Issue326


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums site
    2. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Juju Ecosystem Report for 17 July
  6. The Planet
    1. Colin Iain King : Firmware Test Suite Portal
    2. Christopher Halse Rogers: XMir Performance Or: Why XMir is slower than X, and how we'll fix it
    3. Chris Johnston: Continuing with quality
    4. Nicholas Skaggs: Testing all the things: Music
    5. Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu All Stars @ Akademy
    6. Marco Ceppi: Deploying Discourse in production, lessons learned
    7. Xubuntu: Xubuntu stickers now available
    8. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter reaches issue 325!
    9. Xubuntu at Project: Community Computers in Milwaukee
    10. The Ubuntu PC Case Mod Pt.7 SPONSORSHIP!
    11. Stéphane Graber: Introducing the Ubuntu Touch image based upgrader
  7. Canonical News
    1. MTN Group joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
    2. Shorts visual exploration
  8. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu vs. Debian
    2. Meet Utilite, a $99 quad-core ARM-based PC running Ubuntu
    3. Canonical's Mir Display Server 0.0.7 Released, Mesa and X.Org Support Added
    4. EXCLUSIVE: Ubuntu head details device launch plans
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu 13.10's wallpaper-submission contest sees fresh new walls
    2. Dota 2 Officially Released For Linux [Steam]
  10. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 122
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E21 – Hot Ubuntu
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  13. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 13.04 Updates
  14. Subscribe
  15. Archives
  16. Additional Ubuntu News
  17. Conclusion
  18. Credits
  19. Glossary of Terms
  20. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  21. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 326 for the week July 15 - 21, 2013.

In This Issue

  • Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums site
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo News

  • Juju Ecosystem Report for 17 July
  • Colin Iain King : Firmware Test Suite Portal
  • Christopher Halse Rogers: XMir Performance Or: Why XMir is slower than X, and how we'll fix it
  • Chris Johnston: Continuing with quality
  • Nicholas Skaggs: Testing all the things: Music
  • Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu All Stars @ Akademy
  • Marco Ceppi: Deploying Discourse in production, lessons learned
  • Xubuntu: Xubuntu stickers now available
  • Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter reaches issue 325!
  • Xubuntu at Project: Community Computers in Milwaukee
  • The Ubuntu PC Case Mod Pt.7 SPONSORSHIP!
  • Stéphane Graber: Introducing the Ubuntu Touch image based upgrader
  • MTN Group joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
  • Shorts visual exploration
  • Ubuntu vs. Debian
  • Meet Utilite, a $99 quad-core ARM-based PC running Ubuntu
  • Canonical's Mir Display Server 0.0.7 Released, Mesa and X.Org Support Added
  • EXCLUSIVE: Ubuntu head details device launch plans
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums site

Jane Silber writes that there has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums site, ubuntuforums.org. She explains what has happened and says that Canonical is working with software providers to address how the attackers were able to gain access. Jane also says Canonical has begun the process of notifying all users whose details were compromised by email and apologizes “for the breach and ensuing inconvenience.”

http://blog.canonical.com/2013/07/21/notice-of-security-breach-on-ubuntu-forums-site/

The security breach is also covered in the following stories:-

Welcome New Members and Developers

The 12:00 Membership Board welcomed one new member on July 17th, 2013.

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (105279) +10 over last week
  • Critical (83) -4 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (51384) +32 over last week

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

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: gertvdijk (http://askubuntu.com/users/88802/gertvdijk), Eric Carvalho (http://askubuntu.com/users/65926/eric-carvalho), Mitch (http://askubuntu.com/users/59676/mitch), Radu Rădeanu (http://askubuntu.com/users/147044/radu-rdeanu) and Luis Alvarado (http://askubuntu.com/users/7035/luis-alvarado)

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

LoCo News

Ubuntu Cloud News

Juju Ecosystem Report for 17 July

Jorge Castro reports on the latest juju ecosystem updates including the availability of an OSX client and creating icons for charms.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/07/17/juju-ecosystem-report-for-17-july /

The Planet

Colin Iain King : Firmware Test Suite Portal

Colin Iain King announces the Firmware Test Suite Portal at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite and highlights some of the areas of interest included in the portal.

http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/firmware-test-suite-portal.html

Christopher Halse Rogers: XMir Performance Or: Why XMir is slower than X, and how we'll fix it

Christopher Halse Rogers does an analysis of XMir performance and shares details of the work they’re doing to improve performance. He writes: “Currently we do a lot of work in submitting rendering from an X client to the screen, most of which we can make unnecessary.”

http://blog.cooperteam.net/2013/07/xmir-performance.html

Chris Johnston: Continuing with quality

Chris Johnston announces various improvements to the QA Tracker, including bug information that appears over bug links, clearer smoke tests, and autopilot testing on Ubuntu Touch builds.

http://www.chrisjohnston.org/ubuntu/continuing-with-quality

Nicholas Skaggs: Testing all the things: Music

Nicholas Skaggs of the Ubuntu Quality team gladly reports that the music app for Ubuntu touch is now functional since the hack day for music a week ago. For those interested in contributing test cases to the music app, he presents helpful resources to encourage them to get started.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/07/testing-all-things-music.html

Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu All Stars @ Akademy

On a quiet day at Akademy, Jonathan Riddell catches up on e-mail and learns how to make an apt archive. He presents photos from the the previous night's party where “Kubuntu All Stars rock[ed] Akademy.”

http://blogs.kde.org/2013/07/16/kubuntu-all-stars-akademy

Marco Ceppi: Deploying Discourse in production, lessons learned

Marco Ceppi shares some of the results of his work deploying the new community site, Discourse, into production. He talks about writing the juju charms for the services deployed, the fast pace of prototype to production, and handling maintenance.

http://marcoceppi.com/2013/07/deploying-discourse-in-production-lessons-learned/

Xubuntu: Xubuntu stickers now available

The Xubuntu team announces that they have recently teamed up with UnixStickers.com to begin offering Xubuntu stickers and case badges. The stickers are available now and can be purchased and shipped worldwide.

http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-stickers-now-available/

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter reaches issue 325!

