Issue429


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS released
  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. IX Aniversario de ubuntu-ve
    2. UbuConLA 2015 reports
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Harald Sitter: Akademy 2015 – Phones, CI, and Kubuntu
    2. Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make 0.9.2 hot from the builders, with Firefox Developer Edition language support
    3. Svetlana Belkin: Going All The Way (With Ubuntu)!
    4. Ubuntu GNOME: Planning for Wily Werewolf (15.10) Cycle
  7. Other Community News
    1. T – 242d!
  8. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!
    2. Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure
    3. Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion
  9. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Celebrate the new Film Scope with DJ Yoda
  10. Canonical News
    1. Java on Snappy
    2. The first app-enabled spider
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu drone puts robotics in the classroom
    2. Ubuntu's Roadmap Around Snappy, Phones & Mir / Unity 8
    3. Ubuntu's Deb-Based Software Center Fails As An App Store
  12. Other Articles of Interest
  13. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 4th August 2015
    2. Akademy - Kubuntu Podcast Show 3
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo - S08E22 – Daniel the Wizard
  14. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  15. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  16. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
  17. Subscribe
  18. Archives
  19. Additional Ubuntu News
  20. Conclusion
  21. Credits
  22. Glossary of Terms
  23. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  24. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 429 for the week August 3 - 9, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS released
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • IX Aniversario de ubuntu-ve
  • UbuConLA 2015 reports
  • Harald Sitter: Akademy 2015 – Phones, CI, and Kubuntu
  • Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make 0.9.2 hot from the builders, with Firefox Developer Edition language support
  • Svetlana Belkin: Going All The Way (With Ubuntu)!
  • Ubuntu GNOME: Planning for Wily Werewolf (15.10) Cycle
  • T – 242d!
  • Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!
  • Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure
  • Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion
  • Celebrate the new Film Scope with DJ Yoda
  • Canonical News
  • Ubuntu drone puts robotics in the classroom

  • Ubuntu's Roadmap Around Snappy, Phones & Mir / Unity 8

  • Ubuntu's Deb-Based Software Center Fails As An App Store
  • 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 and 15.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS released

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team, announces the release of Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. He says, “We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with 14.04.3, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack for new installations to support new hardware across all our supported architectures, not just x86.” Adam’s post also offers advice on which Ubuntu versions/flavors are available, from where the ISOs can be downloaded, and also where support can be found.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2015-August/003338.html

Several of the flavors also had their own announcements:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118736) -49 over last week
  • Critical (296) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59180) -79 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), muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), heemayl (http://askubuntu.com/users/216503/heemayl) and Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg)

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

LoCo News

IX Aniversario de ubuntu-ve

David Emerling Rondón shares details and photos from the ubuntu-ve (Venezuela) 9th anniversary of the team. He writes that due to planning difficulties for anniversaries in the past, he changed the plans this year. “Rather than perform a single event, a single day; I called each group to participate in the same locality, extending opportunities to other members. [A]s a result two groups were nominated. [A]nd two groups are being planned.” Links from this post are in Spanish.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-August/002290.html

UbuConLA 2015 reports

José Antonio Rey looks back at the two day UbuConLA event which took place in Lima, Peru on 7th and 8th August, noting that over 100 people turned up on the first day. José writes about the sessions, the speakers, other people he met there, and the food. In his conclusion, he says, ”You all, the Ubuntu community, are the reason why I organized the event, as well as the reason why I'm still around. Since I joined you've been like a second family, welcomed me with open arms, and now here we are. Please, keep being awesome.”

https://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/ubuconla-2015-the-other-side-of-things-day-1/ & https://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/ubuconla-2015-the-other-side-of-things-day-2/

Elizabeth K. Joseph also attended the event and notes that her keynote “Building a Career in Free and Open Source Software,” which was delivered in English, was probably understood by the majority due to the audience reaction and her use of bilingual slides. She also runs through the various sessions and shows us some photographs taken while at the event.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=10477

