Issue468


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 released
  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 News
    1. Ubucon Paris 16.04. Day 2
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Kubuntu: Plasma 5.6.4 available in 16.04 Backports
    2. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Can I haz MainView in a Window?
    3. Sebastian Kügler: Multiscreen in Plasma 5.7 and beyond
    4. Jorge Castro: Nvidia PPA download statistics for May
    5. Zygmunt Krynicki: Bug #1587445 is no more; Thank you Thibran!
    6. Kaj Ailomaa: Making Music on Ubuntu Studio – Prologue
    7. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing the Snappy Playpen
    8. Svetlana Belkin: Review of System 76 Lemur
    9. Aaron Honeycutt: Ubuntu app dev – uCycle
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Still and rigid or adaptable? Tell us about your app
  9. Canonical News
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Why Ubuntu-based Distros Are Leaders
    2. Snaps Can Now Integrate With Unity 7 Desktop Features
    3. Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Switches to a Universal Local DNS Resolver Service
    4. Verdict and 10 things to know about Ubuntu bq Aquaris M10
    5. Watch: Mycroft AI Running on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Linux OS
    6. It Will Soon Be Possible to Deliver Many Popular Games as Snaps for Ubuntu 16.04
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Phone Unboxing [Video]
    2. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 31st May 2016
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo - S09E14 – El Sputniko - Ubuntu Podcast
    4. Full Circle Weekly News #20
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.10 and 16.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 468 for the week May 30 - June 5, 2016.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 released
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Ubucon Paris 16.04. Day 2

  • LoCo Events

  • Kubuntu: Plasma 5.6.4 available in 16.04 Backports

  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Can I haz MainView in a Window?

  • Sebastian Kügler: Multiscreen in Plasma 5.7 and beyond
  • Jorge Castro: Nvidia PPA download statistics for May
  • Zygmunt Krynicki: Bug #1587445 is no more; Thank you Thibran!
  • Kaj Ailomaa: Making Music on Ubuntu Studio – Prologue
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing the Snappy Playpen
  • Svetlana Belkin: Review of System 76 Lemur
  • Aaron Honeycutt: Ubuntu app dev – uCycle
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Still and rigid or adaptable? Tell us about your app
  • Canonical News
  • In The Blogosphere
  • 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, 15.10 and 16.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 released

After a slight delay, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak announces the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-11. He links to the release notes which include changes, image numbers, issues and commitlogs. He concludes: "Once again big thanks to everyone participating in this release! It was another huge one with many devices to consider, making it a more challenging every time. Let's just keep on rolling!

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg20868.html & https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ReleaseNotes/OTA-11

Our editors have also collected the following articles about the OTA-11 release from around the community and the blogosphere:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (122913) +300 over last week
  • Critical (373) -4 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (60540) +209 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: Jacob Vlijm (http://askubuntu.com/users/72216/jacob-vlijm), amias channer (http://askubuntu.com/users/541244/amias-channer), Mark Kirby (http://askubuntu.com/users/75060/mark-kirby), JonasCz (http://askubuntu.com/users/383125/jonascz) and mooglemann (http://askubuntu.com/users/154116/mooglemann)

Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Ubucon Paris 16.04. Day 2

Marcos Costales shares with us an overview and photos of the final day of Ubucon Paris in celebration of the release of Ubuntu 16.04.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/05/ubucon-paris-1604-day-2.html

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

Kubuntu: Plasma 5.6.4 available in 16.04 Backports

The Kubuntu team announces the availability of Plasma 5.6.4 in the backports PA. Plasma 5.6 was released in March with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. Here you can find instructions on how to obtain the latest release.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-6-4-available-in-16-04-backports/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Can I haz MainView in a Window?

