I used my Wii to write this blog. i just got the wii yesterday and decided not to get a new server…. though i am still looking for one!

Only less then one day until ROTE v7.0 is released. now only its a countdown!

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6:00 AM Released 7.0!

This ubuntu-devel-announce Digest, Vol 20, Issue 8 is what was sent at 4:00 AM.

Today’s Topics:

1. Tribe 2 freeze ahead, lets go squash bugs (Martin Pitt)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:19:09 +0200
From: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Tribe 2 freeze ahead, lets go squash bugs
To: Ubuntu Development Announcements
<ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com>
Message-ID: <

20070622151909.GG25696@piware.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii”

Hello Ubuntu developers,

we have some cool new features to show off: new Gnome, free flash,
maybe compiz by default, and more, so lets prepare a good Tribe-2 next
Thursday!

We are about to freeze main by Tuesday. Please get in touch with a
member of the release team if you have changes you need to get into
this milestone and which are not in the archive already. In
particular, if you have important outstanding merges to do, please do
them now.

Please also help reducing package inconsistencies, as listed on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageInconsistencies.

We have quite a number of outstanding bugs for tribe-2, depending on
your taste you should use one of

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/tribe-2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone:Alist=469

for getting an overview about them. Please take some time to fix your
assigned bugs ASAP. Also, please watch out for critical bugs that you
feel should block the tribe release, and milestone them for tribe-2.
If in doubt, please err on the safe side and set the milestone, so
that the release team can review it. Please also look from time to
time to see if there are any bugs there which could use your help.

If you have any particular question about bugs, please contact us in
#ubuntu-devel.

Thanks,

Martin Pitt

on behalf of the Ubuntu release team

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyReleaseSchedule

The Tesla as it is code named will be released in August. Anyway here is the story from PC World:
Nvidia Expands From Gaming to High-Performance Chips

Known for graphics processors designed for video gaming, the company now enters the market for high-performance PC processors.
Part 1 of a special five-part series.
Robert Mullins, IDG News Service
Nvidia, known for graphics processors designed for video gaming, is expanding into the market for high-performance computing processors.
Nvidia today introduced the Tesla line of processors, which it bills as making high-density parallel processing capabilities available in workstation computers.

The Tesla graphics processing unit (GPU) features 128 parallel processors and delivers up to 518 gigaflops of parallel computation. A gigaflop refers to the processing of a billion floating point operations per second. Nvidia envisions the Tesla being used in high-performance computing environments such as geosciences, molecular biology or medical diagnostics.

Nvidia also will offer Tesla in a workstation, which it calls a “Deskside Supercomputer,” that includes two Tesla GPUs, attaches to a PC or workstation via a PCI-Express connection, and delivers up to 8 teraflops of processing power. A teraflop is the processing of a trillion floating point operations per second.

A Tesla Computing Server puts eight Tesla GPUs with 1,000 parallel processors into a 1U server rack.

The list price for the Tesla GPU would start at US$1,499 and the deskside computer at $7,500. Both will be available beginning in August. Qualification samples of the Computing Server, with a list price of $12,000, will be available in September. The product will be fully available in the November-December time frame, Nvidia said.
Powerful
“Scientists will know how to use this and produce results,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, at a preview event for journalists last month at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California. “They will be able to do simulations in days, not months, seconds, not minutes.”

A number of enterprises see promise in the new Nvidia processors, including Headwave, which analyzes geophysical and seismic data to discover underground oil deposits and is interested in the Tesla line. The oil exploration industry needs better tools to analyze data from its search efforts, said Steve Briggs, vice president of system integration for Headwave.

“If it costs you $150 million to drill a hole, you don’t want a dry hole,” Briggs said at last month’s event.

The Tesla is the third major product line from Nvidia, whose GeForce GPUs deliver high-end PC graphics. Its Quadro processor line enables computer-aided design in the creation of digital content, including 3-D graphics. It also released in February a beta version of software it calls CUDA, for compute unified device architecture, which enables software code to be written to use a computer’s GPU as well as the CPU (central processing unit) for added processing power. A general availability of CUDA is expected in the second half of this year.

The company is hosting an analysts’ day today. One analyst, Doug Freedman of American Technology Research, still maintains a “Neutral” rating on Nvidia’s stock, but raised his forecast price target to $40 a share.

“We believe the company continues to execute well,” Freedman said in a note to investors. He thinks the threat from the acquisition of competitor ATI Technologies by Advanced Micro Devices “did not materialize.”

However, Nvidia may face a stronger competitive threat from Intel, if the rumors are true that Intel plans to enter the GPU market in 2008, he said. Intel didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about this matter.

That is all for now… maybe a bit more later!

Ryan Orser.

Here is a new mailing list that I have been reading since yesterday… this is about Ubuntu and its derivatives. Here is the Volume 1, Issue 6:

Brainstorming (Daniel Holbach)

Hello everybody,

we should hold a meeting of the team and all interested derivatives

soon. Before we get that started, we should have a brainstorming
together, so we know what problems, interests and ideas there are.

Please add your ideas to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Brainstorming and also create new
sections, if needed.

Thanks a lot. Have a nice day,
Daniel

All is well with the Ryan Orser’s Text Editor v7 which is now in the Release Candidate State. All you need to do is Download the program!

I have updated the time line, so please check it out!

This ubuntu-devel-announce Digest is all about the Gutsy Feature Plan, Launchpad bug workflow change, and Ubuntu Derivatives mailing list. here is what it says:

Now that the set of feature goals planned for Ubuntu 7.10 (“Gutsy
Gibbon”) has been largely finalised, it seems like an appropriate point
to announce the plan to the world.

