Issue405


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS released
    2. Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations
  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 Events
  5. The Planet
    1. Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make community releases 0.6 with 5 new supported platforms
    2. Xubuntu: Xubuntu at Mexican collection agencies
  6. Other Community News
    1. Interview with Laura Czajkowski of the Ubuntu Community Council
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Deploy multiple services with Juju Quickstart
    2. Talligent’s OpenBook charm now available in the Juju Charm Store
    3. Ubuntu, Hortonworks and Microsoft = Big Data Hosted Solution
    4. Canonical’s 2015 OpenStack Roadshow Launches
    5. Alliance Technology Group and Canonical bring Ubuntu OpenStack to telco and enterprise customers
    6. OpenStack Summit Vancouver: Ubuntu OpenStack team presentations
    7. New Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals training sessions available
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Make a scope for your YouTube channel in 5 minutes
    2. Phone Review and Wider Thoughts
    3. An unexpected feature, the Ubuntu Phone is the hacking machine! Releasing the beast!
    4. I wrote some more apps for Ubuntu Phone
  9. Canonical News
    1. Internet of Things: Ninja Blocks
    2. Canonical Announces New Partnerships for Industrial and Telecoms IoT
  10. In The Press
    1. Meizu teases Ubuntu Phone ahead of MWC event
    2. Canonical Achieves Broad Industry Buy-In For Snappy Ubuntu
    3. Canonical prepares to train channel partners in the art of working with OpenStack
    4. Canonical partners with Amazon, Microsoft, and others on Internet of Things
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Official Ubuntu Phone Porting Guide Published
    2. Cut the Rope is the First Major Game Ported for Ubuntu Phone
    3. Ubuntu’s foray into phones brings fresh approach
    4. Unity 8 Continues Working Towards Proper Desktop Support
    5. Locally Integrated Menus (LIM) Set As Default In Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet
    6. Mir Now Depends Upon C++14
  12. Other Articles of Interest
  13. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Q&A! - 17th February 2015
  14. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  15. Monthly Team Reports: January 2015
  16. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  17. 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
  18. Subscribe
  19. Archives
  20. Additional Ubuntu News
  21. Conclusion
  22. Credits
  23. Glossary of Terms
  24. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  25. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 405 for the week February 16 - 22, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS released
  • Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo Events

  • Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make community releases 0.6 with 5 new supported platforms
  • Xubuntu: Xubuntu at Mexican collection agencies
  • Interview with Laura Czajkowski of the Ubuntu Community Council
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Phone News
  • Canonical News
  • Meizu teases Ubuntu Phone ahead of MWC event
  • Canonical Achieves Broad Industry Buy-In For Snappy Ubuntu
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest

  • Ubuntu Community Q&A! - 17th February 2015

  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: January 2015
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS released

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS for Ubuntu as well as flavors that participate in the LTS process. 14.04.2 is a Hardware Enablement release that provides support for many new pieces of hardware, as well as all updates since 14.04 was released. Download links are included as well.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2015-February/003224.html

Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations

Elizabeth K. Joseph calls for Ubuntu Members who are interested in participating in the Ubuntu Membership Board. She says that the nominee requirements are Ubuntu Membership, ability to evaluate contributions to the community, and a willingness to attend board meetings. The deadline for nominations is Monday March 9th 12:00 UTC and may be submitted via email.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-February/000416.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (117581) +178 over last week
  • Critical (273) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (58793) -6 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), KentGeek (http://askubuntu.com/users/164383/kentgeek), Charles Kane (http://askubuntu.com/users/17316/charles-kane), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli) and Fabby (http://askubuntu.com/users/344926/fabby)

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

LoCo Events

Want to learn whether there is an event upcoming in your area? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Planet

Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make community releases 0.6 with 5 new supported platforms

Didier Roche writes that the release of Ubuntu Make 0.6 was entirely backed by community participation. Didier praises Anton Antonov and Tin Tvrtković for excellent development and collaboration in the 0.6 release, which supports five new IDEs as well as zsh.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Ubuntu-Make-community-releases-0.6-with-5-new-supported-platforms

Xubuntu: Xubuntu at Mexican collection agencies

The Xubuntu Team interviews Greg Blumenthal who has been deploying Xubuntu to customers who have been extremely happy with their new systems. He talks about the organizations he has worked with, what made him select Xubuntu, and how he customizes the default setup.

http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-at-mexican-collection-agencies/

Other Community News

Interview with Laura Czajkowski of the Ubuntu Community Council

In the third of a seven part series interviewing community members who were elected in 2013 to serve on the Ubuntu Community Council, Laura Czajkowski talks about her work from the Ubuntu LoCo in Ireland and her current role at Couchbase.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2015/02/17/interview-with-laura-czajkowski-of-the-ubuntu-community-council

