"...We’ll be discussing the latest and greatest happenings in the world of free culture, Creative Commons, and Free software. We’ll also be talking our future plans for the semester..."

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #95 for the week June 8th - June 14th, 2008.

Canonical does have some grand plans for the Ubuntu Software Store and in this article we have some screenshots of what it looks like currently and how it functions along with some of their plans for the future.

Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton and eighty other important kernel developers are now debating how they plan to proceed with the future development of Linux at the Kernel Summit 2008 in Portland, Oregon.

About 12 hours ago, I was notified of a thread on Ubuntu's forums: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment - LXDE is back!. It's about LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), whose future is seriously questioned, should we read the Current Status and Future Plan of The Project — a message from his author, the very maker of the PCMan File Manager PCManFM is very much alive, having the latest release (0.3.6 stable) on 2008-02-23, but LXDE is a different matter, it seems...

Python 3000 (a.k.a. "Py3k", and released as Python 3.0) is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed.

A year after going commercial, Acquia gets a new chief executive and new plans for the future.

Red Hat is making plans to beef up its virtualization management software so it can compete with VMware on a more equal footing in the future.

"The 2008 Firefox Summit is an invitation-only gathering of some of the most active contributors in the Mozilla community. The purpose is to discuss the future of Firefox..." -- The future of Firefox should be linked to that of Emacs ;)