Issue328


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu Forums are back up and a post mortem
    2. More Ubuntu Edge News
    3. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
    1. OSCON DAY TWO THREE AND FOUR
    2. My second experience of the Ubuntu LoCo Team re- approval process. Not as straight forward as the first!
    3. Ubuntu Ohio Prepares For an UbuCon
    4. Fosscon on August 10th
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Juju Ecosystem Status for 31 July
    2. Scaling down in the cloud with Juju
    3. Deploying OpenStack with the Juju GUI
  6. The Planet
    1. Jono Bacon: One Week In. Seven Million Dollars. Keep On Pledging!
    2. Daniel Holbach: Bold moves
    3. Michael Hall: Ubuntu Edge: What it is, what it isn’t, and why it’s important
    4. s.fox: OpenID – Honest Thoughts?
    5. Xubuntu: Announcing the Xubuntu Desktop Showcase
    6. Nicholas Skaggs: Automating the Core Apps: How we doing?
    7. Daniel Holbach: Getting Ubuntu Touch out to more users
    8. David Murphy: Continuous Integration with Tarmac and Vagrant
    9. Kubuntu: Now Open for Donations
    10. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Xubuntu featured in Linux Identity magazine
    11. Howard Chan: Testdrive Hackfest
    12. Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Touch Porting: next steps
  7. Canonical News
    1. Telstra joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
    2. T-Mobile USA joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
  8. In The Press
    1. 10 things we love about Ubuntu 13/5 things we hate
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. NVIDIA's Linux Driver On Ubuntu Is Very Competitive With Windows 8
    2. Unity 8 Available In The Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Repositories
    3. Ubuntu Desktop To Drop PowerPC Builds Later This Week
    4. Ubuntu 13.10's Ambiance and Radiance updated with visual refinements
    5. Android-Ubuntu Edge Superphone: What's Canonical's End Game?
    6. Ubuntu 13.10's wallpaper-submission contest received pleasant new wallpapers
  10. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 124
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E23 - Edge of 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 328 for the week July 29 - August 4, 2013.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Forums are back up and a post mortem
  • More Ubuntu Edge News
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • OSCON DAY TWO THREE AND FOUR
  • My second experience of the Ubuntu LoCo Team re- approval process. Not as straight forward as the first!

  • Ubuntu Ohio Prepares For an UbuCon

  • Fosscon on August 10th
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Jono Bacon: One Week In. Seven Million Dollars. Keep On Pledging!
  • Daniel Holbach: Bold moves
  • Michael Hall: Ubuntu Edge: What it is, what it isn’t, and why it’s important
  • s.fox: OpenID – Honest Thoughts?
  • Xubuntu: Announcing the Xubuntu Desktop Showcase
  • Nicholas Skaggs: Automating the Core Apps: How we doing?
  • Daniel Holbach: Getting Ubuntu Touch out to more users
  • David Murphy: Continuous Integration with Tarmac and Vagrant
  • Kubuntu: Now Open for Donations
  • Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Xubuntu featured in Linux Identity magazine
  • Howard Chan: Testdrive Hackfest
  • Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Touch Porting: next steps
  • Telstra joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
  • T-Mobile USA joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
  • In The Press
  • 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

Ubuntu Forums are back up and a post mortem

James Troup announces that the Ubuntu Forums are now back up and running. He writes a "post mortem" of the breach and the actions taken by the Canonical IS team. James details what happened, what the attacker could and could not access, what the IS team has done in response to this break, and what questions remain. He concludes the post mortem with an apology for the security breach, the data leak, and downtime.

http://blog.canonical.com/2013/07/30/ubuntu-forums-are-back-up-and-a-post-mortem/

More Ubuntu Edge News

The Ubuntu Edge news keeps coming in! This week, another sampling of articles our editors have found in the news and blogosphere.

