Issue466
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 466 for the week May 16 - 22, 2016.
In This Issue
General Community News
Thank you [Community Council]
Mark Shuttleworth writes a short post thanking the Ubuntu Community Council for their proactive interest in keeping the community happy. He concludes: “They say that it’s tough at the top because the easy problems don’t get escalated, and that is particularly true of the CC. So far, they are doing us proud.”
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1498
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
Danish Team Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party at Aarhus Library
The Danish LoCo Team, especially the local team from Aarhus, shared with us that had a great day at the Aarhus Library on April 23rd, celebrating the release of Ubuntu 16.04. At this release party they talked about Ubuntu, helped a few people install Ubuntu, and sent others home with either DVDs or USB sticks.
Photos from the event can be found here: https://ubuntudanmark.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20891&p=148433#p148433
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
Dustin Kirkland: Byobu Hollywood Melodrama and Ubuntu Featured on NBCNews!
Dustin Kirkland writes about a script he wrote years ago, that carved up a Ubuntu Byobu terminal into something you might see in a hacker movie. He shares that it was recently used on NBCNews in a piece about 'ransomware'. Screenshots and a video are provided.
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/05/byobu-hollywood-melodrama-and-ubuntu.html
Canonical Design Team: Colour palette updates
Rae Shambrook tells us about the evolving Suru design language used by Ubuntu, writing that Suru is based upon Japanese aesthetics of minimalism, lightness and fluidity producing a modern look. In this blog post she focuses on color and shares show the old versus new color palettes and the increases the number of colors from 7 to 13.
http://design.canonical.com/2016/05/colour-palette-updates/
Kubuntu Wire: Plasma 5.6.4 available in Kubuntu 16.04 Backports
The Kubuntu team announces the availability of Plasma 5.6.4 in the 16.04 backports repository and provide instructions for how to install it
http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=950
Ubuntu Phone News
Ubuntu Touch on a tablet… it’s a N7 not a M10
Aaron Honeycutt talks about his experience using Ubuntu Touch on his Nexus 7 2013 WiFi Edition for the past few weeks. He cites a few bugs when using rc-proposed and some features that work.
http://usefoss.com/index.php/2016/05/20/ubuntu-touch-on-a-tablet-its-a-n7-not-a-m10/
Canonical News
Digital signage solution, Screenly, chooses Canonical’s Ubuntu Core
Thibaut Rouffineau from Canonical writes about Screenly’s recent decision to adopt Ubuntu Core to use on the Raspberry Pi. He highlights the advantages of using Ubuntu Core for Screenly and points out some convenient features of Ubuntu Core.
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
Other Articles of Interest
ZFS comes to Debian, thanks to licensing workaround - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/16/zfs_comes_to_debian_thanks_to_licensing_workaround/
Featured Audio and Video
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - May 17, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Newsletter/2016-05-17
Security Team - May 16, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20160516
Server Team - May 17, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20160517
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, 15.10 and 16.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
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