Issue456


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Xenial Xerus Beta 1
    2. Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1, 2, 3, and 4 Recaps
  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. Canonical Design Team: MWC stand: open for business
    2. Marcos Costales: MWC - Days 1 - 4
    3. Jonathan Riddell: KDE neon Comes Alive!
    4. Canonical Design Team: Designing for convergence
    5. Riccardo Padovani: A talk about the future of Ubuntu with Mark Shuttleworth
  6. Other Community News
    1. Community team weeks 7-8 update
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition available for pre-order now!
    2. Ubuntu Touch OTA-9.1 released
    3. Pensamientos sobre Ubuntu Phone tras la MWC
  9. Canonical News
  10. In The Press
    1. MWC 2016: Ubuntu shows off a hybrid handset
    2. MWC 2016: Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition hands-on review
    3. Has open source hell frozen over?
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Watch: Robot Powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core Plays Football at MWC 2016
    2. MUTINY! — Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Adds Unity-Style Desktop Layout
    3. Mir 0.20 Ships With Screencasting To Virtual Output Support
    4. Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition hands-on photos
    5. Canonical chooses Linux-friendly Dragonboard 410c as Ubuntu Core on ARM 64-bit reference
  12. In Other News
    1. Full Circle #106
  13. Other Articles of Interest
  14. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 23rd February 2016
    2. Meizu Pro 5 shows off its Ubuntu software video
    3. Ubuntu Unity 8 & Convergence Demo at MWC 2016
    4. Mark Shuttleworth Talks "The Internet of Revenue Generating Things" at 4YFN 2016
    5. Full Circle Weekly News #06
  15. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  16. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  17. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. 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 456 for the week February 22 - 28, 2016.

In This Issue

  • Xenial Xerus Beta 1
  • Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1, 2, 3, and 4 Recaps
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo Events

  • Canonical Design Team: MWC stand: open for business
  • Marcos Costales: MWC - Days 1 - 4
  • Jonathan Riddell: KDE neon Comes Alive!
  • Canonical Design Team: Designing for convergence
  • Riccardo Padovani: A talk about the future of Ubuntu with Mark Shuttleworth
  • Community team weeks 7-8 update
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Phone News
  • Canonical News
  • In The Press
  • MWC 2016: Ubuntu shows off a hybrid handset
  • MWC 2016: Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition hands-on review
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Full Circle #106
  • 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 15.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Xenial Xerus Beta 1

Flocculant, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the first beta of the Xenial Xerus, which is the upcoming 16.04 LTS release. He informs us of the flavors and versions that have participated in the release: Lubuntu, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu. He goes on to explain where to download the images and suggests that those interested in following the development of the release subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2016-February/001173.html

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1, 2, 3, and 4 Recaps

Bill Bauman recaps all four days of Mobile World Congress. He summarizes several keynotes, devices, and the Ubuntu stand. He notes that Canonical received the Best of Show award for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. He also talks a bit about Big Data and how it impacts mobile providers.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/23/mobile-world-congress-2016-day-1-recap/ & http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/24/mobile-world-congress-2016-day-2-recap/ & http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/25/mobile-world-congress-2016-day-3-recap/ & http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/26/mobile-world-congress-2016-day-4-recap/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (119270) +280 over last week
  • Critical (321) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (58451) +85 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: cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox), Tim (http://askubuntu.com/users/186134/tim), Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli) and Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind)

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

Canonical Design Team: MWC stand: open for business

Steph Wilson from the Canonical Design Team shows some pictures of the Ubuntu stand at Mobile World Congress taken prior to the event.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/02/mwc-stand-open-for-business/

Marcos Costales: MWC - Days 1 - 4

Marcos Costales shares pictures from Mobile World Congress. He also describes various parts of the Ubuntu stand and some people he met while he was there. He shows pictures of Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote, Ubuntu Touch, the Ubuntu stand, and much more.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/02/mwc-day-1.html & http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/02/mwc-day-2.html & http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/02/mwc-day-3.html & http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/02/mwc-day-4.html

Jonathan Riddell: KDE neon Comes Alive!

