Issue391


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Joining the Ubuntu Online Summit
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Extreme OpenStack
    2. Midokura joins OIL and opens MidoNet SDN
    3. Certified Ubuntu images available on Google Cloud Platform
    4. PMC Joins Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab
    5. EMC partners with Ubuntu for OpenStack storage
    6. Putting your OpenStack on autopilot
  5. The Planet
    1. Alan Pope: Ubuntu Scopes Contest Wishlist
    2. Ben Howard: GCE Anyone?
    3. Didier Roche: Just released Ubuntu Developer Tools Center 0.1.1
    4. Nicholas Skaggs: Autopilot Feature Primer
    5. Kubuntu: KDE Telepathy Instant Messenger 0.9 for 14.10
    6. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: How to add location awareness to your scope
    7. Kubuntu Wire: Plasma 5 Default in Kubuntu 15.04 News Coverage
    8. Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 4: Nostalgia
    9. Bryan Quigley: 32 bit usage – survey results
    10. Martin Albisetti: Click packages and how they’ll empower upstreams
    11. Randall Ross: Ubuntu. It's in the Cloud. It's Juju!
  6. Canonical News
    1. Community interview: Riccardo Padovani & Filippo Scognamiglio
    2. LXD – the Linux container daemon
  7. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical Developing LXD As A New Linux Hypervisor
    2. Canonical Confirms Involvement in Ubuntu Linux Tablet
    3. make-test-release: A tool for Ubuntu packagers
    4. Positive Ambivalence: Press Reaction to Ubuntu 14.10
  8. Other Articles of Interest
  9. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A: 4th November 2014
    2. Ubuntu Scopes Workshops: 6th November 2014
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E32 – The One with the Two Parties
  10. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  11. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  12. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 14.10 Updates
  13. Subscribe
  14. Archives
  15. Additional Ubuntu News
  16. Conclusion
  17. Credits
  18. Glossary of Terms
  19. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  20. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 391 for the week November 3 - 9, 2014.

In This Issue

  • Joining the Ubuntu Online Summit
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Alan Pope: Ubuntu Scopes Contest Wishlist
  • Ben Howard: GCE Anyone?
  • Didier Roche: Just released Ubuntu Developer Tools Center 0.1.1
  • Nicholas Skaggs: Autopilot Feature Primer
  • Kubuntu: KDE Telepathy Instant Messenger 0.9 for 14.10
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: How to add location awareness to your scope
  • Kubuntu Wire: Plasma 5 Default in Kubuntu 15.04 News Coverage
  • Bryan Quigley: 32 bit usage – survey results
  • Martin Albisetti: Click packages and how they’ll empower upstreams
  • Canonical News
  • 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, 14.04 and 14.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Joining the Ubuntu Online Summit

Michael Hall writes about the Ubuntu Online Summit coming up from November 12th through the 14th (Wednesday-Friday) and shares details about how to host a session. Michael continues by describing each of the tracks being hosted: Ubuntu Development, App & Scope Development, Cloud & DevOps, Community and Users.

http://mhall119.com/2014/11/joining-the-ubuntu-online-summit/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (115650) +189 over last week
  • Critical (216) -7 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (57771) +143 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: Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), gsedej (http://askubuntu.com/users/1982/gsedej), rbaleksandar (http://askubuntu.com/users/94737/rbaleksandar), muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru) and KasiyA (http://askubuntu.com/users/283843/kasiya)

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

Ubuntu Cloud News

Extreme OpenStack

Canonical writes about Extreme OpenStack, instant solutions for big data, LXD, a revolution in container technology, and Cloud Foundry, where Juju lets you deploy and configure an entire environment in minutes.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/03/extreme-openstack/

Midokura joins OIL and opens MidoNet SDN

John Zannos announces that network virtualisation specialist, Midokura has joined the Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme and that their MidoNet technology will be part of Ubuntu’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab [OIL]. He says: "We are committed to building an ecosystem around scale out computing, OpenStack and Ubuntu and so an open source Midonet in OIL helps us take a big step in that direction."

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/03/midokura-joins-oil-and-opens-midonet-sdn/

Certified Ubuntu images available on Google Cloud Platform

Canonical announces that they are working with Google and are launching the public beta of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS and 14.10 on Google Cloud Platform which is a collection of cloud services that allows customers to create anything from simple websites to complex applications.The announcement is concluded with: "Head over to Google Cloud Platform and see for yourselves how it feels to run Ubuntu on the infrastructure that powers Google’s own services."

