Issue488
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 488 for the week November 14 - 20, 2016.
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu Online Summit for 17.04 concludes
On the 15th and 16th of November, members of the Ubuntu community met to talk about various aspects of the next Ubuntu release, 17.04, Zesty Zapus. Tracks at the Ubuntu Online Summit this time around included Cloud, Community, Convergence and Core.
A keynote was given by Gustavo Niemeyer, which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vycbg_eTOeA
The closing summary, which includes track summaries for each of the four tracks can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mopa_IFyRsA
Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day 2016
Daniel Holbach and Svetlana Belkin remind us that 20th November is Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day and that at least once a year we should thank some specific people for their work in Ubuntu. They thank those that have organized events from small meetings to UDSs and some community members that have made improved the standard of their contributions.
https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/11/ubuntu-community-appreciation-day-3/
http://senseopenness.com/ubuntu-community-appreciation-day-2016/
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
Ubucon Europe 2016 - Days 0 & 1
Marcos Costales starts a series of articles about arriving in Essen ready for three days of UbuCon Europe. He shares some photographs of the event. Articles are in Spanish.
http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/11/ubucon-europe-2016-day-0.html
http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/11/ubucon-europe-2016-day-1.html
SeaGL 2016
Aaron Honeycutt thanks the Ubuntu community for sending him to SeaGL 2016 noting that the booth had machines running Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Ubuntu Touch.He notes that Kubuntu does not have a Release Manager and thanks for Lubuntu's Walter for giving them a starting point in understanding the release process.
http://usefoss.com/index.php/2016/11/18/seagl-2016/
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
Dimitri John Ledkov: /boot less LVM rootfs in Zesty
Dimitri John Ledkov writes about boot loaders (grub2, PReP, zipl) that work with LVM. He says that the debian-installer has been modified in Zesty so as to create LVM without dedicated /boot partition and asks for feedback about other bootloaders and platforms.
http://blog.surgut.co.uk/2016/11/boot-less-lvm-rootfs-in-zesty.html
Launchpad News: Git-to-Git imports
Colin Watson notes that Launchpad has had Git-to-Bazaar and some other code imports since 2009, which helped aid in Launchpad's original mission of tracking free software. He says that as of last year direct Git hosting support was added, and now Launchpad supports Git-to-Git code imports, otherwise known as Git mirroring. replacing many Git-to-Bazaar imports.
http://blog.launchpad.net/code/git-to-git-imports
Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Online Summit from a snap perspective
Daniel Holbach blogs about the Ubuntu Online Summit and reminds us that you can still watch all of the sessions. Daniel highlights some of the snap related sessions:
Gustavo's intro & keynote
- Daniel's own on creating snaps
Michael & Zygmunt's snap roadmap and Q&A
- Colin's demo of building snaps in Launchpad.
https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/11/ubuntu-online-summit-from-a-snap-perspective/
Adam Stokes: conjure-up Canonical Kubernetes under LXD today!
Adam Stokes informs us that Localhost (LXD) is now a supported cloud type for deployment in the Canonical distribution of Kubernetes. It's confined within a LXD containers and managed by Juju. He says that with the aid of conjure-up, a Kubernetes implementation can be deployed on a public cloud like AWS, GCE or Azure in about twenty minutes. Adam shows us the commands and some screenshots to help us understand the process.
http://blog.astokes.org/conjure-up-canonical-kubernetes-under-lxd-today/
Ubuntu Cloud News
Charm Partner Newsletter: November 2016 - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/11/15/charm-partner-newsletter-november-2016/
Canonical News
Making your snaps available to the store using snapcraft - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/11/15/making-your-snaps-available-to-the-store-using-snapcraft/
Microsoft loves Linux. SQL Server Public Preview available on Ubuntu - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-loves-linux-ubuntu-available-on-sql-server-public-preview/
How to create Snap packages on Qt applications - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/11/17/how-to-create-snap-packages-on-qt-applications/
In The Blogosphere
Ubuntu 16.10 & Unity 8 overview
Dedoimedo reviews the latest release of Ubuntu, 16.10 Yakkety Yak, evaluating several aspects, including installation and package management, default applications and making Unity 8 usable. They highlight some of the problems with scopes and in their conclusion they write: “There's truly nothing exciting in Yakkety Yak, so at least this hybrid concept brings in some color into a dreary, rainy, foggy, smoggy reality. But it needs a lot more work. A lot more.”
