Issue310


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) server, 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) reaching End of Life on May 9 2013
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Idea this week
    3. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Hey North America, Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania! Are You On the Map?
  5. The Planet
    1. Daniel Holbach: Accompanying a new generation of developers
    2. Rick Spencer: User Interaction with Ubuntu Components
    3. Jono Bacon: Smart Scopes Not Landing In 13.04, Will Land in 13.10
    4. Nicholas Skaggs: Beta Testing Extraordinaire with Ubuntu Quality
  6. Other Community News
    1. Ubuntu Touch summary (week 12)
    2. App patterns applied: weather key journeys
  7. In The Press
    1. Mark Shuttleworth - The Disruptors 2013
  8. In The Blogosphere
    1. Reasons Why I Love Unity Previews #735
    2. OpenSUSE 12.3 vs. Ubuntu 13.04
    3. [Ubuntu In The Wild] Unity In Use By Norwegian Military
    4. MapR, Canonical Team To Offer Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux
    5. Ubuntu Powered Promo Booth? You Bet [Ubuntu In The Wild]
  9. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine #71 has arrived!
  10. Other Articles of Interest
  11. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 108
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E05 – The Good, The Bad and the Ubuntu
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 310 for the week March 25 - 31, 2013.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) server, 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) reaching End of Life on May 9 2013
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hey North America, Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania! Are You On the Map?
  • Daniel Holbach: Accompanying a new generation of developers
  • Rick Spencer: User Interaction with Ubuntu Components
  • Jono Bacon: Smart Scopes Not Landing In 13.04, Will Land in 13.10
  • Nicholas Skaggs: Beta Testing Extraordinaire with Ubuntu Quality
  • Ubuntu Touch summary (week 12)
  • App patterns applied: weather key journeys
  • Mark Shuttleworth - The Disruptors 2013
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Full Circle Magazine #71 has arrived!
  • 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, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) server, 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) reaching End of Life on May 9 2013

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the formal End of Life (EOL) dates of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) server, 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop and server.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/29/ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron-server-10-04-lucid-lynx-desktop-and-11-10-oneiric-ocelot-reaching-end-of-life-on-may-9-2013/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (104914) +218 over last week
  • Critical (76) +1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (51456) +62 over last week

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

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Idea 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

Hey North America, Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania! Are You On the Map?

Randall Ross writes a series of blog posts calling out to teams in continents throughout the world to get themselves added to the global portal of teams at loco.ubuntu.com.

http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-north-america

http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-africa

http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-south-america

http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-europe

http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-asia

http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-oceania

The Planet

Daniel Holbach: Accompanying a new generation of developers

Daniel Holbach gives an overview of the work done by the Ubuntu Developer Advisory Team in the last three release cycles and makes a call for more volunteers to join them in their efforts to reach out to new contributors, help new contributors get involved, and collect feedback on how the development process can be improved for newcomers.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/03/accompanying-a-new-generation-ofdevelopers/

Rick Spencer: User Interaction with Ubuntu Components

Rick Spencer shows how he used Ubuntu Components to add actions to his Ubuntu Touch app.

http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2013/03/user-interaction-with-ubuntu-components.html

Jono Bacon: Smart Scopes Not Landing In 13.04, Will Land in 13.10

Jono Bacon reports that the dash team has withdrawn their Feature Freeze Exception (FFE) to allow further time for Smart Scopes to mature before including it as part of Ubuntu. Further time working on the user experience is expected to improve the quality enough for it to launch normally with 13.10.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/03/29/smart-scopes-not-landing-in-13-04-will-land-in-13-10/

Nicholas Skaggs: Beta Testing Extraordinaire with Ubuntu Quality

Nicholas Skaggs of the Ubuntu Quality team announces an online testing event for the final beta ISO image on Tuesday April 2nd from 1800-2200 UTC.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/03/beta-testing-extraordinaire-with-ubuntu.html

Other Community News

Ubuntu Touch summary (week 12)

Ricardo Salveti de Araujo highlights some of the app development work going on for Ubuntu Touch, including enabling initial bluetooth support for Nexus 7, a couple application renames, and updates for the media-player and notes-app.

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg01363.html

App patterns applied: weather key journeys

Christina Li of the Canonical Design Team shows off ideas for interaction with the weather app in Ubuntu Touch.

http://design.canonical.com/2013/03/app-patterns-applied-weather-key-journeys/

In The Press

Mark Shuttleworth - The Disruptors 2013

Forbes features Mark Shuttleworth as one of 12 people shaking up their fields. Shuttleworth represents “Computing” field and writes “This guy is one tough competitor. His idea of a relaxing vacation spot is Antarctica or the International Space Station. Yes, he’s been to both. He’ll need that moxie to muscle into the mobile market.”

http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2013/disruptors/mark-shuttleworth.html

In The Blogosphere

Reasons Why I Love Unity Previews #735

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! shares some of the work of “Prolific Unity Scopes developer” David Callé who has “recently been showing off some interesting new features he’s built into Unity Previews.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/reasons-why-i-love-unity-previews-736

OpenSUSE 12.3 vs. Ubuntu 13.04

Matt Hartley of Datamation compares features in Ubuntu and the latest OpenSUSE release. He examines their options of desktop environments, audio subsystem, drivers, codecs, and software installation.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/opensuse-12.3-vs.-ubuntu-13.04-1.html

[Ubuntu In The Wild] Unity In Use By Norwegian Military

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reports on a video that shows the Norwegian military using Ubuntu for their everyday computational needs.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/ubuntu-in-the-wild-unity-in-use-by-norwegian-military

MapR, Canonical Team To Offer Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux

Rick Whiting of CRN writes that MapR M3 edition of Hadoop is to become available through Canonical’s Ubuntu Partner Archive with the release of 13.04. A MapR Juju Charm will also be available with the 13.04 release.

http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/240151961/mapr-canonical-team-to-offer-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux.htm

Ubuntu Powered Promo Booth? You Bet [Ubuntu In The Wild]

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reports on another every day machine running Ubuntu; this time it was a promotional pod used in a British betting shop.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/ubuntu-powered-promo-booth-you-bet-ubuntu-in-the-wild

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine #71 has arrived!

This month:

  • Ubuntu News.

  • How-To : Programming in Python, LibreOffice, and Using PAF.

  • Graphics : Blender, and Inkscape.
  • Book Review: Python for Kids.
  • Review: Chrome OS

  • plus: Q&A, Command & Conquer, Linux Labs, Ask The New Guy, My Story, and so much more!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2013/03/29/full-circle-71-has-arrived/

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 108

The Burning Circle episode this week asks its weekly question and demos how to call in to answer questions via SIP using Twinkle.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/140

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E05 – The Good, The Bad and the Ubuntu

The UK LoCo Podcast reviews the latest news, including the Python trademark resolution, a Linux video editing Kickstarter, China’s new Ubuntu, Nokia's attempt to block WebM, and the Forbes list of most disruptive people in business. Other topics include Secure Boot / Restricted Boot, the latest Ubuntu Technical Board meeting, and a bug in Fedora's bug tracker, plus some upcoming events.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/03/28/s06e05-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ubuntu/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

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, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

End of life - May 2013 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

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

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2013

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2014

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Mathias Hellsten
  • Tiago Carrondo
  • David Morfin
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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