Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 338 for the week October 7th - 13th 2013.

In This Issue

• Mir Running Now On Ubuntu On Phones
• Welcome New Members and Developers
• Ubuntu Stats

• LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Ohio Team

• Ubuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Survey 2013 Results: Part 2

• Randall Ross: Planet Awesome! Poll #1 & Poll #2

• Nicholas Skaggs: Testers, assemble! Final RC testing is here!
• Chris Coulson: Introducing Oxide
• Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Clock App - v1.0 Ready to go!
• Ubuntu 13.10 Review: A great Linux desktop gets better

• Canonical readies Ubuntu 13.10 for cloud duty with OpenStack Havana

• Shuttleworth: Apple will converge Mac and iPhone
• In The Blogosphere
• Other Articles of Interest
• 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

Mir Running Now On Ubuntu On Phones

Jono Bacon shares the news that with update 90 on the Ubuntu for phone images Mir has been enabled by default. Jono says that there are some bugs but nothing major, and congratulates the Mir and Ubuntu integration teams.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/10/10/mir-running-now-on-ubuntu-on-phones/

Welcome New Members and Developers

Results of the Developer Membership Board meeting on the 7th October 2013:

• Chris J Arges is now recognised as an Ubuntu Core Developer (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/arges | https://launchpad.net/~arges)

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (107229) -125 over last week
• Critical (128) -8 over last week
• Unconfirmed (52530) -83 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

• No Sound, Ubuntu 13.04 http://askubuntu.com/questions/359191/no-sound-ubuntu-13-04

• Fixed wireless then bluetooth stopped working http://askubuntu.com/questions/343001/fixed-wireless-then-bluetooth-stopped-working

• How to view the .bash_history file via command line? http://askubuntu.com/questions/358867/how-to-view-the-bash-history-file-via-command-line

• Why doesn't Ubuntu 12.04 recognize my Windows 7 partition? http://askubuntu.com/questions/265132/why-doesnt-ubuntu-12-04-recognize-my-windows-7-partition

• Problems with ubuntu after installing cinnamon, unity broken http://askubuntu.com/questions/358988/problems-with-ubuntu-after-installing-cinnamon-unity-broken

Top Voted New Questions

• Is there any way to set a greeting message in ubuntu? http://askubuntu.com/questions/358421/

• Why have gvfs mount points in 13.10 changed to the user id rather than the user name as in 13.04 http://askubuntu.com/questions/355194/

• I can't install libdvdcss - script not finding medibuntu, How to get DVD playback? http://askubuntu.com/questions/356046/

• How to view the .bash_history file via command line? http://askubuntu.com/questions/358867/

• How do you run a 32 bit programs on a 64 bit version of Ubuntu? http://askubuntu.com/questions/359156/

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: TomKat (http://askubuntu.com/users/99886/tomkat), Python Student (http://askubuntu.com/users/166915/python-student), Glutanimate (http://askubuntu.com/users/81372/glutanimate), Radu Rădeanu (http://askubuntu.com/users/147044/radu-rdeanu) and Salt (http://askubuntu.com/users/129701/salt)

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

LoCo News

LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Ohio Team

Stephen Michael Kellat is interviewed by Ubuntu US Teams about the work that the Ubuntu Ohio team is doing, including how they’ve handled leadership, recent events and the tools that the team finds most useful.

http://ubuntu-us.org/2013/10/10/locos-leaders-and-lessons-learned-ohio-team/

The Planet

Ubuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Survey 2013 Results: Part 2

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph thanks everyone who contributed to the survey and posts the second part of the results by posting a representative sampling of the key findings from the write-in responses. Elizabeth shares some replies to the question "If there is something you wish we were doing or doing more of, what would it be?" and some of the ideas that were put forward.

http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2013/10/ubuntu-women-survey-2013-results-part-2/

Randall Ross: Planet Awesome! Poll #1 & Poll #2

Randall Ross announces that he will asking some basic questions in order to gauge the audience, relevance, and usefulness of Planet Ubuntu. Randall says he has his own opinions but would like to see what the data says.

http://randall.executiv.es/planet-awesome-1 & http://randall.executiv.es/planet-awesome-2

Nicholas Skaggs: Testers, assemble! Final RC testing is here!

Nicholas Skaggs writes "Testers, assemble! Final RC testing is here!" and goes on to say "Here are 3 easy steps to testing prowess. Do your part to be prepared! Let's help make saucy a great release!"

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/10/testers-assemble-final-rc-testing-is.html

Chris Coulson: Introducing Oxide

Chris Coulson updates the community with details on the recent comment “we sorted out the details of the work that needs to happen for oxide to be [sic] replace qtwebkit, for the touch browser, webapps and SDK, before 14.04” and introduces Oxide, “a library that allows you to embed a Chromium-powered webview in QML applications.”

http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=196

Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Clock App - v1.0 Ready to go!

