Issue417


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator
  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. LoCo Council Restaffing
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Brendan Perrine: A retrospective look on how I started with Lubuntu
    2. Charles Profitt: Ubuntu Trash Bug
    3. Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu: Make Wonderful Things Possible!
    4. Elizabeth K. Joseph: Xubuntu sweatshirt, Wily, & Debian Jessie Release
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Ubuntu Touch OTA-3.5 released
    2. Meizu launches the Ubuntu MX4 for Developers in China
  9. Canonical News
    1. First drone with apps – Ubuntu Core Drone
    2. IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization
    3. IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches
  10. In The Press
    1. Erle-Copter, Ubuntu Core Edition: the first drone with apps
    2. Ubuntu jumps into Internet of Things with Acer, GE, and Microsoft
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Why Can't Ubuntu Play Well With Others?
    2. HP Launch Ubuntu Laptops, PCs in Russia
  12. Other Articles of Interest
  13. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Community Team Q&A - 12th May 2015
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E10 – The Beast of Yucca Flats
  14. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  15. Monthly Team Reports: April 2015
  16. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  17. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 14.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 15.04 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 417 for the week May 11 - 17, 2015.

In This Issue

  • IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator

  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo Council Restaffing

  • LoCo Events

  • Brendan Perrine: A retrospective look on how I started with Lubuntu
  • Charles Profitt: Ubuntu Trash Bug
  • Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu: Make Wonderful Things Possible!

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph: Xubuntu sweatshirt, Wily, & Debian Jessie Release

  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Touch OTA-3.5 released
  • Meizu launches the Ubuntu MX4 for Developers in China
  • Canonical News
  • Erle-Copter, Ubuntu Core Edition: the first drone with apps
  • Ubuntu jumps into Internet of Things with Acer, GE, and Microsoft
  • Why Can't Ubuntu Play Well With Others?
  • HP Launch Ubuntu Laptops, PCs in Russia
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: April 2015
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator

Canonical announces FirstBuild's showcasing of ChillHub, a community generated smart refrigerator at the Ubuntu stand at the second annual Internet of Things on May 12th and 13th. They tell us that ChillHub is a refrigerator with USB ports and Wi-Fi connectivity, saying: “This is a first-of-its-kind platform that enables the development of new hardware products that can operate inside a cooled space.”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/11/iot-canonical-and-ges-firstbuild-collaborate-on-smart-refrigerator/

The press and blogosphere really loved this story, writing several follow-ups to this news from Canonical:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118099) +88 over last week
  • Critical (266) +1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (58890) +33 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: Setzer22 (http://askubuntu.com/users/181955/setzer22), the_Seppi (http://askubuntu.com/users/194948/the-seppi), Sharad Gautam (http://askubuntu.com/users/408593/sharad-gautam), New USer (http://askubuntu.com/users/150504/new-user) and Pilot6 (http://askubuntu.com/users/167850/pilot6)

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

LoCo News

LoCo Council Restaffing

Elfy, on behalf of the Community Council, announces in no particular order, two new members and one returning member to the LoCo Council:

He also thanks former members Stephen Kellat and costales for their time on the council, saying: "you have been a positive force in the community."

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-May/002213.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

Brendan Perrine: A retrospective look on how I started with Lubuntu

Brendan Perrine looks back at his time using computers from starting with Windows Vista, switching to Lubuntu after rejecting Ubuntu, and dual booting with Windows 7. He finishes his post by recalling his joining of the #ubuntu channel on Freenode, testing and filing bugs against Ubuntu 14.04, and joining the Quality Team.

http://brendanperrine.com/posts/a-retrospective-look-on-how-i-started-with-lubuntu.html

Charles Profitt: Ubuntu Trash Bug

Charles Profitt reminds us that Ubuntu has always had bugs but 15.04 is the first version that he will not upgrade to due to a minor bug that affects him many times each day. He says that when using the launcher trash icon and selecting “empty trash” a new file manager window opens, and that the bug bothers him so much that he will not upgrade.

https://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/ubuntu-trash-bug/

Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu: Make Wonderful Things Possible!

Dustin Kirkland recalls Mark Shuttleworth at a Canonical event in November 2006 as saying: "Ubuntu make wonderful things possible, for example, Linux appliance, with Ubuntu preinstalled, we call this -- the fridge!" Dustin says that that tongue-in-cheek parody in no longer a joke and tells us about the recent collaboration with GE Appliances and FirstBuild around a smart refrigerator.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2015/05/ubuntu-make-wonderful-things-possible.html

Elizabeth K. Joseph: Xubuntu sweatshirt, Wily, & Debian Jessie Release

Elizabeth K. Joseph writes about Xubuntu sweatshirts, recent San Francisco Ubuntu hours, a “fluffy-yet-fearsome” Wily Werewolf, and a recent release dinner celebrating Debian Jessie. Elizabeth explains how they are all connected.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=10324

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Ubuntu Touch OTA-3.5 released

Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak announces the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-3.5 which includes some hotfixes for important issues spotted in the last OTA. In his email, Łukasz links to a change-log, a list of bugs that have been fixed, and a detailed commit log.

