Issue336


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta released
    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
    1. OhioLinuxFest 2013
  5. The Planet
    1. Nicholas Skaggs: Spreading the (testing) weight
    2. Jonathan Riddell & Kubuntu: Kubuntu România
    3. Jonathan Riddell: Switching to Kubuntu comments
    4. Nicholas Skaggs: A vision for our testing future
    5. Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Dash Search Is Still Not Anonymous
    6. Canonical Design Team: Latest from the web team — September 2013
    7. Canonical Design Team: Wednesday App Clinic – Update
  6. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical is gold sponsor at October 2013's OggCamp open-source event
    2. Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu?
    3. Ubuntu 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 13.10 In A VMware VM
    4. Ubuntu converged's Ubuntu System Settings received Bluetooth support
    5. Dell Still Offers Ubuntu Amid Microsoft Loan, Windows 8.1
  7. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine #77
  8. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ohio Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 132
    2. Ubuntu Weekly Update - 24th Sep 2013
    3. App Dev Advocacy Brainstorming - 24th Sept 2013
    4. Design Review and Q&A - 25th Sep 2013
    5. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E31 – Reservoir Ubuntu
  9. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  10. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  11. 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
  12. Subscribe
  13. Archives
  14. Additional Ubuntu News
  15. Conclusion
  16. Credits
  17. Glossary of Terms
  18. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  19. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 336 for the week September 23 - 29, 2013.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta released
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • OhioLinuxFest 2013

  • Nicholas Skaggs: Spreading the (testing) weight
  • Jonathan Riddell & Kubuntu: Kubuntu România

  • Jonathan Riddell: Switching to Kubuntu comments
  • Nicholas Skaggs: A vision for our testing future
  • Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Dash Search Is Still Not Anonymous
  • Canonical Design Team: Latest from the web team — September 2013
  • Canonical Design Team: Wednesday App Clinic – Update
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Full Circle Magazine #77
  • 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 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta released

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the final beta release of Ubuntu 13.10, lists the flavors that are participating in the release, and links to where the images can be downloaded. Adam also provides links that tell us further information about the release, how we can help shape Ubuntu, and where to report bugs.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2013-September/000176.html

Several news and blog sites covered the release, the following is a sampling selected by our editors:

Welcome New Members and Developers

“We welcome Aron as the first member of ubuntukylin-dev”

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2013-September/001061.html

The Ubuntu Forums team also welcomed a new Ubuntu member this week:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2013-September/001873.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (107202) +390 over last week
  • Critical (123) +8 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (52484) +122 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: Radu Rădeanu (http://askubuntu.com/users/147044/radu-rdeanu), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), Mitch (http://askubuntu.com/users/59676/mitch), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli) and Braiam (http://askubuntu.com/users/169736/braiam)

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

LoCo News

OhioLinuxFest 2013

Jorge Castro shares a photo of some attendees from the Ohio LinuxFest holding an Ubuntu banner and thanks them for their participation in the event.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/09/23/ohiolinuxfest-2013/

The Planet

Nicholas Skaggs: Spreading the (testing) weight

Nicholas Skaggs writes that the Ubuntu Quality Team has gained responsibilities other than the reporting of bugs on the latest desktop development images and building tools. Because handling test cases for the Ubuntu touch images and apps is adding some undue "weight", the Ubuntu CI team was born to specialize in Ubuntu Touch-related testing. Nicholas also hopes that the Ubuntu Quality team will have a better vision for the next cycle.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/09/spreading-testing-weight.html

Jonathan Riddell & Kubuntu: Kubuntu România

Jonathan Riddell announces the launch of Kubuntu România, a Romanian language website for Kubuntu news and support, and shares a photograph with us of site creator Ovidiu-Florin who had a launch ceremony with wine and ribbon to open it.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-rom%C3%A2nia, http://ro.kubuntu.org/ & http://blogs.kde.org/2013/09/25/site-ul-kubuntu-românia-fost-lansat

Jonathan Riddell: Switching to Kubuntu comments

Jonathan Riddell quotes some comments from a recent Slashdot article about switching to Kubuntu.

http://blogs.kde.org/2013/09/26/switching-kubuntu-comments

Nicholas Skaggs: A vision for our testing future

Nicholas Skaggs writes about bringing the Quality team closer to automation and proposes that the group take an exploratory approach to manual test cases, start writing more automated test cases, and manually test phablet devices. Nicholas also explains how these actions are necessary and how they will affect the team.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/09/a-vision-for-our-testing-future.html

Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Dash Search Is Still Not Anonymous

Benjamin Kerensa writes that the "Ubuntu Dash Search is very much still not anonymous despite several Canonical employees announcing otherwise on Google+" and links to some posts that summarize why.

