Issue450


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) reaches End of Life on February 4, 2016
    2. Ubuntu IRCC Nominations 2016
    3. Announcing the Ubuntu Scopes Showdown 2016!
  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. Jono Bacon & Stuart Langridge: SCALE14x Plans
    2. What’s happening at UbuCon Summit
    3. About the Ubuntu US Wisconsin Local Community Team
    4. Welcome Sujeevan to the LoCo Council
    5. Color me Ubuntu at UbuCon Summit & SCALE14x
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Scarlett Clark: KDE: Kubuntu: Status Update, Patreon and Donations notifications.
    2. Lubuntu Blog: Lubuntu Xenial Xerus (with LXQt) in a Raspberry Pi 2
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
  9. Canonical News
    1. Ubuntu is coming to a city near you
  10. In The Press
    1. 10 Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Killing It In The Cloud
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. The one glitch in Canonical's convergence plan
    2. Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Custom Tarballs Now Ready for Meizu MX4 and BQ Aquaris Phones
    3. New Ubuntu Convergence Device To Be Announced Next Month?
    4. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Be the Best Release in Years, Here's What's New
    5. How You Can Help Test the New Ubuntu Software Center
    6. UbuCon Summit in California to Cover Convergence, Gaming, IoT, and Everything Else
    7. Canonical: One Billion People "Benefit from" Ubuntu Linux
  12. Other Articles of Interest
  13. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 12th January 2016
  14. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  15. Monthly Team Reports: December 2015
  16. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  17. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
  18. Subscribe
  19. Archives
  20. Additional Ubuntu News
  21. Conclusion
  22. Credits
  23. Glossary of Terms
  24. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  25. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 450 for the week January 11 - 17, 2016.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) reaches End of Life on February 4, 2016
  • Ubuntu IRCC Nominations 2016
  • Announcing the Ubuntu Scopes Showdown 2016!
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo News

  • Jono Bacon & Stuart Langridge: SCALE14x Plans

  • What's happening at UbuCon Summit

  • About the Ubuntu US Wisconsin Local Community Team

  • Welcome Sujeevan to the LoCo Council

  • Color me Ubuntu at UbuCon Summit & SCALE14x

  • LoCo Events

  • Scarlett Clark: KDE: Kubuntu: Status Update, Patreon and Donations notifications.
  • Lubuntu Blog: Lubuntu Xenial Xerus (with LXQt) in a Raspberry Pi 2
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Phone News
  • Canonical News
  • 10 Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Killing It In The Cloud
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest

  • Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 12th January 2016

  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: December 2015
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) reaches End of Life on February 4, 2016

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces that Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) reaches End of Life on February 4, 2016. He also provides a link to a tutorial which shows how to upgrade to a more recent, supported release.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2016-January/000203.html

Ubuntu IRCC Nominations 2016

Melissa Draper, on behalf of the Ubuntu IRC Council, announces the end of some of the council members' 2-year terms and opening of the nominations to re-staff. All Ubuntu Members interested in IRC governance are eligible to apply for this council.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2016-January/001834.html

Announcing the Ubuntu Scopes Showdown 2016!

David Callé announces the second Ubuntu Scopes Showdown, writing that it is an “engaging developer competition, where the Ubuntu app developer community brings innovative and interesting new experiences for Ubuntu on mobile devices.” He goes on to share news about Scopes written in Javascript and Go, the time frame for the competition and prizes to be given to winners.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/community-announce/2016-January/000036.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (120838) +172 over last week
  • Critical (307) +17 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59914) +129 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: Thomas W. (http://askubuntu.com/users/10616/thomas-w), cauon (http://askubuntu.com/users/94457/cauon), cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind) and Fabby (http://askubuntu.com/users/344926/fabby)

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

LoCo News

Jono Bacon & Stuart Langridge: SCALE14x Plans

In a pair of posts, community members Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge share their schedules for the upcoming SCALE14x conference. Both will be participating in the UbuCon Summit, with Stuart doing a “Beyond building Ubuntu phone apps” talk for developers and Jono doing an “Ubuntu Redux” talk where he reflects on the past and future of Ubuntu, as well as leading a panel on Friday. They will also be co-hosting Bad Voltage: Live, a live performance of their podcast where various Ubuntu-related giveaways will be available to audience members.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2016/01/11/scale14x-plans/

http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2016/01/11/scale-14x-plans/

What’s happening at UbuCon Summit

Daniel Holbach begins, "I can't wait for UbuCon Summit to start." He shares a link to the finalized schedule, plus links to the evening social events starting at 19:00PST on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/01/whats-happening-at-ubucon-summit/

About the Ubuntu US Wisconsin Local Community Team

Simon Quigley introduces us to the Ubuntu US Wisconsin LoCo Team informing us who currently leads the team, the resources that members can use to contact each other, and how many members are currently active. Simon invites anyone with any comments or queries to contact him.

http://ubuntu-wisconsin.org/blog/2016/01/15/

Welcome Sujeevan to the LoCo Council

Bhavani Shankar, on behalf of the LoCo Council, congratulates and welcomes newly appointed council member Sujeevan Vijayakumaran, linking to his Launchpad profile and wishing him “all the best in his tenure with the LoCo Council.“

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2016-January/007070.html

Color me Ubuntu at UbuCon Summit & SCALE14x

Elizabeth K. Joseph reflects on the planning and lead up to the UbuCon Summit and shares some of the things she'll be bringing along, including origami paper for making unicorns and werewolves, and a new coloring page made by Ronnie Tucker of Full Circle Magazine featuring a werewolf.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=11227

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

Scarlett Clark: KDE: Kubuntu: Status Update, Patreon and Donations notifications.

