Issue387


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. The Planet
    1. Kubuntu: KDE Plasma 5 beta 1 in next ppa ready for testers. Please read on for known issues.
    2. Svetlana Belkin: Start Planning For 14.11 UOS
    3. Randall Ross: Discount Offer for Ubuntu Members - Get Certified!
    4. Scott Kitterman: Thanks Canonical (reallly)
    5. Kubuntu Wire: Weta Uses Kubuntu for Hobbit
    6. Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 Now released to archive.
    7. Forums Council: Happy Birthday Ubuntu Forums & Support for Other Operating Systems
    8. Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Clock App Reboot Backstory
    9. Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #1
  5. Canonical News
    1. NFV and SDN on OpenStack for network operators
    2. Zabbix joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme
    3. Ubuntu with Redis Labs, Altera and IBM Power supply new NoSQL data store solution
  6. In The Blogosphere
    1. Sleek Mini-ITX industrial PCs come in four Intel flavors
    2. Canonical Offers OpenStack and Ubuntu Cloud Training in Paris
  7. Other Articles of Interest
  8. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Community Team Live Q and A - 7th October 2014
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E27 – The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E28 – The One with the List
  9. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  10. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  11. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04 and 14.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 14.04 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 387 for the week October 6 - 12, 2014.

In This Issue

  • Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Kubuntu: KDE Plasma 5 beta 1 in next ppa ready for testers. Please read on for known issues.
  • Svetlana Belkin: Start Planning For 14.11 UOS
  • Randall Ross: Discount Offer for Ubuntu Members - Get Certified!
  • Scott Kitterman: Thanks Canonical (reallly)
  • Kubuntu Wire: Weta Uses Kubuntu for Hobbit
  • Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 Now released to archive.
  • Forums Council: Happy Birthday Ubuntu Forums & Support for Other Operating Systems

  • Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Clock App Reboot Backstory
  • Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #1
  • Canonical News
  • Sleek Mini-ITX industrial PCs come in four Intel flavors
  • Canonical Offers OpenStack and Ubuntu Cloud Training in Paris

  • 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 and 14.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today

Canonical announce that due to recent work with Netflix, Ubuntu now supports watching Netflix with Chrome version 37, which is available to all Ubuntu users with up-to-date installations of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and later. They advise that Netflix gives Ubuntu users the ability to watch TV shows and movies from many devices and invite their readers to "Head over to Netflix to start your free trial subscription today."

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/

This was big news in our community this week, so it was also picked up and commented on by several news outlets and blogs, the following are a sampling selected by our editors:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (114864) +208over last week
  • Critical (219) -17 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (57481) +117 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: muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), Sylvain Pineau (http://askubuntu.com/users/32239/sylvain-pineau), KasiyA (http://askubuntu.com/users/283843/kasiya), Volker Siegel (http://askubuntu.com/users/260447/volker-siegel) and Eliah Kagan (http://askubuntu.com/users/22949/eliah-kagan)

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

The Planet

Kubuntu: KDE Plasma 5 beta 1 in next ppa ready for testers. Please read on for known issues.

Scarlett Clark announces the completion of packaging for Plasma 5 beta 1 which is now available in the Kubuntu Next PPA. Scarlett lists some thing to be aware of while installing, and ends her post by saying "If you would like to assist us in making this a great release, please join us in #kubuntu-devel and help us test!"

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2014/kubuntu-kde-plasma-5-beta-1-in-next-ppa-ready-for-testers-please-read-on-for-known-issues/

Svetlana Belkin: Start Planning For 14.11 UOS

Svetlana Belkin reminds us that the next Ubuntu Online Summit takes place between November 12th and 14th, just a month away. She lists the tracks that will be in place and suggests that planning for the sessions should now start, advising how they can be proposed.

http://ubuntusense.com/2014/10/06/start-planning-for-14-11-uos/

Randall Ross: Discount Offer for Ubuntu Members - Get Certified!

Randall Ross refers to an item on Ubuntu Discourse which asks Ubuntu Members if they have ever wanted to get a technical certification from the Linux Foundation. He provides the appropriate links and quotes Jorge Castro as saying "Go rock that exam!"

http://randall.executiv.es/getcertified

Scott Kitterman: Thanks Canonical (reallly)

Scott Kitterman refers to an article about Ubuntu and the City of Munich, advising us that the desktop in question is actually Kubuntu. Scott thanks Canonical for changing the article to make this clear.

http://skitterman.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/thanks-canonical-reallly/

Kubuntu Wire: Weta Uses Kubuntu for Hobbit

Jonathan Riddell refers to an article published by The Mukt that shows KDE Plasma is being used in the making of The Hobbit movies. A screenshot is included in Jonathan's post.

http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=186

Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 Now released to archive.

