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    Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 459


    Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 459 for the weeks of March 14 - 27, 2016.

    Links to UWN

    In This Issue

    • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Final Beta released
    • Ubuntu Stats
    • Speaking at San Diego Linux users group
    • LoCo Events
    • Nicholas Skaggs: Reflections
    • Julian Andres Klode: Dropping SHA-1 support in APT
    • Michael Hall: Help make Gnome Software beautiful
    • Stephane Graber: LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD & Your first LXD container [2-4/12]
    • Kubuntu: A Big Blue Button & Kubuntu Party 2
    • Xubuntu 16.04 Wallpaper Competition
    • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Ride With Us: The Road To UI Toolkit 2.0
    • Status update from the Community Team (Wk 11-12)
    • Ubuntu Cloud News
    • SDK Planning for 16.10
    • Canonical News
    • In The Blogosphere
    • Full Circle Magazine #107
    • 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!


    General Community News

    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Final Beta released

    Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the last beta release of "Xenial Xerus" Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, along with the participating flavors. He writes that the teams have been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ch/000206.html

    Several news outlets and blogs have covered this news, the following is a selection from our editors:


    Ubuntu Stats

    Bug Stats

    • Open (120332) +714 over the past two weeks
    • Critical (328) -4 over the past two weeks
    • Unconfirmed (59259) +616 over the past two weeks


    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: muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox), Fabby (http://askubuntu.com/users/344926/fabby) and Zacharee1 (http://askubuntu.com/users/274320/zacharee1)

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

    LoCo News

    Speaking at San Diego Linux users group

    Philip Ballew gives us a brief description of his recent Ubuntu talk at the San Diego Linux Users Group. He says, "I spoke about ways to customize your Ubuntu desktop, the talk finished a little earlier than the group meeting was planned to go to, so I used that time to talk about some of the server stuff with Ubuntu, as well as the switch to systemd." He ends by thanking the group for the invite.

    https://philipballew.wordpress.com/2...x-users-group/

    LoCo Events

    The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

    LoCo Events



    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

    Nicholas Skaggs: Reflections

    Nicholas Skaggs reflects upon the work he's done in Quality Assurance over the past couple years, and thanks folks who have been involved, writing: "Oftentimes quality can be a background job, with thank you's going unsaid, while complaints are easy to find. Truly, it's been wonderful learning and hacking on quality efforts with you. So thank you!"

    In what he admit sounds like a farewell, he announces that moving forward he will be transitioning to working on improving the quality story for Juju.

    http://www.theorangenotebook.com/201...flections.html

    Julian Andres Klode: Dropping SHA-1 support in APT

    Julian Andres Klode discusses the move to disable SHA1 support for future releases, packages and source files, writing that "disabling the SHA1 support requires a bit of patching in our test suite, it's best to do that now than later when we're forced to do it." He continues by sketching out a timeline for completion of this switch, including enforcement of SHA2 for GPG signatures.

    https://juliank.wordpress.com/2016/0...upport-in-apt/

    Julian also wrote a follow up post, "Clarifications and updates on APT + SHA1" - https://juliank.wordpress.com/2016/0...s-on-apt-sha1/

    Michael Hall: Help make Gnome Software beautiful

    Michael Hall writes an article which touches on enhancing the new Gnome Software application for Ubuntu 16.04 release, which is replacing the Ubuntu Software Center. He shares a key way to improve the look and feel, but adding application icons that are missing and the steps to follow to submit an icon.

    http://mhall119.com/2016/03/help-mak...are-beautiful/

    Stephane Graber: LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD & Your first LXD container [2-4/12]

    Stephane Graber continues in his series of articles about LXD. These three describe how to obtain new releases of LXD, directions on how to install it and handling resource (Disk, CPU, Memory, Network I/O and Block I/O) control.

    https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/15/...uring-lxd-212/ & https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/19/...container-312/ & https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/26/...e-control-412/

