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Welcome to Intrepid Ibex Alpha-3, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.10.
Alpha 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. You can download it here:
Ubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-3/
Edubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-3/
Kubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-3/
Xubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-3/
Pre-releases of Intrepid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
Further information on this alpha release can be found here

Ok, there has been a lot of noise (again) about what should be in ubuntu planet, last time i wasn’t a member so i didn’t comment on the topic, but being that now i am here are my thoughts on the topic:

• Planet ubuntu is and should be a window to the community: Some people read planet to be up to date on the technical news, but that’s what changelog stands for, and planet ubuntu (or our blogs) aren’t actually changelogs. So the idea of limiting the what should be posted or not doesn’t seem really fair to me
• Ubuntu member represent the ubuntu community: All of us, being part of this community, an being officially recognized as members of it, gives us the representation of this community and for the people we are not just a lot of single people, we are the ubuntu community as a whole, so everything you said is taken as if it comes from the community especially if it is on one of the community’s communication channel, like mailing lists or planet. So we need to thing 3 times after post something on them since it won’t be treated as our own and personal opinion, but as the community one.
• Respects saved Respects: Before doing something it will be a good idea to think “If someone do this to me, would i like it?” If not, please don’t, everyone of us have different opinions on different topic, but it doesn’t give us the right to challenge people and be unrespectful. And said that you can say whatever you want, just need to find the right way to do it and express your opinion, is better to say “i don’t think so, i think is better like this” than saying “What were you thinking? that’s wrong!”

I don’t want to create more discussion on it, i think planet ubuntu is fine as it is now, and nothing need to be changed but the attitude of ourselves.

Desde la Alpha 3 de Ubuntu 8.10 : Intrepid Ibex tendremos una nueva función: Un directorio llamado “Privado” en el espacio personal de cada usuario. Este directorio estará encriptado y con altas medidas de seguridad para que solamente el usuario asignado tenga acceso a cualquier tipo de datos guardados en esta carpeta.

Una solución totalmente sencilla y práctica para cualquier usuario que quiera guardar cualquier cosa de manera confidencial.

EncryptedPrivateDirectory

Últimamente he notado mucho hype dentro de la comunidad hispana de fedora en torno a Plymouth un desarrollo del proyecto Fedora que agilizara el booteo de dicha distribución (y muy probablemente sea adoptado por otras pronto) que lograra que del boot loader se pueda pasar directamente a la pantalla de logeo casi inmediatamente agilizando la secuencia de arranque del sistema.

No se puede negar que Fedora esta aportando mucho a Linux y el software libre en general con desarrollos pagados y auspiciados por RedHat, quieres cuentan con una fuerza de ingeniería que no deja de impresionar, pero en este caso particular me pregunto: ¿Pudo alguien traducir mal lo que leyó y le están haciendo eco sin leer?

El proyecto intenta reemplazar rhgb y pasar de la secuencia actual:

A esta nueva secuencia:

¿Alguien ya encontró el problema? Pues bien, rhgb es el sistema gráfico de arranque utilizado actualmente, es decir se esta trabajando en agilizar, lo que hasta hace algunos años, cuando la secuencia de arranque ya era lenta, no existía, reemplazándolo por un equivalente más ligero. Pero bueno ¿entonces si se agilizará? En realidad si, si sera menos lento, pero aun no sera “casi automático” hay algo que aun no están tomando en cuenta: init.

Init es quien lleva la mayor carga en la secuencia de arranque, es donde se levantan cada uno de los runlevels necesarios para que nuestro sistema, por diseño, levante cada una de sus capaz manteniendo la dependencia entre ellas, ahora mi pregunta para esos bloggers expertos que postean sobre las nuevas maravillas y secuencias de booteo casi inmediato: ¿Agilizar el sistema gráfico de booteo realmente agilizara también init?

