Issue421


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. 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. SELF Day 1: Ubuntu
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Timo Jyrinki: Quick Look: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (2015) with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
    2. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Sprinting for convergence
    3. Daniel Holbach: Дуже дякую, team Ukraine!
    4. Matt Bruzek: Deploy a Kubernetes development cluster with Juju!
    5. Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Chris Wayne
    6. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Cleaning up scopes settings
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Unity8 & Mir update June 12, 2015
  9. Canonical News
    1. Canonical Design Team: SDK Convergence Sprint 2015
    2. Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things
    3. [Canonical] Community team week 24 summary
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Brand New Ubuntu Phone Goes on Sale Priced at €199
    2. Why the Ubuntu developer portal moved to DjangoCMS
    3. This IKEA Table Has Ubuntu-Powered Multitouch PC Inside
    4. System76 Unveils the Fastest and Most Powerful Ubuntu Laptop on the Planet
    5. Snappy Version Of Ubuntu's Desktop-Next Built For i386
    6. Take a Look Inside Cirrus7 Nimbini, the Most Beautiful Ubuntu Mini PC
    7. Is there spyware in Ubuntu? Answered.
    8. Eurocom Releases Linux Edition Of Its M4 Ultraportable Notebook
  11. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Community Team Q&A - 9th June 2015
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E14 – The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. 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
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 421 for the week June 8 - 14, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • SELF Day 1: Ubuntu
  • LoCo Events

  • Timo Jyrinki: Quick Look: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (2015) with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Sprinting for convergence
  • Daniel Holbach: Дуже дякую, team Ukraine!
  • Matt Bruzek: Deploy a Kubernetes development cluster with Juju!
  • Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Chris Wayne
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Cleaning up scopes settings
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Unity8 & Mir update June 12, 2015

  • Canonical Design Team: SDK Convergence Sprint 2015
  • Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things
  • [Canonical] Community team week 24 summary
  • In The Blogosphere
  • 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

Welcome New Members and Developers

Hugh Walker of the Ubuntu Forums writes that they are “delighted to welcome a new Ubuntu member this week”

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-June/002232.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (119056) +340 # over last week
  • Critical (270) +3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59412) +174 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: Pilot6 (http://askubuntu.com/users/167850/pilot6), Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), terdon (http://askubuntu.com/users/85695/terdon), Takkat (http://askubuntu.com/users/3940/takkat) and A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b)

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

LoCo News

SELF Day 1: Ubuntu

Aaron Honeycutt shares details from the first day of Ubucon at Southeast LinuxFest. He provides a quick blurb about Ubucon talks given by Michael Hall, Mauricio Tavares, Rick Spencer, Ken VanDine and himself on topics from Unity Scopes to strategies for simplifying documentation. Aaron concludes by talking about the panel, writing “A few people with Michael, Ken and I talked about the history of Ubuntu and Unity. As well as problems with hardware over the years like sound cards, bluetooth and more.”

http://usefoss.com/index.php/2015/06/13/self-day-1-ubuntu/

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

Timo Jyrinki: Quick Look: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (2015) with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Timo Jyrinki writes about his recent purchase of a Dell XPS 13, giving us a brief specification and some photographs of the machine. He relates how he fixed a problem with installing software upgrades, and tells us that he had to enable the touchpad driver as it was not enabled by default. In his conclusion, Timo says that the XPS13 is an extremely capable laptop, it feels like a quality product, and ends with: "I look happily forward to working a few productive years with this one!"

http://losca.blogspot.com/2015/06/quick-look-dell-xps-13-developer.html

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Sprinting for convergence

Zoltan Balogh writes that the SDK team spent time last week with the design and QA teams to lay the foundations of the converged UI Toolkit and SDK as an important step towards the converged desktop.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2015/06/08/sprinting-convergence/

Daniel Holbach: Дуже дякую, team Ukraine!

