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Just a quick message to let you know that *Full Circle Weekly News #64 is out: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-64/ Just a quick message to let you know that Full Circle Weekly News #64 is out: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-64/


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Oliver Grawert: Patching u-boot for use in an Ubuntu Core gadget snap
    2. Ted Gould: Replacing Docker Hub and Github with Gitlab
    3. Stéphane Graber: Custom user mappings in LXD containers
    4. Simon Raffeiner: My Ubuntu for mobile devices post mortem analysis
    5. Latest round of backports PPA updates include Plasma 5.10.2 for Zesty 17.04
    6. Marco Trevisan (Treviño): GNOME Fractional (and multi-monitor) Scaling Hackfest, the report
    7. Mathieu Trudel: Netplan by default in 17.10
    8. Brian Murray: Getting information about LP bugs with lots of duplicates
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Canonical News
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Weekly News #64
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Testing Day - Lubuntu
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo S10E15 - Numberless Thoughtless Goldfish
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo S10E16 - Enthusiastic Woozy Route
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, 16.10, and 17.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 16.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 17.04 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 511 for the week of June 12 - 18, 2017.

In This Issue

General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

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

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

Oliver Grawert: Patching u-boot for use in an Ubuntu Core gadget snap

On the second post from the series on Building u-boot gadget snap packages from source, Oliver Grawert takes a closer look at the uboot.patch file that comes with the default board configuration for building the u-boot binaries. Expanding about the morale behind its design, Oliver goes onto pointing out its shortcomings and suggests a more generic method to get all the boards working in the snapd environment.

https://ograblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/13/patching-u-boot-for-use-in-an-ubuntu-core-gadget-snap/

Ted Gould: Replacing Docker Hub and Github with Gitlab

Ted Gould teaches readers how to replace Docker Hub and Github with Gitlab by creating a branch on Github and adding an automated build to Docker Hub. He accomplishes this with a simple Docker file, explaining that the whole process saved him one or two minutes per build, a 10% savings in total pipeline time.

http://gould.cx/ted/blog/2017/06/15/Replacing-Docker-Hub-and-Github-with-Gitlab/

Stéphane Graber: Custom user mappings in LXD containers

Stéphane Graber writes about LXD, the lightweight container hypervisor, builds on the classic LXC by being more intuitive and easier to use. He dwells on the aspect of LXD having unprivileged containers by default and the limited size of the default map thereof. Stéphane posts solutions and workarounds for this issue, coming up with neat and intuitive set of code, with proper outputs for reference.

https://stgraber.org/2017/06/15/custom-user-mappings-in-lxd-containers/

Simon Raffeiner: My Ubuntu for mobile devices post mortem analysis

Simon Raffeiner provides his thoughts on why the Ubuntu for mobile devices failed. Simon starts by outlining his involvement with the project, provides clues as to what he felt the project needed to be successful, problems with the project, and devices produced including marketing, before wrapping up with a FAQ list of questions in his lengthy article.

http://www.lieberbiber.de/2017/06/20/my-ubuntu-for-mobile-devices-post-mortem/

Latest round of backports PPA updates include Plasma 5.10.2 for Zesty 17.04

The Kubuntu team inform us that the latest 5.10.2 bugfix update for the Plasma 5.10 desktop is available in the backports PPA. They provide a list of software versions, upgrade notes, and the detail needed should you wish to add the PPA to your Zesty 17.04 system.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/latest-round-of-backports-ppa-updates-include-plasma-5-10-2-for-zesty-17-04/

Marco Trevisan (Treviño): GNOME Fractional (and multi-monitor) Scaling Hackfest, the report

Marco Trevisan talks about the recently held hackfest on GNOME fractional scaling at the Canonical office in Teipei 101. He gives us a brief summary of the main objectives of the event and also how they proceeded achieving those. He says that in spite of some of the topics of interest being too much to solve right away, he details that they have been looked upon and will be addressed in the coming weeks after the event.

http://blog.3v1n0.net/informatica/linux/gnome-fractional-and-multi-monitor-scaling-hackfest-the-report/

Mathieu Trudel: Netplan by default in 17.10

Mathieu Trudel tells us that he has updated the nplan package to 0.24 and tell so of the changes, relating to the ubuntu-minimal iso. He says that MaaS, cloud-init and others have already started supporting writing netplan configs and includes links to the specification, summary wiki, blueprint, documentation, and IRC channel.

http://blog.cyphermox.net/2017/06/netplan-by-default-in-1710.html

Brian Murray: Getting information about LP bugs with lots of duplicates

Brian Murray discusses getting information from LaunchPad relating to bugs with many duplicates. Brian then discusses the tools available on LaunchPad such as lp-bug-dupe-properties and how these can simplify the process and save time.

http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=139

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Full Circle Weekly News #64

Just a quick message to let you know that Full Circle Weekly News #64 is out: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-64/

and, Full Circle Magazine #121 came out a couple of weeks ago: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-121/

Ubuntu Testing Day - Lubuntu

Leo Arias and Kyle Fazzari are joined by Simon Quigley for another regular Testing Day session which covers the subject of testing the Lubuntu flavor of Ubuntu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqiu9uC_qTU

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo S10E15 - Numberless Thoughtless Goldfish

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

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
  • We discuss the news:
  • We discuss the community news:
  • We mention some events:

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/06/16/s10e15-numberless-thoughtless-goldfish/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo S10E16 - Enthusiastic Woozy Route

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

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
  • And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/06/23/s10e16-enthusiastic-woozy-route/

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 14.04, 16.04, 16.10, and 17.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

Ubuntu 16.10 Updates

Ubuntu 17.04 Updates

Subscribe

Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news

Archives

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Simon Quigley
  • Chris Guiver
  • Athul Muralidhar
  • Paul White
  • 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

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Weekly News Team. If you have a story idea or suggestions for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-news-team and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas. If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please check http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/ for more information on where to get help.

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