    Kubuntu: A Big Blue Button & Kubuntu Party 2

    The Kubuntu team writes about their recent online packaging party hosted on the Big Blue Button video conferencing platform. They share details about the event, along with a thanks to the Big Blue Button team for supporting their work. In a follow-up post, they go on to share details about another party being planned in the future.

    http://www.kubuntu.org/news/a-big-blue-button/ & http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-part-2/

    Xubuntu 16.04 Wallpaper Competition

    The Xubuntu team announces the beginning of the wallpaper contest for images to be submitted for inclusion in the Xubuntu community wallpapers package for the 16.04 release. They outline submission terms, guidelines and procedures and note that the deadline for submissions is April 1st.

    http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-16-0...r-competition/

    Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Ride With Us: The Road To UI Toolkit 2.0

    Zsombor Egri states the problems with the current Toolkit 1.3 implementation and explains why the developement for version 2.0 will start soon. He writes that toolkit 2.0 will break the API and make it more flexible but that the performance of Toolkit 2.0 should be much better because they will not rely heavily on Javascript anymore. Development will be made in a lab module, where they're asking community members to try out each component before it lands to the stable module.

    http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/...ui-toolkit-20/

    Other Community News

    Status update from the Community Team (Wk 11-12)

    Michael Hall, on behalf of the Canonical Community Team, gives us some updates from the community for weeks 11 and 12 of 2016. There's some work on Snappy and Ubuntu Phone apps, as well as some general items such as a meeting with the Docs team, collecting Scopes Showdown results, and saying goodbye to Nicholas Skaggs, "Said goodbye to Nick[3] - all the best in juju QA!"

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ch/001152.html

    Ubuntu Cloud News



    Ubuntu Phone News

    SDK Planning for 16.10

    Zoltan Balogh from the Ubuntu SDK Team highlights some goals for the Ubuntu SDK in 16.10, "We have a clear commitment for the upcoming cycle: We will make it faster!" They point out some feature gaps they have to close, the need and progress on an API tracker, and the release cycle they plan on using. They end by pointing out their emphasis on openness, "We will keep publishing technical blog posts and videocasts about what is going on in the SDK workshops. We welcome all contributions to our projects and we are going to participate in various events to hear developers and to share information."

    http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/...the-sdk-16-10/

    Canonical News


    * MWC 2016: Our biggest show yet - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/...gest-show-yet/

    In The Blogosphere

    Yet Another Reason Why Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Will Rock

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! highlights some interesting changes relating to GTK in Ubuntu MATE that will land in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS, set to release in late April, from Martin Wimpress' recent Google+ post. He says, "Ubuntu MATE 16.04 will offer full support for Client Side Decoration (CSD) and GTK Header Bar applications out of the box." He goes on to point out a screenshot and some applications that could use this, "Header bars span a range of apps, from the increasingly useful GNOME Photos to the geek-friendly Polari IRC client and by way of the fantastic Corebird desktop Twitter app."

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/u...ide-decoration

    NVIDIA GeForce vs. Radeon/AMDGPU OpenGL Performance On Ubuntu 16.04

    Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes an article summarizing performance, comparing NVIDIA and AMD OpenGL drivers on Ubuntu Xenial Xerus, the development branch that is set to release in late April. He shows us some statistics using various graphics cards and drivers, for NVIDIA and AMD. He summarizes the results with: "So while it's exciting that the open-source Radeon Linux driver stack is maturing and becoming much more competitive with Catalyst, the whole AMD Linux driver stack with regard to OpenGL performance still needs to be improved. In several of these tests, all of the tested AMD hardware was slower than all of the NVIDIA GeForce hardware."

