news 28 Posted March 8, 2016 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 457 for the week February 29 - March 6, 2016. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue457 == In This Issue == * Ubuntu Stats * Attending the February Tijuana Tech Meetup. * LoCo Events * Randall Ross: The Line That Divides * Jorge Castro: Servers at your fingertips... * Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Where oh where have I been? Busy I say. * Kubuntu: Kubuntu Packaging Party * Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: A final call for testers. And yes we have PIM! * Elizabeth K. Joseph: Xubuntu 16.04 ISO testing tips * Ubuntu MATE February 2016 supporters * Ubuntu Cloud News * Ubuntu Phone News * Canonical News * Converged PC and smartphone is the future, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth * Baby Ubuntus toddle forth into the big scary world of beta * In The Blogosphere * Featured Audio and Video * Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings * Upcoming Meetings and Events * Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.10 * And much more! == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats === * Open (119483) +213 over last week * Critical (344) +23 over last week * Unconfirmed (58496) +45 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 === ==== Most Active Questions ==== * Unable to find the .lit file reader app clit http://askubuntu.com/questions/740492/unable-to-find-the-lit-file-reader-app-clit * How to close a GNOME terminal tab from the keyboard? http://askubuntu.com/questions/742025/how-to-close-a-gnome-terminal-tab-from-the-keyboard * Moving entire Linux installation to another drive http://askubuntu.com/questions/741723/moving-entire-linux-installation-to-another-drive * How to replace my username in a script with variable http://askubuntu.com/questions/742053/how-to-replace-my-username-in-a-script-with-variable * Are all versions of Ubuntu secure against DROWN attack? http://askubuntu.com/questions/741935/are-all-versions-of-ubuntu-secure-against-drown-attack ==== Top Voted New Questions ==== * Unable to find the .lit file reader app clit http://askubuntu.com/questions/740492/ * Moving entire Linux installation to another drive http://askubuntu.com/questions/741723/ * Are all versions of Ubuntu secure against DROWN attack? http://askubuntu.com/questions/741935/ * does rolling back the kernel in Ubuntu compromise security http://askubuntu.com/questions/740735/ * How to close a GNOME terminal tab from the keyboard? http://askubuntu.com/questions/742025/ People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), Byte Commander (http://askubuntu.com/users/367990/byte-commander), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli) and muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru) Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com == LoCo News == === Attending the February Tijuana Tech Meetup. === Philip Ballew tells us about his "chance to go and promote Ubuntu, just south of my home in San Diego at the Tijuana Intercomunidades meetup." He emphasizes his enthusiasm to share Ubuntu further in northern Mexico. https://philipballew.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/tijuiana-tech-meetup/ == LoCo Events == The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks: * Ubuntu Hour San Francisco, Ubuntu California: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/3328-ubuntu-hour-san-francisco/ * Ubuntu Amazonas: Curso Animaciones 3D con Blender, Ubuntu Venezuela Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ve/3322-ubuntu-amazonas:-curso-animaciones-3d-con-blender/ * Ubuntu Amazonas: Curso Manejador de Base de Datos MySQL, Ubuntu Venezuela Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ve/3320-ubuntu-amazonas:-curso-manejador-de-base-de-datos-mysql/ * Ubuntu Amazonas: Curso Soporte Tecnico Linux y Redes Cableadas, Ubuntu Venezuela Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ve/3321-ubuntu-amazonas:-curso-soporte-tecnico-linux-y-redes-cableadas/ * Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2016, German Ubuntu LoCo Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-de-locoteam/3327-chemnitzer-linuxtage-2016/ * ubunu brainstorming 1604, Ubuntu Mauritius: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-mu/3326-ubunu-brainstorming-1604/ * Az Loco Installfest/Linux and open source workshop, Arizona LoCo Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-arizona/3318-az-loco-installfest/linux-and-open-source-workshop/ 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 == === Randall Ross: The Line That Divides === Randall Ross summarizes Mark Shuttleworth's recent talk at Mobile World Congress 2016 and some of the key points to take away from it. He highlights Mark's graph about societal acceptance of a new idea or platform. "Successful entrepreneurs and innovators live on the left side of the vertical line depicted in the graph. The curves on the chart represent the level of acceptance of an idea (or product) into society." He highlights Ubuntu's recent step to adopt OpenPOWER. "The notion of a ragtag group of dreamers taking on a hardware monopoly seems by most to be "crazy"." He ends by restating Mark's point: "The answer probably depends on which side of the line you ask." http://randall.executiv.es/the-line-that-divides === Jorge Castro: Servers at your fingertips... === Jorge Castro shows us some features of LXD, a