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph writes that the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter has reached issue 325 and notes the contributions of two recent additions to the team. She appeals for additional summary writers, explains what is involved, and how to express interest in joining the team.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8284

Xubuntu at Project: Community Computers in Milwaukee

The Xubuntu team launch their “Xubuntu at…” series of interviews by talking to Jeff Hanson of Project: Community Computers who recently contacted the Xubuntu developers to introduce the work his organization is doing. He talks about the project, the decision to use Xubuntu, and the deployment of the OS on the project's older hardware.

http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-at-project-community-computers-in-milwaukee/

The Ubuntu PC Case Mod Pt.7 SPONSORSHIP!

Jackson Doak continues his series of blog posts outlining his desire to create a PC case based on the Ubuntu theme and provides further pictures to illustrate his progress. Jackson announces his first sponsor and appeals for more.

http://noskcaj10.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/the-ubuntu-pc-case-mod-pt-7-sponsorship/

Stéphane Graber: Introducing the Ubuntu Touch image based upgrader

Stéphane Graber writes that he's been working on image based upgrades for Ubuntu Touch and says daily images are produced for four devices, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. He lists what currently does and doesn't work, and he appeals for more testers.

http://www.stgraber.org/2013/07/20/introducing-the-ubuntu-touch-image-based-upgrader/

Canonical News

MTN Group joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Canonical has announced the newest member of Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group is MTN Group, Africa’s largest multinational mobile telecoms provider. MTN operates in 21 countries across the region and has a significant number of business customers benefiting from Ubuntu’s convergence and security capabilities.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/press-releases/mtn-group-joins-ubuntu-carrier-advisory-group/

The following stories also cover Canonical’s announcement:

Shorts visual exploration

Michal Izydorczyk shows off key screens from the Ubuntu Touch RSS feed reader app “Shorts”. Settings aren’t covered yet, but the home article screens are included as well as a link to the spec with full details of fonts, colors, etc.

http://design.canonical.com/2013/07/shorts-visual-exploration/

In The Press

Ubuntu vs. Debian

Matt Hartley of Datamation shares a lengthy comparison of Ubuntu and Debian. Hartley writes: “The point here is Debian requires more hands-on user experience. Some folks will prefer this, while others may balk at the very idea of making Linux on the desktop a deeper experience. So is Debian a solid alternative to Ubuntu? Yes, if you're willing to adjust your expectations.”

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/ubuntu-vs.-debian.html

Meet Utilite, a $99 quad-core ARM-based PC running Ubuntu

Compulab announces a tiny, Ubuntu based, ARM PC. Available with 1-4 cores, up to 4GB of RAM, and up to 512 GB SSD, this system aims to compete with PCs.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/15/meet-utilite-a-99-quad-core-arm-based-pc-running-ubuntu/

Canonical's Mir Display Server 0.0.7 Released, Mesa and X.Org Support Added

With its latest release, Mir gets added documentation, including instructions for building Mesa and X.Org support, as well as continuing optimization work.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-s-Mir-Display-Server-0-0-7-Released-Mesa-and-X-Org-Support-Added-368681.shtml

EXCLUSIVE: Ubuntu head details device launch plans

Steve Costello of Mobile World Live talked to Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, who said in an exclusive interview that the intention is to have four launch devices powered by the operating system to lead its assault on the mobile market. A link is provided to view the full interview.

http://www.mobileworldlive.com/exclusive-ubuntu-head-details-device-launch-plans

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu 13.10's wallpaper-submission contest sees fresh new walls

razvi of iloveubuntu writes that there has been significant interest in Ubuntu 13.10's wallpaper submission process and notes that almost 200 wallpapers were submitted to Flickr in just a few days. razvi shows us a few examples and provides a link to the Saucy Salamander Wallpaper Submissions Group where all images submitted to be considered part of the Saucy Salamander release are posted.

http://iloveubuntu.net/ubuntu-1310s-wallpaper-submission-contest-sees-fresh-new-walls

Dota 2 Officially Released For Linux [Steam]

Andrew of WebUpd8 writes that the much awaited Dota 2 game has been officially released for Linux (Steam). He reminds us that the game is free to play and lists the minimal system requirements which include Ubuntu 12.04. There's also a short video of the official Dota 2 trailer.

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/07/dota-2-officially-released-for-linux.html

Other news in the blogosphere:

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 122

Included in this week's episode:

  • Discussion of preparations for Ohio Linux Fest 2013
  • Mention of the boisterous meeting the Xubuntu team had concerning XMir
  • Playing of the US Naval Academy fight song in recognition of a joke by Paul Tagliamonte
  • Mention of J.K. Rowling secretly writing a crime novel

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/156

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E21 – Hot Ubuntu

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back for the twenty-first episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:

  • We take a look at what’s been happening in the news.
  • We catch up with what’s happening in the Ubuntu community.
  • And we mention some events.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/07/18/s06e21-hot-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 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2014

Ubuntu 13.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2014

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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