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    Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 395

    Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 395 for the week December 1 - 7, 2014.

    Links to UWN

    In This Issue

    • Welcome New Members and Developers
    • Ubuntu Stats
    • Ubuntu Global Jam Dates - 15.04 cycle
    • Ubuntu Cloud News
    • Costales: A tiny home computer with Ubuntu: "imp"
    • Nicholas Skaggs: Creating mutli-arch click packages
    • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Year End Core Apps Hack Days
    • Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu Part of KDE's Google Code-in
    • Walter Lapchynski: learn anything linux
    • Lubuntu Blog: Box icons release 0.49
    • Ali Jawad: How I prefer to learn? & Help, Contribution and Activity
    • Benjamin Kerensa: Chasing the wrong problems
    • Walter Lapchynski: unicorns und Unicode
    • In The Blogosphere
    • In Other News
    • Featured Audio and Video
    • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
    • Upcoming Meetings and Events
    • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
    • And much more!


    General Community News

    Welcome New Members and Developers

    On behalf of the 2200 UTC Membership Board, please welcome our new Ubuntu Members:





    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/002118.html

    Ubuntu Stats

    Bug Stats


    • Open (116761) +57 over last week
    • Critical (254) no change over last week
    • Unconfirmed (57866) -112 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 ====



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



    People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Akshit Baunthiyal (http://askubuntu.com/users/75953/akshit-baunthiyal), Thomas W. (http://askubuntu.com/users/10616/thomas-w), muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), algosig (http://askubuntu.com/users/311016/algosig) and juxiliary (http://askubuntu.com/users/148237/juxiliary)

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

    LoCo News

    Ubuntu Global Jam Dates - 15.04 cycle

    Looking to lend a hand to Ubuntu? Want to help shape Ubuntu? Jose Antonio Rey announces the upcoming Ubuntu Global Jam on February 6 - 8, 2015 and and encourages teams to join in.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lo...er/006900.html

    Ubuntu Cloud News

    Canonical and Data Foundry to provide hosted private cloud

    Canonical announce that Data Foundry, a global provider of colocation, data center, and managed services, will be partnering them to provide a private cloud, as well. Built by the experts at Canonical's BootStack service, the OpenStack-powered cloud will be exhibited by Canonical at the Gartner Data Service event from 2-5 December.

    https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/12/...private-cloud/

    Owncloud charm ready for 14.04

    Jorge Castro announces that the Juju charm and tests for Owncloud are now available for Trusty Tahr 14.04. He explains how to keep it up to date.

    http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/12/0...for-14-dot-04/

    The Planet

    Costales: A tiny home computer with Ubuntu: "imp"

    Marcos Costales introduces the imp, a tiny ARMv9-powered desktop machine running Ubuntu 14.04 crowdsourced through Indiegogo.

    http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/201...buntu-imp.html

    Nicholas Skaggs: Creating mutli-arch click packages

    Nicholas Skaggs explains how to create click packages for multiple architectures (fat packages) and get them accepted to the store.

    http://www.theorangenotebook.com/201...-packages.html

    Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Year End Core Apps Hack Days

    Alan Pope invites us to a Core Apps Hack Days, taking place on IRC from Monday the 8th of December to Friday the 12th. He says Wednesday the 10th will also feature a special presentation on writing tests for Core Apps put on by Nicholas Skaggs via Ubuntu On Air.

    http://developer.ubuntu.com/2014/12/...pps-hack-days/

    Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu Part of KDE's Google Code-in

    Jonathan Riddell informs us that Google's Code-in is a project to facilitate teen contributions to open source projects. He says that KDE is participating as one of the mentoring organizations and that Kubuntu will be posting projects on KDE's behalf.

    http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=203

    Walter Lapchynski: learn anything linux

    Walter Lapchynski writes that with the loss of the Ubuntu Beginners Team the amount of mentorship has declined and that a lot of people are left to their own devices. He says "I'd like to donate whatever time I need to help everyone find the resources they need to contribute code to open source projects. "

    http://polka.bike/blog/learn-linux-markdown

    Lubuntu Blog: Box icons release 0.49

    Rafael Laguna introduces a new release of Box icons for Lubuntu which have better integration with LXQt.

    http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2014...lease-049.html

    Ali Jawad: How I prefer to learn? & Help, Contribution and Activity

    Ubuntu GNOME's Ali Jawad discusses the merits of learning the hardware and elucidates the spectrum of volunteers.

    http://amjjawad.net/how-i-prefer-to-learn/

    http://amjjawad.net/help-contribution-and-activity/


    Benjamin Kerensa: Chasing the wrong problems

    Benjamin Kerensa writes that the Ubuntu Community's issues aren't to do with leadership or governance but making contributors feel like they are stakeholders again as Ubuntu's community pages reflect what's important to Canonical. He also makes reference to an Ubuntu Foundation and the contributions of Ubuntu Members.

    http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/12/0...wrong-problems

    Walter Lapchynski: unicorns und Unicode

    Walter Lapchynski tells us about the Utopic t-shirt now being available on the Canonical shop, as well as discussing the creation of a unicorn emoji in Unicode.

