Issue461
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 461 for the week April 4 - 10, 2016.
In This Issue
General Community News
IRC Council Election Results
Neal Bussett writes about the election of the new Ubuntu IRC Council, which now has the following members: elky (existing member), Flannel (existing member), hggdh (incumbent), Tm_T (incumbent) and Unit193. He goes on to thank all who participated.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2016-April/001849.html
Phone Update: OTA-10 – New theme and color palette
Amrisha Prather highlights some changes in OTA-10, such as the addition of three apps that are now installed by default, and some general enhancements. She provides a link to the full change log.
http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/06/phone-update-ota-10/
The official release announcement by Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak is here: Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 released - https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg19463.html (no summary)
The press and blogosphere also celebrated the OTA-10 release with several articles. The following is a section from our editors. (no summaries here, just a list)
Ubuntu OTA-10 Brings New Apps, New Features to Ubuntu Phone - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/ubuntu-ota-10-brings-new-apps-new-features-ubuntu-phone
Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Officially Released - http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-touch-ota-10-officially-released-502633.shtml
Ubuntu OTA-10 Finally Brings VPN Support To Ubuntu Phones/Tablets - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-OTA-10
Ubuntu Touch OTA 10 Update Released; New Out-Of-The-Box Experience And VPN Support - http://www.mobipicker.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-10-update-released-new-box-experience-vpn-support/
Welcome New Members and Developers
Results from the Ubuntu Membership Board meeting on 7 April, 2016:
The membership board is pleased to say that we have new members!
Marius Quabeck | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mister_Q | https://launchpad.net/~misterq
Patrik Bubák | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Inoki | https://launchpad.net/~inoki
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2016-April/002450.html
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
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
Xubuntu: My media manager: gmusicbrowser
The Xubuntu team reminds us that Xubuntu 16.04 LTS is the first Xubuntu release without a default media manager. In the next article in this series about media managers, members of the Xubuntu team talk about their use of gmusicbrowser and why it’s the best choice for them.
http://xubuntu.org/news/my-media-manager-gmusicbrowser/
Xubuntu: The small details: Shortcut keys & Text editor and terminal color schemes
In this series of articles the Xubuntu team writes about some of the smaller details in Xubuntu which will help you use your system more efficiently. The first shares several of the default shortcut keys and how to add new ones. The second article highlights the ability to customize your environment as one of the strengths of Xubuntu and explains how to edit the color schemes of Mousepad text editor and the Xfce4 terminal emulator in the application Preferences.
http://xubuntu.org/news/small-details-shortcut-keys/ & http://xubuntu.org/news/small-details-text-editor-terminal-color-schemes/
Sam Hewitt: What's up with Unity 7?
Sam Hewitt writes about Unity’s new feature in the upcoming 16.04 to move the launcher to the bottom of the screen. He accepts that the developers have responded to requests from users who wanted this feature, even though he believes it is“very odd to suddenly give users an option that lets them alter the UI so dramatically.” He concludes by Including the terminal command to move the launcher.
http://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2016-04-06-whats-up-with-unity-7-on-ubuntu
Stéphane Graber: LXC 2.0 has been released!
Stephanie Graber announces the release of LXC 2.0, the second Long Term Support Release. “LXC 2.0,” he says, “is the result of a year of work by the LXC community with over 700 commits done by over 90 contributors.” It joins LXCFS 2.0, which just came out last week and it will very soon join LXD 2.0 to complete its collection of 2.0 container management tools. The focus of this release was stability and maintaining support for all the environments in which LXC performs best. “It will still support all kernels from 2.6.32, though the exact feature set does obviously vary based on kernel features,” states Graber. LXC 2.0 support was greatly improved for a bunch of architectures, a plethora of bugs were fixed, and other rough edges were polished.
https://www.stgraber.org/2016/04/06/lxc-2-0-has-been-released/
Simon Quigley: Contributing to Ubuntu - 0 - What is this?
Simon Quigley introduces a new blog series that he is working on to help people start contributing to Ubuntu. He says, “I plan on creating a series of blog posts in the next couple of months covering the forms of contributions I have personally participated in, and possibly a few interviews from some Ubuntu community members about their contributions.” He invites anybody with ideas for content to cover to leave a comment on that page.
http://tsimonq2.net/blog/2016/04/06/
Dustin Kirkland: Container MacCloud: Can there really only be one?
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/04/container-maccloud.html
Colin Watson: No more “Hash Sum Mismatch” errors
Colin Watson summarizes some updates to the way that the Ubuntu and Debian archives work, showing the steps that built up to the recent change in the design of the repositories. Colin says, “The solution we’ve ended up with, thanks to Michael Vogt’s work implementing it in APT, is called by-hash and should be familiar in concept to people who’ve used git: with the exception of the top-level InRelease file, index files for suites that support the by-hash mechanism may now be fetched using a URL based on one of their hashes listed in InRelease.” He points out that this is currently only supported for Xenial, as “earlier versions of Ubuntu don’t have the necessary support in APT. With this, hash mismatches on updates should be a thing of the past.”
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/no-more-hash-sum-mismatch-errors.html
Michael Hall: New Ubuntu Community Donations report
Michael Hall publishes the Community Donations report for Q3 2015. Everybody who has received these funds have used them to contribute to the Ubuntu project. The Ubuntu Community Donations Fund is regularly paying out more than it is getting in donations. Michael Hall writes: "If you like the things we’ve been able to support with this program, please consider sending it a contribution and helping us spread the word about it."
http://mhall119.com/2016/04/new-ubuntu-community-donations-report/
Other Community News
Nominations to the Tech Board
Mark Shuttleworth lists the Ubuntu Technical Board nominees, and mentions that the elections for the next Tech Board will be held soon.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2016-April/002205.html
Community team weeks 13-14 update
David Planella catches us up with the latest progress from the Canonical Community Team, featuring the projects they have worked with in the past couple weeks.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-April/001198.html
Ubuntu Cloud News
OpenStack Spotlight – Ryan Beisner & James Wengraf - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/06/employee-openstack-spotlight-part-2/
Ubuntu Phone News
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Full Circle Weekly News #11
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-11
Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 29nd March 2016
“Join the Ubuntu Community Team for another week of updates and a live Q&A. This week they [were] joined by Canonical's Dustin Kirkland to talk about the recent Ubuntu on Windows announcement, so if you're excited about that and have some questions, this is the perfect time to get them answered!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdLobNoCbxw
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E06 – La Kik - Ubuntu Podcast
“It’s Episode Six 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:
- We discuss breaking the internet (in the removing-packages-from-npm sense):
We discuss going to MoodleMoot and Debian SHA1 removal.
- We share a Command Line Lurve – glances:”
- And more
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/04/07/s09e06-la-kik/
Kubuntu Podcast #11
On April 6th 2016 we join the Kubuntu Podcast of Rick, Ovidiu and Aaron to discuss what we have been doing this month in Kubuntu land, reading user feedback, getting a Release Party together, Plasma 5.6 and much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuz5-eZMEK8
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Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
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