Table of Contents

News

• Welcome to Ubuntu User: Marcel welcomes Maverick Meerkat and ponders gesture-based interfaces in movies and real life.
• Jono’s Column: It’s Jono’s four-year anniversary with Canonical, but he’s looking to the future.
• Interview: Chris Kenyon wants Ubuntu pre-installed everywhere.
• News: Mark Shuttleworth on the new uTouch framework, Google open sources Liquid Galaxy, Ubucompilator beta release, Canonical demos a brand new user-aware framework prototype.
• Letters

Features

• What’s New in Ubuntu: An improved Software Center and multi-touch support.
• Enabling Gestures with Extensions: Marcel examines gesture capabilities in various browsers.
• Ubuntu’s uTouch Framework: Ubuntu brings multi-touch to the masses.
• Easystroke: This easy tool lets you define mouse gestures to control your computer.
• Keeping an Eye on Things: The Sighttpd streaming server transmits audio and video over the web.

Know-How

• Music Player Daemon: Set up your own Internet radio station with MPD.
• Easy HDR: High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography doesn’t have to be hard.
• Thinkingrock: This cool tool helps you keep your life organized.
• Inkscape for the Web: Put the Inkscape vector editor to work as a web design tool.
• Answerbuntu: Get answers to your Ubuntu configuration questions.
• Building Packages: We show you how to build and rebuild Ubuntu packages.
• Scripting: Use these Bash scripts to automate repetitive tasks.

Desktop

• K3b: Here’s your one-stop app for burning and ripping CD and DVDs.
• Geeqie: View, sort, and fly through your digital images.
• Geotag: Add geographical reference data to your pictures.
• Minitube: Smooth out your Flash videos without using Adobe Flash.

Discovery Guide

If you are new to Ubuntu, these timely tutorials will help you get started:

• Configuration
• Network & Updates
• Printing & Scanning
• Security