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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 488 for the week

November 14 - 20, 2016.

 

== Links to UWN ==

 

* Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue488

 

== In This Issue ==

 

* Ubuntu Online Summit for 17.04 concludes

* Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day 2016

* Ubuntu Stats

* Ubucon Europe 2016 - Days 0 & 1

* SeaGL 2016

* LoCo Events

* Dimitri John Ledkov: /boot less LVM rootfs in Zesty

* Launchpad News: Git-to-Git imports

* Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Online Summit from a snap perspective

* Adam Stokes: conjure-up Canonical Kubernetes under LXD today!

* Ubuntu Cloud News

* Canonical News

* 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 ==

 

=== 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:

 

The closing summary, which includes track summaries for each of the

four tracks can be viewed here:

 

=== 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 improved the quality of their

contributions to Ubuntu.

 

* 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 (127441) +224 over last week

* Critical (402) +7 over last week

* Unconfirmed (63058) +131 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 ====

 

* Is there a command for running a script according to its shebang

line? http://askubuntu.com/questions/850384/is-there-a-command-for-running-a-script-according-to-its-shebang-line

* How to check whether a partition is mounted by UUID?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/849360/how-to-check-whether-a-partition-is-mounted-by-uuid

* How can I get bash/zsh to change some text from "foo.foo.foo" to

"foo foo foo" with a script/alias?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/851113/how-can-i-get-bash-zsh-to-change-some-text-from-foo-foo-foo-to-foo-foo-foo-w

* Do GUI based application execute shell commands in the background?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/849304/do-gui-based-application-execute-shell-commands-in-the-background

* Ignore sudo in bash script

http://askubuntu.com/questions/850736/ignore-sudo-in-bash-script

 

==== Top Voted New Questions ====

 

* Is there a command for running a script according to its shebang

line? http://askubuntu.com/questions/850384/

* Do GUI based application execute shell commands in the background?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/849304/

* How to check whether a partition is mounted by UUID?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/849360/

* What is the command to remove all files but no folders?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/851366/

* Certain websites not displaying correctly in chromium

(ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE for all images and css)

http://askubuntu.com/questions/849450/

 

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Serg

(http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), Zanna

(http://askubuntu.com/users/527764/zanna), SuB

(http://askubuntu.com/users/177981/sub), Jacob Vlijm

(http://askubuntu.com/users/72216/jacob-vlijm) and muru

(http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru)

 

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 and shares some details of what he did there. 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:

 

* Encontro Ubuntu-pt ( -at -) Sintra, Ubuntu Portugal:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-pt/3422-encontro-ubuntu-pt- ( -at -) -sintra/

* Monthly meeting, FOSS User Group at Natick Community-Senior Center,

Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-us-ma/3444-monthly-meeting,-foss-user-group-at-natick-community-senior-center/

* Tempe Ubuntu Hour, Arizona LoCo Team:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-arizona/3460-tempe-ubuntu-hour/

* AZLOCO Install-fest/Linux Workshop, Arizona LoCo Team:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-arizona/3458-azloco-install-fest/linux-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 ==

 

=== Dimitri John Ledkov: /boot less LVM rootfs in Zesty ===

 

Dimitri John Ledkov writes about boot loaders (grub2, PReP, zipl) that

work on LVM volumes. He says that the debian-installer has been

modified in Zesty so as to create an LVM installation without a

dedicated /boot partition and asks for feedback about other boot

loaders 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 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 shares some details of the recent 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. He

says that it's confined within LXD containers, is managed by Juju and

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 development 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.

 

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/linux-kernel-4-9-lands-in-ubuntu-17-04-s-proposed-repositories-based-on-rc5-510282.shtml

 

=== This new Ubuntu Linux laptop has a 4K screen and Nvidia Pascal GPU ===

 

Agam Shah, writing for TechWorld, 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 short 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.

 

http://news.softpedia.com/news/mozilla-firefox-50-0-web-browser-lands-in-all-supported-ubuntu-oses-update-now-510344.shtml

 

=== 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,