Zoltán Balogh for the App Developer blog writes that “apps are currently advised to use a MainView as the root item, which can have a width and a height used as the window dimensions in a windowed environment - on phones and tablets by default all apps are always full screen.” He goes on to say that as soon as users resize the window, some apps may no longer look great. QtQuick.Window solves this by providing minimum/maximum/Width/Height properties. This article describes how to utilize this function.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/05/30/can-i-haz-mainview-window-post/

Sebastian Kügler: Multiscreen in Plasma 5.7 and beyond

Sebastian Kügler provides information about the status in Multiscreen in Plasma 5.7. He shares that even though there are problems with restoring previously set up configurations, and around the primary display mechanism, they are currently working on fixes. As they put it, it’s the stuff nightmares are made of. “Multiscreen support requires many different components to play in tune with each other, and they’re usually divided into separate processes communicating via different channels with each other.” A fix is in the works.

http://vizzzion.org/blog/2016/05/multiscreen-in-plasma-5-7-and-beyond/

Jorge Castro: Nvidia PPA download statistics for May

Jorge Castro discusses Nvidia driver downloads. “The biggest change is 364.15 is the new most popular version of the driver, and of course, we’ve added xenial as a new series.”

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2016/06/01/nvidia-ppa-download-statistics-for-may/

Zygmunt Krynicki: Bug #1587445 is no more; Thank you Thibran!

Zygmunt Krynicki thanks Thibran for a bug fix, writing “This bug was opened less than 24 hours ago. Thibran forked the code, followed our hacking instructions, proposed the fix on github, talked to us on IRC (#snappy) and got his contribution merged.”

http://www.zygoon.pl/2016/06/bug-1587445-is-no-more-thank-you-thibran.html

Kaj Ailomaa: Making Music on Ubuntu Studio – Prologue

Kaj Ailomaa begins his blog series giving insights about recording and planning using Ubuntu Studio. “I will be writing about as many aspects of the process, ranging from the psychology of the musicianship to the technical sides of studio recording, and what is involved in writing the actual music,” says Kaj. His series will focus how he managed to realize his musical projects.

http://zequence.net/making-music-on-ubuntu-studio-prologue/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing the Snappy Playpen

Daniel Holbach announces the release of Snappy Playpen, a software utility that enables the sharing of apps through the Ubuntu store. Interested developers are encouraged to visit the project’s page on GitHub and to contribute in the upcoming “free for all week”, which will allow volunteers to figure out exactly how they want to contribute.

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/06/03/announcing-snappy-playpen/

Svetlana Belkin: Review of System 76 Lemur

Svetlana Belkin writes an in depth review of System 76. System 76 is an Ubuntu based laptop with a 14.1” 1080p display, and 6th gen Core i3, i5, or i7 processor. She gives her opinion on various aspects of the laptop.

http://senseopenness.com/review-of-system-76-lemur/

Aaron Honeycutt: Ubuntu app dev – uCycle

Aaron Honeycutt talks about some of his work on Ubuntu Touch, noting that he's prefixing his projects with 'u' as a naming scheme, such as his new uCycle app for Bike/Motorcycle weather. He covers some of his first steps in this project and projected mock-ups for future changes to the user interface.

http://usefoss.com/index.php/2016/06/04/ubuntu-app-dev-ucycle/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Still and rigid or adaptable? Tell us about your app

Amrisha Prashar announces a new competition has been announced to inspire people to make their apps “convergent.” She shares that Ubuntu believes that convergence is the future because less time can be spent coding different apps with more focus on user experience. She notes that with its SDK AdaptivePageLayout component it is now easy for you to write apps with one code base that can run across devices and provides instructions on how to get involved.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/06/01/still-and-rigid-or-adaptable-tell-us-about-your-app/

Canonical News

In The Blogosphere

Why Ubuntu-based Distros Are Leaders

Matt Hartley, of Datamation.com, admits that he has tried multiple distros over the years. But one of the distros that has had the most impact on him is Ubuntu. In this article, he explores why he believes "wins the Linux distribution wars" and its influence on the Linux desktop as a whole.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/why-ubuntu-based-distros-are-leaders.html