Videos of the sessions, which are mainly in Spanish, can be found at the Ubuntu on Air! channel, specifically on the UbuConLA+ 2015 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-qBHd6_LXWb7HcFQAmfY1eDu0YaYxl4C

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

Harald Sitter: Akademy 2015 – Phones, CI, and Kubuntu

Harald Sitter writes about KDE’s annual world summit, Akademy 2015. The first presentation was a plasma mobile (nexus 5) running KWin as Wayland compositor built on Kubuntu. Another presentation centered around the way to run android apps on GNU/Linux desktops, followed by a discussion on integration of Kubuntu and Debian packaging against KDE’s git repositories.

https://apachelog.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/akademy-2015-phones-ci-and-kubuntu/

Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make 0.9.2 hot from the builders, with Firefox Developer Edition language support

Didier Roche writes that Ubuntu Make 0.9.2 has been released, enabling developers to install Firefox Developer Edition in their language of choice. This is backed with mandatory medium and large extensive test suites and is available on 14.04 LTS and 15.04 Ubuntu releases.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Ubuntu-Make-0.9.2-hot-from-the-builders,-with-Firefox-Developer-Edition-language-support

Svetlana Belkin: Going All The Way (With Ubuntu)!

Svetlana Belkin recalls that a few months ago she bought a Nexus 4 onto which she loaded Ubuntu Touch and is now using Ubuntu as her primary OS on all of her devices. She says that she is accustomed to using Ubuntu on her computer but that she will report her experiences of using it on a phone and tablet, adding, “I’m looking for the coolness factor from everyone that sees me use it but I’m also ready to face problems.”

http://senseopenness.com/going-all-the-way/

Ubuntu GNOME: Planning for Wily Werewolf (15.10) Cycle

Ali Linx updates us on the planning and changes that are being put in place ready for the release of Ubuntu GNOME 15.10. He links to various mailing list archives which describe the changes that are mainly around the project’s sub-teams and Community Structure.

http://ubuntugnome.org/planning-for-wily-werewolf-15-10-cycle/

Other Community News

T – 242d!

Looking forward to the next Long-Term Support release, self-proclaimed “Shepherd for all things related to Ubuntu Client (meaning Ubuntu, Phones, Tablets and everything related)”, Olli Ries provides a list of “products, technologies, code bases, previews, releases and visions” that have been floating around the community along with descriptions of each. He defines Snappy, “Snappy” Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Personal, Ubuntu Touch and Desktop Next. He then writes about the projected roadmap and goes on to provide a chart with the projected support windows for each of the major projects.

http://www.olli-ries.com/t-242d/

See the Ubuntu Community Team Q&A YouTube link later in the newsletter for a link to the Q&A Session with Olli that happened on August 4th.

Ubuntu Cloud News

Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

Bill Bauman passionately writes that he is excited about how Canonical values relationships and how they look at the way technology and people interact to accomplish things. Bill then moves to writing about how Juju is also about relationships.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/03/juju-its-about-building-relationships/

Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

Ryan Finnie writes about backups. The Canonical IS team is responsible for thousands of machines and changes to environments have lead to the development of Turku which Ryan then goes on to explain.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/04/introducing-turku-cloud-friendly-backups-for-your-infrastructure/

Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion

Randall Ross writes about a panel including Ben Saller, a creator of Juju. He gives us Ben’s answer to a question about whether Twitter and Google scale of containerization is unique or will become common. Randall embeds a video in his post entitled "Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration."

http://randall.executiv.es/juju-reframe

Ubuntu Phone News

Celebrate the new Film Scope with DJ Yoda

Amrisha writes that with the launch of the new Film Scope on the Ubuntu phone, users can now watch movie trailers. She says that with Sci-Fi fan DJ Yoda on board a competition has been launched to create the most original Sci-Fi film GIF. Amrisha tells us how we can enter, lists the top three prizes, all of which include an Ubuntu phone, and informs us that the competition ends on 17th August 2015.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/07/celebrate-the-new-film-scope-with-dj-yoda/