Antes que comiencen a ponerme adjetivos e insultarme, quiero dejar en claro que no tengo nada contra el proyecto fedora, es más, como dije lineas más arriba es un proyecto realmente loable que esta dando mucho de ingeniería para el desarrollo del software libre y linux en especial, incluso estoy bastante cercano a uno de ellos. Tampoco tengo nada contra Plymouth, por el contrario, me parece un proyecto excelente y me muero por verlo andar. Pero si van a empezar a hacer eco de una noticia por lo menos tomense el trabajo de leer la fuente original.

Digg It!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 100 for the weeks July 13th - July 19th, 2008 is now available. In this issue we cover: UWN history, UWN Past & Present Staff Podcast, Mark Shuttleworth podcast, Comments from Past & Present Editors, Joining the UWN staff, New Ubuntu QA team, Call for nominations for Tech Board, Alpha 3 soft freeze, Next UDS, Peru LoCo gives Ubuntu presentation at San Marcos University, Ubuntu Ireland gets local press coverage, Ubuntu Nicaragua Continues with TV shows, New Leader for Ubuntu France, Ubuntu-UK podcast #10, and much, much more!

In this Issue:

• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter History
• UWN Past & Present Editors Podcast
• Mark Shuttleworth podcast
• Joining the UWN staff
• New Ubuntu QA team
• Call for nominations for Tech Board
• Alpha 3 soft freeze
• Next Ubuntu UDS
• Ubuntu stats
• LoCo news
• Ubuntu Forums news
• In the Press & Blogosphere
• Ubuntu-UK podcast #10
• UWN podcast transcriptions
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Updates & Security

This is a special Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

For our 100th edition, we cover the history of the UWN, a look back at previous UWNs, and discuss what the UWN has meant for people who have worked on it. Former and current staffers of UWN joined in for a podcast to discuss their experiences of contributing to the UWN and the impact of the UWN on the community. Mark Shuttleworth also provides his views on the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

Links to the UWN Editors Podcast:

• Ogg
• Mp3

Links to Mark discussing the UWN:

• Ogg
• Mp3

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

OpenMoko is a smartphone based on Linux with its own development kit and functions very similar to the famous Apple Iphone.

UbuntuLife show the instructions to emulate it on Linux:

To compile the emulator:
Download the source code:

svn checkout https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973
cd qemu-neo1973

Add libraries for compile:

sudo aptitude install gcc-3.4 libsdl1.2-dev lynx netpbm

Compile:

./configure --target-list=arm-softmmu --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4
make

Download the last avaible image of the OpenMoko operating system and install it on the emulated phone:

openmoko/download.sh
openmoko/flash.sh

Now run the emulator:

arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -M gta01 -m 130 -mtdblock openmoko/openmoko-flash.image -kernel openmoko/openmoko-kernel.bin -usb -show-cursor

Happy emulation!

I’ve been writing a lot about Augeas and all the process i go through to get it included in debian/ubuntu. It seems that a lot of people was following it, but some of them don’t actually understand the whole picture and what is augeas for, so i’ve been asked to write a post explaining what it is, so here we go:

From the upstream homepage:

Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.

Actually, it is a library which does all that stuff and can be manipulated using its public API. But what does this actually means? I will explain it using augtool and /etc/hosts as an example. As you might know it has the information of the host names and their IP addresses, so let’s take this hosts as an example:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain host.domain

After parsing it on augeas we will end with:

/files/etc/hosts/
- - - - - - - - - - - 1/
- - - - - - - - - - - - ipaddr = 127.0.0.1
- - - - - - - - - - - - canonical = localhost
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = localhost.localdomain
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = host.domain

So, then we might want to change some values:

augtool> set /files/etc/hosts/1/alias[2] myhost.domain

Ending with:

/files/etc/hosts/
- - - - - - - - - - - 1/
- - - - - - - - - - - - ipaddr = 127.0.0.1
- - - - - - - - - - - - canonical = localhost
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = localhost.localdomain
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = myhost.domain

or add new values:

augtool> ins alias after /files/etc/hosts/1/alias[1]

what will turn into:

