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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 but good value for 200 Euros. | 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 but is good value for 200 Euros. |
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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.” | 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.” |
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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 450 and says that the laptops will be available from selected distributors and resellers from early July. | 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. |
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Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Canonical is again working on Launchpad.net code after it has more or less been runing 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. | 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. |
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 425 for the week June 29 - July 5, 2015.
In This Issue
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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
Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com
LoCo News
Africa is growing
Miles Sharpe says that the 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 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 feels pride, and has loved community whilst developing for the Ubuntu Touch for near two years. He however needs a break and to sort out some personal things, and will stepping back to a normal consumer for the next year.
http://nik90.com/stepping-out-for-a-while/
Ubuntu GNOME: Feedback Time – Thank you
The Ubuntu GNOME team announces the end of their feedback collection phase (re: opinions on ubuntu gnome 14.04LTS & 15.04). A total of 500 users responded so thank you from the Ubuntu GNOME team. The feedback 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 that significant improvements have been made to the Firmware Test Suite by the Canonical Hardware Enablement Team especially in regards ACPI table 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 lots has been happening lately in the Launchpad world, and feature development is happening again. This post attempts to cover the last three months of work.
http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-news-april-june-2015
Carla Sella: Snappy Personal Desktop
Carla Sella, writes that while still a WIP (work-in-progress), should you wish to give it a ‘whirl’, this post will tell you how to try the Snappy Personal Desktop. Note: Preparing this requires the Ubuntu Wily (15.10) ubuntu-device-flash package in order to create the .img file you will be trying.
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
Juju at Dockercon 2015 - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/07/06/juju-at-dockercon-2015/
Unofficial Juju Docker Images - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/07/10/unofficial-juju-docker-images/
Automate DNS with Juju - http://blog.dasroot.net/2015-dns-automation-with-juju.html
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 but 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.
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, let alone others owned by local groups. To help streamline maintenance “Ubuntu web guidelines” were created. Vanilla is a revamp project to minimize changes, ensure modular and more.
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
Other Articles of Interest
ONE MILLION new lines of code hit Linux Kernel - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/06/one_million_new_lines_of_code_hit_linux_kernel/
Featured Audio and Video
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.
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.
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.
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Security Team - July 6, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20150706
Server Team - July 7, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20150707
Desktop Team - July 7, 2015 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2015-July/004675.html
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
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.10 Updates
Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
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