Issue250


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.
    2. Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February
    3. Planet Ubuntu Update
    4. Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
    5. Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Oneiric
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Top 5 Ask Ubuntu Questions This Week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team Blog
    2. SCALE 10x
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Social private teams
  6. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Hitting the road with juju talks and Charm Schools.
    2. OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing
    3. juju events for 2012
  7. The Planet
    1. Canonical Design Team: Precisely how we’re going to make the wallpapers in 12.04 the best ever!
    2. Ted Gould: Searching Menus
    3. Jono Bacon: The HUD: Call For Testers
    4. Martin Pitt: software-center now installs language support automatically
    5. Jonathan Riddell: Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8 on Kubuntu
    6. Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Brand Guidelines get their own site
    7. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Featured Ubuntu Software Centre apps for January 2012
    8. Jono Bacon: Quick Team Update
    9. Chris Coulson: Retiring the Firefox Stable PPA
  8. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu swaps application menus for HUD control system
    2. Linux users cautiously optimistic about Ubuntu's Head-Up Display desktop
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. DOWNLOAD Ubuntu: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Wallpaper Contest Launched
    3. Ubuntu's Already Making Plans For ARM In 2014, 2015
    4. Ubuntu 12.04 Is ARM-ing Up For Better Performance
    5. Ubuntu 12.04 Adds Launcher Customization
  10. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine #57 – out now!
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
  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 250 for the week January 23 - 29, 2012.

In This Issue

  • Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.
  • Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February
  • Planet Ubuntu Update
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
  • Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • SCALE 10x
  • Launchpad News
  • Hitting the road with juju talks and Charm Schools.

  • OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing

  • juju events for 2012
  • Precisely how we’re going to make the wallpapers in 12.04 the best ever!
  • Searching Menus
  • The HUD: Call For Testers
  • software-center now installs language support automatically
  • Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8 on Kubuntu
  • Ubuntu Brand Guidelines get their own site
  • Featured Ubuntu Software Centre apps for January 2012
  • Quick Team Update
  • Retiring the Firefox Stable PPA
  • In The Press
  • Ubuntu's Already Making Plans For ARM In 2014, 2015
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Is ARM-ing Up For Better Performance
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Adds Launcher Customization
  • Full Circle Magazine #57 – out now!
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security
  • And much much more

General Community News

Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.

Mark Shuttleworth introduces the Ubuntu community to the HUD (Heads Up Display) -- a feature planned to eventually replace menus in Unity applications. A video demonstrating this future feature is available at the link below.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939

Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February

Just a reminder that Ubuntu Developer week starts today, January 31st, 2012 and you are invited to join in on these three action-packed days full of tutorial and hands-on session all around Ubuntu development. More information can be found at the link below.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/25/ubuntu-developer-week-31st-january-2nd-february/

Planet Ubuntu Update

Milo Casagrande on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council (CC) announces the update to Ubuntu Planet configuration and the removal of former Ubuntu Member blogs from the list. The CC reminds Ubuntu members that the "nick" field is for your Launchpad ID and gives members steps to take in case your blog was removed in error.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/24/planet-ubuntu-update/

Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

Ubuntu 12.04 is already in its 15th week of development and Daniel Holbach updates the community what accomplishments have been reached in the last week. Holbach gives links to the testing wiki for those who would like to help in that area. He also highlights Mark Shuttleworth’s introduction of the future Heads Up Display (HUD) feature and mentions the new configurable Unity display.

Holbach reminded the community about the Developer Membership Board meeting that was held on Monday, Jan 30th and reminds interested individuals to attend Ubuntu Developer Week which starts today, Tuesday January 31st, 2012.

To find out more about the Ubuntu Development cycle and how you can get involved see the link below.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/26/ubuntu-12-04-development-update-11/

Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, announced that Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) sponsorship requests are now open. In his announcement on Friday, January 27th, 2012 Bacon said the deadline to request sponsorship is Wednesday February 22, 2012.

