Issue425


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  3. LoCo News
    1. Africa is growing
    2. If you can't beat them, Join them
    3. Ubuntu Global Jam Packs are back!
    4. Ubuntu Install Fest - Innovathens - Greece - 2015
    5. UbuConLA+ announced
  4. LoCo Events
  5. The Planet
    1. Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Stepping out for a while
    2. Ubuntu GNOME: Feedback Time – Thank you
    3. Colin King: New ACPI table tests in fwts 15.07.00
    4. Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Torsten Franz
    5. Launchpad News: Launchpad news, April-June 2015
    6. Carla Sella: Snappy Personal Desktop
    7. Nicholas Skaggs: Ubuntu SDK Autopilot Plugin
    8. Michael Zanetti: snap up your home
  6. Other Community News
    1. Unity8, Mir & LXC for Xapps update July 10, 2015
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Review bq Aquaris E5 - Ubuntu Edition
  9. Canonical News
    1. Ubuntu to ship on Lenovo laptops in India
    2. Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: Why we built a Framework
    3. Introducing utility pricing to your Managed Private Cloud
    4. Flying mobile base stations
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu 15.10 To Follow Debian In Its March To GCC 5
    2. Lenovo starts selling Ubuntu Laptops in India
    3. Canonical Is Back To Doing Feature Development For Launchpad
    4. Ubuntu Making Progress On Snappy Personal Desktop
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Snappy Open House - 7th July 2015
    2. Ubuntu Community Q&A - 7th July 2015
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E18 – Mitchell
    4. Juju Office Hours - 9th July 2015
  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 425 for the week July 6 - 12, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Africa is growing
  • If you can't beat them, Join them
  • Ubuntu Global Jam Packs are back!
  • Ubuntu Install Fest - Innovathens - Greece - 2015
  • UbuConLA+ announced
  • Ubuntu GNOME: Feedback Time – Thank you
  • Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Torsten Franz
  • Launchpad News: Launchpad news, April-June 2015
  • Carla Sella: Snappy Personal Desktop
  • Nicholas Skaggs: Ubuntu SDK Autopilot Plugin
  • Michael Zanetti: snap up your home

  • Unity8, Mir & LXC for Xapps update July 10, 2015

  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Review bq Aquaris E5 - Ubuntu Edition
  • Canonical News
  • Ubuntu 15.10 To Follow Debian In Its March To GCC 5
  • Lenovo starts selling Ubuntu Laptops in India
  • Canonical Is Back To Doing Feature Development For Launchpad
  • Ubuntu Making Progress On Snappy Personal Desktop
  • 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!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (119362) +216 over last week
  • Critical (270) -8 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59808) +222 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: A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b), Pilot6 (http://askubuntu.com/users/167850/pilot6), chj1axr0 (http://askubuntu.com/users/238718/chj1axr0), Wilf (http://askubuntu.com/users/178596/wilf) and LDC3 (http://askubuntu.com/users/369523/ldc3)

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

LoCo News

Africa is growing

Miles Sharpe says that an African LoCo revival is occurring, and a first meeting will be taking place on the 29th July at 20:30 UTC+2. Everyone is welcome to join, access is via IRC in #ubuntu-africa on Freenode.

http://kilosubuntu.blogspot.com/2015/07/having-ubuntu.html

If you can't beat them, Join them

Miles Sharpe writes that he is no fan of social media; but using it was helpful in finding missing LoCos in Africa. He shares that through his work tracking down teams, there are now only 5 (of 18) countries haven’t yet joined the Africa initiative.

http://kilosubuntu.blogspot.com/2015/07/if-you-cant-beat-them-join-them.html

Ubuntu Global Jam Packs are back!