Welcome New Members and Developers

Results for the 22:00 UTC Membership Board Meeting for August 1st, 2013:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2013-August/001846.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (105459) +105 over last week
  • Critical (81) -3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (51514) +56 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 Questions this week

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Seth (http://askubuntu.com/users/44179/seth), Mitch (http://askubuntu.com/users/59676/mitch), Roman Raguet (http://askubuntu.com/users/108850/roman-raguet), fossfreedom (http://askubuntu.com/users/14356/fossfreedom) and Qasim (http://askubuntu.com/users/85053/qasim)

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

LoCo News

OSCON DAY TWO THREE AND FOUR

Phillip Ballew writes about his time at OSCON talking about plans for Ubuntu Edge and Ubuntu Phone at the Ubuntu booth. He states that he enjoyed his time speaking with fans of the community and learning what users think by listening to their feedback.

http://philipballew.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/oscon-day-two-three-and-four/

My second experience of the Ubuntu LoCo Team re- approval process. Not as straight forward as the first!

Mike O’Donohue talks about the changes between his first and second experiences attempting to apply for approval to the Ubuntu LoCo team as part of Ubuntu Ireland. He explains the attempt to reboot Ubuntu’s Ireland community and grow membership activity has dwindled in the past year.

http://airurando.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/my-second-experience-of-the-ubuntu-loco-team-re-approval-process-not-as-straight-forward-as-the-first/

Ubuntu Ohio Prepares For an UbuCon

Ubuntu Ohio issued a last call for speakers at the UbuCon they’re running at Ohio Linux Fest 2013 as they were running short of speakers. Shortly after the call was issued, their leader Stephen Michael Kellat announced that enough speakers were secured and that the UbuCon would proceed as previously planned. Until the final speaker commitments were secured, the UbuCon was at risk of being canceled for lack of sufficient content.

Fosscon on August 10th

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph writes about her involvement with the upcoming Fosscon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 10th and shares that the Ubuntu Pennsylvania team will be there “running the “Hacker Hall” along with folks from Hive76” where they will be doing Ubuntu installs, helping users with existing installs, and more.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8373

Ubuntu Cloud News

Juju Ecosystem Status for 31 July

Jorge Castro reports on the latest Juju ecosystem updates including a breakdown of the current goals of the various team members.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/07/31/juju-ecosystem-status-for-31-july/

Scaling down in the cloud with Juju

Jorge Castro discusses how the ability to downscale cloud resources is as important as being able to upscale them. He touches on how to make resources available quickly and easily using the tools provided by Juju.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/07/31/deploying-wordpress-to-the-cloud-with-juju/

Deploying OpenStack with the Juju GUI

Jorge Castro writes that Matthew Williams has put together a quick video showing off how easy it is to deploy OpenStack with the Juju GUI and embeds the video in the post.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/08/01/deploying-openstack-with-the-juju-gui/

The Planet

Jono Bacon: One Week In. Seven Million Dollars. Keep On Pledging!

Jono Bacon writes that the campaign to raise $32 million using the crowd-funding site Indiegogo to build Ubuntu Edge has reached the $7 million mark in one week with over 15,000 funders. Jono lists some media outlets that have covered the campaign and links to a video where Jane Silber, Canonical's CEO, talks about the campaign on CNBC.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/07/29/one-week-in-seven-million-dollars-keep-on-pledging/

Daniel Holbach: Bold moves

Daniel Holbach talks about how the Ubuntu Project as a whole has been known to make moves that set it apart from other open source projects and allow it to meet daunting goals. He states that the Ubuntu Edge is another bold move in this tradition that once again brings something new to the table.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/07/bold-moves

Michael Hall: Ubuntu Edge: What it is, what it isn’t, and why it’s important

Michael Hall explains the differences between the Ubuntu Edge Project and what it aims to accomplish in comparison to a traditional smart phone available today. He goes on to state how the funding of the project will push the boundaries of phones in an exciting new way.

http://mhall119.com/2013/07/ubuntu-edge-what-it-is-what-it-isnt-and-why-its-important/

s.fox: OpenID – Honest Thoughts?

