Issue287


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. DVDs for LoCo Teams
    2. Juju .6 Is Here
    3. Further Online Dash Clarifications
    4. How Ubuntu Engineering Build & Test OpenStack
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Quantal
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Ideas This Week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. It's the best time... The Time to Party
    2. 12.10 #QuantalMX release party!
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. ownCloud 4.5 for Ubuntu
  6. The Planet
    1. José Antonio Rey: Ubuntu Made Easy: Interview With The Authors
    2. Elizabeth Krumbach: My recent Xubuntu work
    3. Jason Gerard DeRose: Killer Apps for Ubuntu?
    4. Alan Bell: The Quantal Quetzal takes flight
    5. Chris Wilson: Hundred Papercuts revival: help define the roles
    6. Jonathan Ridell: Kubuntu Quantal Final Testers Needed
    7. Michael Hall: Singlet 0.3 adds Unity Previews
  7. Canonical News
    1. Contributions come in many forms
  8. In The Press
    1. Is Ubuntu Shutting Out Old PCs?
    2. In Depth: The Ubuntu architect: why it's important to attract all users
    3. Ubuntu Linux: Donationware?
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Amazon and Ubuntu: A match made for profit?
    2. Additional Drivers Application Moved to Software Sources in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal
    3. Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.0 Gets New ‘Apps’ Feature
    4. Blogger Claims Ubuntu’s New Shopping Lens Breaks EU Law
    5. How Ubuntu Intel Graphics Changed In One Month
    6. Firefox 16.0 Officially Lands in Ubuntu
    7. Gorgeous New Weather App ‘Storm``Cloud’ Arrives on Ubuntu
    8. Official Ubuntu One App for Mac Enters Beta
    9. Canonical Work to Improve Gaming on Ubuntu
    10. Ubuntu 12.10 Disc Artwork Available for Download
    11. Ubuntu To Consider Ridding GNOME Fallback Code
    12. Ubuntu Adds Legal Disclaimer to Unity Dash
  10. In Other News
    1. Ubuntu's Jono Bacon Talks Open-Source Community Management
    2. An Attempt To Push Ubuntu As A Gaming Platform
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 86
    2. S05E17 – Mr. Spaceship
    3. Web Browser, Maps Embedded into Unity’s Dash
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
  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 287 for the week October 8 - 14, 2012

In This Issue

  • DVDs for LoCo Teams

  • Juju .6 Is Here
  • Further Online Dash Clarifications

  • How Ubuntu Engineering Build & Test OpenStack

  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo News

  • ownCloud 4.5 for Ubuntu

  • José Antonio Rey: Ubuntu Made Easy: Interview With The Authors
  • Elizabeth Krumbach: My recent Xubuntu work

  • Jason Gerard DeRose: Killer Apps for Ubuntu?

  • Alan Bell: The Quantal Quetzal takes flight
  • Chris Wilson: Hundred Papercuts revival: help define the roles
  • Jonathan Ridell: Kubuntu Quantal Final Testers Needed
  • Michael Hall: Singlet 0.3 adds Unity Previews
  • Contributions come in many forms
  • Is Ubuntu Shutting Out Old PCs?
  • In Depth: The Ubuntu architect: why it's important to attract all users
  • Ubuntu Linux: Donationware?
  • In The Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

DVDs for LoCo Teams

In an email to the LoCo teams mailing list, Jono Bacon announces that LoCo teams can now pre-order DVDs and gives a link to instructions to place the orders.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/10/11/dvds-for-loco-teams/

Juju .6 Is Here

Jorge Castro writes that Clint Byrum has “pushed Juju v0.6 into Quantal and the Release PPA.” Castro also writes about a new local provider “which has been refactored to use Ubuntu’s Cloud Images instead of a chroot/debootstrap” and gives links to get started with Juju.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/10/10/juju-6-is-here

Further Online Dash Clarifications

Jono Bacon clarifies community concerns over the “Online Dash”. The following points are a summary of those concerns:

  • Concern about the usefulness of the feature – to resolve this, a toggle switch has been added to the Privacy settings dialog to disable/enable the feature.
  • Concern about the encryption of traffic – traffic is now encrypted.
  • Concern about adult content being displayed via the lens – significant changes have been made to blacklist certain results based on keywords.
  • Concern about the legal requirements of this feature under European law – a Legal Notice link has now been added to the dash to make the terms of use clear for those using the dash.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/10/12/further-online-dash-clarifications/

