news 28 Posted June 30, 2015 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 423 for the week June 22 - 28, 2015. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue423 == In This Issue == * Wily Werewolf Alpha 1 Released * Welcome New Members and Developers * Ubuntu Stats * LoCo Events * Mark Shuttleworth: Introducing the Fan - simpler container networking * Canonical Design Team: Introducing Vanilla * Ali Jawad: Before Planning for Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 * Lubuntu Blog: Box theme re-merge fixes * Forum Staff Additions * Joint Statement from the CC and KC * Membership Board Member Interviews: El Acheche ANIS * Mir update - June 26, 2015 * Ubuntu Cloud News * Ubuntu Phone News * The Fan * Community team week 26 update * Canonical introduces fan networking for containers * Firms work to bring computers to Meridian classrooms * In The Blogosphere * Full Circle #98 has arrived * Other Articles of Interest * Featured Audio and Video * Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings * Upcoming Meetings and Events * Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04 * And much more! == General Community News == === Wily Werewolf Alpha 1 Released === Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the first alpha of Wily Werewolf, which will become Ubuntu 15.10. He informs us of the flavors that took part in the release, from where to download the images, and links to sites from where further information about the flavors can be found. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2015-June/003304.html The following articles were found by our editors also covering the Alpha 1 release: * Ubuntu 15.10 Alpha 1 Releases Now Ready for Download - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/ubuntu-15-10-alpha-1-download-released * Ubuntu Family Does Their 15.10 Alpha 1 Releases - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-15.10-Alpha-1 * Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Alpha 1 Arrives with Better Support for iOS Devices - Gallery - http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-mate-15-10-alpha-1-arrives-with-better-support-for-ios-devices-gallery-485314.shtml === Welcome New Members and Developers === Marco Parillo announces Kubuntu's newest Member whose application has recently been accepted by the Kubuntu Council. * Matthias Klumpp http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=333 == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats === * Open (118966) -260 over last week * Critical (275) -1 over last week * Unconfirmed (59422) -174 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 ==== * Renaming files to add a suffix http://askubuntu.com/questions/640430/renaming-files-to-add-a-suffix * How do I round numbers to the nearest integer from the command line? http://askubuntu.com/questions/639896/how-do-i-round-numbers-to-the-nearest-integer-from-the-command-line * How does Ubuntu synchronize time without ntp? http://askubuntu.com/questions/641158/how-does-ubuntu-synchronize-time-without-ntp * Difference of two big files http://askubuntu.com/questions/640144/difference-of-two-big-files * Concatenate two files and separate them with a newline http://askubuntu.com/questions/640055/concatenate-two-files-and-separate-them-with-a-newline ==== Top Voted New Questions ==== * How does Ubuntu synchronize time without ntp? http://askubuntu.com/questions/641158/ * Google Chrome suddenly increased size (see picture) http://askubuntu.com/questions/639445/ * Renaming files to add a suffix http://askubuntu.com/questions/640430/ * sudo permission doesn't time out durring apt-get upgrade http://askubuntu.com/questions/640461/ * Difference of two big files http://askubuntu.com/questions/640144/ People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Tim (http://askubuntu.com/users/186134/tim), A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-, Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), terdon (http://askubuntu.com/users/85695/terdon) and mchid (http://askubuntu.com/users/167115/mchid) Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com == LoCo Events == Want to learn whether there is an event upcoming in your area? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ == The Planet == === Mark Shuttleworth: Introducing the Fan - simpler container networking === Mark Shuttleworth writes about the Fan, a new tool from Canonical to provide a "very cool way to provide thousands of IP addresses to each of your VMs on AWS". He also seeks community feedback, writing "The fan is available on Ubuntu on AWS and soon on other clouds, for your testing and container experiments! Feedback is most welcome while we refine the user experience." http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1471 For a more in-depth technical overview, complete with a diagram describing the architecture, see Dustin Kirkland's post "Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan!" http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2015/06/the-bits-have-hit-fan.html === Canonical Design Team: Introducing Vanilla === Anthony Dillon, front end Web Developer at Canonical introduces Vanilla, the Canonical Design team's new and improved CSS framework. He shares basic build and usage instructions and links to a current Demo site for