Daniel Holbach writes that "out of nowhere" the Ukrainian translations team have translated 70% of the Ubuntu Packaging Guide into Ukrainian in just a couple days. He thanks the team and also calls for help with the remaining translations in both Ukrainian and other languages.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/06/дуже-дякую-team-ukraine/

Matt Bruzek: Deploy a Kubernetes development cluster with Juju!

Matt Bruzek writes that his team has been working to make the container technology, Kubernetes, easy to deploy in a public cloud and shares detailed instructions for how a development cluster can be deployed with Juju. He concludes the post with instructions for how to contact the team and get involved with development.

http://bruzer.net/2015/06/10/deploy-a-kubernetes-development-cluster-with-juju/

Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Chris Wayne

Svetlana Belkin interviews Chris Wayne, a member of the Ubuntu Membership Board. Chris talks about his first computing experience, why he joined the Membership Board, and his focus on Ubuntu today.

http://senseopenness.com/membership-board-member-interviews-chris-wayne/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Cleaning up scopes settings

Pawel Stolowski writes that the privacy flag in Unity 7 will be deprecated in favor of a more nuanced and clearer way for users to control and manage how normal and aggregator scopes work in Unity 8.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2015/06/11/cleaning-scopes-settings/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Unity8 & Mir update June 12, 2015

Kevin Gunn gives us an update on Unity 8 and Mir. For Unity, changes include better hardware interaction, continued working on scopes, and launcher. For Mir, changes include work on buffering and upstream coordination.

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg13242.html

Canonical News

Canonical Design Team: SDK Convergence Sprint 2015

Steph Wilson recalls that the SDK team gathered in London for a sprint focusing on convergence with discussions centered around ways in which each component of the SDK would adapt to different form factors. She lists some highlights of the sprint and shows us some photographs taken during the week.

http://design.canonical.com/2015/06/sdk-convergence-sprint-2015/

Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things

Sergey Sorokin, Director of Business Development at Zabbix, writes about how the open source monitoring system, Zabbix, can be coupled with Ubuntu Core on Internet of Things (IoT) devices. “Zabbix brought a tiny, resource efficient agent to reside on top of any device; whether it is a smart house sensor, vending machine, electronic device, or anything else. This agent can collect device performance, availability and status data, as well as other useful application metrics and it can communicate this information with other devices or to the cloud – thus creating true synergy between the things of the IoT.”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/12/zabbix-iotsnappy-allows-users-to-feel-the-pulse-of-things/

[Canonical] Community team week 24 summary

David Planella shares an overview of the Canonical Community team's activity over the past week which includes finishing the documentation for the Ubuntu Engineering podcast and drafting the team's strategy for 15.10. David links to a Trello board where ideas for the team can be proposed and information about the team's activities can be found.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-June/000593.html

In The Blogosphere

Brand New Ubuntu Phone Goes on Sale Priced at €199

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! informs us that the BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition, featuring a bigger screen and better cameras than the first Ubuntu phone, has gone on sale across Europe priced at €199.90. He notes that neither Canonical, BQ, or Meizu have said how many phones have been sold so far, and links to the website where further information about the new release can be found. Joey ends his post with a note to say that orders won’t be processed until June 22nd.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/new-5-inch-ubuntu-phone-goes-on-sale

Andrew of WebUpd8 and Michael Larabel of Phoronix also covered this story:-

Why the Ubuntu developer portal moved to DjangoCMS

Michael Hall shares with OpenSource.com the rationale behind moving the Ubuntu developer portal from WordPress to DjangoCMS, including ease of building additional components, high availability considerations, and community interaction. He writes that of the content management systems surveyed, there "was no perfect solution, we found that DjangoCMS stood out from the rest" and that it has "proven to be just the right balance of simplicity, flexibility, and power."