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/03/certified-ubuntu-images-available-on-google-cloud-platform/

PMC Joins Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab

John Zannos writes: “It tests and validates the interoperability of hardware and software in a purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and flexibility of choice. Today, we welcome PMC-Sierra, Inc. to OIL.”

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/03/pmc-joins-canonicals-openstack-interoperability-lab/

EMC partners with Ubuntu for OpenStack storage

John Zannos writes that he is pleased to announce an expansion of EMC's participation as an Ubuntu Cloud Partner, and that EMC made several announcements at the Paris OpenStack summit to indicate their continued commitment to OpenStack and collaboration with Canonical to expand the OpenStack ecosystem.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/04/emc-partners-with-ubuntu-for-openstack-storage/

Putting your OpenStack on autopilot

Canonical writes about OpenStack on autopilot: "you metaphorically decide in which direction you want to go, and let the automation do the rest." Their article includes a short video to demonstrate this and they say that once the installation completes you will have Canonical OpenStack which is Ubuntu OpenStack built to Canonical's best practices configuration.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/06/putting-your-openstack-on-autopilot/

The Planet

Alan Pope: Ubuntu Scopes Contest Wishlist

Alan Pope informs us that he is one of the judges in the Scope Development Competition. He says that there are ideas about what he'd like to see made as scopes and he shares them with us. Alan would like to be able to manage a Spotify playlist, display an Amazon wish list, to be informed of local events and to be told when satellites, such as the ISS, are passing overhead.

http://popey.com/blog/2014/11/03/ubuntu-scopes-contest-wishlist/

Ben Howard: GCE Anyone?

Ben Howard announces the availability of beta images for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, and 14.10 which are now available for testing on Google Compute Engine. He says that these images also include the Google Cloud SDK which should provide all users with the same Ubuntu experience as other cloud providers.

http://blog.utlemming.org/2014/11/gce-anyone.html

Didier Roche: Just released Ubuntu Developer Tools Center 0.1.1

Didier Roche discusses the latest release of the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center. He explains how the issues found were first noticed and his opinion on Android Studio no longer being included with the SDK anymore.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Just-released-Ubuntu-Developer-Tools-Center-0.1.1

Nicholas Skaggs: Autopilot Feature Primer

Nicholas Skaggs informs us that autopilot recently celebrated its two year anniversary as an independent project and that during that time it has developed into a useful tool for testing UIs for GTK and Qt toolkits. He describes some of the new and under-used features including Python 3 support, screenshots and video, autopilot vis3, test result viewer, and subunit support. Nicholas concludes: "I hope this helps you take another look at what autopilot might be able to help you test. Happy Testing!"

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/11/autopilot-feature-primer.html

Kubuntu: KDE Telepathy Instant Messenger 0.9 for 14.10

The Kubuntu Team announces the release of KDE Telepathy 0.9.0 for Kubuntu 14.10 and the development release. They advise to where bugs should be reported, and for Kubuntu 14.10, from where the updated packages can be downloaded.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-telepathy-0.9

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: How to add location awareness to your scope

David Callé writes: "Ubuntu has a solid location stack, allowing users to select which applications have access to the device location." David says that this also applies to scopes and links to a short tutorial which shows how to bring location awareness to a scope.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2014/11/how-to-add-location-awareness-to-your-scope/

Kubuntu Wire: Plasma 5 Default in Kubuntu 15.04 News Coverage

Jonathan Riddell writes: "News has been spreading around the world that Kubuntu 15.04 will ship with Plasma 5 as the default desktop." He quotes and links to several sources which reported the news in English, Spanish, Finnish and Czech.

http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=196

Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 4: Nostalgia

Joe Liau continues his series with a post in which he says: "Technology is supposed to be complicated … 1337 phr34k5 0n1y … Nobody should know (or wants to know) how it works, so let’s hide that … " His post ends with an embedded "save our phones" image which links to the Ubuntu phone web site.

http://blog.josephliau.com/documenting-the-death-of-the-dumb-telephone-part-4-nostalgia/

Bryan Quigley: 32 bit usage – survey results

Bryan Quigley publishes the results of a 32-bit usage survey, that is where users are running 32-bit Ubuntu when the hardware technically supports 64 bit. He breaks down the results to show what users are using, how users feel about switching from 32-bit to 64-bit, and says: "Just to complete the application compatibility story (not from survey), Games are starting to be 64-bit only:"

https://bryanquigley.com/crazy-ideas/32-bit-usage-survey-results

Martin Albisetti: Click packages and how they’ll empower upstreams

Martin Albisetti feels that running click packages on the desktop will soon be a reality. He tells us about the work the Security team has done around making click packages safe, reliable but flexible, and how click packages will simplify package building by app developers including updating apps outside of the Ubuntu release cycle.

