Issue420


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. BQ launches the new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition
    2. Welcome New Members and Developers
  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. Announcing Ubucon Europe 2016
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Costales: "Ubuntu reduces PC troubleshooting in a school", by Open Source Observatory (European Commission)
    2. Xubuntu: Xubuntu at Computer Reach
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
  9. Canonical News
    1. Intel and Canonical collaborate around IoT gateways
    2. So You Want to Write a Snappy App?
    3. IoT: RIOT and Snappy connect the smallest of devices
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Intel Compute Stick Performance Surprises Under Ubuntu Linux
    2. Ubuntu Spotted in Google's Revolutionary Soli Radar Project for Hand Motion
    3. Take the Developer Skill Census, Win an Ubuntu Phone
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E12 – Demon Island
    2. Community Team Q&A - 2nd June 2015
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E13 – A Story About Love
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. 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
  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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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 420 for the week June 1 - 7, 2015.

In This Issue

  • BQ launches the new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Announcing Ubucon Europe 2016

  • LoCo Events

  • Costales: "Ubuntu reduces PC troubleshooting in a school", by Open Source Observatory (European Commission)
  • Xubuntu: Xubuntu at Computer Reach
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Phone News
  • Intel and Canonical collaborate around IoT gateways
  • So You Want to Write a Snappy App?
  • IoT: RIOT and Snappy connect the smallest of devices
  • Intel Compute Stick Performance Surprises Under Ubuntu Linux
  • Ubuntu Spotted in Google's Revolutionary Soli Radar Project for Hand Motion
  • Take the Developer Skill Census, Win an Ubuntu Phone
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

BQ launches the new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition

Canonical, in conjunction with BQ, announces the launch of the Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition phone which follows on from the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, and which will come with impressive new features such as a 5 inch HD display and 16GB of internal memory. Cristian Parrino of Canonical says: "BQ is a fearless innovator whose risk with Ubuntu has already paid off - the launch of this second device in Europe marks an amazing milestone for both companies." While Alberto Méndez of BQ says of Canonical: "Working with Canonical on bringing the Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition has been very satisfying. We share the same philosophy as them along with the same commitment to the Open Source Initiative."

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/02/bq-launches-the-new-aquaris-e5-hd-ubuntu-edition/

Following the announcement several “Ubuntu Phone Insiders” posted articles to their personal blogs:

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

Welcome New Members and Developers

El Achèche ANIS announces the results of the first 2000 UTC meeting, and the subsequent 2200 UTC meeting of the Ubuntu Membership Board which created six new members:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-June/002225.html & https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-June/002226.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118716) +202 over last week
  • Critical (267) +2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59238) +107 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: Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b), Tim (http://askubuntu.com/users/186134/tim), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli) and Rod Smith (http://askubuntu.com/users/93977/rod-smith)

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

LoCo News

Announcing Ubucon Europe 2016

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran announces Ubucon Europe 2016, an extension of the Ubucon Germany event which will take place on a weekend in September or October 2016. He informs us that the ubucon.eu domain has been registered for somewhere that future announcements can be posted, and asks for feedback, general comments and offers of help to be sent to svij@ubuntu.com.

https://svij.org/blog/2015/06/05/announcing-ubucon-europe-2016/

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

Costales: "Ubuntu reduces PC troubleshooting in a school", by Open Source Observatory (European Commission)

Costales announces that following an interview last year, a project to convert schools from Windows to Ubuntu was successful, and that the European Commission is now using it as an example.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/06/ubuntu-reduces-pc-troubleshooting-in.html

Xubuntu: Xubuntu at Computer Reach

The Xubuntu team interviews Kevin Driscoll, PC/Linux Technical Consultant at Computer Reach about their use of Xubuntu in their organization, why they chose to deploy open source software and some of the details about how they go about deploying Xubuntu. Kevin concludes: “If you think about the tremendous variety of brands and models of computers made in that time frame, it is astounding how many combinations of equipment our (often non-technical) volunteers run into. Yet after a quick PXE-boot, Clonezilla automated script runs on those computers, it will reboot into a completely operational Linux environment is amazing! Xubuntu is so resilient to be able to run, without prompt for drivers, on so many different kinds of PC’s!”

http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-at-computer-reach/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Canonical News

Intel and Canonical collaborate around IoT gateways

Canonical and Intel have been collaborating with hardware enhanced encryption acceleration in Ubuntu with similar work being done for Snappy. The technology being used is Intel’s IoT Gateway to help scale things up.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/02/intel-and-canonical-collaborate-around-iot-gateways/

So You Want to Write a Snappy App?

Rick Spencer provides information and links needed to set up a Snappy development environment. He gives detailed information about the commands used, language they prefer and why, and some great templates and examples to use.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/03/so-you-want-to-write-a-snappy-app/

IoT: RIOT and Snappy connect the smallest of devices

RIOT is an operating system designed for the IoT that is community driven. With work from Snappy it now has a great and useful UI that makes it a snap to manage existing devices on a network and adding more.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/05/iot-riot-and-snappy-connect-the-smallest-of-devices/

In The Blogosphere

Intel Compute Stick Performance Surprises Under Ubuntu Linux

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Intel’s Compute Stick runs Ubuntu pretty well and is decent for some light work. He says that currently the Linux Kernel 4.1 does not have the WiFi driver working out of the box but it can be made to work with some tinkering with the Realtek 8723bs WLAN driver.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21721

Ubuntu Spotted in Google's Revolutionary Soli Radar Project for Hand Motion

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia writes that developers at Google are now working on Project Soli, which is working with radar to track hand motions. They are integrating this technology into a small chip that could be put into smartwatches or smartphones. Recent images have shown that they are using Ubuntu in the development process.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Spotted-in-Google-s-Revolutionary-Soli-Radar-Project-for-Hand-Motion-483181.shtml

Take the Developer Skill Census, Win an Ubuntu Phone

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! shares news that Vision Mobile has announced that upon completing their 10 minute developer survey, one becomes eligible for the giveaway being held in June. The survey closes on June 11.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/take-the-developer-skill-census-win-an-ubuntu-phone

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E12 – Demon Island

It’s Episode Twelve 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 getting people to participate in your open source community…
  • We share some Command Line Lurve, ntp, which we use every recording session.
  • And we also chat about taking another 21 seconds off a PB (personal best time) at Parkrun, celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries, discovering the #systemau podcast, and paying for a software licence!

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/06/01/s08e12-demon-island/

Community Team Q&A - 2nd June 2015

Alan Pope and Nicholas Skaggs present another regular Community team Q&A session in which they answer viewers questions that are put to them on IRC. This week’s focus is on the Ubuntu phone and the announcement of new releases from both BQ and Meizu.

https://youtu.be/oYs1r8Lns-s

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E13 – A Story About Love

It’s Episode Thirteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and guest presenter Joe Ressington are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

  • We look at what’s been going on in the news:
    • Mozilla abandons $25 phone, sets new goals
    • Google makes it easy to see how creepy they are
    • Lego creates infiniminer clone

    • Distributed DataCentres to warm your home

    • Popular Linux distro company announces phones
    • Sourceforge seeks to cement reputation as ‘Terrible People’
  • We discuss the recent Ubuntu Community Council / Kubuntu Community Council spat

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/06/04/s08e13-a-story-about-love/

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 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

None.

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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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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