Issue431


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. IBM and Canonical plan Ubuntu support on IBM z Systems Mainframe
  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 Events
  5. The Planet
    1. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: A Fast Thumbnailer for Ubuntu
    2. Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Alan Pope
    3. Daniel Holbach: Snapcraft has landed in the archive
    4. Svetlana Belkin: Ubuntu Membership Pages Update
  6. Ubuntu Cloud News
  7. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions debut in India with Snapdeal
    2. Using the content hub on Ubuntu
    3. Clock App Update: August 2015
  8. In The Blogosphere
  9. Other Articles of Interest
  10. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo - S08E23 – Glitter
    2. Ubuntu Community Q&A - 18th August 2015
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo - S08E24 – Epic Movie
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  13. 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
  14. Subscribe
  15. Archives
  16. Additional Ubuntu News
  17. Conclusion
  18. Credits
  19. Glossary of Terms
  20. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  21. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 431 for the week August 17 - 23, 2015.

In This Issue

  • IBM and Canonical plan Ubuntu support on IBM z Systems Mainframe
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo Events

  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: A Fast Thumbnailer for Ubuntu
  • Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Alan Pope
  • Daniel Holbach: Snapcraft has landed in the archive
  • Svetlana Belkin: Ubuntu Membership Pages Update
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions debut in India with Snapdeal
  • Using the content hub on Ubuntu
  • Clock App Update: August 2015
  • In The Blogosphere
  • 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

IBM and Canonical plan Ubuntu support on IBM z Systems Mainframe

Jane Silber writes that at LinuxCon 2015 in Seattle, Canonical and IBM announced plans to create an Ubuntu distribution for LinuxONE and IBM z Systems. She says that it will allow clients and Ubuntu developers to access mobile, to hybrid cloud systems enhancing scale out applications, covering architectures from POWER, x86, ARM to IBM zSystems.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/17/ibm-and-canonical-plan-ubuntu-support-on-ibm-z-systems-mainframe/

This story attracted a lot of attention from press and blog sites. The following articles are a selection of those that were found by our editors:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118853) +79 over last week
  • Critical (286) +3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59344) +117 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), Fabby (http://askubuntu.com/users/344926/fabby), Chev_603 (http://askubuntu.com/users/228220/chev-603), Ravan (http://askubuntu.com/users/439451/ravan) and dhiya (http://askubuntu.com/users/146769/dhiya)

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

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Planet

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: A Fast Thumbnailer for Ubuntu

Michi Henning records how James Henstridge, Xavi Garcia Mena and herself have implemented a fast and scalable “thumbnailing service” for Ubuntu & Ubuntu Touch. The service is extremely fast, scalable (location independent), low in bandwidth use, robust (fault tolerant), and secure.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2015/08/17/fast-thumbnailer-ubuntu/

Svetlana Belkin: Membership Board Member Interviews: Alan Pope

Svetlana Belkin continues her series of interviews with members of the Ubuntu Membership Board. In the sixth of the series, Alan Pope talks about his career at Canonical, his first computing experience, and some of the projects that he’s worked on over the years. When asked if he had any comments to share with the community he says: “I’ve really enjoyed being part of the community. It’s a great feeling contributing to a free software project, and I hope to continue for as long as I can.”

http://senseopenness.com/membership-board-member-interviews-alan-pope/

Daniel Holbach: Snapcraft has landed in the archive

Daniel Holbach writes about using snapcraft() in C++, and turning software into snaps. Noting that it's a .01 release, he says that bugs are to be expected, but if you’re using Wily, the PPA is provided for you to try it out. Daniel embeds a short video in his post entitled "Packaging A Java Application For snappy" which shows an example of what snapcraft can do for you.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/08/snapcraft-has-landed-in-the-archiv/

Svetlana Belkin: Ubuntu Membership Pages Update

Svetlana Belkin writes that during the last online summit the Membership Board held a session about getting more people to apply for membership. She links to both the main wiki page and the FAQ which have been updated to remove some confusion and remind the community of the benefits of membership. Svetlana ends her post by saying: “As a close, the Membership Board is asking that if you want to become a Member, please apply!”

http://senseopenness.com/ubuntu-membership-pages-update/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions debut in India with Snapdeal

Canonical announces that the Aquaris E4.5 and Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition handsets are set to launch in India through Snapdeal, India’s largest online marketplace by the end of August. They say that the launch follows on from two successful launches in Europe earlier this year, and that prices will be Rs 11,999 for the E4.5 and Rs 13,499 for the E5.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/08/20/aquaris-e4-5-and-e5-ubuntu-editions-debut-in-india-with-snapdeal/

Using the content hub on Ubuntu

Stuart Langridge writes about Ubuntu phone security and how apps keep their files isolated from each other by design. Sometimes, however, you want to share files between apps, which is the purpose of the Content Hub. Stuart found Ubuntu’s Content Hub under-documented, so this post documents (the basics of) what he discovered and how to use the Ubuntu Phone Content Hub, something especially useful for phone app developers.

http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2015/08/20/using-the-content-hub-on-ubuntu/

Clock App Update: August 2015

Nekhelesh Ramananthan summarizes the changes made to the Clock app and thanks Bartosz Kosiorek for his help with the release and coordinating with the Canonical designers. Nekhelesh shows us some screenshots of the updated app and lists some of the bugs that have been fixed.

http://nik90.com/new-clock-app-update-coming-up-soon/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo - S08E23 – Glitter

It’s Episode Twenty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are joined by Stuart Langridge!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

  • GNU Mailman now hosted on gitlab (as opposed to launchpad or github)
  • News about the India BQ launch…
  • Another new version of Firefox…
  • The ‘eraser button’ comes to the US…
  • Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS released…
  • EFF announced version 1.0 of Privacy Badger for Chrome and Firefox…

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

  • U1 finally open source!
  • Untangling Snappy, Personal, Desktop Next, Ubuntu Touch, Phones and Convergence…
  • KDE’s annual world summit, Akademy, happened…
  • Snapcraft allows anybody to create plugins to support their favourite programming language, platform, packaging solution, etc…
  • Chris Wayne has published Activity Tracker for Ubuntu Touch!
  • The new Film Scope has been launched on the Ubuntu phone…
  • Mir support lands in upstream Qt…

There are even events:

  • Barcamp Southampton – 26th September – Southampton, UK
  • Bad Voltage Live – 30th September – Germany

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/08/17/s08e23-glitter/

Ubuntu Community Q&A - 18th August 2015

Daniel Holbach and Alan Pope present another weekly Q&A session held by Canonical’s Ubuntu Community Team in which they answer questions put to them on IRC. This week the team is joined by Jorge Castro who talks about “Ubuntu, juju, the cloud, servers and all the cool stuff he's been working on recently.”

https://youtu.be/XEOcInVqFVU

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo - S08E24 – Epic Movie

It’s Episode Twenty-four of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are back with Stuart Langridge!

In this week’s show:

  • We chat about why Laura doesn’t like webapps on the Ubuntu Phone and we get a more qualified view from app developer Stuart.
  • We go over your feedback, including Ubuntu Phone notes from Pete Cliff.
  • We have a command line love, Comcast from Jorge Castro.
  • We chat about getting a Picade, playing with Jasper, and controlling a Nexus 6 with Pebble Time whilst listening to podcasts on the move.

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/08/21/s08e24-epic-movie/

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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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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