Nekhelesh Ramananthan announces that version 1.0 of the clock app for Ubuntu Touch has been released and thanks everybody who helped reached the milestone. Nekhelesh shares some fun facts about the last five months and says "See you guys in the next development cycle."

http://ubuntu-touch.blogspot.com/2013/10/clock-app-v10-ready-to-go.html

In The Press

Ubuntu 13.10 Review: A great Linux desktop gets better

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet writes a review of 13.10, and summarizes “Ubuntu 13.10 may not be the most exciting desktop Linux, but it is very solid and contains many useful new features.”

http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-13-10-review-a-great-linux-desktop-gets-better-7000021825/

Canonical readies Ubuntu 13.10 for cloud duty with OpenStack Havana

Daniel Robinson from V3 tells us more about the 13.10 release and how its integration with OpenStack Havana is working at the current time.

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2299953/canonical-readies-ubuntu-1310-for-cloud-duty-with-openstack-havana

Shuttleworth: Apple will converge Mac and iPhone

Darien Graham-Smith from PCPro writes an article about Mark Shuttleworth’s point of view regarding Mac on the desktop and the iPhone, which he says are going to ‘follow Ubuntu's lead and converge the iPhone and MacBook product lines’. He also interviews Shuttleworth about the upcoming 13.10 release.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/384697/shuttleworth-apple-will-converge-mac-and-iphone

Check out more reactions to Mark’s comments on Apple and the Ubuntu Phone over at ZDNet and CNET:

• Mark Shuttleworth on how the Ubuntu Edge dream lives on in the iPhone - http://www.zdnet.com/mark-shuttleworth-on-how-the-ubuntu-edge-dream-lives-on-in-the-iphone-7000021857/

• Canonical founder: Apple's 64-bit chip to unify Mac, iPhone - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57607142-37/canonical-founder-apples-64-bit-chip-to-unify-mac-iphone/

In The Blogosphere

• Ubuntu Desktop Guide updated for Saucy in Ubuntu 13.10 - http://iloveubuntu.net/ubuntu-desktop-guide-updated-saucy-ubuntu-1310

• Mir, Unity 8 In Process Of Landing On Ubuntu Touch - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3OTA

• Powerful cloud technology Juju GUI 0.10.1 released with numerous fixes and improvements - http://iloveubuntu.net/powerful-cloud-technology-juju-gui-0101-released-numerous-fixes-and-improvements

• Ubuntu Phone 13.10: The Runway Is Clear For Mir - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3OTk

• Unity 8 updated with fancy new previews - http://iloveubuntu.net/unity-8-updated-fancy-new-previews

• Ubuntu Touch for tablets on Nexus 10, Xperia Tablet Z - http://www.product-reviews.net/2013/10/07/ubuntu-touch-for-tablets-on-nexus-10-xperia-tablet-z/

• $10,000 prize per-category Juju Charm Championship enters into its last two weeks - http://iloveubuntu.net/10000-prize-category-juju-charm-championship-enters-its-last-two-weeks

• Mir Finally Turned On For Ubuntu Touch 13.10 - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ4MTU

• Ubuntu 13.10's Ubuntu Software Center updated with offline deb-installation support - http://iloveubuntu.net/ubuntu-1310s-ubuntu-software-center-updated-offline-deb-installation-support

Other Articles of Interest

• Would Linux survive if Ubuntu died? - http://www.itworld.com/open-source/377850/would-linux-survive-if-ubuntu-died

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 134

"This week brings miscellaneous news such as dates for the next UDS and mention of the new LoCo Council members announcement."

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/170

Charm Call for 9 October

The latest Weekly Charm Update presented by Jorge Castro with contributions from Antonio Rosales, Nick Veitch and Marco Ceppi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItpPwPWCcj8

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E33 – Pulp Ubuntu

“Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back together for the thirty-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 talk about OggCamp13.

• We don’t mention (because we run out of time) another event.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/10/10/s06e33-pulp-ubuntu/ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dpnqaxYlo

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

• Kernel Team - October 8, 2013 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2013-10-08

• Security Team - October 7, 2013 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20131007

• Server Team - October 8, 2013 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20131008

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

• [USN-1987-1] GnuPG vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2013-October/002275.html

• [USN-1988-1] Cyrus SASL vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2013-October/002276.html

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

• tzdata 2013g-0ubuntu0.10.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2013-October/013852.html

• gnupg 1.4.10-2ubuntu1.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2013-October/013853.html

• gnupg2 2.0.14-1ubuntu1.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2013-October/013854.html

• gnupg 1.4.10-2ubuntu1.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2013-October/013855.html

• gnupg2 2.0.14-1ubuntu1.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2013-October/013856.html