Canonical News

Java on Snappy

Maarten Ectors shares a video of the new Snapcraft tool being used to create a snappy package of Tomcat with a Java webapp built from git using Maven. He writes that Snapcraft allows developers to “easily and quickly package their favourite projects as Snappy Apps or Snaps” and goes on to share how publishing to the Snappy Store works. He concludes “We would like to invite the community to help us mature Snapcraft and support as many languages and platforms as possible so anybody can experience how much fun creating Snaps can be.”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/03/java-on-snappy/

The first app-enabled spider

Maarten Ectors shares a quick note about the erle-spider, saying, "It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot spider.”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/05/the-first-app-enabled-spider/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu drone puts robotics in the classroom

Richard Wilson of Electronics Weekly writes that Erle robotics have created a DIY kit for building an Ubuntu drone having seen the potential of robotics in education and the need for easy to program Linux hardware. Richard says of the kit which costs €299: “This is an all-in-one drone controller with point-and-click programming, command modes, failsafe programming and 3-axis camera control.”

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/embedded-systems/ubuntu-drone-puts-robotics-classroom-2015-08/

Softpedia also covered this story at http://news.softpedia.com/news/erle-spider-is-a-six-legged-drone-powered-by-ubuntu-snappy-core-488586.shtml

Ubuntu's Roadmap Around Snappy, Phones & Mir / Unity 8

Michael Larabel of Phoronix summarizes a blog post made by Canonical’s Olli Ries is which the roadmap, technologies used, and plans for Ubuntu 16.04 are laid out. Michael says that Olli’s blog post should be read by anyone confused by the terms Snappy, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Touch, and Desktop Next. He adds that the post also explains “those technologies being worked on and how Ubuntu Personal is their next-step for converged devices and leveraging these technologies that have been in development for a while.”

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-16.04-Roadmap

Ubuntu's Deb-Based Software Center Fails As An App Store

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes that some app developers are unhappy with Canonical’s handling of the Ubuntu Software Center for paid apps. He relays the concerns of Michal Rosiak, a Polish app developer, who says that his games are not being made available to users running Ubuntu 14.10 and 15.04. Larabel quotes several sources which acknowledge the problem, and Martin Albisetti is quoted as saying, “Our last push was to make sure the LTS was supported, we hired an extra person to keep the review queue down to a handful of packages at any time (vs 100s) and we've addressed critical bugs as they came up.”

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-SC-Dev-Headaches

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 4th August 2015

David Planella, Nicholas Skaggs and Alan Pope present another regular Q&A session on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Team. This week Olli Ries joins the team to talk about the technologies that constitute the client part of Ubuntu and the roadmap to convergence. As usual, questions asked on IRC are answered.

https://youtu.be/etWjZgLbDo0

Akademy - Kubuntu Podcast Show 3

Rick Timmis, Aaron Honeycutt and Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan present the third in a regular series of podcasts by the Kubuntu team. One of the topics discussed is Akademy 2015 which took place in late July.

https://youtu.be/uG40fJzlJiM

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo - S08E22 – Daniel the Wizard

It’s Episode Twenty-two of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are all together again!

In this week’s show:

  • We go through the the results of what happened when Laura asked what you wanted testing on the Ubuntu Phone…
  • You can see what’s in the Ubuntu Store on this unofficial website if you’re curious.
  • We go over your feedback.
  • We have a command line love, Facebook pathpicker sent in by Stuart Ward.

  • We chat about going on holiday to Portugal, getting a talk accepted at DevRelCon 2015, playing with the Xposed Framework, and doing jury service.

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/08/07/s08e22-daniel-the-wizard/

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 and 15.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 15.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2016

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