Issue410


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Final Beta released
  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. [Announcement] Andorra Weekly Linux Meeting
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Robie Basak: On Ubuntu and License Compliance
    2. Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu-Based SuperX 3.0 Released
    3. Daniel Holbach: On being an Ubuntu member
    4. Forums Council: Ubuntu Membership
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Ericsson and Canonical partner to drive cloud innovation
    2. Phoronix Test Suite now available for cloud users
    3. Codership further extends relationship with Canonical
    4. Recurring Juju Office Hours, starting 26 April
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Calculator Reboot 2.0.139: The final countdown
    2. Origami Unicorn Challenge
    3. There’s an app for that…
    4. Planet Ubuntu-it RSS feed scope
  9. Canonical News
    1. Canonical Cloud Chatter: March 2015 Newsletter
    2. Autopilot Apps & Boards for Drones
  10. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu And Ericsson Partner To Helps Telcos Achieve Flexibility
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire Switch 11 2-in-1 tablet (video)
    2. BQ Is Cleaning Up Their Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Kernel
    3. OS X 10.10 vs. Ubuntu 15.04 vs. Fedora 21 Tests: Linux Sweeps The Board
    4. The Most Common, Annoying Issue When Benchmarking Ubuntu On Many Systems
  12. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Issue #95
  13. Other Articles of Interest
  14. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Q&A - 24th March 2015
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E03 – Disaster Movie
  15. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  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 410 for the week March 23 - 29, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Final Beta released
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • [Announcement] Andorra Weekly Linux Meeting

  • LoCo Events

  • Robie Basak: On Ubuntu and License Compliance
  • Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu-Based SuperX 3.0 Released
  • Daniel Holbach: On being an Ubuntu member
  • Forums Council: Ubuntu Membership
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Calculator Reboot 2.0.139: The final countdown
  • Origami Unicorn Challenge
  • Canonical News
  • Ubuntu And Ericsson Partner To Helps Telcos Achieve Flexibility
  • Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire Switch 11 2-in-1 tablet (video)
  • BQ Is Cleaning Up Their Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Kernel
  • OS X 10.10 vs. Ubuntu 15.04 vs. Fedora 21 Tests: Linux Sweeps The Board
  • The Most Common, Annoying Issue When Benchmarking Ubuntu On Many Systems
  • Full Circle Issue #95
  • 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

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Final Beta released

Adam Conrad, on behalf on the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of the Final Beta of Vivid Vervet which will become 15.04, telling us which flavors have participated in the release, and from where the images can be downloaded. Adam makes special reference to two serious bugs which affect all flavors, and also links to various sites from where further information about getting technical support and submitting bug reports can be found.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2015-March/003254.html

The release was covered by a number of news sites and blogs around the web. The following articles are a selection found by our editors:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118509) +128 over last week
  • Critical (276) +8 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59194) +137 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), heemayl (http://askubuntu.com/users/216503/heemayl), Sylvain Pineau (http://askubuntu.com/users/32239/sylvain-pineau), terdon (http://askubuntu.com/users/85695/terdon) and A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b)

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

LoCo News

[Announcement] Andorra Weekly Linux Meeting

Ubuntu Forums user lib2know informs us that there is a weekly Linux meeting in Andorra on Mondays at 6pm local time. lib2know links to a website which gives information regarding the Where?, When?, What? and Who?, and a map which shows the location of the meeting point.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2271333

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

Robie Basak: On Ubuntu and License Compliance

In response to licensing concerns related to Juju, Robie Basak tells us the hardships of making sure the packages in Ubuntu are GPL-compliant. He describes how massive a project like Juju is but at the same time how determined the Ubuntu team are to fix errors as quickly as possible.

http://www.justgohome.co.uk/blog/2015/03/on-ubuntu-and-license-compliance.html

Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu-Based SuperX 3.0 Released

Marco Parillo reports on the recent release of SuperX 3.0 which is based on Kubuntu 14.04 LTS. He runs through some of the software that is included, and links to the original article and slideshow at Softpedia.

