Issue634


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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 634 for the week of May 31 - June 6, 2020.

In this Issue

  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LoCo Events

  • ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: ZSys commands for state management
  • ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: ZSys state collection
  • OpenStack Ussuri for Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 LTS

  • Ubuntu Studio: Ardour 6.0 Information
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, and 20.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to these contributors!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 133853 (+153)
  • Critical: 366 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 65719 (+43)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

  • Ukrainian: 88.46% (36837/470)
  • German: 86.90% (41806/75)
  • Spanish: 82.05% (57296/3402)
  • French: 81.33% (59571/6586)
  • Swedish: 74.85% (80259/781)

Hot in Support

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

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

Ubuntu Forums Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://ubuntuforums.org/

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

ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: ZSys commands for state management

Didier Roche, continuing his series of articles on ZFS in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, writes this time about managing states within ZSys. Didier provides examples and screenshots that depict zsysctl commands, manual and automatic saves, details on system and user state saves, and manually removing unwanted states in a somewhat tutorial based overview.

https://didrocks.fr/2020/06/02/zfs-focus-on-ubuntu-20.04-lts-zsys-commands-for-state-management/

ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: ZSys state collection

In this article in Didier Roche's series on ZFS integration in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Didier writes that even though saved states may not use up much disk space over time it still accumulates so we are introduced to the garbage collection strategy. Didier explains with diagrams how it works and gives an overview of the zsys-gc timer and service. As always we are provided a link to join the discussion and provide feedback on the Ubuntu discourse thread.

https://didrocks.fr/2020/06/04/zfs-focus-on-ubuntu-20.04-lts-zsys-state-collection/

OpenStack Ussuri for Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 LTS

Corey Bryant on behalf of the Ubuntu OpenStack team is pleased to announce the availability of OpenStack Ussuri on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS via the Ubuntu Cloud Archive. Some details on what's in the Ubuntu Cloud Archive (PPA) is provided, with details on how bugs reports can be logged.

https://wrestlingpenguins.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/openstack-ussuri-for-ubuntu-20-04-and-18-04-lts/

Ubuntu Studio: Ardour 6.0 Information

The Ubuntu Studio team congratulate the Ardour team on their version 6.0 release, telling us Ardour 6.0 has landed in Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla's repositories, and daily ISOs. We are told why it won't appear in the Ubuntu Studio main Backports PPA, but are told it will be available for existing 20.04 users via a Ubuntu Studio Ardour Backports PPA with details provided.

http://ubuntustudio.org/2020/06/ardour-6-0-information/

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Lenovo Will Sell Ubuntu on More ThinkPads, ThinkStations This Summer

Joey Sneddon writes that Lenovo have announced that all ThinkStation desktop PCs and Thinkpad P series laptops will be available to buy this summer preloaded with Ubuntu. Buyers will have the choice of Windows 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Ubuntu. Further we are told Lenovo will upstream all used device drivers, with links provided if you need more details.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/06/ubuntu-on-lenovo-laptops

Ubuntu's ZFS Daemon Zsys 0.5 Released

Michael Larabel tells us that Zsys 0.5 will land in the Groovy Gorilla (Ubuntu 20.10) repository. It will include TRIM now enabled for enhanced solid-state drive performance, a fix for the infinite loop garbage collection bug, snapshots will be disabled when there is less than 20% of disk space free, plus other improvements. A link for the changes is provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zsys-0.5-Released

KDE On Wayland Finally Supports Middle-Click Paste With Plasma 5.20

Michael Larabel gives a brief of Nate Graham's update outline for KDE. Of note is that Wayland now supports middle-click, screen brightness changes, touchpad cursor speed enhancement, and an overhaul of Okular. More details are available via Nate Graham's blog link.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Wayland-Finally-M-C-Paste

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S13E10 – Hospital on Wednesdays

"This week we have been teaching our children to build a PC. We discuss where in the world people talk about Ubuntu, bring you some command line love and go over a bumper crop of your wonderful feedback!"

https://ubuntupodcast.org/2020/06/01/s13e10-hospital-on-wednesdays/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S13E11 – Inside out clothes

"This week we’ve been making podcasts and porting games to Scratch. We discuss Mint breaking Chromium, possible new features in Groovy Gorilla, GNOME defeating a patent troll, ZFS on Ubuntu, microk8s coming to Windows and macOS and Lenovo shipping Ubuntu or more laptops and workstations. We also round up some of our favourite stories from the tech world."

https://ubuntupodcast.org/2020/06/04/s13e11-inside-out-clothes/

techhq podcast: s01e08 - Ubuntu Core, IoT and systems-on-(ARM)-chips

"Two top blokes from Canonical, Loic Minier & Galem Kayo, talk IIoT, system on chip and embedded Linux for all things Internet-of-Things."

https://techhq.com/podcast-series/iot-iiot-ubuntu-soc-podcast-s01e08/

Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

  • Loco Council: Mon, June 8, 7pm – 8pm
  • Kernel Team: Tue, June 9, 5pm – 6pm
  • Ubuntu Women: Tue, June 9, 6pm – 7pm
  • Desktop Team: Tue, June 9, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
  • Security Team: Wed, June 10, 10:30pm – 11:30pm
  • Ubuntu Foundations: Thu, June 11, 3pm – 4pm

For more details and farther dates please visit: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, and 20.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2021

Ubuntu 18.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2023

Ubuntu 19.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2025

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