Scarlett Clark advises that Frameworks 5.3.0 is available in the archive, provides a simple terminal command to upgrade from 5.1.0 and confirms "The problems encountered during beta have been resolved."

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2014/kubuntu-kde-frameworks-5-3-0-now-released-to-archive/

Forums Council: Happy Birthday Ubuntu Forums & Support for Other Operating Systems

The Forums Council write that the Ubuntu Forums have changed several times since Ryan Troy started them ten years ago. The Council advise of changes around the use of custom avatars, the introduction of a new forum section for selected operating systems, and thank almost two million users for participating in over two million threads.

http://ubuntuforumsorg.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/happy-birthday-ubuntu-forums/

http://ubuntuforumsorg.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/support-for-other-operating-systems/

Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Clock App Reboot Backstory

Nekhelesh Ramananthan recalls the events around the rebooting of the Clock app which he learned about at the Malta sprint. He tells us that the app would receive some new designs, about the presentation given by Giorgo Venturi, and notes that the app has been in the Ubuntu Touch store for exactly one year.

http://nik90.com/clock-app-reboot-backstory/

Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #1

Randall Ross compares today's smart phones with the first feature phones, concluding that they are not smart. In his optimism he says that the Ubuntu Phone will become the world's first truly smart phone, respecting its owner and "doing the right thing."

http://randall.executiv.es/dumbphones01

Canonical News

NFV and SDN on OpenStack for network operators

Canonical writes "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are two of the hottest infrastructure technologies around, particularly for telecoms and network operators wanting to map their services in a more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective way." The article links to further information in the form of a link to a whitepaper entitled "SDN and NFV on OpenStack for Telcos."

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/09/8672/

Zabbix joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

Canonical announces that Zabbix SA is the newest member of the Charm Partner Programme which lets solution providers make best use of Canonical's cloud orchestration tool, Juju. The article gives some background details about Zabbix, and provides a link to further information about the programme.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/zabbix-joins-canonicals-charm-partner-programme/

Ubuntu with Redis Labs, Altera and IBM Power supply new NoSQL data store solution

John Zannos writes that earlier this month IBM announced new Power S824L servers which are built on the POWER8 processor, the world’s first processor optimised for the most demanding Big Data workloads. He says that powering each of these servers in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the only operating system ready to every class of Linux-only POWER8 scale-out server.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/ubuntu-with-redis-labs-altera-and-ibm-power-supply-new-nosql-data-store-solution/

In The Blogosphere

Sleek Mini-ITX industrial PCs come in four Intel flavors

Eric Brown of LinuxGizmos.com writes about Logic Supply's new line of ML400G embedded PCs which are the "smallest full-size Mini-ITX systems" ever built by the company. Eric looks at the specifications of each model and informs us that they all support both 32 and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

http://linuxgizmos.com/sleek-mini-itx-industrial-pcs-come-in-four-intel-flavors/

Canonical Offers OpenStack and Ubuntu Cloud Training in Paris

Christopher Tozzi, The VAR Guy, writes that Canonical is introducing a five day OpenStack cloud computing program, of which the first session will take place during the week of October 27-31 in Paris where the next OpenStack Summit will take place the week after. Christopher notes that 55% of all OpenStack instances run on Ubuntu and speculates that the training is also part of the effort to fortify Ubuntu's position within the cloud computing ecosystem.

http://thevarguy.com/ubuntu/100914/canonical-offers-openstack-and-ubuntu-cloud-training-paris

Community Team Live Q and A - 7th October 2014

Michael Hall and Nicholas Skaggs talk about the upcoming Ubuntu Online Summit, the next Ubuntu release, and answer questions put to them by viewers on IRC.

http://youtu.be/etMduYRRwDc

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E27 – The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant

The full team assemble (that’s Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson and Alan Pope, joined by a returning Tony Whitmore) in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Seven of the Ubuntu Podcast!

In this week’s show:-

  • We take a look at what’s been happening in the news
  • We take a look at what’s been happening in the community
  • Oh and there’s an event called OggCamp

We’ll be back next week, when we’ll have some mystery content and your feedback.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/10/07/s07e27-the-one-with-five-steaks-and-an-eggplant/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E28 – The One with the List

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Tony Whitmore! We ate this carrot cake from the Co-op. It’s very tasty.

In this week’s show:

  • We interviewed Andy Stanford-Clark about his HyPi project, which he gave a talk about at OggCamp 14. It’s based on a hydrogen fuel cell from Arcola Energy.

  • We also discuss:
    • Moonlighting on the Linux Voice podcast.
    • Climbing a mountain…in Malawi.
    • Going to xda:devcon in Manchester.
    • Going to OggCamp 14!

  • We share some Command Line Lurve
  • And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in!

We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/10/10/s07e28-the-one-with-the-list/

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 and 14.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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