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Show Notes:

• Atlanta Linux Fest was a rockin’ success
• Do another one next year
• Tentatively for September 2009
• Links to presentations notes will be posted

• Intrepid Ibex Beta has been released
• Samba 3.2
• A lot of new features have been added in Samba 3.2 amongst them:
• clustered file server support
• encrypted network transport
• ipv6 support
• better integration with the latest version of Microsoft Windows© clients and servers.
• Final comes out Oct. 30th

• Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) reaches End-of-Life on October 19th, 2008
• 18 months of security updates and critical fixes will be over
• Upgrade path to 7.10 (Gutsy) is available on the wiki – https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades

• Ubuntu specifically blamed for bricking network cards
• 2.6.27-rc kernel is going into many of the upcoming distro releases
• bricks Intel e1000e network cards by overwriting the flash RAM where things like MAC addresses are stored
• Its a kernel issue, not an Ubuntu issue!
• Ubuntu Intrepid beta has blacklisted the module so it does not get loaded anymore
• But sites like Engadget and DownloadSquad post headlines like “Ubuntu alpha breaks hardware”
• Guess Ubuntu has to take the good with the bad in terms of popularity.

• Ohio Linuxfest – Oct 10th and 11th in Columbus, Ohio
• Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager, Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager will be speaking
• Josh might be attending
• Going on since 2003

• NY Times mentioned Jaunty Jackalope
• http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/the-jaunty-jackalope-hops-aboard-ubuntus-ark/
• Mentions improved boot times and “weblications”
• Mentions Google using it internally and Dell selling macines with Ubuntu pre-installed

• Computer Music magazine reviews Ubuntu Studio
• Scanned pages available at http://luisbg.users.ubuntustudio.org/luisbg/computer_music/

• TurnKey Linux: new project builds installable Ubuntu based Live CD appliances
• TurnKey LAMP stack, TurnKey Drupal 5, TurnKey Joomla
• typically around 150MB

• Ubuntu Server survey
  • 10 to 20 minute survey
  • Trying to figure out how people use Ubuntu Server day-to-day

• Firefox WAS going require EULA to use it starting in Intrepid
• Some people are saying you can still use FF without agreeing to it, which makes no sense
• But if that behavior is changed, then there might not be a browser in the default install
• Use iceWeasel instead like Debian, which is basically FF without the logos
• Mozilla wants to protect their trademark (just like Ubuntu wants to), which is fine, but this is retarded
• EULAs also not legal in some countries
• Fedora had worked out some license thing too as well I think
• But it was eventually Ubuntu users raising hell that got Mozilla to change it.
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/21/2121243

• Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Novell kernel hacker complains about Canonical contributions
• http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
• Matt Zimmerman, CTO for Canonical responds.
• Points out Greg only considers kernel, X, and compiler contributions, not Gnome, KDE, or anything else.
• Greg even gets his numbers wrong since it doesn’t consider the right email addressses
• Dustin Kirkland, who also works for Canonical, points out some interesting numbers:
• comparing number of years in existence, # of employees, revenues, Canonical is young and small
• points out that many Fedora and openSUSE users search Ubuntu resources for help because they are more comprehensive and informative.

• “Hottest” Ubuntu installation at T&A Lingerie, Moreno Valley, Calif
• http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/16/found-the-worlds-hottest-ubuntu-linux-deployment/
• one Ubuntu server, five Ubuntu desktops and two Ubuntu laptops/mobile devices
• T&A’s operations manager says they are running 8.04 and have been MS free for 2 years

• Ubuntu theme for Blackberry

• Miro feed, iTunes feeds working properly on the site