http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=272

Daniel Holbach: On being an Ubuntu member

Daniel Holbach asks: "What does being an Ubuntu member mean to you? Why did you do it back then?" He announces two calls of action, to encourage team members who haven't applied for Ubuntu Membership to apply, and for existing members to give serious consideration to join the Ubuntu Membership Boards.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/03/on-being-an-ubuntu-member/

Forums Council: Ubuntu Membership

The Forums Council reminds us that it has been sometime since they last talked about Ubuntu Membership through forum contributions. They provide links from where further information can be found, and add that in addition to normal Ubuntu Member benefits you can also take part in forming the forum's moderation team.

https://ubuntuforumsorg.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/ubuntu-membership/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ericsson and Canonical partner to drive cloud innovation

Canonical announces a partnership with Ericsson today with a three year goal. This goal is to combine resources to push innovation in the IT cloud and telecom cloud fields. Ericsson will use Ubuntu as the core OS for Ericsson’s Cloud System platform.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/26/ericsson-and-canonical-partner-to-drive-cloud-innovation/

Phoronix Test Suite now available for cloud users

Jorge Castro highlights a Phoronix article citing the continued work on a Juju charm for Phoronix Test Suite. With this charm people can quickly and easily deploy the suite on all the Ubuntu supported clouds. He also notes that soon we will have Windows, Debian, and CentOS support as well to cover your multi-platform goals.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2015/03/25/phoronix-test-suite-now-available-for-cloud-users/

Codership further extends relationship with Canonical

Canonical welcomes Codership creators or Galera Cluster to the Charm Partner Programme. Work is being done to combine their work on the Galera Cluster into a Juju charm. Sakari Keskitalo, COO at Codeship reports that the charm will be available in the Charm Store soon.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/27/codership-further-extends-relationship-with-canonical/

Recurring Juju Office Hours, starting 26 April

Jorge Castro reports that there has been an amazing increase interest in Juju and as such there will be Q and A, tutorials, mini charm schools and much more. He says that it all starts April 26 with announcements being made to the website (https://juju.ubuntu.com) and the juju mailing list as well.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju/2015-March/005137.html

Ubuntu Phone News

Calculator Reboot 2.0.139: The final countdown

Riccardo Padovani writes that he has been working hard on the reboot of the Calculator app and that it should now be ready to become the default calculator on the phone. He describes some of the new features, shows us some screenshots of the app, and provides a full changelog.

http://www.rpadovani.com/calculator-reboot-final-countdown

Origami Unicorn Challenge

Amrisha writes: "Origami has long been associated with good fortune and represents the visual style for the Ubuntu Phone." She invites us to create an Origami Unicorn to win an Ubuntu Phone, links to a guide on how to create a Unicorn Origami, and advises how and when the winner will be decided.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/24/origami-unicorn-challenge/

There’s an app for that…

Ronnie Tucker of Full Circle Magazine reports that they have an app in the Ubuntu Store. The app allows you to check the latest news and download the newest issue to your device easily. He says that you must have the Document Viewer installed, which is default on the device.

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2015/03/29/theres-an-app-for-that/

Planet Ubuntu-it RSS feed scope

Carla Sella informs us that Planet Ubuntu-it has its own Ubuntu Phone RSS feed scope. She shows some screenshots of the scope which she says was created using scopecreator as described in an earlier article.

http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015/03/planet-ubuntu-it-rss-feed-scope.html

Canonical News

Canonical Cloud Chatter: March 2015 Newsletter

Canonical writes: "Spring is finally here and we have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about." Their March newsletter features a number of items included in the following sections: OpenStack Events, Summits & Conferences, Partner ecosystem news, and the Mobile World Congress.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/24/canonical-cloud-chatter-march-2015-newsletter/

Autopilot Apps & Boards for Drones

Maarten Ectors writes: "The PixHawk Fire (PXF) is an open hardware cape (daughter board) for the BeagleBone Black that allows you to create Snappy autopilot apps for drones." He describes the modular approach to software and hardware design, and says: "Everybody can work on their speciality at their own speed without being slowed down by the rest."

