Issue457
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 457 for the week February 29 - March 6, 2016.
In This Issue
General Community News
Welcome New Members and Developers
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
Attending the February Tijuana Tech Meetup.
Philip Ballew tells us about his "chance to go and promote Ubuntu, just south of my home in San Diego at the Tijuana Intercomunidades meetup." He emphasizes his enthusiasm to share Ubuntu further in northern Mexico.
https://philipballew.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/tijuiana-tech-meetup/
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
Other Community News
Ubuntu MATE February 2016 supporters
Martin Wimpress of the Ubuntu MATE project thanks the people who donated funds to the Ubuntu MATE project in February of 2016. "Many thanks to everyone who donated to the Ubuntu MATE project this month. You have been generous as always and ensured that we can meet all the costs associated with running the Ubuntu MATE project and the community site. In fact, this month we are able to reward some developers for working on Ubuntu MATE projects."
https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-february-2016-supporters/
Ubuntu Cloud News
Juju 2.0 and LXD opens a whole new dimension to developing BI apps - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/01/juju-2-0-and-lxd-opens-a-whole-new-dimension-to-developing-bi-apps/
Cognitive computing, Ubuntu and POWER8 - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/02/cognitive-computing-ubuntu-and-power8/
Spinning up Pentaho Data Integration quickly with Juju - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/03/spinning-up-pentaho-data-integration-quickly-with-juju/
Ubuntu Phone News
"Ubuntu Love"! [Phone + Apps = Freedom]
Marcos Costales points out some of the apps for the Ubuntu Phone. He highlights some apps and a brief description of what they do in a paragraph. He mentions Podbird, Dekko, OSMScout, and some more generic apps such as the file manager and the terminal. He ends by thanking the Ubuntu Phone developers for their work.
http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/03/ubuntu-love-phone-apps-freedom.html
Why does reinventing the Personal Mobile experience matter?
Following the release of the first Ubuntu Tablet, which is the “first of our fully converged devices,” Amrisha Prashar announces the Ubuntu Convergence Competition. The competition asks: “With this, we want to know what your life would look like if all your computing needs fitted into one device?” Responses should be made on Twitter using the hashtag #UbuntuReinvents for a chance to win the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition.
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/03/why-does-reinventing-the-personal-mobile-experience-matter/
Canonical News
In The Press
Converged PC and smartphone is the future, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth
Tim Anderson from The Register interviewed Mark Shuttleworth at Mobile World Congress 2016. “Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, told The Register that converged devices – phones that can also be PCs – are the future of personal computing.” He highlights Mark’s statement, “People have said that’s a little crazy, and now suddenly we’ve got some of the biggest companies in the world saying that’s a great idea.” Tim then goes on to highlight some of the skepticism from the technology community about the Ubuntu Phone and some downfalls of Ubuntu Touch. “For this reason, your next phone is unlikely to run Ubuntu.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/03/converged_pc_and_smartphone_future_mark_shuttleworth/
Baby Ubuntus toddle forth into the big scary world of beta
Scott Gilbertson of The Register notes some of the incoming changes for the Ubuntu flavors in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). He highlights the changes in each flavor and ends with “That's good advice for any of these releases – this is a beta release, so install at your own risk.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/03/ubuntu_16_04_little_linuxes_beta_review/
In The Blogosphere
This Is The New Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Default Wallpaper
Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! highlights the new wallpaper for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). He also gives a brief description of the image. “Angular geometric accents are retained, and the design bathes in a gradient growing across the official Ubuntu color spectrum. What starts in deep Canonical purple finishes in bright community orange at the upper-right of the image.” He then gives download links for the new background image.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/02/ubuntu-16-04-default-wallpaper
10 reasons why you should stop picking on Ubuntu Unity
Jack Wallen for Tech Republic points out that Unity has received some criticism in the past that was warranted at the time, but that it has improved significantly. Jack writes about ten different reasons why you should consider it again. He highlights convergence, Ubuntu Touch, eliminated privacy risks, and the new ability to move the launcher. He ends by saying: “Ubuntu Unity is not the desktop pariah you once thought it was. This desktop environment has evolved into a beautiful, efficient interface that does not deserve the scorn and derision heaped upon it by so many.”
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-reasons-why-you-should-stop-picking-on-ubuntu-unity/
Ubuntu convergence finally impresses me
Jack Wallen for Tech Republic points out that he is impressed with the Ubuntu convergence concept and points out some pros and cons of convergence and Ubuntu Touch. “I hope this happens. Canonical and the Ubuntu Phone developers have been working tirelessly on this project and it needs (nay, deserves) a win of this magnitude.”
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ubuntu-convergence-finally-impresses-me/
Ubuntu Is Close To Finally Removing Python 2 From Their Desktop ISO
Michael Larabel from Phoronix summarizes Barry Warsaw’s update and push to get Python 2 off of the desktop image for Ubuntu. “He explains that it's in the printer space the cause for still keeping Python 2 around... "system-config-printer is already itself ported to Python 3, but it transitively depends on Python 2 through the chain of python3-smbc to libsmbclient to samba-libs to libpython2.7. So the real problem is fully porting Samba to Python 3. Ubuntu is not the only distro converging on this bottleneck."”
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-D-Still-Has-Python2
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 1st March 2016
Alan Pope and Nicholas Skaggs present an hour of updates on behalf of the Canonical Community Team. They open with announcements about Google Summer of Code and Ubuntu Online Summit. They then answer questions to them provided over IRC. The questions were primarily about Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8, with some miscellaneous questions as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heurx3DqUlY
Juju Office Hours for March 2016
Jorge Castro hosts “an open Q+A about everything happening in the Juju ecosystem.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=318TKYlxV4w
Keynote: The Magic of Application Modelling
Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the Config Management Camp, Gent, Belgium on “The Magic of Application Modelling.”
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/01/the-magic-of-application-modelling/
Full Circle Weekly News #07
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-07/
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - March 1, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Newsletter/2016-03-01
Security Team - February 29, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20160229
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 15.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
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