Issue408


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations extended
  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. Linux & Tapas 2015 - León, sábado 21 Marzo
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Lubuntu Blog: [Results] Lubuntu 15.04 - Community Wallpaper Contest
    2. Costales: A tablet with Ubuntu preinstalled: UbuTab
    3. Costales: Ubuntu MATE: Fall in love
    4. Dimitri John Ledkov: Intel CPU microcode support in ubuntu-drivers-common
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Awesome Community is Awesome
    2. Ubuntu IT web site Ubuntu-IT web app
  9. Canonical News
    1. Ubuntu at WHD.global 2015
    2. Why Drones needs Snappy Apps?
    3. Internet of Things: Weave
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet Community Wallpapers Revealed
    2. The New Ubuntu 15.04 Default Wallpaper Is Here
    3. Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Will Ship With Nifty Tilda Terminal App
    4. "Why Linux Is Still Not Ready For The Desktop"
    5. Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress (Video)
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Q&A - 10th March 2015
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E00 – The One Where Joey Moves Out
    3. Ubuntu Podcast: S08E01 – Breaking Wind Part 1
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Monthly Team Reports: February 2015
  15. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  16. 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
  17. Subscribe
  18. Archives
  19. Additional Ubuntu News
  20. Conclusion
  21. Credits
  22. Glossary of Terms
  23. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  24. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 408 for the week March 9 - 15, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations extended
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • Linux & Tapas 2015 - León, sábado 21 Marzo

  • LoCo Events

  • Lubuntu Blog: [Results] Lubuntu 15.04 - Community Wallpaper Contest

  • Costales: A tablet with Ubuntu preinstalled: UbuTab

  • Costales: Ubuntu MATE: Fall in love
  • Dimitri John Ledkov: Intel CPU microcode support in ubuntu-drivers-common
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Phone News
  • Ubuntu at WHD.global 2015
  • The New Ubuntu 15.04 Default Wallpaper Is Here
  • "Why Linux Is Still Not Ready For The Desktop"
  • Other Articles of Interest

  • Ubuntu Podcast: S08E01 – Breaking Wind Part 1

  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: February 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 Membership Board call for nominations extended

Elizabeth K. Joseph announces the extension of the call for nominations for the Ubuntu Membership Board as not enough applicants have been gathered that meet the criteria for staffing the board. She reminds us how nominations can be made, and confirms that the revised closing date is March 30th at 12:00 UTC.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2015/03/15/ubuntu-membership-board-call-for-nominations-extended/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118241) +339 over last week
  • Critical (271) -3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (58896) +195 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: Vinu Kevy (http://askubuntu.com/users/367967/vinu-kevy), higginse (http://askubuntu.com/users/196340/higginse), heemayl (http://askubuntu.com/users/216503/heemayl), Florian Diesch (http://askubuntu.com/users/2369/florian-diesch) and Rod Smith (http://askubuntu.com/users/93977/rod-smith)

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

LoCo News

Linux & Tapas 2015 - León, sábado 21 Marzo

Marcos Costales announces an event coming up on March 21st in León, Spain called “Linux & Tapas” which includes a presentation about the Ubuntu Phone. Article is in Spanish.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/03/linux-tapas-2015-leon-sabado-21-marzo.html

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

Lubuntu Blog: [Results] Lubuntu 15.04 - Community Wallpaper Contest

Frank Booth announces the winners of the Lubuntu 15.04 - Community Wallpaper Contest, and thanks Guilliame at Picompete for helping host the contest. He says: "Congratulations! Your wallpapers will be included by default in Lubuntu and also be packaged into the Ubuntu repository for others to enjoy :)."

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2015/03/results-lubuntu-1504-community.html

Costales: A tablet with Ubuntu preinstalled: UbuTab

Marcos Costales gives us a brief specification and a photograph of the UbuTab which is the result of an IndieGOGO campaign, and is now available for purchase.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-tablet-with-ubuntu-preinstalled-ubutab.html

Costales: Ubuntu MATE: Fall in love

In promotion for Ubuntu MATE, Marcos Costales writes "Why? (For me) because..." and provides some screenshots of Ubuntu MATE. He his post with "You'll like it!"

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/03/ubuntu-mate-fall-in-love.html

Dimitri John Ledkov: Intel CPU microcode support in ubuntu-drivers-common

Dmitri John Ledkov highlights one of the features, Intel CPU microcode support, of ubuntu-drivers-common which he has helped to land in Ubuntu 15.04. He explains that it is a framework to detect hardware-dependent components on a user's machine and then offer to install additional packages for better support of that hardware.

http://blog.surgut.co.uk/2015/03/intel-cpu-microcode-support-in-ubuntu.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Awesome Community is Awesome

Alan Pope informs us that all Ubuntu Phone apps are maintained by a community of Free Software developers, and asks that anyone wanting to get involved in design, documentation, testing or writing code to contact him. He then runs through recent updates and changes to various apps such as Weather Reboot, Doc Viewer, Terminal and Calendar.