Scarlett Clark updates us on her progress in various projects which include soon being able to work on more than two builds of KDE at once, working on Debian merges, and learning how to be a KDE Sysadmin. She also notes that she has corrected her PayPal, should you wish to donate.

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2016/kde-kubuntu-status-update-patreon-and-donations-notifications/

Lubuntu Blog: Lubuntu Xenial Xerus (with LXQt) in a Raspberry Pi 2

Rafael Laguna on the Lubuntu Blog asks if you want Lubuntu Xenial Xerus (with LXQt) to run on your Raspberry Pi 2? He writes that wxl from the Lubuntu QA Team conducted an experiment which he documented in just four simple steps.

http://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-lxqt-in-a-raspberry-pi/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Canonical News

Ubuntu is coming to a city near you

Marcin Kierdelewicz tells us the first ever Ubuntu Day; a local event “to support awareness and adoption of Ubuntu technologies in local markets.” He writes that the first Ubuntu Day will occur in Milan, Italy on Tuesday 2nd February 2016 and goes on to share the agenda and registration details.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/01/15/ubuntu-is-coming-to-a-city-near-you/

In The Press

10 Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Killing It In The Cloud

Janakiram MSV of Forbes shares various statistics to support why “Ubuntu is most preferred OS by system administrators and DevOps professionals.” Included are the number of Ubuntu instances “launched in the cloud”. In 2015, major organizations run Ubuntu, and more.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2016/01/12/10-reasons-why-ubuntu-is-killing-it-in-the-cloud/#2715e4857a0b706f52e119a2

In The Blogosphere

The one glitch in Canonical's convergence plan

Jack Wallen of TechRepublic tells us that he thinks that the Ubuntu Phone platform is far from ready as it has “a pathetic cloud presence” because the Dropbox and Google Drive apps barely work, and that syncing calendars and contacts is not easy. He first asks: “And Canonical wants to converge that with the desktop?” and finishes with another question: “Do you believe convergence can happen without a cloud presence?”

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-one-glitch-in-canonicals-convergence-plan/

Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Custom Tarballs Now Ready for Meizu MX4 and BQ Aquaris Phones

Marius Nestor, writing for Softpedia, tells us that he’s been informed of the work that has been done by the Ubuntu Touch developers in preparation for the OTA-9 software update. He says that Canonical’s Łukasz Zemczak has urged all those involved in Ubuntu Touch development to take a look at the remaining regressions ahead of the release candidate images being released.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-touch-ota-9-custom-tarballs-now-ready-for-meizu-mx4-and-bq-aquaris-phones-498946.shtml

New Ubuntu Convergence Device To Be Announced Next Month?

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that details he’s seen suggest that Canonical will showcase their progress in creating a software environment that transforms from mobile to desktop PC at the Mobile World Congress which takes place 22nd-25th February in Barcelona, Spain. He speculates what type of device has been codenamed “Frieza”, saying it could be a BQ M10 tablet which developers are using to test the convergent codebase or the “convergent phone Canonical teased back in June of last year.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-convergence-device-demo-mwc-2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Be the Best Release in Years, Here's What's New

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia writes that although Ubuntu 16.04 is still a month away from feature freeze, the release has already received some new features such as being able to move the Unity launcher, a new USB Startup Creator, and a Plymouth boot splash. He says that the developers are also working on introducing GNOME Calendar, Snappy packages, the ZFS file system, and GNOME Software but that Brasero and Empathy will be dropped.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-16-04-lts-will-be-the-best-release-in-years-here-s-what-s-new-498787.shtml

How You Can Help Test the New Ubuntu Software Center

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! informs us that in order to test the replacement for the Ubuntu Software Center in Xenial Xerus a PPA needs to be used. He advises how to add the PPA, warns us to expect missing features, crashes and bugs, and asks us to report any bugs found against the gnome-software package on Launchpad.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/test-new-ubuntu-16-04-software-center

UbuCon Summit in California to Cover Convergence, Gaming, IoT, and Everything Else

Silviu Stahie, writing for Softpedia, lets us know that it’s been a while since the last Ubuntu Summit where people gathered in the same room, and that this Summit is part of SCALE14x which takes place in Pasadena, California on January 21-22, 2016. He summarizes the events, which include a keynote by Mark Shuttleworth, a hands-on demo with Snapcraft and Ubuntu snaps, sessions about Ubuntu gaming, a discussion about Kubuntu, and talks about Ubuntu convergence.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubucon-summit-in-california-to-cover-convergence-gaming-iot-and-everything-else-498908.shtml

Canonical: One Billion People "Benefit from" Ubuntu Linux

Christopher Tozzi, The VAR Guy, reminds us that a “Canonical executive” has stated that more than one billion people benefit from Ubuntu. However, he suggests that the statement is an admission that Canonical has little idea how many people run Ubuntu as few hard statistics have been offered. Tozzi discusses the relevance of any estimate by comparing the usage with that of a pizza delivery man using a Honda car. He admits: “Many, many people do use Ubuntu in indirect ways.”

http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/canonical-one-billion-people-benefit-ubuntu-linux

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 12th January 2016

David Planella, Daniel Holbach and Nicholas Skaggs introduce another regular Ubuntu on Air! broadcast on behalf of Canonical’s Community team. They talk briefly about SCALE14x and Google Code In, and then answer general questions that are put to them on IRC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czqxsk4dNtU

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: December 2015

See here for the team report for December 2015: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/December2015

If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting

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, 15.04 and 15.10

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

Ubuntu 15.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2016

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