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Full Circle Magazine

 · 1 year ago

Written by Matthew Rossi

I'm Matthew Rossi, host of the Full Circle Podcast, and here are my picks for the big stories in the Ubuntu world. This month, I will be rounding up the events at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. The full articles can be found at http://fridge.ubuntu.com/taxonomy/term/13. Some of the highlights for me in The Fridge wrap up were:

• Automatix and Ubuntu collaboration. Hold on, how can you collaborate with Automatix which is known to be a bad boy in the Ubuntu world?
• Changes to the logout dialog. I don't have any problems with the current dialog myself. It's just like how people whined about the default wallpaper in Gutsy.
• Defining a road map for supporting Local Community (LoCo) teams. Now that's a good idea!
• Support for the ClassmatePC platform. That's an interesting one.
• Creating an Ubuntu Mobile community. Well, having Ubuntu on the go is a great thing. And who's going to crawl around on the forums and help those who are in need? Great idea.
• Easy File Sharing! This is desperately needed. As far as I know it isn't the easiest thing to set up sharing between two computers where one of the computers is an Ubuntu computer.
• The Screencasts on CD blueprint. Now this is something that I know of, and I will always endorse the idea. The idea is explained well here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastsInUbuntuSpec. It's an excellent idea.
• A Windows installer. It's an interesting concept, but I take the traditionalist view on it, saying why would you want to install Linux inside Windows if you have had enough of it? Good luck to them anyway.
• The 2.6.24 Kernel. The Kernel is the make or break of any Linux distribution, and I wonder if Linus agrees with me... It will be interesting to see how big the kernel will get. The release candidate weighed in at 11 megabytes. Hopefully it can shed some weight in time.
• Building a community around "enterprise" Ubuntu - That is helpful. The need of an Enterprise Ubuntu community shows how popular Ubuntu is becoming in the business world. We'll just have to wait and see.

And that is my wrap up of UDS Boston, albeit standing from the sidelines. There is another round up of the day by day events which you can find in the Ubuntu Weekly News #64 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue64