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Hosts: Ronnie • Les Pounder [email protected] • Tony Hughes • Jon Chamberlain • Oliver Clark http://fullcirclemagazine.org full circle magazine #73 3 contents ^ UUBBUUNNTTUU NNEEWWSS Written by The Ubuntu News Team COMMUNITY ON UBUNTU 13.04 (RARING Edubuntu: codename for the next Ubuntu http://edubuntu.org/news/13.04- release: Saucy Salamander. “The UBUNTU.COM RINGTAIL) RELEASED release salamander is one of nature’s most aniel Holbach addresses dam Conrad, member of the Lubuntu: magical creatures; they are a D concerns as related to the A Ubuntu Release Team, http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/A strong indicator of a pristine removal of the “community” link announces the release of Ubuntu nnouncement/13.04 environment, which is a fitting way from the navigation bar of 13.04 Raring Ringtail. This release Ubuntu Studio: to describe the new world ubuntu.com. 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Meneses thanks encourages everyone to test out also announced their releases as all nominees and notes they had the images for the 4 devices well. NOT SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC- great applicants from which to available. Kubuntu: EXPIALIDOCIOUS choose as always. http://www.theorangenotebook.c http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kub http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/201 SCORPIONFISH. om/2013/04/testing-ubunutu- untu-13.04 3/04/26/pablo-rubianes-and- ark Shuttleworth touch-images-now-with.html Xubuntu: marcos-costales-appointed-to-the- congratulates the entire http://xubuntu.org/news/13-04- M lococouncil/ extended Ubuntu community for release/ the 13.04 release and reveals the full circle magazine #73 4 contents ^ UBUNTU NEWS the next virtual Ubuntu Developer ANNOUNCING THE UBUNTU cycle, where he explains what this UBUNTU 8.04 (HARDY Summit starting on May 14th. He event is about. He also mentions BILLBOARD PHOTO CONTEST HERON), 10.04 (LUCID highlights the various tracks and that an Ask Mark! session will be track leads and participants. avid Planella announces the held, where "community members LYNX) DESKTOP, AND 11.10 Johnston also lists some of the bug D Ubuntu Billboard Photo are invited to ask Mark (ONEIRIC OCELOT) END OF fixes which have landed on the Contest for people in Russia and Shuttleworth (sabdfl) questions Ukraine. From May 13th to the end LIFE REACHED ON MAY 9, latest summit portal. He invites about the Ubuntu project." 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