How Ubuntu Engineering Build & Test OpenStack

Rick Spencer, Director of Ubuntu Engineering at Canonical, talks about his work on Ubuntu, Ubuntu Engineering, OpenStack and more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6Em8xOUg0&feature=youtu.be

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (100324) + 379 over last week
  • Critical (88) - 5 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (50035) + 24 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 Quantal

  • English (United Kingdom) (9530) - 240 over last week
  • Spanish (14007) - 97 over last week
  • English (Australia) (16449) + 6 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (38154) + 228 over last week
  • Bosnian (40409) - 2379 over last week
  • French (48923) - 865 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Ideas 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

It's the best time... The Time to Party

Efrain Valles captures the spirit of an Ubuntu release party in his post, “It is a great chance to network and share experiences. It is a time to celebrate not just another release, but our sense of community and our long standing commitment to bringing the best of free software to the world.” Valles encourages everyone to plan or attend a release party. He even provides useful links to help LoCo teams organize and share information about the release parties.

http://effiejayx.com/es/node/1599

12.10 #QuantalMX release party!

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos notes that the Ubuntu MX-LoCo team and the Ubuntu DF community will have an Ubuntu release party on 27 October. More details about this release party along with the announcement can be found on the blog post.

http://fitoschido.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/12-10-quantalmx-release-party/

Ubuntu Cloud News

ownCloud 4.5 for Ubuntu

Jorge Castro has updated the ownCloud charm to 4.5 which can be found on the following link: http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/owncloud

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/10/12/owncloud-4-dot-5-for-ubuntu

The Planet

José Antonio Rey: Ubuntu Made Easy: Interview With The Authors

José Antonio Rey interviews the authors ‘Ubuntu Made Easy’. Rey asks the authors about their reasons for writing this book, future plans, other ways of making Ubuntu tutorials and much more.

http://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/ubuntu-made-easy-interview-with-the-authors/

Elizabeth Krumbach: My recent Xubuntu work

Elizabeth Krumbach shares her involvement in Xubuntu for this cycle. In her post, she discusses the full marketing blueprint, testing from the Global Jam, standard testing, rewriting offline documentation for 12.10, blueprints for the next cycle, and more.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6911&utm_source

Jason Gerard DeRose: Killer Apps for Ubuntu?

Jason Gerard DeRose writes about the watching Ubuntu Community team charity marathon and highlights one of the questions asked of the team, “Will there be a killer app for Ubuntu?” The Community team answered, “No, there wont be. Killer App is simply over, because these days important applications tend to be cross-platform and web apps are replacing most traditional applications anyway.”

DeRose doesn’t share the opinion of the Ubuntu community team and states, “I think there will absolutely be Killer Apps for Ubuntu, because Linux and Ubuntu have strengths that make Ubuntu the best platform for solving certain problems.”

http://jderose.blogspot.com/2012/10/killer-apps-for-ubuntu.html

Alan Bell: The Quantal Quetzal takes flight

Allan Bell encourages people to try Ubuntu 12.10 stating, “If you were thinking of trying Ubuntu with the Unity interface then 12.10 is the release to go for, a lot of niggles have been unniggled and sharp edges smoothed over.”

Bell reminds readers about the UK Ubuntu release party which will be held in London at George Inn. He also notes that for those who are in the UK, the team is taking pre-orders for official Ubuntu 12.10 DVDs.

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2012/10/the-quantal-quetzal-takes-flight/

Chris Wilson: Hundred Papercuts revival: help define the roles

Chris Wilson issues a public invitation to the community in a blog post that announces the Hundred Papercuts project is “currently underway to get it back on it's feet as a core component of the development of Ubuntu.” Wilson explains the various ways people can join and contribute to the Ubuntu project. Wilson points out that not everyone has to be a developer; there are many roles for anyone who wants to get involved--reporter, analyst, designer, tester, and others.