container system. He demonstrates the deployment of containers for some different Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. He also points out that the syntax is easy to remember. http://www.jorgecastro.org/2016/03/03/servers-at-your-fingertips-dot-dot-dot/ === Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Where oh where have I been? Busy I say. === Scarlett Clark tells us about the work she's been doing recently for the Kubuntu project. "With the merges we also packaged KDE Frameworks 5.18 Plasma 5.5.4 Applications 15.12.1". She gives information on how to test the new packages and some known issues that you are likely to encounter if you plan on testing it. http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2016/kubuntu-kde-where-oh-where-have-i-been-busy-i-say/ === Kubuntu: Kubuntu Packaging Party === The Kubuntu team is announcing the Kubuntu Packaging Party that will take place on Friday, March 11, 2016 at 20:00 UTC. "Above all we're going to have fun, chat, share knowledge, party and learn new things. Their will be plenty of us on hand to get you started playing and experimenting with Kubuntu. Whether this is your first time trying Kubuntu or you want help with installing, bug fixing, code hacking or packaging. All are welcome" http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-packaging-party/ === Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: A final call for testers. And yes we have PIM! === Scarlett Clark gives a final call to testers and gives instructions on how to add the staging PPA. "Do things as you normally do, and report back any crashes or unexpected behavior." http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2016/kubuntu-kde-a-final-call-for-testers-and-yes-we-have-pim/ === Elizabeth K. Joseph: Xubuntu 16.04 ISO testing tips === Elizabeth K. Joseph gives us some tips about ISO QA Testing for Xubuntu. She shares details about how to use zsync for downloading the daily ISOs, using GNOME Disks to put the ISO on a USB stick, and tips for submitting bugs and reaching out to the community for help. "My focus is typically on Xubuntu testing, but things I talk about are applicable to Ubuntu too." http://princessleia.com/journal/2016/03/xubuntu-16-04-iso-testing-tips/ == Other Community News == === Ubuntu MATE February 2016 supporters === Martin Wimpress of the Ubuntu MATE project thanks the people who donated funds to the Ubuntu MATE project in February of 2016. "Many thanks to everyone who donated to the Ubuntu MATE project this month. You have been generous as always and ensured that we can meet all the costs associated with running the Ubuntu MATE project and the community site. In fact, this month we are able to reward some developers for working on Ubuntu MATE projects." https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-february-2016-supporters/ == Ubuntu Cloud News == * Juju 2.0 and LXD opens a whole new dimension to developing BI apps - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/01/juju-2-0-and-lxd-opens-a-whole-new-dimension-to-developing-bi-apps/ * Cognitive computing, Ubuntu and POWER8 - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/02/cognitive-computing-ubuntu-and-power8/ * Spinning up Pentaho Data Integration quickly with Juju - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/03/spinning-up-pentaho-data-integration-quickly-with-juju/ == Ubuntu Phone News == === "Ubuntu Love"! [Phone + Apps = Freedom] === Marcos Costales points out some of the apps for the Ubuntu Phone. He highlights some apps and a brief description of what they do in a paragraph. He mentions Podbird, Dekko, OSMScout, and some more generic apps such as the file manager and the terminal. He ends by thanking the Ubuntu Phone developers for their work. http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2016/03/ubuntu-love-phone-apps-freedom.html === Why does reinventing the Personal Mobile experience matter? === Following the release of the first Ubuntu Tablet, which is the "first of our fully converged devices," Amrisha Prashar announces the Ubuntu Convergence Competition. The competition asks: "With this, we want to know what your life would look like if all your computing needs fitted into one device?" Responses should be made on Twitter using the hashtag #UbuntuReinvents for a chance to win the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/03/why-does-reinventing-the-personal-mobile-experience-matter/ == Canonical News == === Intel and Canonical continue to build large IoT gateway ecosystems === Thibaut Rouffineau tells that for the last eighteen months Intel and Canonical have been working together to launch new devices in the IoT space including IoT gateways and reference designs. Snappy Ubuntu Core and x86 processors being the basic blocks for building IoT solutions. Thibaut writes about recent Ubuntu Core workshops attended by over 60 industry OEMs and ODMs, which covered how to develop, build, manufacture and support viable IoT gateways. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/02/intel-and-canonical-continue-to-build-large-iot-gateway-ecosystems/ === The value of the community === Amrisha Prashar of Canonical writes about how important the community is to the open source Ubuntu project. Amrisha also writes about all the skills and diverse opportunities in available in the Ubuntu world; for example its not just phones, desktops and servers; also drones and robots. You can learn more, or get involved yourself too. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/03/the-value-of-the-community/ === Ubuntu + Startups. A match made in code === Amrisha Prashar of Canonical writes about Mobile World Congress 2016 and some of the products showcased at the event. The projects she highlighted use Ubuntu Core as the operating system. "Canonical has strong entrepreneurial roots, and working with startups is something we highly value." https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/03/ubuntu-startups-a-match-made-in-code/ == In The Press == === Converged PC and smartphone is the future, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth === Tim Anderson from The Register interviewed Mark Shuttleworth at Mobile World Congress 2016. "Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, told The Register that converged devices - phones that can also be PCs - are the future of personal computing." He highlights Mark's statement, "People have said that's a little crazy, and now suddenly we've got some of the biggest companies in the world saying that's a great idea." Tim then goes on to highlight some of the skepticism from the technology community about the Ubuntu Phone and some downfalls of Ubuntu Touch. "For this reason, your next phone is unlikely to run Ubuntu." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/03/converged_pc_and_smartphone_future_mark_shuttleworth/ === Baby Ubuntus toddle forth into the big scary world of beta === Scott Gilbertson of The Register notes some of the incoming changes for the Ubuntu flavors in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). He highlights the changes in each flavor and ends with "That's good advice for any of these releases - this is a beta release, so install at your own risk." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/03/ubuntu_16_04_little_linuxes_beta_review/ == In The Blogosphere == === This Is The New Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Default Wallpaper === Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! highlights the new wallpaper for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). He also gives a brief description of the image. "Angular geometric accents are retained, and the design bathes in a gradient growing across the official Ubuntu color spectrum. What starts in deep Canonical purple finishes in bright community orange at the upper-right of the image." He then gives download links for the new background image. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/02/ubuntu-16-04-default-wallpaper === 10 reasons why you should stop picking on Ubuntu Unity === Jack Wallen for Tech Republic points out that Unity has received some criticism in the past that was warranted at the time, but that it has improved significantly. Jack writes about ten different reasons why you should consider it again. He highlights convergence, Ubuntu Touch, eliminated privacy risks, and the new ability to move the launcher. He ends by saying: "Ubuntu Unity is not the desktop pariah you once thought it was. This desktop environment has evolved into a beautiful, efficient interface that does not deserve the scorn and derision heaped upon it by so many." http://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-reasons-why-you-should-stop-picking-on-ubuntu-unity/ === Ubuntu convergence finally impresses me === Jack Wallen for Tech Republic points out that he is impressed with the Ubuntu convergence concept and points out some pros and cons of convergence and Ubuntu Touch. "I hope this happens. Canonical and the Ubuntu Phone developers have been working tirelessly on this project and it needs (nay, deserves) a win of this magnitude." http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ubuntu-convergence-finally-impresses-me/ === Ubuntu Is Close To Finally Removing Python 2 From Their Desktop ISO === Michael Larabel from Phoronix summarizes Barry Warsaw's update and push to get Python 2 off of the desktop image for Ubuntu. "He explains that it's in the printer space the cause for still keeping Python 2 around... "system-config-printer is already itself ported to Python 3, but it transitively depends on Python 2 through the chain of python3-smbc to libsmbclient to samba-libs to libpython2.7. So the real problem is fully porting Samba to Python 3. Ubuntu is not the only distro converging on this bottleneck."" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-D-Still-Has-Python2 == Featured Audio and Video == === Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 1st March 2016 === Alan Pope and Nicholas Skaggs present an hour of updates on behalf of the Canonical Community Team. They open with announcements about Google Summer of Code and Ubuntu Online Summit. They then answer questions to them provided over IRC. The questions were primarily about Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8, with some miscellaneous questions as well. === Juju Office Hours for March 2016 === Jorge Castro hosts "an open Q+A about everything happening in the Juju ecosystem." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=318TKYlxV4w === Keynote: The Magic of Application Modelling === Mark Shuttleworth's keynote at the Config Management Camp, Gent, Belgium on "The Magic of Application Modelling." https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/01/the-magic-of-application-modelling/ === Full Circle Weekly News #07 === A short podcast ( Share this post Link to post