    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...d-xenial&num=1

    Logic Supply Unveils New Rugged Industrial Panel PC That Runs Ubuntu or Windows

    In this article, Marius Nestor of Softpedia, explains that Logic Supply's Industrial Panel PC which supports both Ubuntu and Windows operating systems. Marius reports that Logic Supply stated that it is for industrial settings in which ruggedness is desired and that JP Ishaq, Head of Product Management at Logic Supply, states that "it's rare to find this combination of quality, performance, and ruggedness in a Panel PC."

    http://news.softpedia.com/news/logic...s-501787.shtml

    It's Official, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Now Lets Users Move the Unity Launcher to Bottom

    Marius Nestor of Softpedia reports about Unity 7's recent integration of a frequently requested feature, the ability to move the launcher to the bottom of the screen. "...Ubuntu Unity developer Marco Trevisan announced yesterday on his Google+ page that Canonical finally decided to merge the hard work done by the Ubuntu Kylin team to bring the Unity 7 Launcher on the bottom edge." He gives instructions about how to do this and a screenshot to show the end result.

    http://news.softpedia.com/news/it-s-...m-501932.shtml

    Ubuntu being pulled into "game changing" areas - Canonical CEO

    Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Canonical, says "Ubuntu developers are now targeting the company's Ubuntu platform for areas such as Network Function Virtualisation and Internet of Things." Mark Shuttleworth states Ubuntu's convergence idea is that we all want to carry one device. Their goal, he states, is to "deliver the same code on a tablet, a phone, and a PC."

    http://www.mobileworldlive.com/featu...-shuttleworth/

    This Is What The Official Mascot of Ubuntu 16.04 Looks Like

    "The official mascot animal artwork for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has been unveiled!" Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! shows us the design of the Xenial Xerus, the mascot for the upcoming release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, to be released in late April.

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/o...-04-looks-like

    In Other News

    Full Circle Magazine #107

    Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of issue one hundred and seven.

    This month:
    • Command & Conquer
    • How-To : Python, LibreOffice, Migrating From VAX, and The Pocket Server
    • Graphics : Inkscape
    • Chrome Cult: Apricity OS
    • Linux Labs: Building A 3D Printer
    • Ubuntu Devices
    • Review: Able2Extract 10, and Deepin OS
    • Ubuntu Games: Saints Row IV, and The Kindred

    plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, and soooo much more.

    Get it while it's hot!

    http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-107

    Featured Audio and Video

    Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E03 - Arms Akimbo - Ubuntu Podcast

    It's Episode Three of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

    In this week's show:

    • We discuss the news
    • We discuss the community news and events
    • We discuss playing with Snappy on the Raspberry Pi, and watching long, old films for many hours at the Prince Charles Cinema.
    • And more


    http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/03/17/s09e03-arms-akimbo/

    Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 15th March 2016

    Daniel Holbach and Alan Pope present an hour of updates on behalf of the Canonical Community Team. They open with announcements about the Ubuntu Online Summit, UbuCon Europe, and GNOME Software. They then answer questions to them provided over IRC. The questions were primarily about Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Phones, and Community involvement, with some miscellaneous questions as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud9XP90zgn8

    Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E04 - Master of Unrelated Science - Ubuntu Podcast

    It's Episode Four of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

    In this week's show:

    • Laura interviews Catherine Jones, New Media Engineer at the Science Museum in London, about building interactive displays.
    • We discuss bringing an O2 Joggler back to life, and fixing bugs ready for the next beta of Ubuntu MATE.
    • We share a Command Line Lurve - `ps_mem`
    • And more


    http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/03/24/...lated-science/

    Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 22nd March 2016

    Canonical's David Calle and Michael Hall hosted this week's Q&A where they discuss updates on the latest Ubuntu development and then took user questions on the air.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt028wLuI74

    Full Circle Weekly News #09

    A short podcast (< 10 minutes) with just the news. No chit-chat. No time wasting. Just the latest FOSS/Linux/Ubuntu news.

    http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcas...weekly-news-09

    Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings



    Upcoming Meetings and Events

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    Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.10

    Security Updates



    Ubuntu 12.04 Updates



    End of Life - April 2017

    Ubuntu 14.04 Updates



    End of Life - April 2019

    Ubuntu 15.10 Updates



    End of Life - July 2016

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    Thanks folks for the great read and all your hard work!
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