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Show Notes:

• Ubuntu 8.10 is out!

• Ubuntu Georgia 8.10 Installfest, November 8th, 2008, at Emory, Atlanta, GA.

• Order your Ubuntu 8.10 CDs from ShipIt

• Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO has an interesting post about bugs
  • In September, over 7800 bugs were filed
  • 99% were resolved, either duplicates, fixed, invalid, etc.
  • Of course, there are still 46,000 open bugs still
  • Funny comments left on the blog: some saying Windows and Macs do better
  • Of course, I would like someone to tell me what the bug count is in Microsoft and Apples bug trackers. Oh wait, they won’t release any of that info.
  • One comment was how there shouldn’t be upgrades, just updates. Like how people have XP on their machines for years.
  • The terms upgrades and updates are probably used too loosely.
  • Multiple service packs over the years are huge and make lots of changes.

• Ubuntu get slower?
  • Phoronix did some tests
    • But its not really Ubuntu’s fault, looks like some of the upstream projects are the issue
    • Might be related to some video driver issues, compiler changes, and general kernel stuff
    • Phoronix tested with Fedora and also a slow down between 7 and upcoming 10.

• Mark Shuttleworth does interview with media and analysts
  • Canonical isn’t in the black yet
  • Employees over 120 people
  • Will probably require a few more years of funding
  • But there is lots of revenue coming in
  • Can Ubuntu survive without Canonical?
    • Are the community processes in place if something like that ever happened?
  • 8 million users, but now knows for sure since there is no “call-home” option like some other OSs

• 8.10 includes a totem plugin to play BBC audio, has support for video as well when its available
  • Only plays the DRM-free stuff and some of it is restricted to the UK, but still pretty snazzy

• Spread Ubuntu Alpha .1 – a Do-It-Yourself marketing material repository

• Obama campaign using Ubuntu? (this is not meant to be political)
  • someone from Fox pointed out that they use Ubuntu widely and so do the McCain folks

• Dell 12″ Mini Inspiron released in Japan
  • $999
  • Comes with Vista, “looking into Ubuntu”
  • “Dell cites the lack of connection managers for its telco partners under the Mini 12’s forthcoming 3G mobile broadband module as the reason Linux remains a no-show.”