The next UDS, UDS-Q, will take place at the Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California, USA from the 7th – 11th May 2012.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/01/27/ubuntu-developer-summit-sponsorship-now-open-3/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (88265) +59 over last week
  • Critical (112) -2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (46380) +37 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. English (Australia) (2) +/-0 over last week
  2. Spanish (8738) -54 over last week
  3. English (United Kingdom) (32984) -1387 over last week
  4. Bosnian (38935) -4661 over last week
  5. Brazilian Portuguese (43563) -29 over last week

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/

Top 5 Ask Ubuntu Questions This Week

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

LoCo News

Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team Blog

The new Ubuntu-BR-SC blog announced last week is now underway. The team currently consists of twelve members who who write news, tips, and tutorials in Brazilian Portuguese to support Ubuntu Brazilian Community. The team invites the community to give feedback and participate in this new LoCo team blog.

http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/2012/01/ubuntu-br-sc-loco-team-blog/

SCALE 10x

Elizabeth Krumbach and Philip Ballew in two separate posts, each summarize their experiences at SCALE 10x. From setting up the Ubuntu Booth, participating in the UbuCon, going to dinner with other Ubuntu Community members, reflections on their talks and more.

To find out more about the California LoCo teams participation at SCALE10x see the links below.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=5660

http://philipballew.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/fun-at-scale10x/

Launchpad News

Social private teams

Curtis Hovey announced that users can now use private teams in social contexts in Launchpad. Private teams can collaborate with public projects and other teams if they choose to reveal the existence of the private team. More details about these private teams please see the Launchpad blog post.

http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/social-private-teams

Ubuntu Cloud News

Hitting the road with juju talks and Charm Schools.

Jorge Castro lists all the places you will be able to find juju talks and Charm schools in 2012. Upcoming events include: Strata, POSSCon, the OpenStack Conference, railsconf, NodeConf, gluecon, Velocity, OSCON, RubyConf, SURGE, QCon, and LISA 12.

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/01/hitting-the-road-with-juju-talks-and-charm-schools/

OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing

Jorge Castro announces that James Page has set up jobs in the Ubuntu OpenStack QA Lab to start publishing to the public Jenkins QA instance. Now available are automated build testing of all core openstack components triggered from upstream trunk commits.

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/01/openstack-jenkins-dashboard-available-for-testing/

juju events for 2012

The juju team now has a complete schedule of events for 2012. to see the events calendar and to find out more information please see the link below.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/27/juju-events-for-2012/

The Planet

Canonical Design Team: Precisely how we’re going to make the wallpapers in 12.04 the best ever!

Iain Farrell explains how you (the community) can help give Ubuntu 12.04 the most amazing and precisely the best wallpapers yet. Read the comments for an interesting discussion about submissions from deviantArt.

http://hungfu.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/precisely-how-were-going-to-make-the-wallpapers-in-12-04-the-best-ever/

Ted Gould: Searching Menus

Ted Gould talks about the idea behind HUD (Heads UP Display) and how you can find functionality in an application with having to know the data structure. Gould talks about how the HUD works and how the community can make it better.

http://gould.cx/ted/blog/Searching_menus

Jono Bacon: The HUD: Call For Testers

Jono Bacon helps Nicholas Skaggs get the word out about how to test HUD and notes those who wish to help with testing should be running the Ubuntu 12.04 development release.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/01/24/hud-call-for-testers/

Martin Pitt: software-center now installs language support automatically

Martin Pitt fixes a 2.5 year old language support bug by rewriting the check-language-support logic. “Today’s language-selector upload provides an aptdaemon plugin which automatically marks corresponding language support packages (translated help, dictionaries, spell checker modules, and translations themselves) for installation for any newly installed package, for all languages that are configured on your system,” says Pitt in his post. To find out more see the link below.

http://www.piware.de/2012/01/software-center-now-installs-language-support-automatically/

Jonathan Riddell: Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8 on Kubuntu

Jonathan Riddell notes that Kubuntu has packages for 4.8 which updates to Plasma workspaces and other KDE Applications. In this post Riddell quotes Kubuntu users from a thread on kde-devel mailing list which highlight the positive benefits from these updates.

http://blogs.kde.org/node/4529

Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Brand Guidelines get their own site

Canonical announces the Ubuntu Brand Guidelines site. The site aims to make it easy to find out about the brand guidelines, values, assets and more.

http://design.canonical.com/2012/01/ubuntu-brand-guidelines-get-their-own-site/

January’s Ubuntu Software Centre featured apps include: Core Breach, And Yet It Moves, Oil Rush. To find out more about these featured apps as well as how to have your app featured check out this post on the Ubuntu App Developer Blog.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/01/featured-ubuntu-software-centre-apps-for-january-2012/