the framework. He concludes by giving a link to the Vanilla project page and writes: "This is still a work in progress project but we are close to releasing www.ubuntu.com and www.canonical.com based on Vanilla. Please do use Vanilla and any feedback would be very much appreciated." http://design.canonical.com/2015/06/introducing-vanilla/ === Ali Jawad: Before Planning for Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 === Ali Jawad appeals for Ubuntu GNOME users to answer four simple questions that will help him plan for the 15.10 release. Ali also asks for feedback from those who have not yet used Ubuntu GNOME. http://amjjawad.net/before-planning-for-ubuntu-gnome-15-10/ === Lubuntu Blog: Box theme re-merge fixes === Rafael Laguna shows us, with the aid of screenshots, how some changes in the GTK libraries created some problems with the Box theme. He says the errors have now been fixed and advises from where the updates can be found. http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2015/06/box-theme-re-merge-fixes.html == Other Community News == === Forum Staff Additions === David Pires (slickymaster) announces, on behalf of the Council, the names of two new moderators: * ajgreeny -http://ubuntuorg/member.php?u=27747 * PaulW2U - http://ubuntuorg/member.php?u=1078994 He says: "Both have shown sustained and helpful contributions to the forums and meet the requirements stated in the team nomination wiki." https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-June/002253.html & https://ubuntuforumsorg.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/forum-staff-additions/ === Joint Statement from the CC and KC === Following some recent community turmoil, the Ubuntu Community Council and Kubuntu Council issued a joint statement, writing: 'We have mutually agreed that KDE is important to Ubuntu, and the Kubuntu Council believes that Ubuntu is important to the KDE community as well. Therefore we have a basis to work together on putting out a lovely Wily release." https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-June/000646.html === Membership Board Member Interviews: El Acheche ANIS === Svetlana Belkin interviews Ubuntu Membership Board member El Acheche ANIS, about what he does for a career, his first computing experience, and why he joined the Membership Board. El Acheche says of his focus on Ubuntu today: "I believe that the main focus of everybody should be the Community it self, during the last years I saw many people joined the community then left to join others, the bright side here that they joined other FOSS communities." http://senseopenness.com/membership-board-member-interviews/ === Mir update - June 26, 2015 === Cemil Azizoglu provides the latest update of Mir with the 0.13.3 and includes updates from the team including bug fixes and new features, deprecation of code and some API and library research. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-June/002266.html == Ubuntu Cloud News == * Get Yourself a BootStack - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/22/get-yourself-a-bootstack/ * quasardb joins the Charm Partner Programme - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/24/quasardb-joins-the-charm-partner-programme/ * Announcing Benchmarking with Juju - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/25/announcing-benchmarking-with-juju/ * Ubuntu 14.04-LTS HWE (3.16 and 3.19 kernel) Images and EC2 AMI's - http://blog.utlemming.org/2015/06/ubuntu-1404-lts-hwe-316-and-319-kernel.html == Ubuntu Phone News == === Meizu Launches the MX4 Ubuntu Edition in Europe === Canonical announces that Meizu's first Ubuntu phone has been available to the European market since June 25th. It will be priced at 299.00 Euros by invitation on Meizu's website. http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/24/meizu-launches-the-mx4-ubuntu-edition-in-europe/ === Review BQ E5 Ubuntu Edition === Costales reviews the BQ E5 Ubuntu Edition, sharing both hardware and software specifications of the device and providing several photos and a photo capability comparison with the BQ E4.5. He concludes that for the 30EUR difference, he recommends the E5 over the E4.5. Article is in Spanish. http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/06/review-bq-e5-ubuntu-edition.html === Approaching the Meizu MX4 Challenge Deadline === Time is almost up on Nekhelesh (nik90)'s challenge to win a Meizu MX4, it ends July 1st. He reminds us that his challenge is targeted at Scope development as well as Design. http://nik90.com/submit-your-entries-for-the-meizu-mx4-challenge/ == Canonical News == === The Fan === The cloud team at Canonical has been busy this week with the release of the Fan, which seeks to make it easier to do networking on containers. The following articles address various components of the fan release news: * The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/22/fan-networking/ * Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan! - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/22/container-to-container-networking-the-bits-have-hit-the-fan/ * Ubuntu Fan Images - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/24/ubuntu-fan-images/ * Introducing the Fan - simpler container networking - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/06/24/introducing-the-fan-simpler-container-networking/ === Community team week 26 update === David Planella highlights some of the work that Canonical's Community Team have been working on over the past week which includes, planning an App Contest for UbuConDE, creating better home pages for the Core Apps on the Ubuntu Developer website, and landing updates to Terminal and Sudoku in the click store. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-June/000649.html == In The Press == === Canonical introduces fan networking for containers === Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports on the news from Canonical about fan networking for containers. He summarizes details from Mark Shuttleworth and Dustin Kirkland and writes: "Fan's goal is "to fit naturally into the networking tools available today and to be easily used from the existing persistent network configuration systems we already have." http://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-introduces-fan-networking-for-containers/ === Firms work to bring computers to Meridian classrooms === Ben Lockridge of the Sun Herald writes that to bring more computer to the Meridian Public School District Southern Pipe & Supply Co. has donated 80 computers and AOTECH Computers with be repairing them and loading them up with Ubuntu. AOTECH owner Robb Hudson reports that from their first year of running the schools have saved $360,000 dollars. http://www.sunherald.com/2015/06/27/6297494/firms-work-to-bring-computers.html == In The Blogosphere == === Quick Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition Review === Andrew of WebUpd8 writes a quick review of the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition phone, showing us some photographs and giving us an overview of its specifications. He shares his findings about the camera, the internet connectivity, the 1080p display but says: "Regarding the battery, I can't post my conclusions just yet, because I've been using the phone either heavily or not at all - after a few days of regular phone usage." http://www.webupd8.org/2015/06/quick-meizu-mx4-ubuntu-edition-review.html === Meizu launches an Ubuntu flagship phone you might actually want === Andy Weir of Neowin evaluates the new Meizu device, writing that similar to both BQ devices that were developed for Android but used to make Ubuntu editions, the new Meizu MX4 is now available. He shares that unlike both BQ devices the MX4 has "with much better specs and an extra dose of style" with a thin side, thin bezels. He reports that sporting a 5.36 in screen, octa-core CPU, 2GB RAM, and 16GB storage that this phone is more in line with today's standard specs. http://www.neowin.net/news/meizu-launches-an-ubuntu-flagship-phone-you-might-actually-want === Why It Will Be 2016 Before Mobile Carriers Sell Ubuntu Phones === Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that although there are three Ubuntu phones available to purchase online none are being promoted by carriers or sold in retail stores. He relates how targeting sales to a sub-section of the audience has created publicity and that Canonical is more concerned about user feedback than market share. Joey informs us that Canonical have said that it may be 2016 before phones are pitched at the general public. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/why-it-will-be-2016-before-mobile-carriers-sell-ubuntu-phones == In Other News == === Full Circle #98 has arrived === Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our ninety-eighth issue. This month: * Command & Conquer * How-To : Conky Reminder, LibreOffice, and Programming JavaScript * Graphics : Inkscape. * Chrome Cult * Linux Labs: Midnight Commander * Ubuntu Phones * Review: Saitek Pro Flight System * Book Reviews: Automate Boring Stuff With Python, and Teach Your Kids To Code * Ubuntu Games: Minetest, and Free to Play Games plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, and soooo much more. Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-98 == Other Articles of Interest == * Linux 4.1 Kernel Release Brings Performance Improvements, New Hardware Support - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.1-Released == Featured Audio and Video == === Ubuntu Community Q&A - 23rd June 2015 === Daniel Holbach is joined by Michael Hall for another regular Q&A session in which they answer viewers' questions which are put to them on IRC. Michael also updates us on the recent SouthEast LinuxFest which he attended. === Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E16 - The Hottie & the Nottie === It's Episode Fourteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are all together again and speaking to your brain. In this week's show: * We review some Entroware hardware; the Proteus gaming laptop and the Aura NUC. * We go over your feedback. * We have a command line love from occasional guest presenter Anton Piatek: liquidprompt * We chat about broken laptop updates (Chrome did a dodgy update that's now fixed and, separately, don't install both OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice and the Launcher integration plugin and install updates and...stuff...), broken laptop hardware (Mark got his soldering iron out), trying out retropie and stormfinch, and releasing Ubuntu MATE 1.10. Share this post Link to post