s.fox asks what the general “ubuntu-sphere” thinks about OpenID logins, specifically, about using OpenID as the only login method, and asks for some balanced well thought out responses.

http://serial-coder.co.uk/blog/2013/07/openid-honest-thoughts/

Xubuntu: Announcing the Xubuntu Desktop Showcase

The Xubuntu team announces a recently launched project to celebrate the Xubuntu Showcase group on deviantART! They write that ultimate goal of the project is to have a “Desktop of the Week” gallery on their website; each week, they will choose a single submission from the pool and showcase it on the front page of the official Xubuntu website.

http://xubuntu.org/news/announcing-xubuntu-desktop-showcase/

Nicholas Skaggs: Automating the Core Apps: How we doing?

Nicholas Skaggs tells us about “the drive to automate the testing of the functionality found in the core applications.” Skaggs has set up a wiki page to reflect the progress on the project. He also lists what has been done to this point. If you are interested, you are welcome to jump in and help!

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/07/automating-core-apps-how-we-doing.html

Daniel Holbach: Getting Ubuntu Touch out to more users

Daniel Holbach writes about the efforts to get Ubuntu Touch to other users. This includes the capability of flashing devices in addition to the already capable Galaxy Nexus II, the Nexus 4, 7 and 10. He also made an invite to join the team on the Ubuntu Touch Porting Clinic which happened on 1st August on IRC at #ubuntu-touch.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/07/getting-ubuntu-touch-out-to-more-users/

David Murphy: Continuous Integration with Tarmac and Vagrant

David Murphy tells about the InfoSession he had with his group (the Professional and Engineering Services team at Canonical) this month. The topic was Continuous Integration with Tarmac and Vagrant, presented by Daniel Manrique from the Certification Team. The session was done in a Google+ Hangout on Air, and the video can be found embedded on the blog post.

http://blog.schwuk.com/2013/07/31/continuous-integration-with-tarmac-and-vagrant/

Kubuntu: Now Open for Donations

The Kubuntu team writes "We've been asked many times how to contribute to Kubuntu financially so we are now open for donations." and "As a community made non-commercial project we welcome all contributions."

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/now-open-donations

Also check out this follow-up post where Jonathan Riddell thanks some of the initial donors! http://blogs.kde.org/2013/08/02/thanks

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph reports that several months ago the Xubuntu project lead Pasi Lallinaho (knome) was contacted by the editor of Linux Identity Magazine about doing a flavors section of their magazine. Elizabeth provides a photo of the magazine cover and link to the site where the magazine can be purchased.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8365

Howard Chan: Testdrive Hackfest

Howard Chan announces the Testdrive Hackfest to be held on the 10th August on irc.freenode.net at #ubuntu-quality. Testdrive is a tool for managing ISO testing. Testdrive automates a substantial part of the testing process. It's development has been slow, but Chan teamed up with Jackson Doak to restart active development. You can participate on the Hackfest from 10:00 to 16:00 UTC, and Google+ Hangouts on Air will be hosted at 10:00 and 14:00 UTC, each one with a one-hour duration.

http://smartboyhwubuntu.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/testdrive-hackfest/

Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Touch Porting: next steps

Daniel Holbach shows us the results of the Ubuntu Touch Porting Clinic he hosted with the Touch team on August 1st. He mentions that Sergio Schvezov published a new branch of phablet-tools with new features, as well as lots of questions being answered in order to port Ubuntu Touch. He also states some things you can do in order to help with porting.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/08/ubuntu-touch-porting-next-steps/

Canonical News

Telstra joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Canonical has announced the newest member of Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group is Telstra which recognized for its focus on the corporate market, a key audience for Ubuntu, with its strong security profile and convergence capabilities.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/telstra-joins-the-ubuntu-carrier-advisory-group/

Also see this related article: “Telstra eyes Firefox OS and Ubuntu” http://www.zdnet.com/telstra-eyes-firefox-os-and-ubuntu-7000018779/