While this is based on the approved blueprints for gutsy[0], which are
expected to be implemented in time, we do release according to a
time-based schedule[1] rather than a feature-based one. It is not
unusual for some planned features to be delayed to later releases;
happily it is also not unusual for our developers to introduce neat
features we weren’t expecting either.

[0] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyReleaseSchedule

Desktop
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Ubuntu 7.10 will ship with the latest edition of the GNOME desktop,
2.20, released a few weeks before our own release. Kubuntu 7.10 will
ship with KDE 3.5.7, and should also include packages of KDE 4.0 rc 2
available for optional side-by-side installation.

We are aiming for Ubuntu to be one of the first distributions to ship
the newly merged Compiz and Beryl projects (compcomm/OpenCompositing);
and enable it as the default window manager on systems with a supported
combination of hardware and drivers.

Systems which do not support compositing, or those with it disabled by
user option, will use the existing metacity window manager.

Hardware Support
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Ubuntu 7.10 will use the 2.6.22 Linux kernel, along with our usual
selection of updated and additional drivers.

We will also use Xorg 7.3, giving better graphics hardware support and
the option of hotplugging monitors (RandR 1.2) and input devices
(xserver 1.4).

As well as the easier configuration for hotplugging-supported drivers
(“no xorg.conf”), we also aim to have better configuration for other
drivers and fallback settings for when there is a problem.

Some “winmodem” chips will be supported out of the box, where drivers
are available; though this may rely on the use of restricted drivers.
Improvements to the Restricted Driver Manager are expected, allowing
drivers to be disabled by default and proposed by the manager. As
previously announced, an edition of Ubuntu without restricted enabled by
default is in the works.

Mobile
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As announced, Ubuntu 7.10 will be first release to include a new Mobile
and Embedded edition targeted at hand-held devices and other
mobile/embedded form factors.

This integrates the Hildon UI components developed by Nokia into Ubuntu,
on top of the existing Ubuntu platform.

Server
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Development of the Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition has received a new boost
with a dedicated development team at Canonical working on it. Features
aiming to improve the experience for new and hobbyist administrators are
expected, as well as features desirable for small businesses and
organisations.

For increased security, the AppArmor security framework will be
available as an option for those that want it.

Stability and Performance
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Ubuntu 7.10 should function significantly better when the filesystem is
full or otherwise not writable, allowing the user to make room and then

continue working without undue interruption.

Improvements to our “apport” bug and crash reporting infrastructure are
planned, in particular integration with our software installation and
upgrade tools so that problems installing or upgrading packages can be
easily reported with relevant information attached. Kernel crashes will
also be intercepted on reboot, and may be reported using the tool.

Our efforts to improve boot reliability and performance continue;
unlimited and reliable stackability of software raid (MD) devices, LVM
volumes and software-managed (devmapper) devices will be supported with
no runtime ordering issues.

Ubuntu 7.10 will ship with Upstart 0.5, which will provide flexible and
reliable service supervision. We expect to harness this for suitable
core services, and some boot process tasks, as appropriate.

Scott
–
Scott James Remnant
Ubuntu Development Manager

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Tomorrow (2007-06-20) the Launchpad team will update the bug tracker
with a new set of bug states to help projects like Ubuntu improve bug
management. The changes will allow for greater fine tuning of our bug
management and the new labels should hopefully also make more sense to
users.

The following statuses will be added:

* Triaged
* Won’t Fix
* Todo

The following statuses will be renamed:

* Unconfirmed -> New
* Needs Info -> Incomplete
* Rejected -> Invalid

The reasons for the new states are roughly:

* Triaged will mean that a bug has all the information attached to it
that a developer needs to fix it. The ‘confirmed’ state was previously
used for this purpose, but many users were ‘confirming’ bugs when
observed by a second person.

* Rejected has been split into Invalid and Won’t Fix, where the latter
may be a valid bug or wish-list change that we don’t have the wish or
resources to fix.

* Todo will form the list of bugs that developers expect to work on in
the near future. These would typically also be assigned to a developer
or a dev team.

The renaming of some existing states is intended to make them more
intuitive to a larger audience.

Search URLs containing the old status names will be permanently
redirected to equivalent URLs containing the new status names. For
example, &status=Unconfirmed will be changed to &status=New.

Henrik

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Hello everybody,

We are happy to announce the Ubuntu Derivatives mailing list! With the
amount of derivatives growing and growing, we finally have a place where
we can discuss problems and search solutions together.

The ubuntu-derivatives list is going to be the place where we will
* achieve collaboration across derivatives,
* gather derivative and distro experts at one table and
* start a common knowledge base.

Sign up here:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-derivatives

Have a nice day,
the Derivatives Team

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yah almost time for a new server. I have about 25.64 % left to get before I can get the Computer and build it.

Wow this is a great game on a overly controlling Operating System. it runs well but will lag if you run to many teams or to many people are playing. Oh and By the way I would rather use XP for the Civilization 4 Warlords then the Vista I have right now.

anyway happy Monday,
Ryan Orser

I have tried to upgrade the processor from a slower cpu to a faster cpu, though it did not work…. so now it is back up and here is the first post from after the downtime of the server.

Here is the download of the Ryan Orser’s Text Editor v7.0 Beta 1:

his is the First Beta of ROTEv7, the Release Candidate will be available soon.

Ryan Orser

Update: Now The Beta Came Out today at 1:30 PM PST.