The News Review:
- Ubuntu’s success
- Key2holidays banks £25000 from SA Tourism’s Ubuntu Award
- Ubuntu Security Notice - gnome-screensaver vulnerabilities (USN-669-1)
- RE[3]: Should I contribute to the kernel?
Ubuntu’s success
Newmobilecomputing.com
I have used Ubuntu for the last few years after having tried many distributions and used a range of others since 1999. Firstly, I really like working with deb, more than rpm, having extensively used both emerge and portage as well. This limits my choice of distribution already somewhat.
Key2holidays banks £25000 from SA Tourism’s Ubuntu Award
Travel Wires, South Africa
Recognising innovation and vision in marketing South Africa as a destination, the award will set a standard for the travel industry in the United Kingdom in marketing the country and the prize money will contribute towards implementing the winning proposal. Lips were sealed as to the nature of the winning proposal, which will be rolled out as a marketing campaign during January 2009 - the peak booking month. However, Lebo Mokhesi, UK Country manager at South African Tourism, commented:“It was obvious that the winners had taken great care to understand South Africa’s offering as a destination, as well as South African Tourism’s current objectives in marketing the country. We wait in anticipation for the roll-out of this campaign in 2009 and hope it will entice repeat and first time visitors to visit, what we believe, is the best country on earth.
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Ubuntu Security Notice - gnome-screensaver vulnerabilities (USN-669-1)
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This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 6. 06 LTS:
gnome-screensaver 2.
RE[3]: Should I contribute to the kernel?
OS News
If I walked into a building and started giving orders, assumed a leadership position, the people in the building will have every right to ask for credentials, and then get potentially agitated at the lack of them. If the building was a library and all I did was go in and browse some books, there will be less people agitated. They get agitated with both the marketing and the assumption that Ubuntu does a bulk of the work. An assumption supported by Mark shuttleworth when he says things like other distro’s should use the Ubuntu kernel as it be more stable, better tested than anything else out there. Some developers may also get annoyed when Ubuntu takes credit for their hard work. There is also a Ubuntu backlash out there after the years of Ubuntu hype (which was really annoying.