sqlrelay 0.37.1, bringing some egdy goodness to those who indulge in database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing.

Jeremie Corbier, Stephen Gran and Mark Hymers brought us freeradius 1.1.3, a high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server. This is a mostly bug fix version.

Brandon Hale uploaded Beagle 0.2.8 this week, which fixed an indexing issue amongst a whole slew of other bugs.

Szilveszter Farkas uploaded nanoweb 2.2.8, a small webserver written in PHP, which adds a spamcatcher module and some bugs.

Brandon Holtsclaw uploaded konversation 1.0, the 1.0 release of the KDE IRC client.

Bug Stats

• Open (14687) (+209 over last week)
• Unconfirmed (7809)
• Unassigned (9939)
• All bugs ever reported (52355)

In The Press

The xkcd webcomic takes an amusing look at the sudo command:

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Source: http://xkcd.com/c149.html

SearchOpenSource.com takes a look at Ubuntu's success and future prospects:

The message from end users is consistent: Ubuntu has the chops to continue on its successful path toward wider adoption in the enterprise. Driving those accolades are factors like ease of installation on the desktop as well as the spirited community that has sprung up around the operating system. Today, according to Web sites like DistroWatch.com, Ubuntu has more than 70,000 developers under its umbrella and is the most popular Linux OS distribution.

More at: http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci1213545,00.html

Feature Of The Week - Gobby

Have you ever tried working on the same documents with many people? You may have discovered how difficult it is. You may have seen this happen in company or charity offices around the world.

Computer programmers, like those who work on Ubuntu, encounter similiar challenges everydays. The Ubuntu developers are spread out across several continents, time-zones and countries so collaboration can be difficult. Developers try to manage collaboration with "revision control" or "version control" tools. Revision control systems allow peoples the collaborate simultaneously on the same projects.

In the office environment, you may start with a draft that everyone nearly agrees on. The lawyers take the draft away and add a disclaimer, Kelly from accounts improves one of the graphs, Sam in press-relations spices up some of the language. When the three teams meet again at the end of the day, there are now three copies, all slightly different. The next step might be to appoint one person to stitch them all together and integrate the three changes. This is the stage where the programmers win, the automatic revision control tools take over and attempt to detect each change and splice it into the final copy.

With everyone online it would be great to have those same features available but without having to be programmers. The answer to that "Gobby", which you can easily install from the Add/Remove programs menu.

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After starting up Gobby and connecting to a central server (or having other people connect to your own machine) you can share editing of a document. You can see in the screenshot above several of the Weekly News editors working together, can you guess what the document is? Changes are easy to follow in real-time with text from each connected user appearing in a different colour. There's no restrictions about two people updating the same paragraph at the same time, you can start editing a sentence even the previous person is continuing to type words. As soon as each character is typed, the letter immediately flashes up on everyone else's screen.

Real-time editing is a real beauty to work with, so much so that Gobby is now frequently used at Ubuntu conferences or summits. With a dozen developers seated around a table is possible for everyone to see, read, update and improve the same specification document. The ultimate added advantage is that anyone not at the conference can just as easily log-on with Gobby and start collaborating, regardless of where in the world that Ubuntero may be.

Gobby is fun, fast, colourful and genuinely useful. Check it out with a quick visit to Synaptic, Adept or the Add/Remove programs menu and start typing with you friends, colleagues or family!

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