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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Yakkety Yak Beta 1 Released
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu in Philadelphia
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Canonical Design Team: Convergent terminal
    2. Canonical Design Team: What is the best way to display online status? We tested it
    3. Lubuntu Blog: We need your input on Lubuntu image sizes!
    4. Valorie Zimmerman: Weeeeee! Akademy and Qtcon approaching fast
    5. Robert Ancell: Introducing snapd-glib
  7. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. M10 Travel Light winners!
  8. Canonical News
  9. In The Press
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical to Replace Upstart with systemd for Ubuntu 16.10's Session Startup
    2. Canonical Releases Massive Mir 0.24.0 Display Server Update for Ubuntu Linux OS
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. 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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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 479 for the weeks of August 15 - 28, 2016.

In This Issue

General Community News

Yakkety Yak Beta 1 Released

Set Hallstrom and Simon Quigley, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announce the availability of Yakkety Yak Beta 1 for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio. They note: “Pre-releases of the Yakkety Yak are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage.”

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2016-August/003875.html

This Beta release was covered by several news sites and blogs, the following couple of articles were selected by our editors as nice complements to the official release announcement:

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

Ubuntu in Philadelphia

Elizabeth K. Joseph writes about her recent visit to Philadelphia. She starts off by writing about her talk at the Philadelphia Linux User Group meeting about Ubuntu 16.04, and she shares her slides from the talk. She goes on to talk about FOSSCON and the Ubuntu booth at the conference.

http://princessleia.com/journal/2016/08/ubuntu-in-philadelphia/

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

Canonical Design Team: Convergent terminal

Jouni Helminen of ubuntu design writes that they aim to improve the user experience (UX) of Terminal app. Jouni shows the work so far with screen captures of the app and comments on what's been done so far. More improvements are desired, and if you can help please contact Alan Pope or Jouni via email.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/08/convergent-terminal/

Canonical Design Team: What is the best way to display online status? We tested it

Rae Shambrook of ubuntu design tells us about user-testing on RCS (rich communications service) group chat with regards displaying online status. Rae goes through her test, the subjects and the findings.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/08/what-is-the-best-way-to-display-online-status-we-tested-it/

Lubuntu Blog: We need your input on Lubuntu image sizes!

The Lubuntu team want lubuntu users input regarding ISO size. Poll link is provided, and closes 2016-Aug-26 at 19:00 UTC. The poll asks what architecture you use, how many machines and most importantly if you prefer CD/1gb/2gb/4gb/DVD/8gb size.

http://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-image-sizes/

=== Jonathan Riddell: Plasma release schedule updated ====

Jonathan Riddell announces a change to the Plasma 5.8 release. A request was made from openSUSE (whom are also supporters, contributors and patrons of KDE), the Plasma team agreed to move date forward, so it’s now first Tuesday in October.

http://jriddell.org/2016/08/18/plasma-release-schedule-updated/

Valorie Zimmerman: Weeeeee! Akademy and Qtcon approaching fast

Valorie Zimmerman writes about the upcoming Akademy during Qtcon that she will be attending. She writes, “of course Kubuntu will do our annual face-to-face meeting, with as many of us as can get to Berlin.”

http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2016/08/weeeeee-akademy-and-qtcon-approaching.html

Robert Ancell: Introducing snapd-glib

Robert Ancell introduces us to snapd-glib, a new library that is intended to help Glib projects by making it easier to connect to the snaps daemon. With the code Robert provides, it is possible for snap users to easily make use of this new library.

http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2016/08/introducing-snapd-glib.html

Ubuntu Phone News

M10 Travel Light winners!

Amrisha Prashar announces the winners of the Travel Light competition. While the top two contestants will receive their own M10 tablet, other contest winners will be awarded with Strauss bluetooth speakers.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/08/23/m10-travel-light-winners/

Canonical News

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

Canonical to Replace Upstart with systemd for Ubuntu 16.10's Session Startup

Marius Nestor of Softpedia writes about Canonical's plans to replace the Upstart init system with systemd. Primarily quoting Martin Pitt from the Ubuntu Online Summit with a link to the mailing list announcement.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-to-replace-upstart-with-systemd-for-ubuntu-16-10-s-session-startup-507413.shtml

Canonical Releases Massive Mir 0.24.0 Display Server Update for Ubuntu Linux OS

Marius Nestor of Softpedia shares the latest update from the changelog, writing “Canonical has pushed a new massive update (version 0.24.0) of the Mir display server used to power the Unity 8 user interface of the next-generation Ubuntu Linux operating system.” He goes on to share some of the specific updates.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-releases-massive-mir-0-24-0-display-server-update-for-ubuntu-linux-os-507569.shtml

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 16.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

Subscribe

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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Chris Guiver
  • Chris Sirrs
  • Simon Quigley
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/

Or get involved with the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter team! We always need summary writers and editors, if you're interested, learn more at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Join

Feedback

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