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Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #74 - June 2013 ) ) m m o o c c . r r k k c c i i l l F F ( ( s s a a i i B B a a e e r r A A y y a a B B e e h h T T : : o o t t o o h h P P SSOOFFTTWWAARREE SSHHOOWWDDOOWWNN PDF VIEWERS: EVINCE vs OKULAR full circle magazine #74 1 Full Ciircle Magaziine iis neiither affiiliiated wiith,, nor endorsed by,, Canoniical Ltd.. contents ^ HowTo Full Circle Opinions THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY My Story p.31 Gpodder p.08 Columns LibreOffice p.11 Command & Conquer p.06 Ubuntu News p.04 My Story p.33 Connect To IPV6 p.14 Ask The New Guy p.26 Ubuntu Games p.47 Review p.34 Blender p.18 Linux Labs p.29 Q&A p.42 Software Showdown p.36 Inkscape p.21 Linux Certified p.48 Ubuntu Women p.45 Letters p.39 Graphics The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This means you can adapt, copy, distribute and transmit the articles but only under the following conditions: you must attribute the work to the original author in some way (at least a name, email or URL) and to this magazine by name ('Full Circle Magazine') and the URL www.fullcirclemagazine.org (but not attribute the article(s) in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you must distribute the resulting work under the same, similar or a compatible license. Full Circle magazine is entirely independent of Canonical, the sponsor of the Ubuntu projects, and the views and opinions in the magazine should in no way be assumed tfoulhl acivrecleCamnaognaiczainlee#nd7o4rseme2nt. contents ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : WELCOME TO ANOTHER ISSUE OF FULL CIRCLE! he usual LibreOffice, Blender, and Inkscape HowTo's are here, but Greg has had to T take this month off. Replacing your regular Python article is an interesting piece on automating Gpodder to become your personal entertainment assistant. Give that a try. And, while you're at it, you can try hooking up to the Internet using IPV6 in this month's other HowTo. A new addition to Full Circle is the Software Showdown. Each month, Tushar will have similar applications compete against each other to see who will come out on top. This month: PDF viewers. Full Circle Podcast Released monthly, each episode covers all the latest Ubuntu news, Ubuntu Women has the story of a school which completely switched to Ubuntu and opinions, reviews, interviews and if you enjoyed last month's Linux Lab article about DVD video, then this month's article listener feedback. The Side-Pod is should tickle your fancy too. This time Charles discusses creating DVD menus. a new addition, it's an extra (irregular) short-form podcast which is intended to be a branch Gord has tweaked his Q&A column to include links to the most popular questions of the main podcast. It's from AskUbuntu.com. This is something quite a lot of you asked for in the survey. somewhere to put all the general technology and non-Ubuntu stuff Now is the best time to submit a shot of your desktop for the My Desktop section as that doesn’t fit in the main podcast. I am now officially out of screens. If you fancy submitting your desktop for others to see, please read the info on the penultimate page of this issue. Hosts: • Les Pounder • Tony Hughes • Jon Chamberlain All the best, and keep in touch! • Oliver Clark Ronnie [email protected] http://fullcirclemagazine.org full circle magazine #74 3 contents ^ UUBBUUNNTTUU NNEEWWSS Written by The Ubuntu News Team MARK SHUTTLEWORTH realities - microsofts-hold-computing- Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group has http://www.iloveubuntu.net/mark- declining/ taken place to help “figure out how CLOSES UBUNTU BUG #1 shuttleworth-closes-2004s-bug-1- best to shape Ubuntu to meet the due-todays-realities Ubuntu Marks 'Bug No. 1' As Fixed, needs ofthe mobile industry.” Of ark Shuttleworth closes After Nearly Nine Years - the meeting itself, Shuttleworth M Ubuntu bug #1 with Mark Shuttleworth Marks Bug #1, http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo- also writes: “We mappedout our following words: “Personal ‘Microsoft Has Majority way/2013/05/30/187318344/ubunt approach to the key question I’ve computing today is a broader Marketshare, As Fixed - u-marks-bug-no-1-as-fixed-after- been askedby every carrierwe’ve proposition than it was in 2004: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/201 nearly-nine-years met so far: how can we phones, tablets, wearables and 3/05/mark-shuttleworth-marks- accommodate differentiation, otherdevices are all part ofthe mix without fragmenting the platform bug-1-fixed COMMUNITY ON forourdigital lives. From a fordevelopers?We describedthe competitive perspective, that Ubuntu bug #1 marked as fixed by UBUNTU.COM range ofdiversity we think we can broadermarket has healthy Mark Shuttleworth - support initially, receivedsome competition, with IOS andAndroid http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05 aniel Holbach announces the initial feedback from carriers representing a meaningful /ubuntu-bug-1-marked-as-fixed-by- D launch of participating immediately, andI’m share...Even though we have only