/files/etc/hosts/
- - - - - - - - - - - 1/
- - - - - - - - - - - - ipaddr = 127.0.0.1
- - - - - - - - - - - - canonical = localhost
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = localhost.localdomain
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = myhost.domain

then we need to set a value since now it’s NULL:

augtool> set /files/etc/hosts/1/alias[2] myhost

ending like:

/files/etc/hosts/
- - - - - - - - - - - 1/
- - - - - - - - - - - - ipaddr = 127.0.0.1
- - - - - - - - - - - - canonical = localhost
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = localhost.localdomain
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = myhost
- - - - - - - - - - - - alias = myhost.domain

Then you can save it using:

augtool> save

Also you can add a new host, or whatever you want, just need to play with the tree.

Ok, but how this Black Magic work and how can i expand it to read new configuration files? Augeas uses lenses which are a Meta Data type using regular expressions that is being used for parsing, reading and writing configuration files. If you want to play around with lenses you can check this step-by-step tutorial written by Raphael Pinson (Thank you!)

As it usual when someone gets in, this is my hello Planet Debian post.

I’m Nicolas Valcárcel, i’m the maintainer of terminator and augeas and really interested on server and security topics. I’ve just started my New Maintainer process some weeks ago and hoping to put all my energies on making debian even better and easier!

I Live in Lima, Perú.

This is one more of those post with some random information and updates:

One more week for holidays!!
I’m going to travel to Orlando, Florida with my girlfriend’s family for holidays, i’m going to be after 17 years in disney world again! I’m also looking forward to know the LoCo Team (if there is any) and/or random FreeSoftware enthusiast, so if you live there, drop me an e-mail so we can get in contact to find a place and time for having some beers

Augeas is finally in!
Augeas has already reach the ubuntu and debian archive! So it’s time to write lenses and work to have it in good shape!

Config:Model
Last week (i think) i’ve been mailed about the Config:Model project, it looks really promising to me, i’m only waiting for augeas support to package it and start playing. If it gets into that stage soon (which i hope it does) we can have UCSA (or whatever i call it at the end) for intrepid+1!!

UDS in California
I’m really exited about this, next UDS will be at google offices in Mountain View California from 8th to 12th December, that’s one week after my final exams, so i won’t need to ask for permission at the university! Also i already have my visa for the united states, so there are less problems to go there (just the financial one :P). So i hope i can see you all in there!!

New Maintainer process
I’ve started my journey into Debian development. I’ve been contributing since i started with ubuntu development (really less that for ubuntu, but still forwarding a lot of stuff), i’m the maintainer of 2 packages now and i will start co-maintaining one more package, so i thought it was time to start the NM process, i founded an advocate (thank you kees!!) and i jumped in, it’s a long and not quick process but an awesome one, i still have a lot of debian in my heard, since was the distro which introduced me into Linux and i want to pay that back!

New Mentoring Model
Last week we have been discussing a lot inside the mentoring reception team and with other MOTU’s on improving the mentoring program, we start writing a draft, making changes, discussing more, and finally we released it!

I think this was all the random stuff going on in my life this last days!

For the last couple of weeks, Jordan Mantha been working behind the scenes on creating a community Ubuntu QA (quality assurance) team. For quite a while Canonical has largely driven QA efforts in Ubuntu. The community can and should step up in this area (see this wiki page for more background information).

In short, a new community-driven Ubuntu QA team is up and running! The IRC channel is #ubuntu-quality and the mailing list is ubuntu-qa.

From the team wiki page:

The Ubuntu QA team is focused on developing tools, policies, and practices for ensuring Ubuntu’s quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA activities within the Ubuntu project.

In general, QA in Ubuntu is broken down into the following areas:

• Defect Management (Bug Triage)
• Quality Control (Update, Application, and Pre-Release Testing)
• Quality Assurance (Verification of Changes, Policy Compliance Review)
• Product Improvement (Development)

The main entry points for working on QA tasks are the BugSquad and Testing Team, however feel free to drop by #ubuntu-quality, if you are interested in Ubuntu QA.