    http://polka.bike/blog/unicorns-und-unicode-markdown

    In The Blogosphere

    Canonical's Ubuntu Touch for Mobile Devices Almost Ready

    Christopher Tozzi of the The VAR Guy, suggests that the recent release of version 10 of Ubuntu RTM signals Ubuntu-powered mobile devices are closer than ever.

    http://thevarguy.com/ubuntu/120114/c...s-almost-ready

    CompuLab launches Utilite2: Tiny ARM-based Ubuntu/Android PC

    Liliputing's Brad Linder announces Utilite's latest addition to its line of miniature low-power desktops. With a volume smaller than the average mouse, the Utilite2 consumes as little as 3 watts, has a quad-core ARM processor, Bluetooth 4.0, and HDMI output, among other features.

    http://liliputing.com/2014/12/compul...ndroid-pc.html

    HP's fanless 2.2-pound laptop includes Broadwell and a 2560x1440 screen

    Andrew Cunningham of Ars Technica offers a preview of two new Ultrabooks by the name of HP EliteBook Folio 1020 that feature a 0.62 inches thick chassis, up to 2560x1440 resolution, touch options, a 12.5" screen, are as light as 2.2 pounds, have a 9 hour runtime, use 4.5 watts, and are completely fanless. Andrew wraps up the article with a suggestion that Intel's CES showcase may include a faster processor.

    http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/...0x1440-screen/

    Official Ubuntu 14.10 'Utopic Unicorn' T-Shirts Now Available to Buy

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! announces the availability of the official shirts of the Utopic Unicorn 14.10 release. He says that T-shirts have been a part of every distro release since Hardy Heron 8.04 and that the current shirts come in dusk blue for men or hot pink for women, both featuring Canonical's origami unicorn logo. Joey-Elijah finishes by reminding us that older release shirts are available in the sale section.

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/12/l...-now-available

    UbuTab: An Ubuntu Tablet With A Terabyte Hard Drive

    Michael Larabel of Phoronix informs us that UbuTab, another crowd-funded tablet has launched, and that it features a 7mm 1TB spinning hard drive and ships with Android. He also gives us details of the pricing and a brief specification.

    http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg1Mjc

    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS To Ubuntu 14.10 Offers Some Performance Improvements

    Michael Larabel of Phoronix provides some benchmarks that show how the CPU performance of Ubuntu has evolved between the 12.04 LTS and 14.10 releases. He says that his article looks at the non-graphics performance of Ubuntu and that other comparisons will follow.

    http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg1MzA

    An Ubuntu Tablet Inspired By The Ubuntu Edge Is Coming

    Michael Larabel of Phoronix informs us that MJ Technology is looking to deliver a tablet equivalent to the Ubuntu Edge which failed to in its crowd-funding campaign. He gives us a brief specification, and shows us a photograph of the prototype.

    http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg1NDM

    Ubuntu 14.10 MATE edition - Almost fabulous

    Dedoimedo writes about the installation, look and feel, resource usage, and the applications of Ubuntu MATE 14.10, noting that "someone sometime back in the early 2000s came up with the ideal productivity formula, and it's never been bested." Dedoimedo concludes that it is a very cool distro, notes a serious problem, and says "Highly polished, slick, and almost overwhelmingly simple and easy to use. "

    http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/u...opic-mate.html

    In Other News



    Featured Audio and Video

    Ubuntu Community Q&A! - 2nd December 2014

    Daniel Holbach, this week joined by Alan Pope and David Planella, introduces another weekly Q&A session answering viewers questions which are put to them on IRC.

    http://youtu.be/fZ3uWnBIIoc

    Juju Charm School: Writing Charms for Restrictive Networks

    Jose Antonio Rey introduces the last Juju Charm School of 2014 in which Jorge Castro, Matt Bruzek, Marco Ceppi and Kevin Monroe talk about writing charms for restrictive networks

    http://youtu.be/17FFAhhHPLI

    Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E36 - The One in Massapequa

    We're back with Season Seven, Episode Thirty-six of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore and Mark Johnson bring you this episode.

    In this week's show:
    • We interview Dr Lucy Rogers about hacking dinosaurs with Raspberry Pis on the Isle of Wight


    • We also discuss:
    • Having taken the photos on Dark Eyes 3.
    • Switching search engines to Duck Duck Go in Firefox.
    • Getting a Oneplus One phone.


    • We share some Command Line Lurve which provides a drop-down terminal: guake
    • See also yakuake/tilda for KDE.


    • And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in!


    We'll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org

    http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/12...in-massapequa/

    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 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10

    Security Updates



    Ubuntu 10.04 Updates



    End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

    Ubuntu 12.04 Updates



    End of Life - April 2017

    Ubuntu 14.04 Updates



    End of Life - April 2019

    Ubuntu 14.10 Updates



    End of Life - July 2015

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    Credits

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    • Elizabeth K. Joseph
    • Walter Lapchynski
    • And many others


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