Anyone interested can “head over to the revival wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FutureOfThePapercutsProject ) and join the Papercuts Ninja team on Launchpad (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FutureOfThePapercutsProject ), and sign up to the mailing list, and say what they feel.”

http://www.notgary.com/2012/10/hundred-papercuts-revival-help-define.html

Jonathan Ridell: Kubuntu Quantal Final Testers Needed

Jonathan Ridell invites the community to test the Kubuntu 12.10 release candidate images. Anyone interested in testing are asked to join the #kubuntu-devel IRC channel on freenode team. Also included in this post is a link to the test images.

http://blogs.kde.org/2012/10/12/kubuntu-quantal-final-testers-needed

Michael Hall: Singlet 0.3 adds Unity Previews

Michael Hall reports about the Dash Previews and his wish of adding them to a Singlet. Hall explains the goals of a Singlet and demonstrates how new feature will function in the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 release.

http://mhall119.com/2012/10/singlet-0-3-adds-unity-previews/

Canonical News

Contributions come in many forms

Steve George, Vice President of Communications and Products at Canonical, writes about various types of contributions made to the Ubuntu project--from testing, documentation, and marketing, to brainstorming and answering other users’ questions in online forums.

In this post George writes that financial contributions to Ubuntu are now easier, stating, “By introducing a ‘contribute’ screen as part of the desktop download process, people can choose to financially support different aspects of Canonical’s work: from gaming and apps, developing the desktop, phone and tablet, to co-ordination of upstreams or supporting Ubuntu flavours.”

He concludes with a reminder that “Ubuntu will always be free to use, share and develop. [...] and we hope that you’ll join us in helping to build the future of computing, however you choose to contribute.”

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/10/09/contributions-come-in-many-forms/

In The Press

Is Ubuntu Shutting Out Old PCs?

Matt Hartley of Datamation argues that while Ubuntu has made amazing progress over the years, it’s becoming too high-end and the risks becoming too demanding for slower hardware, especially older PCs, despite the fact that LiveCDs and the ability to run on older hardware used to be one of Ubuntu’s strong points.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/is-ubuntu-shutting-out-old-pcs-1.html

In Depth: The Ubuntu architect: why it's important to attract all users

Andrew Gregory of Techradar interviews Allison Randall (Ubuntu technical architect) about contributions to Ubuntu, Unity development, consumers (tech and non tech), and much more.

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the-ubuntu-architect-why-its-important-to-attract-all-users-1101542

Ubuntu Linux: Donationware?

Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols of ZDNet looks at news of the inclusion of the ‘contribute’ screen in the Ubuntu desktop download process. Vaughn-Nichols takes a closer look at what Canonical’s VP of Communications and Products, Steve George, and Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon, have to say about this inclusion.

http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-linux-donationware-7000005497/

In The Blogosphere

Amazon and Ubuntu: A match made for profit?

LinuxBSDos.com writes about new features included in the new edition of Ubuntu, with a special highlight on the inclusion of Amazon integration on the Launcher and in the Dash, along with the consequences this innovation brings. LinuxBSDos.com speculates that Amazon and Canonical might be associates and writes, “If the answer is a yes, I think people need to know. Personally, I do not care and I do not think there is a problem with that, but we just need to know.”

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/10/07/amazon-and-ubuntu-a-match-made-for-profit/

Additional Drivers Application Moved to Software Sources in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

Manuel Jose of Tech Drive-in writes about his problems with WiFi in Ubuntu 12.04 and states: “Nothing seemed to work until I started using an alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not there yet.” Jose notes the additional drivers app, which is needed for his WiFi to work, has been moved to Software sources and asks people to comment on that change.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2012/10/additional-drivers-application-moved-to.html

Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.0 Gets New ‘Apps’ Feature

Andrew of Web Upd8 writes, “Ubuntu Tweak, the most popular tool to tweak various Ubuntu settings as well as add third-party sources (PPAs), has reached version 0.8.0 introducing a new feature called Apps." Andrew explains what this new feature is for, how it works along with bug fixes in v0.8.0.

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/ubuntu-tweak-080-gets-new-apps-feature.html

Blogger Claims Ubuntu’s New Shopping Lens Breaks EU Law

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reports on the claims made by blogger Luis de Sousa about how Ubuntu’s new Shopping Lense may break EU Privacy laws regarding personal data. Along with including de Sousa’s information, they report on the responses they received from Canonical when asked about the legal concerns, as well as feedback from the UK organization Privacy International.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/does-ubuntus-amazon-lens-break-eu-law

How Ubuntu Intel Graphics Changed In One Month

Michael Larabel of Phoronix takes a look at performance changes with the open-source Intel Linux graphics in Ubuntu 12.10 as he compares the benchmark results of the development snapshots on Ubuntu Quantal from the end of August 2012 to the beginning of October 2012.

