Issue389


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) released
    2. V is for Vivid
    3. Happy 10th Birthday Ubuntu!
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
    1. Regular LoCo Council Meeting for 21 October 2014
    2. Review of Ubucon 2014 Germany
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. What’s new in Ubuntu 14.10 for cloud and servers?
    2. Rapid Ubuntu image deployment – getting up and running in record time
  6. The Planet
    1. Bryan Quigley: Still running 32 bit Ubuntu?
    2. Nicholas Skaggs: Sprinting in DC: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
    3. Alan Pope: Sprinting in DC
    4. Svetlana Belkin: Ubuntu 14.10
    5. Sean Davis: Xubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn”
    6. Ubuntu GNOME: To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade?
    7. Benjamin Kerensa: Such a Utopic Unicorn
    8. Kubuntu: Kubuntu Shirts are Back
    9. Randall Ross: On Changes, Ubuntu, "Magic Spells", and Real Power
    10. Jorge Castro: Juju in Ubuntu 14.10 highlights
    11. Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 3: Unintelligiable
    12. Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #4
    13. Colin Watson: Moving on, but not too far
  7. Other Community News
    1. Vivid Vervet (15.04) now open for business
  8. Canonical News
    1. Ubuntu 14.10 desktop: security for global users
  9. In The Press
  10. In The Blogosphere
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E30 – The One at the Beach
    2. Getting Started with Juju Relations
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04 and 14.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 389 for the week October 20 - 26, 2014.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) released
  • V is for Vivid
  • Happy 10th Birthday Ubuntu!
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • Regular LoCo Council Meeting for 21 October 2014

  • Review of Ubucon 2014 Germany
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Bryan Quigley: Still running 32 bit Ubuntu?

  • Nicholas Skaggs: Sprinting in DC: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

  • Kubuntu: Kubuntu Shirts are Back
  • Randall Ross: On Changes, Ubuntu, "Magic Spells", and Real Power
  • Jorge Castro: Juju in Ubuntu 14.10 highlights
  • Vivid Vervet (15.04) now open for business
  • Ubuntu 14.10 desktop: security for global users
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04 and 14.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) released

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of Ubuntu 14.10 which is codenamed "Utopic Unicorn". In his announcement, Adam lists the flavors that are taking part in the release, advises from where support can be obtained, and provides links to the download sites.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-October/000191.html

The editors have also collected articles about the release from around the web:

Interested in the Flavors? Official 14.10 release announcements for each as follows:

V is for Vivid

Mark Shuttleworth writes "Glad to see the unicorn theme went down well, judging from the various desktops I see on G+." Mark reflects that each year brings something new, thanks the phone developer community, and announces the name of the next cycle, Vivid Vervet.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1425

The press and blogosphere picked up this news pretty quickly! Here’s a sampling selected by our editors:

Happy 10th Birthday Ubuntu!

Elizabeth K. Joseph, on behalf of the Ubuntu News Team, wishes Ubuntu a happy 10th Birthday, recalling that 10 years ago, Mark Shuttleworth announced the release of Ubuntu 4.10 on the ubuntu-announce-mailing-list. Elizabeth illustrates her post with several Ubuntu themed cakes, saying "With the release of 14.10 just days away, enjoy your release parties and perhaps take some time to reflect upon how far we’ve come in these 10 years!"

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/10/20/happy-10th-birthday-ubuntu/

Several members of the Ubuntu community have chimed in to reflect upon this milestone, here are a few of them:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (115299) +196 over last week
  • Critical (225) +1 # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (57547) +30 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: muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), Kaspar (http://askubuntu.com/users/121236/kaspar), Letizia (http://askubuntu.com/users/290569/letizia), Jacob Vlijm (http://askubuntu.com/users/72216/jacob-vlijm) and Misha Rogalla (http://askubuntu.com/users/52418/misha-rogalla)