Michael Hall informs us that the next Ubuntu Global Jam is on the August 7-9 weekend and announces that Global Jam Packs are once again available for LoCo Teams participating in this event. The packs include Ubuntu DVDs, stickers, pens and notebooks, and can be requested through the community donations program.

http://mhall119.com/2015/07/ubuntu-global-jam-packs-are-back/

Ubuntu Install Fest - Innovathens - Greece - 2015

Nik Thom shares some photographs of an Ubuntu Install Fest which was held on Friday July 10th at Innovathens at Technopolis Municipality of Athens, Greece and writes that it was a great success.

http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-install-fest-innovathens-greece-2015/2168

UbuConLA+ announced

José Antonio Rey writes that UbuConLA+ has been announced, “a concept that will help us take UbuCon Latin America closer to your own country”. He shares the LoCo Team Portal event link with further details in Spanish.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2015-July/006997.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

Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Stepping out for a while

Nekhelesh Ramananthan writes that he has loved being part of the community whilst developing for Ubuntu Touch for nearly two years. He says that he now needs a break to sort out his personal life, and will be stepping back to be just a consumer for the next year.

http://nik90.com/stepping-out-for-a-while/

Ubuntu GNOME: Feedback Time – Thank you

Ali Linx, on behalf of the The Ubuntu GNOME, team announces the end of their feedback collection phase (re: opinions on ubuntu gnome 14.04LTS & 15.04). Ali thanks the 500 users who responded and says that the results are being collated and studied, and will be available soon.

http://ubuntugnome.org/feedback-time-thank-you/

Colin King: New ACPI table tests in fwts 15.07.00

Colin King tells us that significant improvements have been made to the Firmware Test Suite by the Canonical Hardware Enablement Team especially in regards ACPI table testing and bug fixes for acpidump.

http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/new-acpi-table-tests-in-fwts150700.html

Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Torsten Franz

Svetlana Belkin interviews Torsten Franz in the fourth of a series of interviews with members of the Ubuntu Membership Board. Torsten tell us briefly about his career, his first computing experience, and that much of his focus today is on the German speaking forum ubuntuusers.de.

http://senseopenness.com/membership-board-member-interviews-torsten-franz/

Launchpad News: Launchpad news, April-June 2015

Colin Watson writes that a lot has been happening lately in the Launchpad world, and feature development is happening again. Colin's post covers the changes of the last three months.

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-news-april-june-2015

Carla Sella: Snappy Personal Desktop

Carla Sella shows us how to try the Snappy Personal Desktop which is still a WIP (work-in-progress). Carla says: "Oh, for this to work you need Ubuntu 15.10 or at least ubuntu-device-flash from Wily."

http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015/07/snappy-personal-desktop.html

Nicholas Skaggs: Ubuntu SDK Autopilot Plugin

Nicholas Skaggs announces a new plugin for the Software Development Kit (SDK). He writes that you’ll no longer need to exit the SDK (jumping to terminal) to test your applications, streamlining the development process within SDK.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2015/07/ubuntu-sdk-autopilot-plugin.html

Michael Zanetti: snap up your home

Michael Zanetti shares with us some of the fun that he had with playing with Ubuntu on the Orange Matchbox, a Raspberry PI2 in a pretty Ubuntu case, preloaded with Snappy Ubuntu Core. He informs us that he installed guh (Gear Up Your Home), an open source plugin-based home automation server, and that it now has its own snappy tools repository.

http://notyetthere.org/snap-up-your-home/

Other Community News

Unity8, Mir & LXC for Xapps update July 10, 2015

Kevin Gunn updates us with the latest developments in Unity8, Mir & LXC which include additional slim greeter features, fixing bugs, and creating and destroying containers from the GUI.