Jonathan Riddell, from the KDE Neon team, announces the arrival of the Developer Unstable archive for KDE Neon. Riddell states, “This gives daily packages of KDE Frameworks and Plasma desktop built direct from Git master branches. Expect some breakage, it’s called unstable for a reason.” He summarizes installation instructions for Ubuntu Wily systems.

http://jriddell.org/2016/02/23/kde-neon-comes-alive/

Canonical Design Team: Designing for convergence

Jouni Helminen from the Canonical Design Team shows us the status of Unity 8/Ubuntu Touch and some default apps. He shows some screenshots of these apps and some features and design implementations. He invites anyone with questions to contact him.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/02/designing-for-convergence/

Riccardo Padovani: A talk about the future of Ubuntu with Mark Shuttleworth

Riccardo Padovani interviews Mark Shuttleworth about the future of Ubuntu. In this ten and a half minute video, Mark talks about Snappy, Ubuntu Touch, Unity, contribution to Ubuntu, the flavors, and some new devices that run Ubuntu.

https://rpadovani.com/talk-with-mark/

Other Community News

Community team weeks 7-8 update

David Planella provides some updates on behalf of the Canonical Community Team for the 7th and 8th weeks of 2016, from organization to the upcoming Ubuntu Online Summit to Ubuntu Touch Apps.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-February/001098.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition available for pre-order now!

Canonical writes that the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu edition is now available for pre-order from Meizu. The phone costs $369.99 USD and was showcased for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. “The Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition is the fifth Ubuntu device and the second joint launch between Canonical and Meizu in the last twelve months.”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/22/meizu-pro-5-ubuntu-edition-available-for-pre-order-now/

Ubuntu Touch OTA-9.1 released

Łukasz Zemczak announces the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-9.1, a bugfix release. “As always with hotfix releases, not too many user-visible changes - OTA-10 will bring us all the tasty goodies instead.” He links to the release notes and thanks everybody involved in this release.

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg18433.html

Pensamientos sobre Ubuntu Phone tras la MWC

Marcos Costales writes about his feelings on how Ubuntu Touch has changed since the beginning, now that there are more partners such as BQ and Meizu and the system is much more stable. He also highlights the winning of two MWC prizes. The article is in Spanish.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.pe/2016/02/pensamientos-sobre-ubuntu-phone-tras-la.html

Canonical News

In The Press

MWC 2016: Ubuntu shows off a hybrid handset

As part of their Mobile World Congress 2016 coverage, Chris Foxx of the BBC interviews Mark Shuttleworth about the Ubuntu Phone and convergence in a video.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35655342

MWC 2016: Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition hands-on review

Carly Page from The Inquirer provides an in-depth review of the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition. She starts off by reviewing the design which “feels like a premium device in the hand and, if it's priced below £400, could be one of the most expensive-looking smartphones in its league.” She then summarizes the display, software, performance, and camera which “proved decent during our brief time with it, and managed to capture images full of detail and natural colour even under the harsh lighting of Canonical's stand.” She concludes by sharing her positive thoughts on how it will do in the market.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2448175/mwc-2016-meizu-pro-5-ubuntu-edition-hands-on-review

Has open source hell frozen over?

Bryan Lunduke gives his views on Ubuntu’s convergence. “First, the “convergence” vision actually appears to be reaching a point where it is usable [...] this is a big freaking deal.” He expresses his amazement for some of the minor Ubuntu Touch gems, including, “The phone, when docked to a monitor, even becomes an input device; You can use it as a touchpad mouse and a virtual keyboard.”

