Issue504


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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 504 for the weeks March 27 - April 9, 2017.

In This Issue

  • Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Events

  • Alan Pope: Snapcraft Docs Day
  • Bryan Quigley: Juju's localhost LXD now works with offline images
  • Nish Aravamudan: iSCSI initiator names in cloud-images
  • Ted Gould: X11 apps on Ubuntu Personal
  • Canonical Design Team: What we learned at our first official GV design sprint
  • Dustin Kirkland: A Thank-You Note to the HackerNews Community, from Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Phone News
  • Canonical News
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and 16.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence

Mark Shuttleworth, on behalf of Canonical, announces changes coming to the Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu’s convergence effort. He writes, “I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.” He explains that the focus will now be “in the areas which are contributing to the growth of the company.”

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/

This announcement was covered by several sites, the following are several articles selected by our editors:

Welcome New Members and Developers

Simon Quigley, on behalf of the Ubuntu Membership Board, announces the latest Ubuntu Member:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (130948) +529 over last issue
  • Critical (436) -3 over last issue
  • Unconfirmed (65410) +453 over last issue

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

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

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

Alan Pope: Snapcraft Docs Day

Alan Pope writes about Snapcraft Docs Day, an event to “ensure our documentation and tutorials are useful and accurate.” He gives details about the event, when it happened, and how to get involved.

http://popey.com/blog/posts/snapcraft-docs-day.html

Bryan Quigley: Juju's localhost LXD now works with offline images

Bryan Quigley writes a short blog post about offline Juju images with LXD, and links to the bug that this fixed.

https://bryanquigley.com/howto/jujus-localhost-lxd-now-works-with-offline-images

Nish Aravamudan: iSCSI initiator names in cloud-images

Nish Aravamudan writes about a bug that he fixed with iSCSI initiator names. He explains, “The iSCSI initiator name is intended to be unique, so that you can not only uniquely identify which system is using a given target on the iSCSI server, but also, if desired, restrict which initiators can use which targets.” He gives more details about the fix and links to the relevant bug reports.

https://naccblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/iscsi-initiator-names-in-cloud-images/

Ted Gould: X11 apps on Ubuntu Personal

Ted Gould writes about running X11 applications on a Unity 8 desktop with Mir. He explains the effort to snap all of the components, and explains how that will function for the end-user.

http://gould.cx/ted/blog/2017/04/05/X11-apps-on-Ubuntu-Personal/

Canonical Design Team: What we learned at our first official GV design sprint

Inayaili de León Persson from the Canonical Design Team writes a detailed post about the first sprint they did “as outlined in The Sprint Book, by Google Ventures’ Jake Knapp.” She shows what they did each day, and what they got out of the sprint.

https://design.canonical.com/2017/04/what-we-learned-at-our-first-official-gv-design-sprint/

Dustin Kirkland: A Thank-You Note to the HackerNews Community, from Ubuntu

Dustin Kirkland thanks the HackerNews community for giving feedback on the thread “Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?" He goes into detail about what questions were asked, how many people asked those questions, and the answers to them.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2017/04/thank-you-note-to-hackernews.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Canonical News

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E04 - Sulky Meek Work

“It’s Season Ten Episode Four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/03/30/s10e04-sulky-meek-work/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E05 - Supreme Luxuriant Gun

“It’s Season Ten Episode Five of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Stuart Langridge are connected and speaking to your brain.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/04/06/s10e05-supreme-luxuriant-gun/

Ubuntu Testing Day: Ubuntu Mate

Leo Arias hosts another Ubuntu Testing Day. This testing day features Martin Wimpress from Ubuntu MATE. They talk about new Ubuntu MATE features coming soon, the upcoming 17.04 release, and much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zgIVHkXRA

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, 16.04, and 16.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2021

Ubuntu 16.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2017

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