http://popey.com/blog/2015/03/09/awesome-community-is-awesome/

Ubuntu IT web site Ubuntu-IT web app

Carla Sella writes that she has created her first Ubuntu Phone web app for the Ubuntu Italian Community's web-site. She shows us some screenshots of the app, links to the tutorial that she followed, and says: "So if you have a site you would like to have an Ubuntu Phone web app for, just go for it, it's easy and fast."

http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015/03/ubuntu-it-web-site-ubuntu-it-web-app.html

Canonical News

Ubuntu at WHD.global 2015

Tom Callway writes that the next big European cloud event – WHD.global 2015 – is to be held at Europa Park in Rust, Germany, and that 6,000 vendors, service providers and software developers are expected to attend. He says that members of the Ubuntu team will be present to talk about Juju, OpenStack and BootStack, the managed cloud service.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/09/ubuntu-at-whd-global-2015/

Why Drones needs Snappy Apps?

Maarten Ectors says that Erle-Robotics showed how Snappy Ubuntu Core can power the autopilot in their drone but that experts in building drone hardware may not be experts in writing autopilot software. He suggests to be part of the "droneconomy", Ubuntu Snappy Core should be used.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/09/why-drones-needs-snappy-apps/

Internet of Things: Weave

Karl Williams says Weave and Docker are ideal to run backend services in any cloud, connecting securely with client devices on the edge, and that Weaveworks are building tools for Docker, allowing developers to implement simple and secure application-oriented networks.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/09/weave/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet Community Wallpapers Revealed

Andrew of WebUpd8 reveals the 10 winning images from the Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet Community Wallpaper Contest, all which will be included in the upcoming release.

http://www.webupd8.org/2015/03/ubuntu-1504-vivid-vervet-community.html

In a follow-up post, Andrew informs us of the new default wallpaper that continues to use the polygon style introduced in Ubuntu 14.04: http://www.webupd8.org/2015/03/ubuntu-1504-vivid-vervet-default.html

The New Ubuntu 15.04 Default Wallpaper Is Here

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that Ubuntu 15.04 will ship with a brand new default wallpaper based around the Ubuntu Phone “Suru” design concepts, first introduced in Ubuntu 14.04. He says that although the new wallpaper is not a massive switch in design the new version gives a refreshed look. Joey then shows us the new and existing wallpapers as a comparison.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/ubuntu-15-04-default-wallpaper-and-it-may-surprise-you

Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Will Ship With Nifty Tilda Terminal App

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that the Ubuntu MATE team have been busy detailing some of the handy new features shipping in Ubuntu MATE 15.04 including Tilda, a 'dropdown' terminal application similar to guake. Joey embeds a short video, made by Martin Wimpress, in his post to demonstrate Tilda which is activated by a press of the F12 key.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/ubuntu-mate-15-04-tilda-terminal-app

"Why Linux Is Still Not Ready For The Desktop"

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes that although there are 1000+ Steam games on Linux and desktop environments are improving not everyone feels the Linux desktop is ready. He quotes from and links to an article by Nick Farrell of Fudzilla who says that he tries out Linux every three years, has just tried out Ubuntu but still feels that Linux is not ready for the masses.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Desktop-Not-Ready

Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress (Video)

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! embeds a short video in his post that shows Canonical at their booth at this year's Mobile World Congress promoting Ubuntu for Phones, convergence between tablets and PCs, their ongoing cloud successes and its extension into the Internet of Things technologies.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/ubuntu-at-mobile-world-congress-video

Ubuntu Community Q&A - 10th March 2015

In another weekly Ubuntu-On-Air Q&A session, Daniel Holbach and David Planella answer viewers' questions which are put to them on IRC.

http://youtu.be/LXQelPSZkHI

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E00 – The One Where Joey Moves Out

The Ubuntu UK podcast announces that they’ve “moved/re-branded/re-named and all that jazz. We’re now Ubuntu Podcast and can be found at http://ubuntupodcast.org on the Internets.”

They also provide updates to their feeds: "There's new feeds (sorry) so you’ll need to remove your existing feed (sorry) and add the shiny new ones located at:-

http://feeds.ubuntupodcast.org/mp3 http://feeds.ubuntupodcast.org/ogg

Or you can click below and listen to Mark tell you to do that..

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/ubuntupodcast_s08e00.ogg "

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2015/03/13/s08e00-the-one-where-joey-moves-out/

Ubuntu Podcast: S08E01 – Breaking Wind Part 1

The newly branded Ubuntu Podcast returns with the first episode of Season Eight, writing: “It’s Episode One of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

  • We look at what’s been going on in the news:
    • Valve/HTC announce their new VR headset
    • FCC Net Neutrality ruling
    • SFC to bring GPL compliance lawsuit againt VMware
    • Linux Kernel gets a “code of conflict”
    • Wikipedia hurls sueball at NSA and DOJ over dragnet surveillance
  • We also discuss some community news:
    • Ubuntu MATE is now an official flavour of Ubuntu
    • Watch the Ubuntu convergence demo video”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/03/13/s08e01-breaking-wind-part-1/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: February 2015

See here for the team report for February 2015: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/February2015

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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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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