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3036994/open-source-tools/has-open-source-hell-frozen-over.html

In The Blogosphere

Watch: Robot Powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core Plays Football at MWC 2016

Silviu Stahie from Softpedia talks about Robotis OP2 powered by Ubuntu Snappy at Mobile World Congress 2016. She notes, “This tiny robot that you see in the video below is the perfect example of an IoT device that doesn't really serve a precise purpose, but it's connected online, and it's powered by an operating system, in this case, Ubuntu.”

http://news.softpedia.com/news/watch-robot-powered-by-snappy-ubuntu-core-plays-football-in-at-mwc-2016-500838.shtml

MUTINY! — Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Adds Unity-Style Desktop Layout

Joey-Elijah Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! highlights the announcement from the Ubuntu MATE project about the entirely optional Mutiny panel layout. “Yes, that is a top menu. Yes, this is Ubuntu MATE. See you Thursday for the Beta 1 release!”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/02/ubuntu-mate-16-04-unity-style-desktop

Mir 0.20 Ships With Screencasting To Virtual Output Support

Michael Larabel from Phoronix summarizes the release of Mir 0.20, which was “in time for the next OTA update for Ubuntu Phones.” He highlights the Screencasting to Virtual Output feature that has been added to allow support for Miracast on Mir.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-0.20-Released

Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition hands-on photos

The Verge publishes several photos of the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition that was recently showcased at Mobile World Congress 2016.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11097628/meizu-pro-5-ubuntu-edition-hands-on-photos

Canonical chooses Linux-friendly Dragonboard 410c as Ubuntu Core on ARM 64-bit reference

Brian Fagioli from Beta News highlights Canonical’s announcement of the Dragonboard 410c being recognized as a development board for Ubuntu Core. "This will be the very first ARM-based 64-bit development board and SoC available for Ubuntu Core, offering makers and Internet of Things (IoT) innovators an affordable, powerful yet flexible development environment, which can scale from ARM-based servers to embedded solutions. This offering builds on the DragonBoard 410c positioning as a standardised development board for the ARM ecosystem under the umbrella of Linaro’s open source 96Boards program"

http://betanews.com/2016/02/24/canonical-linux-dragonboard-410c-ubuntu-core-arm-64bit/

In Other News

Full Circle #106

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of issue one hundred and six.

This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Run from USB, LibreOffice, and Migrating From VAX * Graphics : Inkscape * Chrome Cult: Apricity OS * Linux Labs: Building A 3D Printer and My Home Network * Ubuntu Devices: BQ M10 Tablet * Book Review: How Software Works * Ubuntu Games: Dying Light plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, and soooo much more.

Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-106

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 23rd February 2016

Daniel Holbach, Nicholas Skaggs, and David Planella present an hour of updates on behalf of the Canonical Community Team. Nicholas and Daniel open with information about Google Summer of Code and the upcoming Ubuntu Online Summit. David and Daniel then answer questions to them provided over IRC. There were some questions about Ubuntu Touch, the tablet, Snappy, and the Ubuntu font.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMyN6XcH-mw

Meizu Pro 5 shows off its Ubuntu software video

In this brief video, Luke Westaway from CNET talks about the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition. He gives a walkthrough of Ubuntu Touch and notes the specifications.

http://www.cnet.com/videos/meizu-pro-5-shows-off-its-ubuntu-software/

Ubuntu Unity 8 & Convergence Demo at MWC 2016

John Lee from Canonical gives us a walkthrough of the Ubuntu Phone and a demonstration of convergence. He overviews a few features of convergence, including a demonstration of the touchpad/on-screen-keyboard. He also gives a demonstration of the Ubuntu tablet with Unity 8 and multitasking.

http://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-unity-8-convergence-demo-at-mwc-2016/

Mark Shuttleworth Talks "The Internet of Revenue Generating Things" at 4YFN 2016

Marius Nestor of Softpedia reports and shares a video of Mark Shuttleworth, who gives a talk at Mobile World Congress 2016 about the Internet of Things and the impact it has on the world of technology. In the video, Mark highlights some IoT devices that use Ubuntu, and talks about the advantages of the Snappy application model. He goes on to point out the security and robust nature of the Snappy packaging in comparison to traditional packaging.

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/mark-shuttleworth-talks-the-internet-of-revenue-generating-things-at-4yfn-2016-500864.shtml

Full Circle Weekly News #06

A short podcast (< 10 minutes) with just the news. No chit-chat. No time wasting. Just the latest FOSS/Linux/Ubuntu news.

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-06/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 15.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2016

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