Issue413


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Announcement: New Ubuntu Membership Board Members
  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. Call for nominations for the LoCo Council
    2. South East Linux Fest UbuCon
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Lubuntu Blog: Client side decorations fixes
    2. Not just a review, but a video review, of Kubuntu Vivid
    3. David Planella: The Ubuntu Community Donations Program in review
    4. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Retrospective and roadmap of the UI Toolkit
    5. Nicholas Skaggs: Testing Vivid Vervet final images
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Podbird v0.6 Beta - Call for testing
    2. Phone updates: April
  9. Canonical News
    1. Chef & Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)
    2. Tendering with Ubuntu
  10. In The Press
    1. The five biggest changes in Ubuntu 15.04, Vivid Vervet
    2. Forget flash sales: The first Ubuntu Phone is now available to buy all the time
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. KDE Plasma 5.3 Released With Power Management Features
    2. Xubuntu 15.10 To Drop GIMP, Abiword And Gnumeric, Ship With LibreOffice (Or Parts Of It) By Default
    3. Cirrus7 Nimbini — The Most Stylish Ubuntu PC Ever?
    4. Canonical Updates Mobile OS A Week After First Ubuntu Phone Launched
    5. New dual-boot TV boxes run Android + Ubuntu or Windows
  12. Other Articles of Interest
  13. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Q&A - 14th April 2015
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E06 – Leonard Part 6
    3. Kubuntu 15.04 Review - Looking Fantastic
  14. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  15. Monthly Team Reports: March 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 413 for the week April 13 - 19, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Announcement: New Ubuntu Membership Board Members
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • Call for nominations for the LoCo Council

  • South East Linux Fest UbuCon

  • LoCo Events

  • Lubuntu Blog: Client side decorations fixes
  • Not just a review, but a video review, of Kubuntu Vivid
  • David Planella: The Ubuntu Community Donations Program in review
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Retrospective and roadmap of the UI Toolkit
  • Nicholas Skaggs: Testing Vivid Vervet final images
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Podbird v0.6 Beta - Call for testing
  • Phone updates: April

  • Chef & Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

  • Tendering with Ubuntu
  • The five biggest changes in Ubuntu 15.04, Vivid Vervet
  • Forget flash sales: The first Ubuntu Phone is now available to buy all the time
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: March 2015
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Announcement: New Ubuntu Membership Board Members

Elizabeth K. Joseph, on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council, announces in no particular order the seven people who have been added to the Ubuntu Membership Board.

She thanks the outgoing members, and to the three others who put their name forward for consideration Elizabeth says: “we appreciate your continued work in the community and interest in participation in the board.“

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-April/002199.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (119115) +109 over last week
  • Critical (263) -3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59652) +100 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), Zacharee1 (http://askubuntu.com/users/274320/zacharee1), Jacob Vlijm (http://askubuntu.com/users/72216/jacob-vlijm), A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b) and ByteCommander (http://askubuntu.com/users/367990/bytecommander)

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

LoCo News

Call for nominations for the LoCo Council

Bhavani Shankar, on behalf of the LoCo Council, asks for volunteers to step forward and nominate themselves or others for the two vacant positions on the council. He informs us of the requirements for applicants to be considered and says that nominations will close on April 28th 2015.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2015-April/006964.html

South East Linux Fest UbuCon

Michael Hall informs us that Ubuntu is sponsoring the next South East Linux Fest in Charlotte North Carolina, and that a room will be available all day on June 12th for a UbuCon. Michael is looking for speakers to fill an hour long slot, and asks that anyone who wants to give a presentation on anything Ubuntu related to contact him.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/community-announce/2015-April/000024.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: Client side decorations fixes

Rafael Laguna of the Lubuntu Team reports the newest fixes for client side decorations from the update by GNOME. Since Lubuntu is in Interface Freeze the changes can’t be added to Ubuntu’s main repos for release.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2015/04/csd-fixes.html

Not just a review, but a video review, of Kubuntu Vivid

Marco Parillo links to a video made by YouTube user AJ Reissig in which Kubuntu 15.04 and its new Plasma 5 desktop is reviewed.

http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=289

David Planella: The Ubuntu Community Donations Program in review

David Planella shares that over the two years since the creation of the Ubuntu Community Donations Program around 70,000 USD has been given for community initiatives, conferences, travel and more.

http://davidplanella.org/the-ubuntu-community-donations-program-in-review/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Retrospective and roadmap of the UI Toolkit

Zoltan Balogh gives us an overview of the Ubuntu UI Toolkit’s history and its future. From the 1.0 release with 14.04 showing off Icons, Switches, Buttons, Sliders, and more. With 14.10 brought the 1.1 release with Settings API, PullToRefresh, a new Header and much more. 15.04 also 1.2 release will bring ListItem improved, New UbuntuShape rendering, and a new Header.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2015/04/15/retrospective-and-roadmap-ui-toolkit/

Nicholas Skaggs: Testing Vivid Vervet final images

Nicholas Skaggs writes that Ubuntu 15.04 will be released on 23rd April and appeals for help in testing the final images. He links to the ISO Tracker where results can be recorded, saying: "Positive results are extremely helpful for this milestone, so please report those too."