• tzdata 2013g-0ubuntu0.10.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2013-October/013857.html

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

• linux-lowlatency 3.2.0-55.57 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020441.html

• linux-meta-lowlatency 3.2.0.55.44 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020442.html

• tzdata 2013g-0ubuntu0.12.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020443.html

• python-boto 2.2.2-0ubuntu3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020444.html

• inventor 2.1.5-10-16ubuntu1.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020445.html

• libjpeg-turbo 1.1.90+svn733-0ubuntu4.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020446.html

• accountsservice 0.6.15-2ubuntu9.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020447.html

• openmotif 2.3.3-5ubuntu1.12.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020448.html

• libreoffice 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020449.html

• owncloud 5.0.4debian-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020450.html

• xml-security-c 1.6.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020451.html

• xml-security-c 1.6.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020452.html

• gnupg 1.4.11-3ubuntu2.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020453.html

• gnupg2 2.0.17-2ubuntu2.12.04.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020454.html

• gnupg 1.4.11-3ubuntu2.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020455.html

• gnupg2 2.0.17-2ubuntu2.12.04.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020456.html

• accountsservice 0.6.15-2ubuntu9.6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020457.html

• apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.15 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020458.html

• accountsservice 0.6.15-2ubuntu9.6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020459.html

• software-properties 0.82.7.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020460.html

• nginx 1.1.19-1ubuntu0.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020461.html

• ubuntustudio-default-settings 0.33ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020462.html

• qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.12 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020463.html

• tzdata 2013g-0ubuntu0.12.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020464.html

• libdvdread 4.2.0-1ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020465.html

• puppet 2.7.11-1ubuntu2.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020466.html

• libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.14 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020467.html

• dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020468.html

• openvswitch 1.4.6-0ubuntu1.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020469.html

• postgresql-9.1 9.1.10-0ubuntu12.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020470.html

• postgresql-8.4 8.4.18-0ubuntu12.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2013-October/020471.html

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

• linux-lowlatency 3.5.0-42.43 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014469.html

• linux-meta-lowlatency 3.5.0.42.38 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014470.html

• tzdata 2013g-0ubuntu0.12.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014471.html

• python-boto 2.3.0-1ubuntu0.12.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014472.html

• owncloud 5.0.7+dfsg-2ubuntu1~ubuntu12.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014473.html

• openmotif 2.3.3-5ubuntu2.12.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014474.html

• gnupg 1.4.11-3ubuntu4.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014475.html

• gnupg2 2.0.17-2ubuntu3.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014476.html

• gnupg2 2.0.17-2ubuntu3.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014477.html

• gnupg 1.4.11-3ubuntu4.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014478.html

• apt 0.9.7.5ubuntu5.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014479.html

• gnome-terminal 3.6.0-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014480.html

• tzdata 2013g-0ubuntu0.12.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014481.html

• libdvdread 4.2.0+20120521-2ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014482.html

• openvswitch 1.4.6-0ubuntu1.12.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014483.html

• postgresql-9.1 9.1.10-0ubuntu12.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2013-October/014484.html

End of Life - April 2014

Ubuntu 13.04 Updates

• linux-lowlatency 3.8.0-32.24 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011337.html

• linux-meta-lowlatency 3.8.0.32.20 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011338.html

• tzdata 2013g-0ubuntu0.13.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011339.html

• python-boto 2.3.0-1ubuntu0.13.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011340.html

• glib-networking 2.36.2-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011341.html

• libreoffice 1:4.0.4-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011342.html

• mesa 9.1.7-1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011343.html

• owncloud 5.0.7+dfsg-2ubuntu1~ubuntu13.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011344.html

• openmotif 2.3.3-7ubuntu1.13.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011345.html

• gnupg 1.4.12-7ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011346.html

• gnupg2 2.0.19-2ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011347.html

• cyrus-sasl2 2.1.25.dfsg1-6ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011348.html

• gnupg 1.4.12-7ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011349.html

• gnupg2 2.0.19-2ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011350.html

• cyrus-sasl2 2.1.25.dfsg1-6ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011351.html

• lxc 0.9.0-0ubuntu3.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011352.html

• apt 0.9.7.7ubuntu6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011353.html

• lightdm 1.6.0-0ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011354.html

• gnome-terminal 3.6.1-0ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011355.html

• libvirt 1.0.2-0ubuntu11.13.04.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011356.html

• mesa 9.1.7-1ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011357.html

• linux-ppc 3.8.0-17.23 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011358.html

• linux-meta-ppc 3.8.0.17.18 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011359.html

• tzdata 2013g-0ubuntu0.13.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011360.html

• libdvdread 4.2.0+20121016-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011361.html

• postgresql-9.1 9.1.10-0ubuntu13.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2013-October/011362.html

End of Life - January 2014

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