Check it out it here. There is some good stuff including development for the next release, Gutsy Gibbon, has started.

UWN #37 is out. There is a good overview of the Ubuntu 7.04 press coverage. It was mostly positive, reporters liking all the simplicity and bling. Sun including a full Java stack was a huge deal. Some say its all downhill for Java, but I wonder if this will have any impact.

Also, I meant to mention this before, but Canonical is running the Ubuntu Open Week right now. Basically, it’s a way for people to get a good look at the diverse Ubuntu community. New users can find out more about Ubuntu or how to join a LoCo; non-technical folks can find out how to help out, like translating documentation, market Ubuntu, etc; and tech-savvy folks can help out triaging bugs or maintaining applications.

You can read a bit more at Tony Yarusso or Melissa Draper’s blog.

With Feisty Fawn coming out Thursday, I thought I would put out some recent Ubuntu/Linux links out there:

• Linux Distro Timeline | KDE-Files.org - Cool timeline of when the different Linux distributions appeared and from what. - (tags: [tag]software[/tag] [tag]ubuntu[/tag])
• Ubuntu Feisty Fawn: Desktop Linux Matured - OSNews.com - “With Ubuntu Feisty Fawn’s latest test beta –for the first time ever– …I was up and running with all the niceties I wanted within 2 hours.” Sweet. - (tags: [tag]ubuntu[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])
• a critical look at ubuntu feisty beta on an hp nc8430 laptop | cpbotha.net - Charl P. Botha installs Feisty HP NC8430 laptop. Unlike a lot of the reviews, he gives his honest opinion: “The Ubuntu people have done a marvellous job, but Feisty Beta (up to date as of 2007-04-10) doesn?t quite Just Work(tm) on the HP NC8430.” - (tags: [tag]software[/tag] [tag]ubuntu[/tag])
• Summary of New Feisty Features from Ubuntu Wiki - The Ubuntu wiki lists some of the features that will be part of Feisty once its releasesd. This covers whats been in the beta versions so far. It covers the Windows migration assistant, easey codec installation, diagnostic tools, desktop effects, etc. - (tags: [tag]software[/tag] [tag]ubuntu[/tag])
• Microsoft’s ‘Men in Black’ kill Florida open standards legislation - It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were pressuring members of the Senate - (tags: [tag]software[/tag])

• Mozart doesn’t make you clever - German government decides to tackle the myth of the ‘Mozart effect’. - (tags: [tag]music[/tag])
• ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox - Online tool for color matching and palette design - (tags: [tag]web[/tag])
• NPR : A Former Monk Takes On Love and Capitalism - “Sonam Dhargye used to be a Tibetan monk. Now he’s a runner on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He left his monastery for love, moving to Chicago with a woman he later married.” - (tags: [tag]philosophy[/tag])
• Display recent nodes (titles & teasers) snippet | drupal.org - To add the ability to view the last X number of posts by writers on a drupal system. - (tags: [tag]web[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])
• Recent weblog entries (titles) snippet | drupal.org - To add the ability to view the last X number of posts by writers on a drupal system. - (tags: [tag]web[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])
• The Happiness Project: The importance of knowing what you LIKE to do, and then doing it. - Although many people assume that popular activities like watching TV are enjoyable, their own reports generally indicate that they feel more engaged, energetic, satisfied and happy when doing other things. - (tags: [tag]happiness[/tag])

The first issue of the full circle magazine is out. You can download a PDF version of the file here. The issue features all the cool things coming to Feisty Fawn, which will be released April 19th, and summarizes all the Ubuntu releases so far. If you know anyone interested in trying out Ubuntu, definitely print this out and let them see all the great features.