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg14068.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Review bq Aquaris E5 - Ubuntu Edition

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran reviews BQ’s second Ubuntu phone, the Aquaris E5, looking at the hardware, the screen, the camera, battery life, and quality in turn. Sujeevan concludes that the E5 is a solid device aimed at Ubuntu enthusiasts and is good value for 200 Euros.

https://svij.org/blog/2015/07/11/review-bq-aquaris-e5-ubuntu-edition/

Canonical News

Ubuntu to ship on Lenovo laptops in India

Canonical announces that Lenovo is to ship Ubuntu laptops within India starting with the Thinkpad L450 from early this month. They say that the machines will be available from select distributors and resellers across the region.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/07/07/ubuntu-to-ship-on-lenovo-laptops-in-india/

Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: Why we built a Framework

Peter Mahnke informs us that there are over 200 ubuntu.com subdomains, and many others owned by local groups. To help streamline maintenance “Ubuntu web guidelines” were created. He says that Vanilla is a revamp project to minimize changes, and amongst other goals to make everything more modular, and easy to add or remove components.

http://design.canonical.com/2015/07/vanilla-why-we-built-a-framework/

Introducing utility pricing to your Managed Private Cloud

Arturo Suarez announces an on-demand usage-based pricing for Canonical's private cloud service.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/07/09/introducing-utility-pricing-to-your-managed-private-cloud/

Flying mobile base stations

Maarten Ectors writes that Lime Microsystems, using open source hardware and Snappy Ubuntu core, have made flying mobile base stations called the ‘Erlecopter’.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/07/09/flying-mobile-base-stations/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu 15.10 To Follow Debian In Its March To GCC 5

Michael Larabel of Phoronix informs us that Ubuntu 15.10 will closely follow Debian in its GCC 5 compiler upgrade, linking to an e-mail by Ubuntu developer Matthias Klose who explains the transition from the previous version. Larabel says: “GCC 5 has many new compiler features but its change in defaulting to C++11 and the libstdc++6 ABI breakage makes this upgrade a bit more hairy than usual.”

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-15.10-GCC5

Lenovo starts selling Ubuntu Laptops in India

Manuel Jose of Tech Drive-In writes that Lenovo and Canonical have jointly launched Ubuntu edition laptops for India with prices starting at INR40,000 (approx 630 USD). He gives us a brief specification of the Thinkpad L450 and says that the laptops will be available from selected distributors and resellers from early July.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2015/07/lenovo-starts-selling-ubuntu-laptops-india.html

Canonical Is Back To Doing Feature Development For Launchpad

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Canonical is again working on Launchpad.net code after it has more or less been running in maintenance mode. He lists the various improvements that have been made, says that more are planned but as they have limited developers available they are hoping for support from the community.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonical-Launchpad-Improves

Ubuntu Making Progress On Snappy Personal Desktop

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that it is now possible to play with Ubuntu’s Snappy package manager from a personal desktop and that it can be fired up from a QEMU/KVM session. He provides a link from where installation instructions can be found for those wanting to play with the Ubuntu Snappy Personal Desktop in its current development form.

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

Snappy Open House - 7th July 2015

Daniel Holbach and Nicholas Skaggs present the first Snappy Open House, a session in which the Snappy team introduce themselves, and advise how to install and test snappy on your device.

https://youtu.be/YMJ-R7KeMr0

Ubuntu Community Q&A - 7th July 2015

Daniel Holbach and Michael Hall present another regular Q&A session in which they answer questions that are put to them on IRC. This week José Antonio Rey joins the session and talks about how he got started in Ubuntu, LoCo teams, the LoCo Council, and how Ubuntu-on-Air came into being.

https://youtu.be/mzv3HXRERMY

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E18 – Mitchell

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

In this week’s show:

  • We review some hardware: the Pebble watch and some early thoughts on two Ubuntu phones, the BQ E5 and the Meizu MX4.
  • We chat about the Tab Suspender extension in Chrome, playing Borderlands 2 on Linux, and playing with the new Ubuntu phones.

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/07/09/s08e18-mitchell/

Juju Office Hours - 9th July 2015

Jorge Castro is joined by Marco Ceppi, Cory Johns, Charles Butler and Jay Wren for the latest in a series of tri-weekly status/tutorial sessions for all things around the Juju Ecosystem.

https://youtu.be/wmrMSgRJ99I

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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