Issue 5: Totally Lucid

This time we tour some highlights of the Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" release, such as the Me menu, the Ubuntu One music shop, and the Quickly development framework. We also talk to Canonical's new COO and check out some dandy desktop apps.

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Table of Contents

News

• Welcome to Ubuntu User: The end of the world is always the beginning of a new age. By Marcel Gagné
• Who We All Are: Jono explains how the Ubuntu 10.04 release raises the bar on usability and design. By Jono Bacon
• What's New in Ubuntu 10.04: The latest Ubuntu release is a Long Term Support edition, so the developers paid special attention to stability, but you'll also find some great new tools and lots of visual enhancements. By Kristian Kißling
• Meet Matt Asay: Canonical's new Chief Operating Officer Matt Asay talks about goals and the path ahead. By Amber Graner

Features

• Elgg: Marcel shows how to create your own social networking site using the open source Elgg framework. By Marcel Gagné
• Lucid Lynx Boot: Viewing the Ubuntu boot process with a developer's eye. By Scott James Remnant
• Me Menu: Manage your chat and social networking accounts from a convenient desktop menu. By Marc Köstner and Kristian Kißling
• Ubuntu One Music Store: Dave Phillips takes a look around the Ubuntu One online music shop. By Dave Phillips
• Ground Control: We'll show you how to integrate Ubuntu's Launchpad service with your desktop. By Nathan Willis

Know-How

• GRUB 2: The rebuilt GRUB bootloader brings better automation and prettier backgrounds. By Andreas Bohle
• Acire: Charge up your code with pre-built Python snippets. By Jono Bacon
• Quickly: Get a head start on coding with this innovative programming tool. By Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
• Kontact: Get Connected to KDE's personal information suite. By Bruce Byfield
• Launchpad: Find your way around Ubuntu's code hosting service. By Jono Bacon
• Answerbuntu: Answers for your Ubuntu questions. By Mike Basinger

Desktop

• New in OOo 3.2: Password protection, new chart types, and more in the latest OpenOffice suite. By Jacqueline Rahemipour
• Task Coach: A simple and sensible task tracker. By Vincze-Áron Szabó
• Tobu: Get organized with this personal information app. By Dmitri Popov
• GCstart: Manage your collectibles with the GCstart collections manager. By Anthony Dean
• Calibre: Build an e-book and organize your electronic library. By Frank Wieduwilt

Discovery Guide

If you are new to Ubuntu, these tutorials will help you put the cat in the bag:

• Email Privacy: Tips for securing your email. By James Stanger
• Mouse Control: Setting preferences and installing useful utilities. By Dmitri Popov
• Terminal Time: Convenient command-line tools. By Heike Jurzik
• Scripting: Useful text-processing scripts. By Æleen Frisch

On the DVD

• Lucid Lynx double-sided DVD: Ubuntu 10.04 & Kubuntu 10.04

Sample Articles

Quick Start
Although the Linux ecosystem is a veritable hacker’s delight, offering an array of choices in programming languages, toolkits, databases, utilities, and so on, the abundance of choice can be a curse for beginning programmers. Quickly lets you get your project underway … well … quickly.	044-047_quickly.pdf 2.58 MB

UBUNTU USER
This time we tour some highlights of the Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" release, such as the Me menu, the Ubuntu One music shop, and the Quickly development framework. We also talk to Canonical's new COO and check out some dandy desktop apps.	004-005_content.pdf 4.51 MB

MORE LUCID
Lucid Lynx marks a turning point in Ubuntu’s evolution.	006-006_jono_05.pdf 1.13 MB

Meet Matt Asay
Canonical’s new COO shares some thoughts on strategy, goals, and the business of business.	012-013_interview_asay.pdf 1.80 MB

Letters
Please send your comments and suggestions to letters@ubuntu-user.com	014-015_letters_uu05.pdf 1.64 MB

Boot Polishing
Ubuntu developer Scott James Remnant shows why you can expect faster boot times when firing up Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.	021-024_llboot.pdf 4.10 MB

Jump Start
The new GRUB 2 boot manager offers automation, a modular design, and a prettier boot menu. Table 1: Files and Directories Listing 1: Startup Script	036-038_grub2.pdf 5.71 MB

ANSWERBUNTU
Mike basinger is an administrator on Ubuntu Forums, where he helps users with questions about Ubuntu every day. If you have any Ubuntu problems you would like answered, send your questions to QandA@ubuntu‑user.com.	056-059_answers.pdf 14.27 MB