http://opensource.com/business/15/6/why-ubuntu-developer-portal-moved-djangocms

This IKEA Table Has Ubuntu-Powered Multitouch PC Inside

Silviu Stahie, writing for Softpedia, tells us about a small and inexpensive coffee table modified to be a Touch Coffee Table that runs Ubuntu GNOME 15.04. He lists the items that were used to build the table which include a Dell P2314T multi-touch monitor, and says: "It's not the sort of stuff you might imagine needing, but it's likely that once you had an Ubuntu-powered coffee table, you won't be able to go back to a regular one."

http://news.softpedia.com/news/This-IKEA-Table-Has-Ubuntu-Powered-Multitouch-PC-Inside-483680.shtml

System76 Unveils the Fastest and Most Powerful Ubuntu Laptop on the Planet

Marius Nestor, writing for Softpedia, informs us that System76 have declared their Serval 76 laptop to be the most powerful and fastest on the market. He tells us that there is an option of either Ubuntu 15.04 or 14.04.2 LTS, gives us a brief specification of the machine, and links to the website from where further information can be found and pre-orders placed.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/System76-Unveils-the-Fastest-and-Most-Powerful-Ubuntu-Laptop-on-the-Planet-483840.shtml

Snappy Version Of Ubuntu's Desktop-Next Built For i386

Michael Larabel of Phoronix passes on the news from Canonical's Will Cooke that there is now a Snappy build of Ubuntu Next for i386. Michael says that the developers are trying to understand why the 64-bit build didn't work and points out that the build isn't yet an installable image.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Snappy-Desktop-Next-32

Take a Look Inside Cirrus7 Nimbini, the Most Beautiful Ubuntu Mini PC

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia takes a look at the Cirrus7 Nimbini mini PC that ships with either Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or 15.04 and comes in three versions with different hardware specifications. He says that the case is built from many aluminium layers which ensures that it doesn't need any fans or mechanical heat dissipation methods. Silviu also links to the website from where further information about the PC can be found.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Take-a-Look-Inside-Cirrus7-Nimbini-the-Most-Beautiful-Ubuntu-Mini-PC-484132.shtml

Is there spyware in Ubuntu? Answered.

Dedoimedo looks back at a blog post in which the writer said that as Canonical's Jane Silber was previously involved in intelligence and information gathering, Ubuntu has been compromised. He shows us how we can prove that this is not true by taking the source code, compiling it, and comparing to the Ubuntu binaries. In his conclusion, Dedoimedo says: "Thousands of engineers, scientists and highly experienced system administrators run Ubuntu daily. And yet for some reason, despite rigorous IT practices, network security and whatnot, all of them are dumbasses and not one of them has been able to find any trace of Ubuntu backdoor stuff, and yet a casual blogger has all the mighty data in his hands."

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-spyware.html

Eurocom Releases Linux Edition Of Its M4 Ultraportable Notebook

Rob Williams of Eurocom reports that Eurocom have released a Linux edition of its M4 Ultraportable notebook which includes a 3200x1800 resolution screen, 8GB of memory, a 500GB hard drive, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi. He says that the online configurator doesn't currently list Ubuntu as an option but the press release does, and that as a Linux fan: "I am glad to see more and more companies push the OS on their laptops."

http://techgage.com/news/eurocom-releases-linux-edition-of-its-m4-ultraportable-notebook/

Community Team Q&A - 9th June 2015

Daniel Holbach and David Planella present another regular Community team Q&A session in which they answer viewers questions that are put to them on IRC.

https://youtu.be/GFmyTparpVs

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E14 – The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?

It’s Episode 14 of Season 8 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, and guest presenter Joe Ressington are back, connected, and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

  • We interview Florian Rival about his project GDevelop and go over your feedback
  • We chat about getting back on Facebook to feel like you have friends again, playing with Sonic Pi, and playing Don’t Starve Together, together.

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/06/11/s08e14-the-incredibly-strange-creatures-who-stopped-living-and-became-mixed-up-zombies/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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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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