T-Mobile USA joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Canonical has announced T-Mobile USA is the newest member of the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. T-Mobile USA reaches almost 300 million American consumers and business people today.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/t-mobile-usa-joins-the-ubuntu-carrier-advisory-group/

Also see this related article: “T-Mobile backs Ubuntu smartphone” http://www.zdnet.com/t-mobile-backs-ubuntu-smartphone-7000018916/

In The Press

10 things we love about Ubuntu 13/5 things we hate

Maria Korolov of Network World writes that Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (13.04) is billed as being business- and user-friendly. There are still obstacles to its widespread adoption, but if employees only access applications via the browser, and a company doesn't use complex spreadsheet macros or document formats, then Raring Ringtail might be worth considering. She presents a slide show to illustrate "10 things we love about Ubuntu 13 and 5 things we hate."

http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/112742/10-things-we-love-about-ubuntu-135-things-we-hate-366979

In The Blogosphere

NVIDIA's Linux Driver On Ubuntu Is Very Competitive With Windows 8

Michael Larabel of Phoronix shares benchmarks of the recent NVIDIA Linux Driver for Ubuntu and concludes: “The Nouveau driver performance was generally very slow, but that's to be expected besides its other shortcomings. Overall, if you're using the binary NVIDIA Linux driver (or on Solaris and FreeBSD too) the level of feature support and performance should be comparable to that of Microsoft Windows.”

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_windows8_geforce&num=1

Unity 8 Available In The Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Repositories

Andrew of WebUpd8 writes that Unity 8 has landed in the Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander repositories. He says, "while I was able to run it on my Saucy computer, most stuff didn't work." Andrew lists the features that should work for the final Ubuntu 13.10 release and provides instructions on how to install and test Unity 8.

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/unity-8-available-in-ubuntu-1310-saucy.html

Ubuntu Desktop To Drop PowerPC Builds Later This Week

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that PowerPC builds of Ubuntu desktop are to be dropped after PowerPC builds of Ubuntu 13.10 have failed to successfully build for over a month. He adds that Ubuntu Server will remain supported on PPC for now, and that for desktop users Lubuntu is one of a number of Ubuntu-based Linux distributions still supporting the platform.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/07/ubuntu-ditching-powerpc-builds

Ubuntu 13.10's Ambiance and Radiance updated with visual refinements

razvi of iloveubuntu writes that "in Ubuntu 13.04, various apps come with a faulty theming, minor-yet-noticeable visual details that add an unfinished look & feel to several GTK+3 applications, among which Nautilus, Evince, System Settings, etc." razvi adds that Ubuntu's default themes have been updated in Ubuntu 13.10 by introducing support for dark toolbars and menus in multiple GTK+3 applications and provides some screenshots to illustrate the changes.

http://iloveubuntu.net/ubuntu-1310s-ambiance-and-radiance-updated-visual-refinements

Android-Ubuntu Edge Superphone: What's Canonical's End Game?

Christopher Tozzi, The VAR Guy, speculates as to the “End Game” Canonical has in mind with their plans for a superphone and writes “the campaign has already succeeded in laying the groundwork for lining up the array of channel partners Canonical could engage around the Edge.”

http://thevarguy.com/ubuntu/android-ubuntu-edge-superphone-whats-canonicals-end-game

Ubuntu 13.10's wallpaper-submission contest received pleasant new wallpapers

razvi of iloveubuntu writes that Ubuntu 13.10's wallpaper submission process has witnessed numerous interesting wallpapers with creative artists submitting a vast and diverse amount of wallpapers. razvi reminds us that users are still able to submit images until the August 16th and provides some example of the latest submissions.

http://iloveubuntu.net/ubuntu-1310s-wallpaper-submission-contest-received-pleasant-new-wallpapers

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 124

“In this week's episode we mention Ubuntu Edge and have a last call for talks for the planned UbuCon at Ohio Linux Fest 2013.”

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/158

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E23 - Edge of Ubuntu

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back for the twenty-third 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/2013/08/01/s06e23-edge-of-ubuntu/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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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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