Because Ubuntu QA is a coordination/development/working team the membership guidelines are:

• Individuals, not teams may be members.
• Memberships expire annually and can be renewed by members themselves.
• People from all areas of QA are encouraged to join.

Requirements to join the team:

• established record of contributing to QA in Ubuntu (such as BugSquad or Testing Team)
• be an Ubuntu Member or ready to become one (i.e. significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu)
• an introductory email sent to the ubuntu-qa list introducing yourself, your previous QA work, and your plans for working in the team.

• Coordinate between the various QA-related teams
• Build communities around QA work and help them run smoothly
• Provide lead-from-the-front leadership to Ubuntu’s QA projects
• Assess and communicate Ubuntu’s QA needs
• Develop tools and services needed in Ubuntu QA work
• Work on creating consistent and efficient QA-related policies
• whatever else comes up or people want to contribute

Huge props go to Emmet Hikory, Steve Beattie, Henrik Omma, and the rest of the team for helping this get launched.

So stay tuned for more exciting QA developments, feel free to contribute, and rock on!

Interesante entrevista hecha a Mark Shuttleworth en la que responde a criticas de Hardy, el tema de Intrepid y sobre la “adopción de GNOME a las Qt como plataforma”

July 12th .- Ubuntu Peru was invited to direct talks about Ubuntu in the System and Informatic Engeniering Faculty of San Marcos University. Nicolas Valcarcel (nxvl) talked about Ubuntu’s Release process and Learning from FLOSS. Michael Garrido (xander21c) talked about Ubuntu Peru : the comunity and Ubuntu and the commnad line.

pictures courtesy of Luis del Campo and San Marcos Students.

more pictures here

About San Marcos University

San Marcos University is the first university founded in America by the Spanish in may 12 1551. San Marcos is part of Peruvian history and really important because during the Independence period was one of the enlightenment spots in the region.

Also many of the most important Peruvian history characters like José María Arguedas (writer), Jorge Basadre (historian) among others studied in San Marcos

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 99 for the weeks July 6th - July 12th, 2008 is now available. In this issue we cover: special 100th issue of the UWN next week, Intrepid Alpha 2 released, MOTU news and videos, new Universe contributor, summary of UDS discussions, new Kubuntu website, Ubuntu Venezuela 2 year anniversary, Launchpod episode #7, Tutorial of the week, Technical Update, Ubuntu in US retailers, and much, much more!

• Special 100th Issue of the UWN Next Week
• Intrepid Alpha 2 Released
• New MOTU
• New Universe Contributor
• MOTU Videos - “This is how I fix a bug”
• Summary of UDS Discussions
• New Kubuntu Website
• Ubuntu Stats
• Ubuntu-Venezuela Celebrates 2nd Anniversary
• Launchpod Episode #7
• Ubuntu Forums Tutorial
• Technical Update
• In the Press & Blogosphere
• Canonical & Valusoft bring Ubuntu Support to US Retailer
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Updates & Security

Special 100th Issue of the UWN Coming Next Week
Don’t miss the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter next week as we celebrate our 100th issue with the Ubuntu community. There will be interviews with community members, a retrospect, and insights from past and present UWN staffers. You definitely won’t want to miss this issue, so make sure your RSS feed is up to date, your email subscription is current, or the wiki bookmarked for a very special anniversary issue of the UWN!
If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Pre-releases of Intrepid are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. You can download it here:

• http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu)
• http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-2/ (Kubuntu)
• http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu Education Edition)
• http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-2/ (Xubuntu)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.
Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for large-scale testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha2 for information on changes in Ubuntu.
This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a list of known bugs (that you don’t need to report if you encounter), please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha2
If you’re interested in following the changes as we further develop Hardy, have a look at the intrepid-changes mailing list:

• http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/intrepid-changes

We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list if you’re interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events.

• http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

All my life i have been wondering where in the world 2 neighbor timezones have 24 hours difference. Today i finally start thinking about it with an internet connection near and found them! Just where i thought they will we!