Ubuntu Cloud News

Deploy multiple services with Juju Quickstart

Matthew Bruzek provides a quick rundown of how to configure the Juju Quickstart plugin, which automates the process of setting up a Juju environment and deploying Juju bundles. Matthew also links to a video that demonstrates the configuration process.

http://bruzer.net/2015/02/17/quickstart-deploys-bundles/

Talligent’s OpenBook charm now available in the Juju Charm Store

Canonical announces that Charm Partner Talligent has submitted a Juju charm for their cloud billing solution OpenBook to the Juju Charm Store.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/18/talligents-openbook-charm-now-available-in-the-juju-charm-store/

Ubuntu, Hortonworks and Microsoft = Big Data Hosted Solution

John Zannos discusses the Microsoft announcement that Azure HDInsight, Microsoft’s Apache Hadoop-based service, will run on Ubuntu and what it means to DevOps teams. Zannos explains that when combining JuJu, the cloud orchestration tool, with Ubuntu and Azure, it will be easy for customers to evaluate big data fast.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/19/ubuntu-hortonworks-and-microsoft-big-data-hosted-solution/

Canonical’s 2015 OpenStack Roadshow Launches

Canonical invites us to join them for their Canonical’s "OpenStack in Action" roadshow, and list the American OpenStack Roadshow dates, and the topics that will be covered during the events.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/19/canonicals-2015-openstack-roadshow-launches/

Alliance Technology Group and Canonical bring Ubuntu OpenStack to telco and enterprise customers

Canonical advise that the Alliance Technology Group expands their partnership to deliver Ubuntu based OpenStack clouds leveraging BootStack. Alliance also shared that they will participating as a Canonical training partner, delivering Ubuntu OpenStack fundamentals training.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/20/alliance-technology-group-and-canonical-bring-ubuntu-openstack-to-telco-and-enterprise-customers/

OpenStack Summit Vancouver: Ubuntu OpenStack team presentations

James Page highlights the talks submitted to the OpenStack Summit by the Ubuntu Server Team. Presentation subjects include OpenStack development, deployment, and testing.

https://javacruft.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/openstack-summit-vancouver-ubuntu-openstack-team-presentations/

New Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals training sessions available

Canonical announces the availability of the Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training programme which is designed for companies that have decided to use OpenStack. They say that the programme, which was created by Canonical's Engineering team, is an intensive 3-day hands-on course that will give the best introduction for setting up and running Ubuntu OpenStack clouds.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/20/new-ubuntu-openstack-fundamentals-training-sessions-available/

Ubuntu Phone News

Make a scope for your YouTube channel in 5 minutes

Victor Palau documents the process for creating a YouTube channel scope for Ubuntu. He says: “It is super simple to create a scope for a youtube channel! so what are you going to create next?”

http://victorpalau.net/2015/02/16/make-a-scope-for-your-youtube-channel-in-5-minutes/

Phone Review and Wider Thoughts

Jono Bacon writes: “I recorded and posted a video with a detailed review of the bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu phone, complete with wider commentary on the scopes and convergence strategy and the likelihood of success.”

http://www.jonobacon.org/2015/02/17/video-phone-review-and-wider-thoughts/

An unexpected feature, the Ubuntu Phone is the hacking machine! Releasing the beast!

Marcos Costales writes that he hasn't read about one of the most amazing features of the Ubuntu Phone, displays a screenshot of the terminal application, and suggests "sudo apt-get install apache2? > : )"

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/02/an-unexpected-feature-ubuntu-phone-is.html

I wrote some more apps for Ubuntu Phone

Robert Ancell writes that he has written three new apps for the Ubuntu Phone which are Dice Roller, Morse Sender, and Yatzy. He shows us some screenshots of the apps, and links to an unofficial web appstore that can be used to browse for apps online with a PC.

http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-wrote-some-more-apps-for-ubuntu-phone.html

Canonical News

Internet of Things: Ninja Blocks

Canonical reports on the Ninja Sphere from Ninja Blocks, powered by Ubuntu Snappy Core. The Ninja Sphere allows users to control IoT devices using gesture control as well as smartphone apps. According to Daniel *Friedman*, the CEO of Ninja Blocks: “Ubuntu Core will allow Ninja Blocks to focus on creating a great connected home experience, and the Ninja Sphere will provide developers a beautiful, commercially available device to run their Snappy Ubuntu Core applications.”

