Issue240


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu Community mourns the loss of André Gondim
    2. Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere
    3. End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook and ARM – 2011/10/29
    4. UDS Video Interviews
  3. Community Acknowledgements and Success Stories
    1. Awesome Summit work during the UDS-O Cycle
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Oneiric
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. Darcy Casselman: Ubuntu LoCo Teams and the 200 Million
    2. LoCo Council Oneiric Cycle Review
    3. UDS: LoCo Team Guidelines
    4. Recognising City Teams
    5. LoCo Team BBQ: The Rub and The Meat
  6. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Ubuntu is the OS for the Cloud, and here’s why…
    2. Ubuntu & HP’s project Moonshot
  7. The Planet
    1. Nathan Haines: Ubucon SCaLE10X Needs You!
    2. Daniel Holbach: Survey Summary: Getting involved with Ubuntu development
    3. David Wonderly: The Ignored Group of Ubuntu
    4. Scott Lavender: A Kernel for All Seasons
    5. Jorge Castro: Power user's team 12.04 roadmap.
    6. Martin Albisetti: Ubuntu members over time
    7. Edubuntu: Edubuntu WebLive surpasses 100 000 sessions
    8. Canonical Design Team: Juju: a logo with a story
    9. Mark Shuttleworth: Community growth and development
  8. Summaries from the Ubuntu Developer Summit -P
    1. Philip Ballew
    2. Elizabeth Krumbach
    3. Julien Lavergne
    4. Laura Czajkowski
    5. Charles Profitt
    6. Scott Lavender
    7. Randall Ross
    8. Amber Graner: UDS Day 1-2
    9. Clay Weber
    10. Michal Zajac
    11. Michael Hall
    12. Jonathan Carter
  9. In The Press
    1. 100 Best Products of 2011
    2. Canonical: Mobile OEMs are going to love our Linux
    3. Xubuntu 11.10 and my Netbook
    4. Shuttleworth: Linux Power Users Aren't too Cool for Unity
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Unity Integration to Run Deeper in Ubuntu 12.04
    2. Banshee, Tomboy And Mono Dropped from Ubuntu 12.04 CD
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Have GNOME 3.2
    4. Ubuntu 12.04 Developer Summit Summary
  11. In Other News
    1. Ubuntu One for Windows Bringing new users to Linux?
    2. Windows 8 plot to lock out Linux
  12. Other Articles of Interest
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
  15. UWN Translations
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 240 for the week October 31 - November 6, 2011.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Community mourns the loss of André Gondim
  • Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere
  • End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook and ARM – 2011/10/29
  • UDS Video Interviews
  • Community Acknowledgements and Success Stories
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo News

  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Nathan Haines: Ubucon SCaLE10X Needs You!
  • David Wonderly: The Ignored Group of Ubuntu
  • Daniel Holbach: Survey Summary: Getting involved with Ubuntu development
  • Scott Lavender: A Kernel for All Seasons
  • Jorge Castro: Power user's team 12.04 roadmap.

  • Edubuntu: Edubuntu WebLive surpasses 100 000 sessions

  • Canonical Design Team: Juju: a logo with a story
  • Mark Shuttleworth: Community growth and development
  • Summaries from the Ubuntu Developer Summit -P
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Ubuntu One for Windows Bringing new users to Linux?
  • Windows 8 plot to lock out Linux
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10
  • And much more

General Community News

Ubuntu Community mourns the loss of André Gondim

The Ubuntu Project has lost an active member of its community. André Gondim died on 3rd November after fighting with ill health for several months.

André was a major contributor of Ubuntu Brazil, the leader of the Brazilian Translations team and member of the Brazilian Community Council. He was 29 years old and married. Even despite his poor health condition, he was always there to support Ubuntu and the community.

The Ubuntu Project honours his excellent work and strong dedication to Ubuntu and the broader Open Source community. André was always there for others as a friend. He will be sorely missed and his dedication and contributions will serve as inspiration to us all.

Our thoughts are with his wife, his family and friends.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/11/04/ubuntu-community-mourns-the-loss-of-andre-gondim/

Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere

Mark Shuttleworth (SABDFL) shares with as a look at the year 2014, when Ubuntu will be running on smart phones, tablets, TVs and every and all smart screen devices.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/820

End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook and ARM – 2011/10/29

After one and a half years of support Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook and Ubuntu for ARM will no longer be supported. The upgrade path to both are to 10.10 (link to instructions and caveats included.)

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/10/29/end-of-support-for-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-netbook-and-arm-20111029/

UDS Video Interviews

The following people were interviewed by Amber Graner on video this UDS. This is a partial list. All those who were interviewed on Friday, November 4, 2011 will be included in the next UWN edition.