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg12725.html

Meizu launches the Ubuntu MX4 for Developers in China

Amrisha writes that in a first of a series of launches, Meizu has announced that the Ubuntu MX4, which will be sold across Europe soon, is immediately available to developers in China. She shows us some screenshots of scopes running on the phone, says that it’s easy for developers who have existing HTML5 apps running on Android and iOS to bring those to Ubuntu, and informs us that the device is to go on sale directly from Meizu’s website.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/17/meizu-launches-the-ubuntu-mx4-for-developers-in-china/

Canonical News

First drone with apps – Ubuntu Core Drone

Victor Mayoral from Erle Robotics, in a guest post, writes that with the support of Canonical, his company have been working hard to bring the first drone with apps to the market. He explains that drone apps are installed using any device with a browser connected to the drone.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/11/first-drone-with-apps-ubuntu-core-drone/

IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization

Canonical reminds us that they are collaborating with some of the world’s smartest technology brands, including GE’s FirstBuild, Acer, Microsoft and DataArt, to reveal a slew of new and innovative IoT devices; all built on ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core. They briefly look at the ChillHub, Acer's Build Your Own Cloud, and Microsoft's and DataArt's project where industrial predictive maintenance can be setup in minutes.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/11/iot-world-canonical-industry-leaders-drive-iot-commercialization/

IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches

Tom Callway writes that Penguin Computing are the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core and their Arctica network control software. David Ingersoll of Penguin Computing says: "The pairing of Ubuntu Core and Arctica brings incredible features and value to the whitebox switch market."

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/13/iot-world-snappy-for-whitebox-switches/

In The Press

Erle-Copter, Ubuntu Core Edition: the first drone with apps

Glyn Moody of Ars Technica reminds us that Ubuntu started on the desktop and server but in recent years has moved to the cloud, phones and now to drones. The Erie-Copter runs Snappy Ubuntu, its creation is thanks to the Dronecode project.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/05/erle-copter-ubuntu-core-edition-the-first-drone-with-apps/

Ubuntu jumps into Internet of Things with Acer, GE, and Microsoft

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for ZDNet writes that over the past few years focus has moved from the desktop and on to the IoT (Internet of Things). With development happening between Acer, DataArt, Microsoft, and Canonical. Past work included bringing Canonical’s Juju DevOps tools to Windows, and now work on a IoT industrial predictive maintenance solution.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-jumps-into-internet-of-things-with-acer-ge-and-microsoft/

In The Blogosphere

Why Can't Ubuntu Play Well With Others?

Bruce Byfield of Datamation reminds us that over the past 10 years of Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth has made calls for cooperation, including at the recent Ubuntu Online Summit. But with each call the community questions his motives. Bruce says that most of his calls created distrust within the community,and he now seems to just focus on getting his visions finished or in most cases “started” and done with his leadership.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/why-cant-ubuntu-play-well-with-others.html

HP Launch Ubuntu Laptops, PCs in Russia

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that Canonical has announced that HP laptops and PCs pre-loaded with Ubuntu are to go on sale in Russia from the middle of May. He gives us a brief specification of the machines, advises that they are loaded with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and links to the site from where further information can be found and orders placed.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/05/hp-launch-ubuntu-laptops-pcs-in-russia

Community Team Q&A - 12th May 2015

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

https://youtu.be/k0BBBMU6D9c

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E10 – The Beast of Yucca Flats

It’s Episode Ten of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week's show:

  • We discuss Mark Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu Online Summit keynote…
  • We share some Command Line Lurve which is the super useful listadmin, which does stuff. Listen to find out what…

  • And we also chat about taking a whole 3 minutes (that’s right!) off a PB (personal best time) at Parkrun, playing Windows games on Linux, getting Cyanogen OS 12 on to a OnePlus One phone, going to the Egham Raspberry Jam, and making Ubuntu MATE a download for the Raspberry Pi 2.

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/05/14/s08e10-the-beast-of-yucca-flats/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: April 2015

See here for the team report for April 2014: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/April2015

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 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04

Security Updates

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

Ubuntu 15.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2016

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Glossary of Terms

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