Snaps Can Now Integrate With Unity 7 Desktop Features

Joey-Elijah Sneddon, of OMG! Ubuntu!, writes that a number of welcome desktop integration features arriving in the latest ‘micro release’ of Snappy. “Snapd 2.0.5 enables software packaged in the new format to display indicator applets in the system tray and deliver native system notifications,” says Sneddon. He reports that Snapd 2.0.5 will land in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. This article also touches on future features such as font sharing.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/snaps-can-now-integrate-unity-7-desktop-features

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Switches to a Universal Local DNS Resolver Service

Marius Nestor, of Softpedia, writes “Ubuntu 16.10 is currently in heavy development these days, and it is getting all sorts of new GNU/Linux technologies and improvements.” Nestor states that one of the technologies implemented in Ubuntu 16.10 is “a new, universal local DNS resolver service for all Ubuntu Linux flavors, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Touch.” The article also touches on system230 which is now available in Ubuntu 16.10.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-16-10-yakkety-yak-switches-to-a-universal-local-dns-resolver-service-504770.shtml

Verdict and 10 things to know about Ubuntu bq Aquaris M10

This article, by JC Torres for SlashGear, discusses and summarizes the Ubuntu Touch platform. “The bq Aquaris M10 is a promising start to a new kind of convergent computing but is hampered by decent but mediocre hardware and work-in-progress software,” says Torres. “Mobile devices, especially smartphones, are becoming more powerful every year and are practically taking over our computing lives.” He concurs that Ubuntu Touch is a convergence device.

http://www.slashgear.com/verdict-and-10-things-to-know-about-ubuntu-bq-aquaris-m10-02442464/

Watch: Mycroft AI Running on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Linux OS

Marius Nestor, of Softpedia, writes that Mycroft AI can run on Ubuntu GNOME. Mycroft is a new device technology that can connect to your house, and act like a virtual AI (artificial intelligence). Nestor writes that it is available for desktop Linux. Also included are instructions on how to to try it on your system.

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/watch-mycroft-ai-running-on-ubuntu-gnome-16-04-lts-xenial-xerus-linux-os-504811.shtml

Marius Nestor, of Softpedia, writes that “Canonical's Zygmunt Krynicki and Michael Vogt have announced the debut of snapd 2.0.5, the fifth maintenance release in the stable 2.0 series of the Snappy daemon for Ubuntu Linux.” snapd 2.0.5 is not a notable release, but it improves the Snap integration for the Unity 7 desktop environment on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) in the way that it adds more support for FreeDesktop, KDE, and D-Bus Menu notifications. He writes that by and large, there are the obvious enhancements that should make the Snappy experience much better.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/it-will-soon-be-possible-to-deliver-many-popular-games-as-snaps-for-ubuntu-16-04-504812.shtml

Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Phone Unboxing [Video]

Joey-Elizah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that “the Meizu PRO 5 has been available to buy for over month — providing you can find it ‘in stock’ on the western-facing side of the JD web store.” User videos are now beginning to surface around the Internet. This is a six minute video of Sneddon unboxing the product. Although he admits that the video is “shaky” it is intended to give consumers a review of the product.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/meizu-pro-5-unboxing

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 31st May 2016

The Community Team at Canonical holds its weekly Q&A session, answering questions from the audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81AyvMpd3Wo

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo - S09E14 – El Sputniko - Ubuntu Podcast

It’s Episode Fourteen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain. We’re here again but a man down! In this week’s show:

  • We interview Barton George of the Dell Sputnik laptop project.

  • We also discuss using HipChat.

  • We share a Command Line Lurve – waybackpack. A Python way to access old websites archived on the WayBack Machine on Archive.org.

  • And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!
    • Pyra Handheld
    • Contribute to Ubuntu by testing SRUs

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/06/02/s09e14-el-sputniko/

Full Circle Weekly News #20

Full Circle Weekly News #20 is out: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-20/

and, Full Circle Magazine #109 came out last week: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-109/

The show is also available via:

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.10 and 16.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 15.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2021

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