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2013/09/23/ubuntu-dash-search-still-anonymous

Canonical Design Team: Latest from the web team — September 2013

The Canonical Web Team gives us a quick update on all the work they have been doing during September 2013.

http://design.canonical.com/2013/09/latest-from-the-web-team-september-2013/

Canonical Design Team: Wednesday App Clinic – Update

Katie Taylor reports that there has been a fantastic response to the two Wednesday App Clinics and thanks those who sent her their apps and questions. Katie reminds us that the clinics are on Wednesdays at 1pm UTC on Ubuntu On-Air and that previous design clinics can be viewed on YouTube.

http://design.canonical.com/2013/09/wednesday-app-clinic-update/

In The Blogosphere

Canonical is gold sponsor at October 2013's OggCamp open-source event

razvi from iloveubuntu.net tells us that Canonical is a gold sponsor at OggCamp, which is happening next 18th October. He says, “The OggCamp sponsoring is yet-another evidence of Canonical's awareness of and participation in the open-source ecosystem, and of its deep and constantly-maintained interest in pushing forward the adoption of open-source collaborative software and projects at a planetary scale”.

http://iloveubuntu.net/canonical-gold-sponsor-october-2013s-oggcamp-open-source-event

Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu?

Bruce Byfield from Datamation writes an article about how they see the current status of Ubuntu and its relation with Canonical. Byfield writes "Ubuntu and Canonical have isolated themselves from the free software community that Shuttleworth once hoped to lead. In the last year, the community has signaled repeatedly that at least parts of it feel disempowered."

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/are-we-witnessing-the-decline-of-ubuntu-1.html

Ubuntu 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 13.10 In A VMware VM

Michael Labarel from Phoronix writes a comparison between Raring and Saucy running in a VMware VM and concludes: "Long story short, there wasn't too much to get excited about. While there's an updated kernel several releases ahead, the Mesa 9.2 graphics stack, GCC 4.8, etc, it didn't translate to much of a difference in the VMware Fusion guest."

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ2OTg

Ubuntu converged's Ubuntu System Settings received Bluetooth support

razvi from iloveubuntu tells us about the now supported feature of Bluetooth for Ubuntu Touch, writing: "Basically, the new Bluetooth addition gives depth and dedicated view to the main view's Bluetooth icon; clicking on it, shifts the Ubuntu System Settings' view to a Bluetooth view where the user is to notice the handy ON/OFF switch for bluetooth. Moreover, Connect a headset shows interesting upcoming features, where probably bluetooth-related devices are to be managed and tweaked accordingly."

http://iloveubuntu.net/ubuntu-convergeds-ubuntu-system-settings-received-bluetooth-support

Dell Still Offers Ubuntu Amid Microsoft Loan, Windows 8.1

The VAR Guy addresses the recent privatization of Dell that included a loan from Microsoft and explores the impact that has had on their Ubuntu offering. He writes that the loan, "which will include a big Windows 8.1 push, has not upended Dell's continued work with Ubuntu, the Linux distribution that has found a home on millions of desktops, servers and mobile devices." He continues, "Dell sees Ubuntu as a potential springboard into a range of international markets. A case in point: Dell is expanding the number of China retail stores that carry its computers with Ubuntu pre-installed."

http://thevarguy.com/ubuntu/dell-still-offers-ubuntu-amid-microsoft-loan-windows-81

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine #77

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

  • This month:
  • Ubuntu News
  • Command & Conquer

  • How-To : Python, LibreOffice, and Lazarus.

  • Graphics : Blender, and Inkscape.
  • Review: Elementary OS
  • Book Review: Instant XBMC

plus: Q&A, Linux Labs, Ask The New Guy, My Story, and soooo much more!”

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-77/

Ohio Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 132

“The owner and engineer of Erie Looking Productions, Mike Kellat, takes over this weekend to share some audio he collected from Ohio Linux Fest 2013 where Jorge Castro was speaking about Juju.”

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/168

Ubuntu Weekly Update - 24th Sep 2013

Jono Bacon introduces the latest Ubuntu Weekly Update with contributions from Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, Kevin Gunn, Michael Hall, and Pat McGowan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6bcgwUOEj4

App Dev Advocacy Brainstorming - 24th Sept 2013

Presented by David Planella with Michael Hall and Daniel Holbach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnJcwuMSd8

Design Review and Q&A - 25th Sep 2013

Alan Pope introduces the latest App Design Clinic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_F4ttHiNtg

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E31 – Reservoir Ubuntu

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

In this week’s show:

  • We experiment with live video again!
  • We take a look at what’s been happening in the news.
  • We catch up with what’s happening in the Ubuntu community.
  • And not in the Ubuntu community.
  • And we talk about OggCamp13.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/09/26/s06e31-reservoir-ubuntu/ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkOvOzKSxcc

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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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • Paul White
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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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