Issue458


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  3. LoCo Events
  4. The Planet
    1. Forums Council: Ubuntu Membership via Forum contributions
    2. Canonical Design Team: Community Interview: Bartosz Kosiorek
    3. Svetlana Belkin: Updating Ubuntu Wiki Teams Page: Seeking For Correct Information
    4. Kevin DuBois: Mir and Vulkan Demo
    5. Timo Aaltonen: No Catalyst/fglrx video driver in Ubuntu 16.04
    6. LXD 2.0: Blog post series [0-1/12]
    7. Timo Aaltonen: Xserver 1.18.2, Mesa 11.2.0-rc3 in staging ppa
  5. Other Community News
    1. Snappy 16.04 - we'd like your feedback
    2. ubuntu-doc [desktop] Call for help
    3. Community team weeks 9-10 update
  6. Ubuntu Cloud News
  7. In The Press
    1. System 76 in Denver shows how easy it is to use Ubuntu Linux computers
    2. Dell's Ubuntu-powered Precision Sputnik now available worldwide
  8. In The Blogosphere
  9. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 8th March 2016
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E02 – Crash Test Pumpkin - Ubuntu Podcast
    3. Full Circle Weekly News #08
  10. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  11. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  12. 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
  13. Subscribe
  14. Archives
  15. Additional Ubuntu News
  16. Conclusion
  17. Credits
  18. Glossary of Terms
  19. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  20. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 458 for the week March 7 - 13, 2016.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo Events

  • Forums Council: Ubuntu Membership via Forum contributions
  • Canonical Design Team: Community Interview: Bartosz Kosiorek
  • Svetlana Belkin: Updating Ubuntu Wiki Teams Page: Seeking For Correct Information

  • Kevin DuBois: Mir and Vulkan Demo

  • Timo Aaltonen: No Catalyst/fglrx video driver in Ubuntu 16.04
  • LXD 2.0: Blog post series [0-1/12]
  • Timo Aaltonen: Xserver 1.18.2, Mesa 11.2.0-rc3 in staging ppa
  • Snappy 16.04 - we'd like your feedback
  • ubuntu-doc [desktop] Call for help
  • Community team weeks 9-10 update
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • 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!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (119618) +135 over last week
  • Critical (332) -12 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (58643) +147 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: Byte Commander (http://askubuntu.com/users/367990/byte-commander), muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli), cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox) and Luis Alvarado (http://askubuntu.com/users/7035/luis-alvarado)

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

Forums Council: Ubuntu Membership via Forum contributions

The Forums Council notes that it’s been awhile since a forum member became a Ubuntu member through forum contributions alone, and it was feared this was because of unclear membership instructions. To correct this they explain wiki page has been rewritten, plus a tutorial for ‘code of conduct’ created. So if you’re a forum contributor & would like Ubuntu membership, check out the new wiki & Launchpad page.

https://ubuntuforumsorg.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/ubuntu-membership-via-forum-contributions/

Canonical Design Team: Community Interview: Bartosz Kosiorek

Rae Shambrook of Ubuntu design posts a ‘get to know a developer’ question & answer session with Bartosz Kosiorek. Bartosz is from Poland and currently working on Ubuntu Clock & Calculator, having started contributing in 2008.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/03/community-interview-bartosz-kosiorek/

Svetlana Belkin: Updating Ubuntu Wiki Teams Page: Seeking For Correct Information

Svetlana Belkin blogs about the “Teams” wiki page on the Ubuntu Community being [partially] incorrect. To correct this Svetlana plans to update the page, but first she is seeking out correct information from each team so as to update team details on the wiki page.

http://senseopenness.com/updating-ubuntu-wiki-teams-page-seeking-for-correct-information/

Kevin DuBois: Mir and Vulkan Demo

Kevin DuBois has been working on “replumbing” Mir’s buffer control, with technical lead Cemil working on hooking that API into the Vulkan/MIR WSI. A brief summary of Vulkan is provided, including links to Vulkan pages, wikipedia entries & videos.

http://kdubois.net/?p=2056

Timo Aaltonen: No Catalyst/fglrx video driver in Ubuntu 16.04

Timo Aaltonen tells us that Catalyst/fglrx has been removed from Xenial [16.04] including of course the reason why. Machines currently using it will be moved to open driver stack and every effort is being made to make this painless. Timo’s blog ends with an upgrade-path that may need more thought before the scheduled release of 14.04.5 in August 2016.

https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/no-catalystfglrx-video-driver-in-ubuntu-16-04/

LXD 2.0: Blog post series [0-1/12]

Stephane Graber’s talks about the upcoming final release of LXC, LXD & LXCFS 2.0 and tells us about the work over the last eighteen months that went into the LXD project. It’s the start of a blog-post series broken into parts. Part 1 tells us what LXD is, how LXD relates to Docker/Rkt, LXD’s main components and more, plus provides links should more information be required.

https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/11/lxd-2-0-blog-post-series-012/ & https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/11/lxd-2-0-introduction-to-lxd-112/

Timo Aaltonen: Xserver 1.18.2, Mesa 11.2.0-rc3 in staging ppa

Timo Aaltonen informs the community about the latest Xserver to land in a staging PPA, which will “move to the main repository next week.” He invites testing and bug reports to be filed while it’s in the PPA, concluding “Happy testing!”

https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/xserver-1-18-2-mesa-11-2-0-rc3-in-staging-ppa/

Other Community News

Snappy 16.04 - we'd like your feedback

Daniel Holbach and Didier Roche are looking for feedback about Ubuntu Snappy 16.04. “While the team is still busy getting everything ready, we would like to get your feedback and hear what your experience was like and how you feel about 16.04.”

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-app-devel/2016-March/000632.html

ubuntu-doc [desktop] Call for help

Gunnar Hjalmarsson from the Ubuntu Documentation team asks for help with the documentation for Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS). “It would be great if a few persons, who read this, could spend a few hours the next 7 days with reviewing the desktop docs, and at first hand identify out of date contents.”

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2016-March/019765.html

Community team weeks 9-10 update

David Planella from the Canonical Community Team gives a summary of the team’s progress within the community. There are some updates with the wiki, Snappy, core apps, and much more.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-March/001124.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

In The Press

System 76 in Denver shows how easy it is to use Ubuntu Linux computers

Tamara Chuang of the Denver Post interviews Emma Marshall of System76 about Ubuntu as an alternative to Windows and the systems that System76 provides. The article goes on to give some tips about getting started with Ubuntu and how to use it to review an older computer.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_29603044/not-just-geeks-linux-user-friendly-version-is

Dell's Ubuntu-powered Precision Sputnik now available worldwide

Gavin Clarke of The Register writes about the new worldwide availability of the Precision Sputnik, “one-time skunkworks Ubuntu developer PC.” He covers the basic specs and gives a short background of Project Sputnik, which began in 2012.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/11/dell_sputnik_precision_world_wide/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 8th March 2016

David Planella and Michael Hall host this week's Q&A, with special guest Marius Gripsgård, the author of the Ubuntu phone ports to the OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, and founder of the UBPorts.

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

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E02 – Crash Test Pumpkin - Ubuntu Podcast

It’s Episode Two of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week's show:

  • Martin interviews Ting-Ray Chang, User Experience Researcher at Canonical, about usability testing Ubuntu.
  • We discuss playing Human Resource Machine and testing out the Raspberry Pi 3.
  • We share a Command Line Lurve
  • And more

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/03/10/s09e02-crash-test-pumpkin/

Full Circle Weekly News #08

​ 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-08/

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 15.10

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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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue458 (last edited 2016-03-14 17:13:12 by lyz)