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

LoCo News

Regular LoCo Council Meeting for 21 October 2014

Pablo Rubianes of the LoCo Council shares minutes from the latest meeting which covered several topics, including community discussion of the “Our teams reject the new LoCo Council policy” thread, re-verification of Ubuntu France, and granted requests by the Galician and Asturian teams to be formally recognized as non-country level LoCos who are qualified for the verification process.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/10/22/regular-loco-council-meeting-for-21-october-2014/

Review of Ubucon 2014 Germany

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran writes a review of the 8th German Ubucon that took place recently in Katlenburg-Lindau where he spoke about "Git for Beginners.” He gives us a daily summary of the weekend, describes the location, and links to some photographs of the event.

http://svij.org/blog/2014/10/25/review-of-ubucon-2014-germany/

Ubuntu Cloud News

What’s new in Ubuntu 14.10 for cloud and servers?

Canonical announces the release of Ubuntu 14.10, for cloud and servers but recommend that enterprise customers stay on the latest LTS release, Ubuntu 14.04. They advise that the release is packed full of new features and outline the changes for Ubuntu Server and OpenStack, the 3.16 kernel, and MAAS and Juju in turn.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/23/whats-new-in-ubuntu-14-10-for-cloud-and-servers/

In a follow-up post, they also discuss how they are continuing to deliver “leading scale-out cloud technology” with this latest release: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/23/ubuntu-14-10-delivers-leading-scale-out-cloud-technology/

Rapid Ubuntu image deployment – getting up and running in record time

Canonical reflects upon some of the work they’ve done through the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme, including the testing, maintenance, security (like Shellshock) and other updates to Ubuntu images which is important for quick deployments to new datacenters like a newly announced one for AWS in Frankfurt.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/24/rapid-ubuntu-image-deployment-getting-up-and-running-in-record-time/

The Planet

Bryan Quigley: Still running 32 bit Ubuntu?

In this survey, Bryan Quigley asks for feedback on his suggestion to moving on to 64-bit versions only after 16.04 LTS, since you would still be able to run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit distribution.

https://bryanquigley.com/crazy-ideas/still-running-32-bit-ubuntu

Nicholas Skaggs: Sprinting in DC: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Nicholas Skaggs writes that his team, with many core app developers and others from Ubuntu Engineering, are "sprinting" in Washington DC. He gives us an illustrated writeup of what happened each day, mentioning that there was some planning for the next UOS [Ubuntu Online Summit], an event which happens in a couple of weeks time.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/10/sprinting-in-dc-monday.html http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/10/sprinting-in-dc-tuesday.html http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/10/sprinting-in-dc-wednesday.html http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/10/sprinting-in-dc-thursday.html http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/10/sprinting-in-dc-friday.html

Alan Pope: Sprinting in DC

Alan Pope writes that he recently spent a week “with 230 other Ubuntu people in Washington, DC.” for a sprint, 10 of whom were invited community members working on core apps. Alan writes: “All week we’ve been collaborating towards a common goal of high quality, beautiful, performant and stable applications for the phone today, and desktop of the future. It’s been an incredibly fun and productive week, and I’m a little sad to be heading home today. But I’m happy that we’ve had this time together to improve the free software we all care deeply about.”

http://popey.com/blog/2014/10/24/sprinting-in-dc/

Svetlana Belkin: Ubuntu 14.10

Svetlana Belkin writes that she was able to upgrade both her PCs from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10 without any issues but on the day of the release her only thoughts were that of an animated gif from the movie, Despicable Me.

http://ubuntusense.com/2014/10/23/ubuntu-14-10/

Sean Davis: Xubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn”

Sean Davis writes that the next version of Xubuntu is now available, featuring the latest in Xfce development and is the first step towards the next LTS in 2016. Sean looks at 10 new things included in the release including, a refreshed login screen, pink highlights, Xfce updates, and changes to the Whisker Menu.

http://smdavis.us/2014/10/23/xubuntu-14-10-utopic-unicorn/

Ubuntu GNOME: To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade?

