news 28 Posted July 7, 2015 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 424 for the week June 29 - July 5, 2015. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue424 == In This Issue == * Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) reaches End of Life on July 23, 2015 * Welcome New Members and Developers * Ubuntu Stats * Korea Community newly launched Ask Ubuntu KR + Ubuntu Hours Feedback * LoCo Events * Elizabeth K. Joseph: Contributing to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter * Nicholas Skaggs: Snappy Open House * Nicholas Skaggs: Have you tried writing a testsuite? * Brendan Perrine: lxrandr new dual screen options * Ubuntu Cloud News * Ubuntu Phone News * Canonical News * Intel To Release Ubuntu-Flavored Compute Stick * Why Ubuntu plans to replace traditional Linux packages with something better * In The Blogosphere * 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 == === Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) reaches End of Life on July 23, 2015 === Adam Conrad announces that the support period for Ubuntu 14.10 will come to an end on 23rd July 2015. At that time, security notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 14.10. Adam tells us that the supported upgrade path is via Ubuntu 15.04, and he links to the site where instructions and caveats for the upgrade can be found. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2015-July/003010.html === Welcome New Members and Developers === ANIS El Acheche, on behalf of the Ubuntu Membership Board, announces two new members:- * Jorge Niedbalski | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/niedbalski | https://launchpad.net/~niedbalski * Nathan Osman | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NathanOsman | https://launchpad.net/~george-edison55 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-July/002269.html == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats === * Open (119146) +180 over last week * Critical (278) +3 over last week * Unconfirmed (59586) +164 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 ==== * How to wipe a hard disk completely so that no data recovery tools can retrieve anything? [on hold] http://askubuntu.com/questions/643907/how-to-wipe-a-hard-disk-completely-so-that-no-data-recovery-tools-can-retrieve-a * How to kill htop if I can't use F10? http://askubuntu.com/questions/643088/how-to-kill-htop-if-i-cant-use-f10 * Is it possible to enter password for sudo only once, and configure it to not require for password on other terminals? http://askubuntu.com/questions/643142/is-it-possible-to-enter-password-for-sudo-only-once-and-configure-it-to-not-req * ImageMagick suddenly installed http://askubuntu.com/questions/642166/imagemagick-suddenly-installed * What happens if you Trash the Trash? http://askubuntu.com/questions/642324/what-happens-if-you-trash-the-trash ==== Top Voted New Questions ==== * When run cat says: "Hello, nothing to see here! Move along!" http://askubuntu.com/questions/642349/ * Is it possible to enter password for sudo only once, and configure it to not require for password on other terminals? http://askubuntu.com/questions/643142/ * How to wipe a hard disk completely so that no data recovery tools can retrieve anything? http://askubuntu.com/questions/643907/ * How to kill htop if I can't use F10? http://askubuntu.com/questions/643088/ * ImageMagick suddenly installed http://askubuntu.com/questions/642166/ People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Maythux (http://askubuntu.com/users/150504/maythux), A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-, Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli), muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru) and Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg) Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com == LoCo News == === Korea Community newly launched Ask Ubuntu KR + Ubuntu Hours Feedback === Share this post Link to post