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/27/autopilot-apps-boards-for-drones/

In The Press

Ubuntu And Ericsson Partner To Helps Telcos Achieve Flexibility

Ben Kepes of Forbes writes that Ericsson, "a monster in the telecommunications industry", has entered into a three year partnership with Canonical to help grow the usage of network function virtualization (NFV) across telcos. He explains what NFV is and says that Ericsson will deploy Ubuntu as the operating system of choice for its own cloud system platform.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/26/ubuntu-and-ericsson-partner-to-helps-telcos-achieve-flexibility/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire Switch 11 2-in-1 tablet (video)

Brad Linder of Liliputing reports that Ubuntu 15.04 runs well on the Acer Aspire Switch 11, but sadly the keyboard is not working out of the box. He says that though there is a patch for the Linux kernel you can work around this by using a USB keyboard but once that bridge is crossed the tablet is said to run Ubuntu as fast as Windows did on the hardware.

http://liliputing.com/2015/03/ubuntu-on-the-acer-aspire-switch-11-2-in-1-tablet-video.html

BQ Is Cleaning Up Their Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Kernel

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes the review of the kernel archive for the BQ Ubuntu phone by Carsten Munk of Jolla found it in disorder. He says that the team handling the kernel have been busy cleaning up incompatible licenses and other errors in the device tree.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BQ-Aquaris-Kernel-Cleaning

OS X 10.10 vs. Ubuntu 15.04 vs. Fedora 21 Tests: Linux Sweeps The Board

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that on most tests Ubuntu 15.04 and Fedora 21 surpass OS X 10.10. The one outlier is the Xonotic v0.7 test where Fedora 21 is slightly below OS X 10.10 but Ubuntu 15.04 pass them by with a extra 10 fps (frames per second).

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=osx-fedora21-vivid&num=1

The Most Common, Annoying Issue When Benchmarking Ubuntu On Many Systems

Phoronix writer Michael Larabel reports that GRUB is the most common issue when benchmarking on Ubuntu. When there is a power problem (ex. machine’s power is cut) or the system is just left in a non favorable state when booting. This causes the system to need the user to select a kernel to boot, on a headless system this can only be fixed with hooking up a monitor and keyboard.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Common-GRUB2-Issue

In Other News

Full Circle Issue #95

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our ninety-fifth issue.

This month:

  • Command & Conquer

  • How-To : Program in Python, LibreOffice, and Using LaTeX

  • Graphics : Inkscape.
  • Linux Labs: Syncthing

  • Review: BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Phone & Able2Extract Pro 9

  • Competition: WIN a copy of Able2Extract Pro 9

  • Ubuntu Games: Penumbra Necrologue & Perfect Golf

  • My Story special on handling molecules in Linux

plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, and soooo much more.

Get it while it's hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-95

Ubuntu Community Q&A - 24th March 2015

Daniel Holbach is joined by Alan Pope for another regular Q&A session in which they answer viewers' questions put to them on IRC.

https://youtu.be/TJfHCYfGr8g

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E03 – Disaster Movie

It’s Episode Three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress, and no Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

  • Sci-Fi and Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66
  • Google has announced that they will be shutting down Google Code, their open source software hosting platform
  • Cisco has announced that, in order to circumvent government interception tactics, it will ship networking orders to dead-drop addresses
  • A blogger has posted details about possible violations of the GPL by BQ, manufacturers of the first Ubuntu phone
  • Alexander Hanff, CEO of Think Privacy Inc, has posted a review of the privacy on Ubuntu for phones

  • Privacy-focused search provider DuckDuckGo has announced its annual donations to Free and Open Source Software projects, based on nominations from the community

We also discuss some gadget news:

  • The BBC has announced a plan to give a free programmable hardware device to every Year 7 school child in the UK, 1 million devices in total
  • Google have also announced the new model of their high-end Chromebook, the Pixel

And we mention an event:

  • 7th Egham Raspberry Jam on the 26th of April

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/03/26/s08e03-disaster-movie/

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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