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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu at the Mobile World Congress
    2. DMB election results
  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. Recent Ubuntu Myanmar LoCo Team Activities
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Michael Hall: My SCaLE 13x and UbuCon review
    2. Randall Ross: On Writing Software for OpenPOWER
    3. Daniel Holbach: Giving Ubuntu devices users a head-start
    4. Randall Ross: Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress 2015
    5. Lubuntu Blog: Box 0.50 rev. 474
  7. Other Community News
    1. Announce: Vivid will switch to booting with systemd next Monday, brace for impact
    2. Interview with Michael Hall (mhall119) of the Ubuntu Community Council
    3. Kubuntu Docs 15.04
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. A Quick Look at the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Phone
  9. Canonical News
    1. Huge Downloads for Ubuntu Kylin 14.04LTS, First OEM Partner Announced
    2. Dell launches Ubuntu loaded machines across 500 stores in Latin America
    3. Ubuntu Music App behind the scenes
  10. In The Press
    1. First peek at the next Ubuntu 15.04 nester line-up
    2. New Ubuntu Phone Separates the App from the Data
    3. Nvidia patches Ubuntu bug that caused black window screen crashes
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Linux 3.19 Officially Lands For Ubuntu 15.04
    2. Popular German Website ‘Spiegel Online’ Reviews Ubuntu Phone
    3. Ubuntu Cloud Switches Over To Using Systemd By Default
    4. Shuttleworth says Ubuntu’s future is more exciting than space travel
    5. System76 unveils diminutive Broadwell-powered Meerkat Ubuntu Linux desktop
    6. Compulab Utilite2 Ubuntu mini PC now available for $192 and up
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Q&A! - 3rd March 2015
    2. Ubuntu Engineering Live! - 4th March 2015
    3. Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition demo MWC 2015
    4. Unbuntu Demo on ARM Tablet at MWC 15
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. 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
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 407 for the week March 2 - 8, 2015.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu at the Mobile World Congress

March 2-5 Canonical hosted an Ubuntu booth at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona (event details were published here: https://insights.ubuntu.com/event/mobile-world-congress-2015-barcelona/). Several articles have covered the phones being presented, the following is a sampling from our editors:

And OMG! Ubuntu! also lends a hand by offering their own: “BBC to Le Monde: Ubuntu Phone Press Round-Up”: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/bbc-to-le-monde-ubuntu-phone-press-round-up

DMB election results

Stéphane Graber announces the results of the Developer Membership Board [DMB] election which sees Benjamin Drung leaving the board and Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre taking his seat. He thanks Benjamin his years of good service and welcomes Mathieu as its latest member.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-March/002172.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (117902) +228 over last week
  • Critical (274) +6 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (58701) +180 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: Fabby (http://askubuntu.com/users/344926/fabby), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), David Foerster (http://askubuntu.com/users/175814/david-foerster), Rod Smith (http://askubuntu.com/users/93977/rod-smith) and heemayl (http://askubuntu.com/users/216503/heemayl)

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

LoCo News

Recent Ubuntu Myanmar LoCo Team Activities

The Ubuntu Myanmar LoCo has been busy! On March 8th they hosted a “one day event of Open Source Soft and open Hack Hard ... at MICT Park in Yangon.” You can visit the event page: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-source-soft-hack-hard-chit-ko-ko-win and check out an article written in the run-up to the event: http://myanmarinternationaltv.com/news/foss-myanmar-2014-free-and-open-source-software-myanmar

A related video can be found by following this youtube link http://youtu.be/SmLVK8BDuJU and as always, latest photos from the team are found in their Flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-mm/pool/

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

Michael Hall: My SCaLE 13x and UbuCon review

Michael Hall writes a summary of the recent UbuCon at the Southern California Linux Expo organized by Richard Gaskin, which included talks from Jorge Castro, Marco Ceppi, Philip Ballew, and both Michael and Richard themselves. Talks were recorded and Michael provides a YouTube link. He goes on to thank volunteers at the Ubuntu booth: Luis Caballero, Matt Mootz, Jose Antonio Rey, Nathan Haines, Ian Santopietro, George Mulak, and Daniel Gimpelevich. Hardware at the booth throughout the weekend included 3 laptops lent by System76, 2 Nexus 4 phones running Ubuntu, Stuart Langridge’s personal, first-edition Bq Ubuntu phone, an Orange Box, and a TierraTek fanless PC and NAS.