• Why are business rules better than traditional code? - Enterprise Decision Management - Reasons why using business rules management system can be better than implementing rules in code. - (tags: [tag]business[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])
• What you need to know about Decision Services - Enterprise Decision Management - “A key tenet of Enterprise Decision Management is the automation of the operational decisions that drive your business.” - (tags: [tag]business[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])
• Why business rules? A curious reader asks.. - Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog - Detailed reasons why rules based languages and rules engines should be used. - (tags: [tag]business[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])

Some of the community members of Ubuntu are working to put together a monthly magazine. The magazine will eventually go up at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org. For now, the conversations and details of it are being hashed out on the Ubuntu Forums and the articles will be posted on the Ubuntu wiki while being edited. It will also be distributed in PDF format and you can preview it on the forums.

Initially, I wondered if it would make sense to publish an Ubuntu magazine at all. It seemed like a lot of people get their information on the web, so whats the benefit of doing a magazine that might not contain the latest and greatest information available?

Don Dodge is Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. Yes, yes, Microsoft, but hold on. He has an interesting post about how magazines aren’t even close to dying, yet. Looking at the subscription numbers from the Magazine Publishers Association, and ignoring AARP and AAA magazines (since they are a side benefit of other services), there are still 164 MILLION subscriptions for the first half of 2006. Don is probably right that younger generations don’t consume information the same way, so the number of subscriptions will just dwindle down. But, it shows that currently a lot, if not most, people still prefer the magazine format.

While there are no plans to print the Ubuntu magazine at the moment, its imperative that the average joe have access to information in a familiar format. With Ubuntu’s user base growing everyday, a magazine will provide a mainstream channel for potential users to get to know Ubuntu.

• Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site - A whole series on implementing and building sites on Drupal. - (tags: [tag]web[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])

• Speech by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin: Real Reasons and Acceptable Reasons - “I don’t know that one could say that folks like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson led balanced lives. Any rational cost/benefit analysis would tell you to stay out of a quarrel with the mother country, and let other people deal with it! Who today would talk about pledging their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to a cause?” - (tags: [tag]philosophy[/tag])
• People have no idea why they’re doing what they’re doing - (37signals) - Clotaire Rapaille believes all purchasing decisions lie beyond conscious thinking and emotion and reside at a primal core. He helps Fortune 500 companies discover the code (i.e. unconscious associations for their products) that will help them increase sales. - (tags: [tag]business[/tag] [tag]psychology[/tag])
• Because buying new running shoes is more fun than actually running | 43 Folders - “there’s a big difference between buying new running shoes and actually hitting the road every morning. Big difference. One is really fun and relaxing while the other requires a lot of hard work, diligence, and sacrifice.” - (tags: [tag]philosophy[/tag])
• All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash app - A Nikon flash app that shows how tiny humans are in terms of the universe. - (tags: [tag]philosophy[/tag])
• Web 2.0 mind-map - A very impressive mind-map of everything important in web 2.0. - (tags: [tag]web[/tag])
• Adobe: Google’s Best Kept Secret Enemy « Tom?s Blog - “Whose version will Java developers buy? I don’t know, but whoever wins this battle will pull ahead in the enterprise space as all the Java-heads will preach that technology solution to those who sign their paychecks.” - (tags: [tag]web[/tag] [tag]software[/tag])

• How we learned to stop having fun - “Historians of European culture are in substantial agreement,” Lionel Trilling wrote in 1972, “that in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, something like a mutation in human nature took place.” - (tags: [tag]happiness[/tag])
• Write That Down - » Not Being the CEO - A young project manager’s view of what it takes to be successful. - (tags: [tag]software[/tag])
• Car from `Knight Rider’ is up for sale - Yahoo! News - Only $149,995. - (tags: [tag]television[/tag])
• You’re not on a f*****g plane (and if you are, it doesn’t matter)! - (37signals) - AC pointing out that we are already too connected and don’t need offline access. - (tags: [tag]software[/tag] [tag]web[/tag])
• The Elusive RIA « NeelZone - Problems with using Java and Ajax for RIA: system load, network latency and bandwidth, browser independence, and too many technologies involved, HTML, Javascript client-side, PHP/Java/.NET server-side - (tags: [tag]software[/tag])
• The Happiness Project: “what is happiness?” - “After a huge amount of thought and false starts, I arrived at my formula: to be happier, think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.” - (tags: [tag]happiness[/tag])