Community Acknowledgements and Success Stories

Awesome Summit work during the UDS-O Cycle

Chris Johnston takes time to recognise the work of Jamal Fanaian, Penelope Stowe and David Callé, Maris Fogels, Danilo Segan, Nigel Babu, Michael Hall and James Westby on the code for summit.ubuntu.com, the site used for scheduling sessions for the Ubuntu Developer Summit.

http://chrisjohnston.org/2011/awesome-summit-work-uds-o-cycle

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (92440) +613 over last week
  • Critical (115) -21 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (46998) -309 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translation Stats Oneiric

  1. Spanish (9057) -51 over last week
  2. English (United Kingdom) (43474) -2583 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (45559) +35 over last week
  4. English (Australia) (49824)
  5. Bosnian (6584)

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Oncelot", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Darcy Casselman: Ubuntu LoCo Teams and the 200 Million

With the 200 million mark that was presented at UDS-O a few months back, LoCo teams need to work as hard as they can to help spread Ubuntu to the masses of people. Darcy suggestions ways in which LoCo teams can help reach this goal.

http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2011/10/31/ubuntu-loco-teams-and-the-200-million/

LoCo Council Oneiric Cycle Review

The LoCo Council was hard at work during the 11.10 cycle, and as you can see by this article, all the terms they re-approved are listed here.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2011/11/01/loco-council-oneiric-cycle-review/

UDS: LoCo Team Guidelines

Charles Profitt presents some population and geographic area statistics to continue a discussion at the Ubuntu Developer Summit regarding the current guidelines for the breakdown of LoCo teams on geographic bounds. He compares a continent, several countries, states and cities in his analysis.

http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/uds-loco-team-guidelines/

Recognising City Teams

Darcy Casselman discusses the current policy of regional rather than city teams and suggests a structure in which we officially recognise the regional teams and offer city team leaders atonomy within each LoCo team. LoCos can easily do this themselves without any change in general policy.

http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2011/11/04/recognizing-city-teams/

LoCo Team BBQ: The Rub and The Meat

The Florida LoCo team had a interesting meeting this week, a BBQ. They had all the meat and supplies they used listed in their blog and used this a a great way to get the team together.

http://mhall119.com/2011/11/loco-team-bbq-the-rub/ http://mhall119.com/2011/11/loco-team-bbq-the-meat/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu is the OS for the Cloud, and here’s why…

Robbie Williamson discusses reasons he feels Ubuntu is “the OS for the cloud” now. Talking points include supporting the latest technologies, Canonical’s “scale-out friendly” support model and Ubuntu’s dependable and transparent release process.

http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/ubuntu-is-the-os-for-the-cloud-and-heres-why/

Ubuntu & HP’s project Moonshot

HP has announced their Project Moonshot (press release here: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111101xa.html) a programme to accelerate the use of low power processors in the data center. Canonical has been involved in all three elements of their project, leveraging the flexibility of Ubuntu 11.10 Server and work with ARM and Calexda.

http://blog.canonical.com/2011/11/02/hpmoonshot/

The Planet

Nathan Haines: Ubucon SCaLE10X Needs You!

At SCaLE 10x we will see the annual Ubucon take off again and allow people to give talks about ubuntu and what is currently going on in the Ubuntu world. There is still time to give your idea to the Ubucon people to speak yourself.

http://nhaines.livejournal.com/63667.html

Daniel Holbach: Survey Summary: Getting involved with Ubuntu development

Daniel publishes the results from a survey he published in October asking the developer community how easy it was to get involved with Ubuntu Development.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2011/11/survey-summary-getting-involved-with-ubuntu-development/

David Wonderly: The Ignored Group of Ubuntu

David explores the open source community culture that Ubuntu shares which tends to ignore the individuals who are simply users of the software produced by projects, not contributors. He suggests we move past this mindset to embrace “just users” in our community discussions.

http://www.wonderly.com/?p=129

Scott Lavender: A Kernel for All Seasons

Scott discusses the reasoning behind Ubuntu Studio’s desire for a -lowlatency kernel and some of the challenges involved.

http://dullass.blogspot.com/2011/11/kernel-for-all-seasons.html

Jorge Castro: Power user's team 12.04 roadmap.

Jorge shares the roadmap for the Ubuntu Power Users Team: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers/12.04RoadMap and invites contributors to comment and “dive right in!”

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/12284143151/power-users-team-12-04-roadmap

Martin Albisetti: Ubuntu members over time

Martin presents graph with showing the steady, healthy rise in Ubuntu Members over time.

