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- Intrepid Alpha was released Thursday Aug 14th
- Latest xorg is available
- much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, or mice.
- most users will be able to run without an "/etc/xorg.conf" file.
- Encrypted Private Directory
- You can always encrypt whole drives or partitions
- But what if you just want to encrypt a folder in your home directory?
- And don't want to encrypt and decrypt continiously?
- This new feature will encrypt a directory with your regular login/password and decrypt it whenever you login.
- New Guest user session switching applet
- Creates a temporary password-less user account with restricted privileges
- it cannot access any regular user's home directory,
- cannot permanently store data.
- useful to lend people to do quick email check or surf the web
- Updated Network Manager
- Managing 3G connection
- no need to login to set up a connection
- Managing PPP and PPPOE connections (which is used by lots of DSL providers)
- Other interesting Intrepid news
- Tomcat6 had been uploaded to intrepid and is waiting for testing. It should be available for Intrepid
- Current behavior when RAID fails is for the system to boot to a recovery console.
- Server team is adding an option that would allow administrators to specify that the system should instead boot in the degraded RAID state.
- This would allow systems with redundant disks to get back up and running without requiring human intervention.
- Latest xorg is available
- Free IT Athens working with Clarke County School District to provide up to 2,000 computers to students and families who can afford them
- Athens is about an hour NE of Atlanta
- Very much needed in county where 80% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunches
- Pilot program involved 130 used computers
- 600 more to be refurbished in the fall
- 1200 more next year
- Empathy is a set reusable IM widgets, that could possibly replace Pidgin in Intrepid
- Not meant to be cross-platform like pidgin
- Has voice and video support
- Some folks who tried it out said Empathy works flawlessly with Google Talk users.
- Its uses the Telepathy framework in Gnome
- Telepathy supports real-time unified IM, voice, and video communication over DBus
- DBus is the way applications talk to each other
- Telepathy supports real-time unified IM, voice, and video communication over DBus
- Can also use libpurple, the libraries the pidgin uses, for networks that aren't implemented yet.
- No final decision has been made yet!
- How To Forge has a slick 2 page how to on installing openVZ on Ubuntu Server. Talking about more virtualization, this is an awesome way to run multiple environments.
- We spend lots of time talking about vmware and virtualbox (like last week), don't forget to try out openVZ
- openVZ is in the repos
- Ubuntu Florida LoCo website ran on OpenVZ until Aug, and will soon be running there again.
- Intrepid Ibex theme not getting that great of a response form the UI. This seems to be a common trend with a lot of bloggers on the Alpha releases of Ibex.
- Remember, nothing is final yet!
- Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008 - On August 23, 2008, the Ubuntu Philippines LoCo, with University of the Philippines Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will hold an event for sharing experiences, learning, and meeting fellow enthusiasts
- Invited 6 resource persons to share their experiences with Ubuntu in different areas of interest:
- The Ubuntu 30 day challenge - Aileen Apolo (Google)
- Ubuntu on virtualization and integrating to a Windows Network - Wallen Tan
- Ubuntu: Saving lives (and then some) - Charo Nuguid
- Choice is Good! Welcome to the Exciting, Productive and Wacky World of Ubuntu Derivatives - members of UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG)
- Ubuntu and the OLPC XO-1 - Rowen Remis Iral (OLPCPH)
- Kubuntu & KDE: Contributing to an International Software Project - Juan Carlos Torres (KDE Project)
- Invited 6 resource persons to share their experiences with Ubuntu in different areas of interest:
- Ubuntu attracts the lion's share of LinuxWorld's smaller crowds!
- Each Ubuntu presentation and training session throughout the three days of LinuxWorld was heavily attended, especially compared to similar sessions elsewhere where relatively few attended.
- Even though attendance was a bit sparse during this year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo when compared to previous years, the Canonical booth -- where the latest Ubuntu Linux software was being shown off -- still managed to draw a crowd.
- Cancellation of Ubuntu Live might been a good thing
- LinuxWorld had people who use many different distros, Ubuntu got exposed to them, not a self-selected group
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Todd
Thanks guys! Interesting show. Really enjoyed your effort
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