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-yak-unity-8.html
What’s In Store for Unity 8 in Ubuntu 17.04 (And Beyond)
Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! Assures us that the developer of Unity 8 which was introduced in Ubuntu 16.10 will be refined to “deliver a truly converged desktop experience.” He quotes from a recent Q&A session at the recent Ubuntu Online Summit which indicates that there is now a heavy focus on developing Unity 8. Joey shows us a screenshot of what we might expect to see and quotes Canonical’s Will Cooke as saying: “by 18.04 everything will be Snaps and Unity 8 all the way down.”
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/ubuntu-1704-zesty-unity-8
Michael Larabel of Phoronix and Marius Nestor of Softpedia wrote similar posts about how future releases of Ubuntu and Unity 8 will look:
Unity 8 & All Snaps-Based Ubuntu Still Expected For 18.04 LTS -http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-17.04-Unity-8-Snaps-Talk
Ubuntu 17.04 to Offer an Evolved Unity 8 Session As More Apps Will Run as Snaps - http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-17-04-to-offer-an-evolved-unity-8-session-as-more-apps-will-run-as-snaps-510281.shtml
Linux Kernel 4.9 Lands in Ubuntu 17.04's Proposed Repositories, Based on RC5
Marius Nestor of Softpedia informs us that the recently released 4.9 RC5 kernel is available in the proposed channel of Ubuntu 17.04 which is due for release in April 2017. He says that the kernel should land in the stable repositories soon but predicts that Ubuntu 17.04 might actually ship with a later 4.10 kernel.
This new Ubuntu Linux laptop has a 4K screen and Nvidia Pascal GPU
Agam Shah, writing for TechWord, briefly reviews System76’s 15.6-inch Oryx Pro laptop with a 4K screen which is preloaded with either Ubuntu 16.04 or 16.10, and is priced between US $1,499 and $7,012 depending on configuration. He makes a brief comparison to Dell’s XPS13, highlights some of the hardware features and notes that the laptop uses a Intel Skylake chip rather than the newer Kaby Lake chips.
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/610404/new-ubuntu-linux-laptop-has-4k-screen-nvidia-pascal-gpu/
Mozilla Firefox 50.0 Web Browser Lands in All Supported Ubuntu OSes, Update Now
Marius Nestor, writing for Softpedia, informs us that Firefox 50.0 is available in all of the officially supported Ubuntu repositories. He says that the release is not a major update but as a total of 18 security fixes have been addressed we should update as soon as possible.
Kubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak - Cautiously good?
Dedoimedo reviews the latest release of Kubuntu, 16.10 Yakkety Yak, evaluating several aspects, including various parts of the Live Session, the installation and package management, default applications and customization. They highlight some of the problems and in their conclusion write: “Kubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak is nothing to be proud of, but it is an okay Plasma release that has redeemed a whole generation of failed distributions in the past year or so.”
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kubuntu-yakkety-yak.html
Featured Audio and Video
S09E38 – Jon’s Second Breakfast - Ubuntu Podcast
It’s Episode Thirty-Eight of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Jon Spriggs are connected and speaking to your brain.
The same line up as last week are here for another episode.
In this week’s show:
- We announce the winner of our Thing Explainer competition.
- We share a Command Line Lurve:
- mircapture – Wrapper for mirscreencast and ffmpeg to record Unity 8 desktop videos
- We also discussed re-working our home network and Steam box upgrades.
- And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!
- This weeks feedback included some interesting Raspberry Pi games from Albert Hickey
That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to show@ubuntupodcast.org.
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/11/17/s09e38-jons-second-breakfast/
Kubernetes the Easy Way
In a short video, Jorge Castro shows us how to get up and running with the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes which he says is easy for anyone to deploy on any cloud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7nMFVaOOi8
Full Circle Weekly News #43
Just a quick message to let you know that Full Circle Weekly News #43 is out: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-43 and, Full Circle Magazine #114 came out a couple of weeks ago: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-114/
The show is also available via: RSS: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/feed/podcast Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=85347&refid=stpr TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/Full-Circle-Weekly-News-p855064/ and PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/the-full-circle-weekly-news
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - November 15, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Newsletter/2016-11-15
Security Team - November 14, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20161114
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, 16.04 and 16.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
Ubuntu 16.10 Updates
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