Ali Linx writes that with every cycle, the same question is being asked over and over again: "Should I upgrade to the latest release? or should I keep my system as it is?" Ali quickly looks at the options of installing the latest version as opposed to continue using an older version. He concludes "This is entirely up to the user to decide based on his/her needs."

http://ubuntugnome.org/to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade/

Benjamin Kerensa: Such a Utopic Unicorn

Benjamin Kerensa congratulates the Ubuntu Teams on releasing another solid release of Ubuntu. He takes the opportunity to encourage various steps, including the enabling of Telemetry and Firefox Health Report, to help deliver a better Firefox with each release.

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/10/23/such-a-utopic-unicorn

Kubuntu: Kubuntu Shirts are Back

The Kubuntu team announce that their T-shirts and polo shirts are available again. They tell us of the amounts from each sale that go towards Kubuntu and the Hungarian LoCo team, and link to the sites from which the shirts can be ordered.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-shirts

Randall Ross: On Changes, Ubuntu, "Magic Spells", and Real Power

Randall Ross reflects on the last seven years, his involvement with Ubuntu and building local communities, and says that he's met and worked with many brilliant people in Vancouver BC. Randall announces that he is Ubuntu's newest Community Manager and tells us on what his initial focus will be.

http://randall.executiv.es/opportunity-knocked

Jorge Castro: Juju in Ubuntu 14.10 highlights

Jorge Castro writes: "This title is kind of a misnomer, as of course, all this goodness is available to Ubuntu 14.04 users, so it’s more of a ‘Things that happen to line up with’ Ubuntu 14.10." He lists several items and links to further information.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/10/24/juju-in-ubuntu-14-dot-10-highlights/

Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 3: Unintelligiable

Joe Liau continues his series which talks about dumb telephones, noting that his phone has custom notifications with limited choices. He tells us how and when he wants a *smart* phone to deliver its message, and links to the Ubuntu phone website through a "save our phones" image.

http://blog.josephliau.com/documenting-the-death-of-the-dumb-telephone-part-3-unintelligiable/

Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #4

Randall Ross continues his series to explain why smart phones are not smart. He links to several articles and a YouTube video to support his reasoning.

http://randall.executiv.es/dumbphones04

Colin Watson: Moving on, but not too far

Colin Watson tells us that he has been working on Ubuntu for ten years, that he was one of the founding group of developers and that he is Canonical employee #17. He reflects over recent times and informs us that he is moving from Ubuntu Foundations to the Launchpad engineering team at the end of the year.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2014/10/26#2014-10-26-moving-on-but-not-too-far

Other Community News

Vivid Vervet (15.04) now open for business

Adam Conrad announces that after a few small changes, merges and uploads to the proposed archives, Vivid Vervet is now open for development. Adams tells us that autosyncs will be running shortly, and that ISO builds will be turned on in the coming days.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2014-October/001116.html

Canonical News

Ubuntu 14.10 desktop: security for global users

In a release put out by Canonical, highlights of the 14.10 of the release are covered, including the first iteration of the Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre, ability to stream Netflix, the 3.16 kernel which offers better support for Power8 and ARM 64 architectures and graphics support and more.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/23/ubuntu-14-10-desktop-security-for-global-users/

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E30 – The One at the Beach

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Thirty of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Tony Whitmore bring you this episode whilst Mark Johnson is on a sun-lounger somewhere.

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss Mark’s blog post about diversity at OggCamp

  • We share some Command Line Lurve which saves you valuable time and regret
  • 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/2014/10/23/s07e30-the-one-at-the-beach/

Getting Started with Juju Relations

José Antonio Rey introduces a Juju Charm School session that deals with Juju Relations, which are the ability for Juju Charms to connect services together. The bulk of the session is conducted by Ben Saller, with contributions from Jorge Castro and Matt Bruzek.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/24/getting-started-with-juju-relations/

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 and 14.04

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

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