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/334

Randall Ross: Ubuntu. It's in the Cloud. It's Juju!

Randall Ross explains the connection between Ubuntu and OpenStack, saying: "A few years back, the people behind Ubuntu got involved in a big way in this thing called OpenStack." Randall embeds a video of a demo by Mark Shuttleworth of Juju in his post, tells us that this is the beginning of a new era, calling this "Ubuntu's Second Act."

http://randall.executiv.es/ubuntu-in-the-cloud

Canonical News

Community interview: Riccardo Padovani & Filippo Scognamiglio

Steph Wilson writes about her meeting with Riccardo Padovani and Filippo Scognamiglio, who spoke about how and why they contribute to Ubuntu. The young developers talk about their background, what motivates them, what it means to be part of the community, and the sprint in Washington DC, which is where the interviews took place.

http://design.canonical.com/2014/11/community-interview-riccardo-padovani-filippo-scognamiglio/

LXD – the Linux container daemon

Dustin Kirkland announces LXD, a new hypervisor that delivers capabilities to LXC containers that cloud users demand in scale out infrastructure. Dustin embeds a short video in his announcement which was recorded at the recent OpenStack summit in Paris.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/04/lxd-the-linux-container-daemon/

Dustin writes more about LXD on his personal blog: - http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/11/where-were-going-with-lxd.html

In The Blogosphere

Canonical Developing LXD As A New Linux Hypervisor

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Canonical's latest effort for pushing Ubuntu into the cloud is LXD, derived from the concepts of LXC. He says that Canonical hopes to have it ready in the next half-year and links to the Ubuntu's LXD web page from where further information can be obtained.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgzMDA

Canonical Confirms Involvement in Ubuntu Linux Tablet

Christopher Tozzi, The VAR Guy, writes about information he has received that leads him to reveal that Canonical will be involved in the development of an Ubuntu based tablet called the UT One. He says many of the details are hazy and even if Canonical is not directly responsible for developing the tablet they will have some kind of official relationship with it.

http://thevarguy.com/ubuntu/110614/canonical-confirms-involvement-ubuntu-linux-tablet

make-test-release: A tool for Ubuntu packagers

Sascha Manns shares a collection of scripts in a tool collectively called make-test-release which uses a chroot and pbuilder to create packages, effectively emulating Launchpad builds.

http://saigkill.ddns.net/wordpress/2014/11/make-test-release-a-tool-for-ubuntu-packagers/

Positive Ambivalence: Press Reaction to Ubuntu 14.10

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reports on the technical press coverage of Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, quoting and linking to several sources. He concludes: "But what critics, the majority of whom only go hands on with the OS for a few hours every six months, think matters less than what you, the user, has to say."

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/press-reaction-ubuntu-14-10-utopic-unicorn

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A: 4th November 2014

David Planella and Michael Hall host another Q&A session where they talk about the Ubuntu Scopes contest, the Ubuntu Online Summit, and answer viewers’ questions put to them on IRC.

http://youtu.be/OeMNCAyTDHE

Ubuntu Scopes Workshops: 6th November 2014

David Planella, David Callé and Kyle Nitzsche each present an Ubuntu-on-Air workshop which shows viewers how to set up a development environment for writing scopes, how to write their first scope, and adding location support to a scope.

http://youtu.be/0pcTkpodBR4 http://youtu.be/4VwIXWUWQ3s http://youtu.be/TjlXGPS1lmY

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E32 – The One with the Two Parties

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Thirty-two of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore and Mark Johnson bring you this episode.

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss whether every software release should be accompanied by huge fanfare.
  • We also discuss:
    • Volunteering speaking skills to Linux Voice Audio Edition
    • Installing YNAB under Wine on Ubuntu
    • Taking photos at Span Conference
  • We share some Command Line Lurve which provides you with a friendly interactive shell: fish
  • 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/2014/11/06/s07e32-the-one-with-the-two-parties/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10

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

Ubuntu 14.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2015

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