http://mhall119.com/2015/03/my-scale-13x-and-ubucon-review/

Randall Ross: On Writing Software for OpenPOWER

Randall Ross writes that the first OpenPOWER Summit will soon be taking place [March 17-19] in San Jose, California. He invites those attending and who write, or are thinking about writing software for OpenPOWER, to a session entitled "ISV Roundtable."

http://randall.executiv.es/ops-2015-isv-roundtable

Daniel Holbach: Giving Ubuntu devices users a head-start

Daniel Holbach shares a todo list from work he’s been doing with colleagues Nick and David on a new app/website which seeks to “easily collect information which will give users of an Ubuntu device a head-start” including tips, tricks and FAQ. He invites community members to contribute to the content, translations and code for this project, providing links to some open bugs and more.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/03/giving-ubuntu-devices-users-a-head-start/

Randall Ross: Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress 2015

Randall Ross writes: "Ubuntu was in "full force" at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week." He invites his readers that were there to share their experiences of what they saw, what they liked and what they would have liked to have seen.

http://randall.executiv.es/mwc2015

Lubuntu Blog: Box 0.50 rev. 474

Rafael Laguna writes that making amazing icons for the Box theme from the Lubuntu Artwork Team is a big job but now thanks to some additional help from Đurađ Radojičić, the team is covering more applications than before in this new version.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2015/03/box-050-rev-474.html

Other Community News

Announce: Vivid will switch to booting with systemd next Monday, brace for impact

Martin Pitt announces the date to switch Ubuntu Vivid to boot with systemd instead of upstart. He says that the switch will affect the desktop, server, cloud, all flavors but not Ubuntu Touch, and that if there are too many regressions there is a simple upload to revert to upstart.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2015-March/001130.html

Interview with Michael Hall (mhall119) of the Ubuntu Community Council

In the fourth interview of the series, Community Council Member Michael Hall briefly talks about his career, his first computing experience, and his involvement with Ubuntu community. He says: "I’ve met people through the community that I am and will remain friends with outside of it. Some of them are like family to me now."

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2015/03/06/interview-with-michael-hall-mhall119-of-the-ubuntu-community-council

Kubuntu Docs 15.04

Aaron Honeycutt reports that the Documentation for the Kubuntu project is getting an update for the new Plasma 5 release in 15.04. He asks users to help out by finding errors and typos that he might have missed on the pages the team have refreshed so far.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2015-March/009324.html

Ubuntu Phone News

A Quick Look at the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Phone

Ronnie Tucker, for Full Circle Magazine, reviews the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Phone by way of a short video, and promises a full review in the next edition of the magazine.

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2015/03/07/a-quick-look-at-the-bq-aquaris-e4-5-ubuntu-phone/

Canonical News

Huge Downloads for Ubuntu Kylin 14.04LTS, First OEM Partner Announced

Canonical reports that there were 3 million downloads of Ubuntu Kylin in the first 12 months, and there have been an additional million downloads of Ubuntu Kylin 14.04LTS. Additionally, HP has partnered with Canonical to sell Ubuntu Kylin preloaded on HP devices in stores.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/05/15/huge-downloads-for-ubuntu-kylin-14-04lts-first-oem-partner-announced/

Dell launches Ubuntu loaded machines across 500 stores in Latin America

Canonical announces that Dell computers with Ubuntu pre-installed will be sold in 500 stores across Latin America, and that consumers in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru will be now be able to more readily make a purchase from numerous local resellers.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/02/dell-launches-ubuntu-loaded-machines-across-500-stores-in-latin-america/

Ubuntu Music App behind the scenes

In a short video, Ubuntu community devs Andrew Hayzen and Victor Thompson chat with lead designer Jouni Helminen. They talk about open source, QML, app development, and tips on how to get started contributing and developing apps.

http://design.canonical.com/2015/03/ubuntu-music-app-behind-the-scenes/

In The Press

First peek at the next Ubuntu 15.04 nester line-up

Scott Gilbertson, for The Register, reports on the flavors that he tested as part in the Beta 1 release of Ubuntu 15.04, noting that Ubuntu MATE is now an official flavor. He shows some screenshots of the desktops, notes some of the important new features, and reminds us that Ubuntu 15.04 will be released on April 23rd.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/02/ubuntu_15_04_flavours_vivid_vervet/

New Ubuntu Phone Separates the App from the Data

Steve Rosenbush of The Wall Street Journal writes that the power of Ubuntu for mobile devices comes from the use of Scopes to display data where you can search and narrow down just want you need without opening an application.