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/17/internet-of-things-ninja-blocks/

Canonical Announces New Partnerships for Industrial and Telecoms IoT

Canonical announces key partnerships that set the stage broad industry support for Snappy Ubuntu. By aggressively pursuing new partnerships, industry initiatives and joining the Industrial Consortium, Canonical raises the bar and sets the stage to become one of the de facto standards in the devices market.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/19/canonical-announces-new-partnerships-for-industrial-and-telecoms-iot/

In The Press

Meizu teases Ubuntu Phone ahead of MWC event

GSMArena.com reports on Meizu teasing the public with the possibility of an Ubuntu based phone announcement at Mobile World Congress, along with an anticipated announcement around the release of the new Meizu MX4.

http://www.gsmarena.com/meizu_may_bring_longawaited_ubuntu_phone_to_mwc_2015-news-11203.php

Canonical Achieves Broad Industry Buy-In For Snappy Ubuntu

Ben Kepes of Forbes informs us that Canonical has been aggressively pitching itself as the enabler for a world of Internet of Things (IoT) devices through "Snappy" Ubuntu Core. He names some of Canonical's new partners which include telco operators, network hardware vendors, and cloud vendors. He quotes Maarten Ectors of Canonical as saying that the Snappy solution "replaces thousands of fragmented kernels and very high maintenance costs with a low-cost reference platform certified across very large numbers of devices and updated regularly to address newly discovered issues"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/02/19/canonical-achieves-broad-industry-buy-in-for-snappy-ubuntu/

Canonical prepares to train channel partners in the art of working with OpenStack

Joseph Tsidulko of CRN discusses the challenges around the talent gap in the OpenStack community, and how Canonical is helping to solve it with BootStack and by further educating and training the channel.

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300075835/canonical-prepares-to-train-channel-partners-in-the-art-of-working-with-openstack.htm

Canonical partners with Amazon, Microsoft, and others on Internet of Things

Steven J Vaughan-Nichols writing for ZDNet reports that Canonical has announced that both Microsoft and Amazon have agreed to publish their Internet of Things (IoT) application programming interfaces (APIs) on Ubuntu Core. He names some of Canonical's other partners and says: "To help turn the partnerships into products, Canonical also announced a program for silicon and board manufacturers to certify their platforms."

http://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-partners-with-amazon-microsoft-and-others-on-internet-of-things/

In The Blogosphere

Official Ubuntu Phone Porting Guide Published

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia reports "Canonical has finally released the online Ubuntu Phone porting guide that should enable developers to get the Ubuntu Touch running on more devices out there that can easily support it." He says that a lot of projects have been put on hold because complete information wasn't available but that the community should now be able to come up with ports that feature Over-The-Air updates.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Official-Ubuntu-Phone-Porting-Guide-Published-473836.shtml

Cut the Rope is the First Major Game Ported for Ubuntu Phone

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia informs us that ZeptoLab has officially ported the famous "Cut the Rope" game for the Ubuntu platform and is now available in the store. He says porting games such as "Cut the Rope" is an easy procedure and the use of a different display server doesn't seem to be a problem for the porting process. He predicts that the store may be "flooded by official ports pretty soon."

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/Cut-the-Rope-Is-the-First-Major-Game-Ported-for-Ubuntu-Phones-473303.shtml

Ubuntu’s foray into phones brings fresh approach

Maha Shaikh of The Conversation looks at the first Ubuntu powered phone, the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, noting that only a fraction of the apps available to Apple and Android users are available for the device as it adopts a different approach to displaying information through its use of scopes. Maha asks a number of questions about how successful the phone will be, concluding: "Shuttleworth has played his hand; now we must see how others react."

http://theconversation.com/ubuntus-foray-into-phones-brings-a-fresh-approach-but-will-consumers-take-to-it-37494

Unity 8 Continues Working Towards Proper Desktop Support

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Ubuntu developers have released new versions of Unity8 and Mir. He says new features for Unity8 include full shell rotation for mobile devices, desktop-oriented features like remembering window size and location, as well as bug fixes.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Unity-8-17-Feb

Locally Integrated Menus (LIM) Set As Default In Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet

Andrew of WebUpd8 informs us that the Locally Integrated Menu [LIM] will be the default in Ubuntu 15.04. He quotes the source of the news, provides some screenshots to show how LIMs work, and explains how to re-enable Global Menus.

http://www.webupd8.org/2015/02/locally-integrated-menus-lim-set-as.html

Mir Now Depends Upon C++14

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Ubuntu's Mir display server is moving onto C++14 which was released last December as a small update to C++11. He says that the switch to C++14 comes just days after the Mir 0.11 release.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-C-Plus-Plus-14-Etc

Ubuntu Community Q&A! - 17th February 2015

Nicholas Skaggs and Alan Pope host another weekly Ubuntu Q&A session in which they answer viewers’ questions put to them on IRC.

http://youtu.be/u-Jai3K9MVA

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: January 2015

See here for the team report for January 2015: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/January2015

If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting

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, 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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