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2015/04/testing-vivid-vervet-final-images.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Podbird v0.6 Beta - Call for testing

Nekhelesh Ramananthan writes: "Podbird v0.6 is taking shape nicely and brings a boat load of features." He says that Podbird has already undergone a good amount of internal testing but that there is still a lot or work to be done and that testers are still needed to find and report bugs.

http://nik90.com/podbird-v0-6-call-for-testing/

Phone updates: April

Amrisha provides a list of updates to the Ubuntu Phone which include much improved battery life, support for uploading photos via the Google+ and Twitter apps, and minor improvements to the Camera and Gallery apps.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/04/16/phone-updates-april/

Canonical News

Chef & Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

Canonical shares some more details about Ubuntu’s tighter integration with Chef, including details about automation and integration with MAAS.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/04/14/chef-an-automation-story-with-a-bare-metal-soundtrack/

Tendering with Ubuntu

Canonical shares a series of questions and answers related to a certification program where they work with OEMs directly to certify hardware for Ubuntu.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/04/17/tendering-with-ubuntu/

In The Press

The five biggest changes in Ubuntu 15.04, Vivid Vervet

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet takes a look five important changes coming in Ubuntu 15.04 which he says are a switch of init manager from upstart to systemd, a kernel upgrade which features improved graphics and file system support, local menus being made the default, the last iteration of Unity 7 for the desktop, and updated applications such as Firefox and LibreOffice.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-five-biggest-changes-in-ubuntu-15-04-vivid-vervet/

Forget flash sales: The first Ubuntu Phone is now available to buy all the time

Chris Hoffman of PC World writes that BQ announced the BQ Aquarius E4.5 Ubuntu Edition will be available for purchasing from BQ’s Website. He says that the flash sale period is finally over and Ubuntu phone just became more available.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2909902/forget-flash-sales-the-first-ubuntu-phone-is-now-available-to-buy-all-the-time.html

In The Blogosphere

KDE Plasma 5.3 Released With Power Management Features

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that with the newest Plasma release 5.3 brings an great battery usage tracker in KInfocenter. Other features include animated screen brightness changes, keyboard button brightness controls from the lock screen. Joey reminds us that Kubuntu 15.04 will ship with Plasma 5.2.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/beta-plasma-5-3-features

Xubuntu 15.10 To Drop GIMP, Abiword And Gnumeric, Ship With LibreOffice (Or Parts Of It) By Default

Andrew of WebUpd8 writes that Simon Steinbeiß, the Xubuntu Project Lead, has announced the results of the vote in which the Xubuntu team members were asked if Xubuntu 15.10 should drop GIMP, Abiword and Gnumeric. He says that both GIMP and Abiword will be dropped, and that parts of LibreOffice will be installed by default.

http://www.webupd8.org/2015/04/xubuntu-1510-to-drop-gimp-abiword-and.html

Cirrus7 Nimbini — The Most Stylish Ubuntu PC Ever?

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! shares news that from hardware company Cirrus7 comes the Nimbini a fanless laser-cut aluminum NUC. With 2x USB 3.0, audio jack, 2x USB 3.0, 2x Mini Displayport, and ethernet. This little box comes with the option to preload Ubuntu 14.04 or 15.04.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/cirrus7-nimbini-ubuntu-pc-announced

Canonical Updates Mobile OS A Week After First Ubuntu Phone Launched

Lucian Armasu of Tom's Hardware writes that Canonical has updated the Ubuntu Phone's software just a week after the first device became commercially available on BQ's website. He says the Canonical haven't yet said if the Aquaris E4.5 will receive updates for four years but delivering such quick updates is a good sign.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/canonical-ubuntu-update-aquaris-e4.5,28942.html

New dual-boot TV boxes run Android + Ubuntu or Windows

Brad Linder of Liliputing writes about two new dual-boot TV devices, one of which runs Ubuntu and Android. He says that the Ugoos UT3S is a system that sells for $179, and has an ARM processor, four USB ports, HDMI and SPDIF ports and a microSD card lot.

http://liliputing.com/2015/04/new-dual-boot-tv-boxes-run-android-ubuntu-or-windows.html

Ubuntu Community Q&A - 14th April 2015

Alan Pope is joined by Daniel Holbach for another regular session in which they answer viewers questions which are put to them on IRC. Alan reminds us of the upcoming release of Ubuntu 15.04 and the next Ubuntu Online summit which is due to happen in May. Daniel talks to Martin Albisetti and Michael Vogt who recount the numerous things that have landed in the latest version of Ubuntu.

https://youtu.be/C1oZ2ni9VkE

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E06 – Leonard Part 6

It’s Episode Six of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress & Laura Cowen (but this time, no Mark Johnson) are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss travelling around the USA, setting up Ubuntu MATE on Raspberry Pi 2, birthdays and buying Linux devices.
  • We share some Command Line Love with curl!
  • And we also read loads of your feedback.

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/04/16/s08e06-leonard-part-6/

Kubuntu 15.04 Review - Looking Fantastic

YouTube user quidsup reviews Kubuntu 15.04 with the new Plasma 5 desktop on a full system install. Plasma 5 is a new modernised desktop with new features such as: improved OpenGL rendering, better support for High Definition displays, a new theme called Breeze, and a new Kickoff launcher.

https://youtu.be/08oImP7PJLo

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: March 2015

See here for the team report for March 2015: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/March2015

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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  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
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Glossary of Terms

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