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/262

Edubuntu: Edubuntu WebLive surpasses 100 000 sessions

The Edubuntu project has a live demonstration of Edubuntu on their website and has now surpassed 100,000 sessions. Not to settle for this milestone, they wrap up the post with an invitation for more folks to try it now.

http://edubuntu.org/2011-11-03/weblive-100k-milestong

Canonical Design Team: Juju: a logo with a story

The Canonical Design Team presents the story behind the Juju logo, complete with inspirations and drafts.

http://design.canonical.com/2011/11/juju-logo/

Mark Shuttleworth: Community growth and development

Reflecting upon Martin Albisetti’s membership graph, Mark discusses the global deepening and strengthening participation in Ubuntu. He stresses that there is no aspect in Ubuntu that a community member cannot influence and discusses some of the collaborative discussions he’s had with both the new Community Council and upstream projects at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/829

Summaries from the Ubuntu Developer Summit -P

The Ubuntu Developer Summit for 12.04, Precise Pangolin, happened this week! This UDS was packed full of excitement and energy. Posts about many of the session tracks can be found in the overwhelming number of post we've seen on the planet since and during UDS-P. Below are links from those who took the time to blog about their experience at this UDS.

Philip Ballew

Elizabeth Krumbach

Julien Lavergne

Laura Czajkowski

Charles Profitt

Scott Lavender

Randall Ross

Amber Graner: UDS Day 1-2

Clay Weber

Michal Zajac

Michael Hall

Jonathan Carter

In The Press

100 Best Products of 2011

Selected by experts at PC World this product list highlights “the year's standout hardware, software, and services” and Ubuntu 11.04 comes in at number 82.

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/collection/9806/2011_best_tech.html

Canonical: Mobile OEMs are going to love our Linux

Mark Shuttleworth talks about plans to bring Ubuntu to the Mobile platform by the year 2014. With this plan, Ubuntu will be growing to reach more users at a quick pace.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/31/ubuntu_linux_phones_tablets/

Xubuntu 11.10 and my Netbook

A netbook has XP replaced with Xubuntu and the blogger discusses how the two compare. Xubuntu wins out in this review.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/xubuntu-1110-and-my-netbook

Shuttleworth: Linux Power Users Aren't too Cool for Unity

Mark Shuttleworth delivered a opening keynote for UDS -P on October 31st that established the direction Ubuntu is headed due to its new desktop shell Unity. He stands firm in using Unity and does not miss a beat when he address concerns with the new interface.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/shuttleworth-linux-power-users-arent-too-cool-for-unity.html

In The Blogosphere

Unity Integration to Run Deeper in Ubuntu 12.04

OMG! Ubuntu! Reports on further Unity integration in the form of more quick-lists for several of Ubuntu’s default applications, including Nautilus and Ubuntu One. They also discuss proposals for new Scopes and Lenses and improved icons.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/unity-integration-to-run-deeper-in-ubuntu-12-04/

Banshee, Tomboy And Mono Dropped from Ubuntu 12.04 CD

OMG! Ubuntu! reports that during the wrap-up for UDS it was announced that Banshee would be replaced with Rhythmbox for Ubuntu 12.04. The note-taking application Tomboy will also be dropped from the default install, making the need for mono from the install CD. The post wraps up with a poll to readers regarding the changes.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/banshee-tomboy-and-mono-dropped-from-ubuntu-12-04-cd/

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Will Have GNOME 3.2

This softpedia post reports that Ubuntu 12.04 will feature the stable and well-tested GNOME 3.2 desktop environment. Other changes include hopes for a calendar for Thunderbird, fixes for “flickering” in the bootup process and availability of a new low-latency kernel package.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-12-04-LTS-Will-Have-GNOME-3-2-232134.shtml

Ubuntu 12.04 Developer Summit Summary

Michael Larabel of Phoronix has written several articles throughout the week of the Ubuntu Developer Summit showcasing results from sessions. This article is a summary of those articles, including the keynote, kernel choice, possible X.Org changes, GNOME versions, boot speed and default ISO size.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_summit&num=1

In Other News

Ubuntu One for Windows Bringing new users to Linux?

Sean Michael Kerner speculates on whether the launch of Ubuntu One for Windows will really increase the interest in Ubuntu the operating system to Windows users, and how many of those users are already Ubuntu users.

http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/ubuntu-one-for-windows-bringing-new-users-to-linux.html

Windows 8 plot to lock out Linux

“The drumbeat from Linux advocates about a key security feature in Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8 is getting louder. They call it an anti-Linux plot. But the two leading PC makers disagree with them. I’ve got exclusive details.” (article summary from zdnet)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/leading-pc-makers-confirm-no-windows-8-plot-to-lock-out-linux/4185

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

End of life - April 2013 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2013 (Desktop) - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2012

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

End of Life - October 2012

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2013

UWN Translations

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • Amber Graner
  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Philip Ballew
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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