Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Numero 7

• Jordan Mantha (LaserJock)

  • OGG Vorbis - http://www.buntudot.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/buntudot_radio_podcast2.ogg

  • MP3 - http://www.buntudot.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/buntudot_radio_podcast2.mp3

Aggiornamenti di sicurezza

USN-319-1: Linux kernel vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-319-1

USN-313-2: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-313-2

USN-319-2: Linux kernel vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-319-2

USN-320-1: PHP vulnerabilities http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-320-1

Ubuntu

Development Team Meeting

July 20, 2006 15:00 UTC

Agenda - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistroTeamMeeting20060720 IRC Log - http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/ubuntu-meeting-2006-07-20.html

• Members provided updates on their current tasks
  • Went over Completed tasks as well as the tasks that still need to be finished.
• Discussion of Knot-2 release/freeze

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

gfxboot-theme-ubuntu 0.1.26

• Rename identifier for "Install in text mode" from txt_menuitem_install to txt_menuitem_install_text to avoid clashing with "Install to the hard disk" (closes: Malone #47615)
• Make "lang" file work with locales that require _CC (pt_BR, zh_CN, zh_TW).

Kubuntu

Meeting July 17, 2006

Minutes - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Meetings/2006-07-17 IRC Log - http//people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/ubuntu-meeting-2006-07-17.html

• Kubuntu releases web page
  • CSS templates were proposed for everyone to discuss.
• Kubuntu Artwork Updates
  • Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) reported on the current status of Kubuntu art and displayed a possible theme.

• Stronger Firefox & KDE integration

  • Brandon Holtsclaw (imbrandon) talked about nsFilePicker.js and a Kubuntu theme for Firefox.
• To-do list, organization, and many additional items were also discussed.
• Kubuntu Membership Approval
  • Rich Johnson (nixternal)

New Apps in Edgy

More information available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Kubuntu/Edgy/Knot1/

• KDE 3.5.3
• Launchpad Integration
• K3b 0.12.16

Edubuntu

Meeting

July 19, 2006 20:00 UTC

Agenda - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuMeetingAgenda IRC Log - http//people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/ubuntu-meeting-2006-07-19.html

• The Edubuntu Cookbook has a new name - "Edubuntu Handbook"
• Edubuntu Documentation
• Edubuntu School Advocacy

Xubuntu

The buzz on the Xubuntu mailing list is over a new logo and additional artwork. There have been productive discussions used to create some of the new logos and artwork. I must say they look pretty darn good. If you are interested in checking them out, look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/XubuntuEdgy/Proposals

Bug Stats

Open Bugs: 13,445 Critical Bugs: 22 Unconfirmed Bugs: 7,194 Unassigned Bugs: 8,560

Infamous Bugs

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/BugsForExtraPoints

In The Press

• Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ

  • http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1990777,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616

Features/Tips of The Week

Changing the Default Action of your Shutdown Button

Tip provided by Jojoman

This is currently not implamented in the GUI of gnome-power-manager, but will be soon (see [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/49214 bug #49214]). The current default option of the shutdown button is to display the "Exit" menu. Some users would just like their computer to shutdown. The following steps show how to set the action of the shutdown button:

1. Press ALT+F2 (run menu)

2. Type: gconf-editor

3. Find the Key: /apps/gnome-power-manager/action_button_power

4. Change the value to one of these: "suspend", "hibernate", "interactive", "shutdown" or "nothing"

Forward & Back MS Intellimouse Buttons

Tip provided by Steven Harms

Did you know that your "forward" and "back" mouse buttons on Microsoft Intellimice work in Dapper with the following small changes to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? The following changes need to be completed in order for this to work. Remember to restart X when completed:

Tip provided by John Stowers

Do you know that Ubuntu ships with an included RSI-avoidance application?. Taking regular breaks from typing helps avoid RSI and other repetitive keyboard-use injuries. To enable a typing break reminder, perform the following steps:

First step: Open the keyboard preferences application from the "System", "Preferences" menu.

Second step: Select the typing break tab, and place a tick beside "Lock screen to enforce typing break". You may also place a tick beside "Allow postponing of breaks" if you wish to be able to ignore the occasional break reminder.

Third step: A new bar like icon will appear in the notification area. To monitor how long before your next break, simply hover the mouse over the new icon.

Application of the Week

Unison

Application provided by ["JorgeJuan"]

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Unison is an application to synchronize files between machines. It is very efficient because it uses the rsync algorithm and detects if you rename or move files around. There is a GTK+ interface as well in unison-gtk, and there is also an MS Windows version!

I just cannot live without it. I used to have all my important documents in a single folder in my work computer (it is about 800MB). I sync everything with my home computer and laptop whenever I start or stop working. Due to the use of rsync, synchronization takes only a few seconds over a DSL connection and is also very efficient over a 56k modem line.

rsync alone is very good for synchronizing in one direction (like a backup), but it can be very risky to do two-way synchronizations when you can have files deleted on one side and the other at the same time. Unison takes care of this gracefully and tells you when files have been modified on both sides, so you can select the appropriate version, although this is not a common situation for me. With text files it can also do diffs and merges.

Unison is not officially supported by Ubuntu (it is in Universe). Ubuntu really lacks a synchronization utility (maybe there is one I do not know). Unison could be a good choice, although the interface can be improved as well as some behavior, for example some options can only be set by editing the configuration files, and it does not keep partially transferred files or directories, which is very annoying when transferring a new large file or directory for hours and you need to interrupt the process.

All in all, it is a great tool not in active development but in active use by the author as stated on its web page.

Risorse aggiuntive

Come sempre, si possono trovare maggiori novità e annunci su:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/news

e

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/

Conclusioni

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