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/03/02/new-ubuntu-phone-separates-the-app-from-the-data/

Nvidia patches Ubuntu bug that caused black window screen crashes

Lee Bell, writing for The Inquirer, tells us that Nvidia has fixed a bug in Ubuntu, which dated back to version 12.10, that was turning screens black for no apparent reason. They say that they fixed the bug, caused by Compiz, even though it wasn't theirs to fix.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2398260/nvidia-patches-ubuntu-bug-that-caused-black-window-screen-crashes

In The Blogosphere

Linux 3.19 Officially Lands For Ubuntu 15.04

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes that recently announced by the Kernel Team is the inclusion of version 3.19 into the current development cycle for 15.04. and that with this release comes many new features and changes to the Linux Kernel.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-15.04-Linux-3.19-Lands

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes thatGerman site “Spiegel Online” labels Ubuntu Phone as a hardcore Ubuntu/Linux fans. Which is just who this first batch of devices is aimed at. They did have some kind words about the smoothness of the UI and how good the color display on the Aquaris E4.5.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/popular-german-website-spiegel-online-reviews-ubuntu-phone

Ubuntu Cloud Switches Over To Using Systemd By Default

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that the first images switching over to systemd from upstart are the Ubuntu Cloud images. After this transition is over the Ubuntu Desktop image will receive the same change just in time for the April release (15.04).

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Cloud-Systemd-Default

Shuttleworth says Ubuntu’s future is more exciting than space travel

Ben Woods of The Next Web writes that looking back Mark Shuttleworth thinks it may have been a mistake making a huge change to the Desktop with Unity without a phone or tablet to show off. With both devices out in the wild in the forms of the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 2013 everyone can see the grand plan now.

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2015/03/06/shuttleworth-says-ubuntus-future-is-more-exciting-than-space-travel/

System76 unveils diminutive Broadwell-powered Meerkat Ubuntu Linux desktop

Brian Fagioli of BetaNews writes about a new system coming in a very small 4x4 box and comes with with either an Intel core 5th gen i3 or i5 and 16GBs of RAM and up to a 2TB of space. This Broadwell-powered Meerkat Ubuntu.

http://betanews.com/2015/03/03/system76-unveils-diminutive-broadwell-powered-meerkat-ubuntu-linux-desktop/

Compulab Utilite2 Ubuntu mini PC now available for $192 and up

Brad Linder of Liliputing writes about another small computer running Ubuntu with 2GB of RAM and 4GB of space. All this starting at $192 with an option at $229 with a extra 32GB SSD. With no fans and an option to run Android as well this is quite a cool little box.

http://liliputing.com/2015/03/compulab-utilite2-ubuntu-mini-pc-now-available-for-192-and-up.html

Ubuntu Community Q&A! - 3rd March 2015

Alan Pope and Nicholas Skaggs host another regular Community Q&A session in which they answer viewers questions that are put to them on IRC.

http://youtu.be/b32WXGu8oMU

Ubuntu Engineering Live! - 4th March 2015

Michael Hall is joined by Alan Pope and Lukasz Zemczak for another Engineering Live! session in which they update us on the projects that they are working on, and answer viewers' questions which are put to them on IRC.

http://youtu.be/1H_sMyOlPnA

Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition demo MWC 2015

YouTube user bengrendon quickly reviews the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition taking a look at its scopes, and its gestures.

http://youtu.be/PIDVH-Vuifk

Unbuntu Demo on ARM Tablet at MWC 15

YouTube user bengrendon takes a very quick look at the Ubuntu Tablet, demonstrating how the user interface switches between tablet mode and windowed mode when a mouse is plugged into the device.

http://youtu.be/h7fZvkUPhRE

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, 14.04 and 14.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

None.

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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