mark.html http://community.ubuntu.com, looking forwardto the distilled playeda small part in that shift, I which “is the primary address for feedback we’ll get on the topic in think it’s important forus to Ubuntu declares bug #1 -- interestedUbuntu users to stay the next call.” recognize that the shift has taken 'Microsoft has a majority market involvedandget informedabout http://www.markshuttleworth.com place. So from Ubuntu’s perspective, share' -- closed - what ourcommunity is doing.” /archives/1261 this bug is now closed." http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu- http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/05/ Canonical’s announcement: Full remarks at: declares-bug-1-microsoft-has-a- 31/community-on-ubuntu-com/ “Formation of Carrier Advisory http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/05/ majority-market-share-closed- Group for Ubuntu mobile 31/mark-shuttleworth-closes- 7000016129/ MARK SHUTTLEWORTH: development” - ubuntu-bug-1/ http://www.canonical.com/content Want more on the closure of bug Mark Shuttleworth closes Ubuntu’s HERE COMES THE CARRIER /formation-carrier-advisory-group- #1? Several news sites blogs Bug No. 1 now that Microsoft’s ADVISORY GROUP ubuntu-mobile-development covered it, here’s a sampling of hold on computing is declining - Finally, several news outlets and what they had to say: http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2 other blogs have covered this ark Shuttleworth announces Mark Shuttleworth closes the 013/05/30/mark-shuttleworth- news, here’s a sampling selected that the first meeting of the 2004's bug #1 due to today's closes-ubuntus-bug-no-1- M by our editors: full circle magazine #74 4 contents ^ UBUNTU NEWS Ubuntu phone OS has eight support-from-eight-mobile- IMPROVING WEB SERVICES buntu-news-team/2013- carriers signed on to boost operators June/001815.html development - FOR UBUNTU http://arstechnica.com/informatio Canonical unveils Carrier Advisory Many Thanks to the Ubuntu News n-technology/2013/06/ubuntu- Group for Ubuntu phones - n an effort to improve web Team for their contribution this phone-os-has-eight-carriers- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013 I services and help address issues month. signed-on-to-boost-development/ /06/18/ubuntu_carrier_advisory_b from user testing, various services oard/ like Ubuntu Single Sign On and Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group Ubuntu Pay are being re-branded Announced - UBUNTU DONATIONS AND under the Ubuntu One name. News this month comes from: http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/0 Information from the various 6/18/ubuntu-carrier-advisory- COMMUNITY FUNDING services will soon be available from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuW group-announced/ the same place in order to relieve eeklyNewsletter/Issue319 pecific details about Ubuntu some confusion. Along with the re- Canonical announces Ubuntu S Donations and Community branding comes an improved https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuW Carrier Advisory Group with LG Funding have been announced design and a new user interface. eeklyNewsletter/Issue320 UPlus, Telecom Italia, Korea following a plan prepared by Jono http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/ Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, etc, Bacon and approved by the 21/improving-web-services-for- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuW as members Community Council. Donation ubuntu/ eeklyNewsletter/Issue321 -http://www.iloveubuntu.net/cano periods will occur every 6 months, and the money received in the nical-announces-ubuntu-carrier- WELCOME NEW MEMBERS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuW advisory-group-lg-uplus-telecom- previous cycle will go to fund the eeklyNewsletter/Issue322 italia-korea-telecom-deutsche current cycle. Those wishing to AND DEVELOPERS apply for funding must submit a 8 Major Mobile Carriers Join form, and it cannot be used for an t the Developer Membership Ubuntu Touch Advisory Group - arbitrary amount of money for a A Board meeting on 2013-06-03 http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/201 person or a team. A report the following individuals joined 3/06/8-mobile-operators-give- containing the budget, a list of MOTU: backing-to-ubuntu-touch items where the money was spent, Matt Fischer - and the remaining balance will be https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MattFisch Canonical's Ubuntu for released at the end of the cycle. er | https://launchpad.net/~mfisch smartphones gets support from http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/ Dmitry Shachnev - eight mobile operators - 20/ubuntu-donations-and- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DmitrySh http://www.theinquirer.net/inquir community-funding/ achnev er/news/2276104/canonicals- https://launchpad.net/~mitya57 ubuntu-for-smartphones-gets- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/u full circle magazine #74 5 contents ^ CCOOMMMMAANNDD && CCOONNQQUUEERR Written by Lucas Westermann SSuurrvveeyy RReessuullttss hen going through last the Extension Pack.