Finally! Augeas reached the archive! So now you can install it on intrepid, and break it on the way you want (and report the breakages on LP). Also you take a look at the list and write some lenses! This is your shoot to start contributing to ubuntu and specially the server team.
Have a nice hack!

La comunidad Linux de La Universidad San Marcos esta organizando un festival de instalación este 12 de julio a horas 9:30. Asi que no hay excusa  .. aparte que la comunidad Ubuntu-pe va estar apoyando.

:wq!

It has been a month since Ubuntu Developer Summit Intrepid Ibex was held in Prague, Czech Republic. The track leads have collated all their reports from the UDS discussions and Jorge Castro has made a summary of them, available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Intrepid/Report/Summary. This report is a combination of reports and specs:

• Reports from UDS: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Intrepid/Report/
• The current list of approved blueprints for 8.10: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid

The reports are meant to be a bird’s eye view of what’s to come in Ubuntu 8.10. Like all best-laid plans, these are subject to adjustment and/or changes, but should be general enough to give you a good idea of what’s being worked on.

As i said on my previuos post augeas got it’s 2 acks in ubuntu, so it’s on the new queue waiting for an archive administrator to review and include it on the archive. Today i got it also sponsored in debian (thank you kees, you rock!) so it’s waiting on it’s new queue also waiting for an ftp master to review and include it! So anytime from now on you will be able to play with it! It’s awesome.

I have also uploaded it to my ppa for those who cannot wait until it’s included to play with it (and start writing lenses). So if you are one of those you can’t wait and/or want to contribute on the lenses writing stage yo just need to add this to your sources.list in hardy:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvalcarcel/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvalcarcel/ubuntu hardy main

Then you can install augeas-tools and play with it!

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS, the first maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release.
In all, over 200 updates have been integrated, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
To Get Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS
To download Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS, or obtain CDs, visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download.
Beginning with this maintenance release, users of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 8.04 via Update Manager. As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge. For further information about upgrading, see http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading.
We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/804.
About Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS
This is the first maintenance release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, which continues to be supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until April 2011 on desktops and April 2013 on servers.
Since its release, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has seen widespread use in a variety of desktop and server deployments, and received a great deal of feedback from users. The Ubuntu team has focused their efforts on resolving issues reported by people deploying Ubuntu out in the real world, including:

• Firefox has been upgraded to the final 3.0 release from Mozilla, correcting a number of issues discovered during their beta test. (#237690)
• The Samba client allows LANMAN authentication again, correcting problems connecting to some NAS and older Windows servers (#209520).
• Various problems with the FUSE interface to GNOME’s new virtual file system have been fixed, correcting certain problems accessing network file shares (#211205, #212789).
• The behaviour of the timezone map in the live CD installer has been improved, making it simpler to understand and use (#203423).
• The “Hardware Drivers” application no longer reports the proprietary nVidia driver as being enabled when it isn’t installed (#216650).
• The Transmission menu item is now called “Transmission BitTorrent Client” to clearly explain its purpose (#184238).

While we have fixed a number of audio-related issues, including a scheduler problem that caused audio stuttering under load (#188226), other audio playback problems may still exist, because so far we have been unable to verify a targeted fix that does not cause regressions for other users. We will continue to investigate this, and would welcome people with problems to provide feedback on Luke Yelavich’s test packages. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191027 for details.
Updated images have also been released for members of the Ubuntu family which do not carry the LTS (Long-Term Support) label, namely Kubuntu, the Kubuntu KDE4 remix, Gobuntu, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio, with images for Mythbuntu to follow soon. These additional images are provided to the community in response to USN-612-1, a major security vulnerability identified earlier in the Ubuntu OpenSSL packages, to ensure that secure installation images are available to all users in the Ubuntu family. For more information about this security vulnerability, please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1
See http://www.ubuntu.com/usn for a full list of Ubuntu security updates. As of 2008-07-02, all updates affecting packages on the CD have been applied.
A summary of notable updates is available here. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu for specific information about a particular bug number.