Jono Bacon: Quick Team Update

Jono Bacon reviews how the community team are doing with meeting their goals for the 12.04 cycle. In this post Bacon shows the burndown chart view and goes into more details about the following areas of his team: Developer Growth, Cloud and juju, App Developers, Upstream Relations, and QA. Bacon invites the community to read this post and offer feedback.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/01/27/quick-team-update/

Chris Coulson: Retiring the Firefox Stable PPA

“With the announcement that users of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 will be upgraded to the latest version of Firefox, we are going to be retiring the Firefox Stable PPA.” writes Chris Coulson.

Coulson also notes that Firefox 10, to be released on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, will be delivered as a security update to all Ubuntu releases which should mean that users will receive the update without having to do anything.

He also asks that should anyone in the community who uses the various support channels notices anyone pointing to the use of the PPA would they remove that reference or correct the post.

http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=100

In The Press

Ubuntu swaps application menus for HUD control system

BBC news looks at Ubuntu’s decision to replace its application menus for the future Heads-Up-Display (HUD) feature.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16731071

Linux users cautiously optimistic about Ubuntu's Head-Up Display desktop

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet says, “Most users seem willing to give Ubuntu Linux’s Head-Up Display interface the benefit of the doubt.” Read the article in full to see all the areas Vaughan-Nichols looks at and advice he gives for those who just the thought of Unity or HUD has them “breaking out in hives”.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-users-cautiously-optimistic-about-ubuntus-head-up-display-desktop/10226

In The Blogosphere

DOWNLOAD Ubuntu: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide

In their new guide, MakeUseOf tells beginners how to use Unity, what all that technical jargon like “kernel” and “FLOSS” mean, along with other helpful tips and tricks. You need to “like” them on Facebook or subscribe to their newsletter to get the download.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-ubuntu-absolute-beginners-guide/

Ubuntu 12.04 Wallpaper Contest Launched

Joey Sneedon of OMG! Ubuntu! helps get the word out about he recently launched Ubuntu 12.04 Wallpaper contest. The post goes over what can be submitted, the deadline for submissions and links to find inspiration for submissions.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/ubuntu-12-04-wallpaper-contest-launched/

Ubuntu's Already Making Plans For ARM In 2014, 2015

Michael Larabel, Phoronix, covers David Mandala of Canonical's talk at Linux.Conf.Au 2012 where Mandala walked attendees through the history of Ubuntu Linux support for the ARM architecture. Lababel looks at the future of Ubuntu ARM in the 12.04 LTS and beyond.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NzA

Ubuntu 12.04 Is ARM-ing Up For Better Performance

Michael Larabel, Phoronix, posts his benchmarks the PandaBoard ES -- a development board based around the Texas Instruments OMAP4660 -- running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ARM. He also looks at the future of Ubuntu ARM and improvements being made in the 12.04 LTS cycle.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_armhf&num=1

Ubuntu 12.04 Adds Launcher Customization

This post highlights the new customization features that are planned for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release.

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3243/ubuntu-1204-adds-launcher-customization

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine #57 – out now!

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our fifty-seventh issue.

This month:

  • Command and Conquer.

  • How-To : Try Enlightenment, LibreOffice - Part 11, Backup Strategy - Part 5, Encrypted USB Stick, and Varnish Web Cache.

  • Linux Lab - Mana World Server.

  • Review - OpenArtist: 5th Incarnation

  • I Think - SpiderOak Questionnaire.

  • Closing Windows - Wireless Networking

plus: more Ubuntu Games, My Desktop (and another extra!), My Opinion, My Story, and much much more!

Google Currents edition: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowvZtX/full_circle_magazine_57_lite

Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-57/

Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings

  • Edubuntu Team - No new meeting as of this publication
  • Kubuntu Team - No new meeting as of this publication

  • Lubuntu Team - January 25, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Meetings/20120125

  • Mythbuntu Team - No new meeting as of this publication
  • Ubuntu Studio Team - No new meeting as of this publication
  • Xubuntu Team - No new meeting as of this publication

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

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers please follow the link below for the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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