FreshUbuntu

Intro 
 
Guests
 
Banter
 
Popey - what's with this new promotion? 
http://houseparty.cx/
 
News
Lotta Linux Links goes OGG Only. (Peter)
http://lottalinuxlinks.com
 
Canonical Limits Ship-It Program (popey?)
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/352798/canonical-limits-free-ubuntu-cds
 
Hulu to charge for content (Lefty)
http://lifehacker.com/5388571/hulu-officially-charging-for-content-in-2010
 
Windows 7 is "restrictive," claims Shuttleworth (Peter)
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/10/27/windows-7-restrictive-netbooks-claims-linux-rival
 
BBC talk down/up Ubuntu :)  (popey)
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/10/24_hours_with_ubuntu.html
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm
 
Dell Does it Again (Lefty)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/26/dell_linux_windows_ubuntu/
 
Windows 7 Is out, Pay Up, Jason! (Peter)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b3c68ec2-e726-4830-ac89-31c71d6be5f3
http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/01/21/new-version-of-windows-in-2009-or-my-bet-with-jason/
 
Preparing an Ubuntu Machine for Upgrade (peter/popey)
http://www.howtoforge.com/preparing-an-ubuntu-machine-for-upgrade
    This guide has an error at the end and presumes people make some pretty fundamental changes, which average users probably wouldn't do. Worth knowing though (popey)
 
Karmic! 
How's everyone liking it so far? 
    Seems to work well, just a few niggles (flash & xsplash)
What's your favorite new feature? 
    Tomboy Notes sync via Ubuntu One - (popey)
What don't you like/have they still not gotten right?
    mdns resolution still causing problems on internal lookups (peter)
    
    Popey
    
    New boot look with usplash and xsplash
    Grub 2.0
    ext4 by default
    New default desktop theme and backgrounds
    New indicator applet and notification are icons
    Empathy & Telepathy replacing pidgin and ekiga
    Battery support for 3g cards/dongles/modems/phones
    Computer janitor for cleaning out old packages/crap
    Pulseaudio improvements
    Ubuntu One
    Tomboy Notes sync to U1
    Software center - manage applications
        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter
    Totem youtube plugin
    Easy font installation
    PAE kernel - good if you run 32-bit ubuntu and have >4G RAM
    Disk utility - Palimpsest - Developed by red hat, good for checking disk status, managing raid
    popup disk notification to tell you when disks are going bad "When Disks Go Bad!" Next on FOX!
    Lots of little improvements as part of the 100 paper cuts
 
Peter's niggling issue:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/94940
 
Tech Segment
Lefty - tell us about your desktop
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/102233/Screenshot.png
http://www.windowsxlive.net/seven-transformation-pack
 
Re-enable Missing Icons In Ubuntu 9.10
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/missing-system-icons-ubuntu-karmic.html
 
    Upgrading from Jaunty broke my netbook trackpad. Fresh install fixed it.    
 
Feedback
Email from Martin Wildman
http://code.google.com/p/gitso/
http://crossloop.com/
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/10/09/this-is-what-awesome-looks-like/
 
http://www.wizhelp.com
http://www.yuuguu.com/home
 
Email from Aaron Levinson
http://lifehacker.com/5386667/prevent-google-bing-and-yahoo-from-tracking-your-clicks
 
Contact 
http://freshubuntu.com
http://twitter.com/harlem http://twitter.com/nikolaidis
harlem@freshubuntu.com peter@freshubuntu.com
 
popey from ubuntu uk podcast - http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/ - popey.com
http://linuxoutlaws.com/files/satanic-popey.png
 
leftyfb - all services = "leftyfb" :)