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

Firefox 16.0 Officially Lands in Ubuntu

While Firefox 16.0 was official announced on 9 October, Marius Nestor of Softpedia tells his readers about this new version, its new features, and its availability in Ubuntu. Also included in this post are twelve release highlights for this new Firefox version.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-16-0-Officially-Lands-in-Ubuntu-298190.shtml

Gorgeous New Weather App ‘Storm``Cloud’ Arrives on Ubuntu

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! presents an overview of a new weather app for Linux along with installation instructions and future plans for this app.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/gorgeous-new-weather-app-stormcloud-arrives-on-ubuntu

Official Ubuntu One App for Mac Enters Beta

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reports that Ubuntu One is available for Mac users. Sneddon give readers an overview of Ubuntu One under Mac, including screenshots and features of Ubuntu One. Sneddon notes that this is Beta 2 of Ubuntu One for Mac, and some of the features are still not available nor working as they should be. Nevertheless, the Ubuntu One team says, “that the client will ‘give all users regardless of platform, access to all the great benefits of Ubuntu One.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/official-ubuntu-one-client-for-mac-enters-beta

Canonical Work to Improve Gaming on Ubuntu

Benjamin Kerensa, OMG! Ubuntu!, reports that Bryce Harrington of Canonical is preparing the Steam distribution and its Linux titles for Ubuntu. The next step is to work out graphic drivers and driver packages to “make gaming a bit more easier in general.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/canonical-work-to-improve-gaming-on-ubuntu

Ubuntu 12.10 Disc Artwork Available for Download

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! gives readers a preview of the Ubuntu 12.10 Disc artwork which has been added to the wiki and is now available for download.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-12-10-disc-artwork-revealed

Ubuntu To Consider Ridding GNOME Fallback Code

Michael Larabel of Phoronix speculates that “getting rid of the GNOME fallback code is a likely to be a discussion item” at the upcoming UDS-R. Larabel’s speculations find their basis in “Ubuntu’s Unity dependency on GNOME 3 fallback code for items such as Bluetooth indicator and Keyboard indicator.”

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

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reports on the new "Legal Disclaimer" link added to the lower right corner of the Dash. The disclaimer informs the user of where Dash searches are sent (or not sent) in clear, easy-to-understand language.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-add-legal-disclaimer-to-unity-dash

In Other News

Ubuntu's Jono Bacon Talks Open-Source Community Management

Todd R. Weiss of eWeek interviews Jono Bacon (Ubuntu’s community manager) about “state of open-source software in 2012 and why participation in open-source communities should be taken even more seriously by enterprises.”

http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/ubuntus-jono-bacon-talks-open-source-community-management/

An Attempt To Push Ubuntu As A Gaming Platform

Michael Larabel of Phoronix takes a look at the gaming-related sessions which are scheduled to take place at UDS-R. Scheduled session include: Audio Support, Longevity of Binaries, Graphics Support, Input Devices Support, Multi-Arch Libappindicator, Process Clean-Up Actions, Unity Performance and Audio Latency.

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

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 86

Stephen Michael Kellat takes a look at the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal release as he discusses new features which are included in this new version of Ubuntu. Mr. Kellat also speculates on the what the new “R”- based code name will be for the next Ubuntu release.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/118

S05E17 – Mr. Spaceship

In this Ubuntu UK podcast, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen bring listeners an interview with Mark Shuttleworth, developers of the indie game “Nixie and the Robots”, as well as takes a quick look at Canonical’s donation page and more. The podcast team announces that it will be giving a talk about podcasting in Skycon.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2012/10/10/s05e17-mr-spaceship/

Web Browser, Maps Embedded into Unity’s Dash

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reviews a third party new feature for the Dash--the possibility of browsing the web and navigating Google Maps under the Dash. Sneddon says in his conclusion, “Although features lack some visual polish – and ignoring for a moment that they’re built upon Unity 2D, which is being retired – it’s nevertheless great to see what developers can do with Unity when they get involved.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/browser-in-the-dash

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Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04

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

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

End of Life - October 2012

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2013

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