Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 464

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 463 for the week April 24 - May 1, 2016.

Links to UWN

• [Ubuntu Online Summit] UOS: 3-5 May
• LTS 16.04 Review roundup!
• Welcome New Members and Developers
• Ubuntu Stats
• LoCo Events
• Paul White: Some thoughts about Xenial development, an aoying bug and Yakkety Yak
• Stephane Graber: LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]
• Matthias Klumpp: A GNOME Software Hackfest report
• Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu orange update
• Forums Council: Forum Staff Additions
• Zygmunt Krynicki: Anatomy of a snappy interface
• Nekhelesh Ramananthan: uNav 0.59 "Beauty and the Beast" is OUT!
• Simon Quigley: Contributing to Ubuntu - 2 - Ubuntu Quality
• Canonical Design Team: Wallpaper design for Xenial Xerus 16.04
• Sam Hewitt: Extending the Ubuntu Icon Spec.
• Michael Terry: In-App Purchases Available in the Ubuntu Store
• Yakkety Yak is now open for development
• Ubuntu Cloud News
• Ubuntu Phone News
• In The Press
• In The Blogosphere
• In Other News
• Featured Audio and Video
• Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.10 and 16.04
• And much more!

[Ubuntu Online Summit] UOS: 3-5 May

Daniel Holbach writes that the next Ubuntu online summit will take place from May 3rd to 5th. He also includes the links necessary for registration and session propositions.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/co...il/000041.html

LTS 16.04 Review roundup!

Amrisha Prashar provides a collection of reviews for the newly released Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from a variety of online publications. As she notes, this release has granted further security and reliability to the Ubuntu community, thereby creating a more unified experience.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/2...eview-roundup/

Welcome New Members and Developers

New Ubuntu Members via Forums Contributions: The Ubuntu Forums are delighted to welcome new Ubuntu members via Forums contributions:

The Forums Council congratulates each and every one and thanks them all for sustained contributions in the Forums assisting others to use and get the best from Ubuntu.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...il/002466.html & https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...il/002470.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (121377) +554 over last week
• Critical (352) +3 over last week
• Unconfirmed (59452) +314 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: Surya Teja Karra (http://askubuntu.com/users/253850/surya-teja-karra), chaskes (http://askubuntu.com/users/117123/chaskes), muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), Juan M. Gonzalez (http://askubuntu.com/users/506976/juan-m-gonzalez) and Shantanu Bedajna (http://askubuntu.com/users/467147/shantanu-bedajna)

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

LoCo Events

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

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

Paul White: Some thoughts about Xenial development, an aoying bug and Yakkety Yak

Paul White blogs abouts his stepping back and becoming a "floating contributor." He is impressed by the hard work and enthusiasm that goes into each Ubuntu release, while noting the minor bugs that do occasionally get into releases such as #1521302 which affects 'gnome-terminal' and will be fixed by 16.04.1. Paul suggests using terminator if you are bothered by the bug in the meantime. Finally, he gives his thoughts on "Yakkety Yak."

http://blog.pcw.me.uk/2016/04/some-t...velopment.html

Stephane Graber: LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]

Stephane Graber continues the series (this is the 9th of 12) about LXD 2.0. This is on container checkpoint and restore which remains experimental at this time. To have access to this container live migration, Stephane lists the requirements (16.04 has them all) and apt command to install. Then by using example he provides examples of it, its limitations, and requests that if you discover bugs then please fill out a Launchpad bug report.

https://www.stgraber.org/2016/04/25/...migration-912/

Matthias Klumpp: A GNOME Software Hackfest report

Matthias tells us about the recent GNOME hackfest in London. Starting off as travel log, it moves into shout-outs to various people he hadn't seen in awhile then to new people, including folks from Endless "who build their low-budget computer for developing/emerging countries on top of GNOME and Linux technologies." Matthias was surprised to see what Endless had done too, writing that the "incaation of GNOME Software used by endless looks pretty different from what the normal GNOME user sees". His post touches on many different topics (XdgApp, sandboxing, AppStream, etc) ending in a big thank you to the Ubuntu Community Fund for sponsoring him to be there.

http://blog.tenstral.net/2016/04/gno...st-report.html

Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu orange update

A short blog by Jamie Young to document the new color palette update in the SDK; the new orange for screen use is E95420.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/04/...orange-update/

Forums Council: Forum Staff Additions

Documenting the addition of new Forum Moderators accepted as part of the Staff team. The Ubuntu Forums Council congratulates DuckHook, jeremy31, kc1di, MAFoElffen, nerdtron, oldrocker99, vasa1, wgarcia & runrickus for becoming Forum Moderators.

https://ubuntuforumsorg.wordpress.co...f-additions-2/

Zygmunt Krynicki: Anatomy of a snappy interface

Zygmunt Krynicki writes another blog post (third) in a series teaching us about making Snappy interfaces. Zygmunt uses code fragments to explain what's needed to create an interface. He writes also that if you want to create the interface, you'll have to wait for the next post.

http://www.zygoon.pl/2016/04/anatomy...interface.html

Nekhelesh Ramananthan: uNav 0.59 "Beauty and the Beast" is OUT!

The uNav team, through Nekhelesh Ramananthan, is proud to aounce the release of iNav 0.59. He shares that uNav is a navigation app, and the hope of this release is tuing the "beast" of power within uNav into a "beauty" in its use.

http://nik90.com/unav-0-59-beauty-and-the-beast-2/

Simon Quigley: Contributing to Ubuntu - 2 - Ubuntu Quality

Simon Quigley, having done a couple of forms of QA for the Ubuntu project, tells us how we'd go about it. Using aotated screen dumps with explanation, Simon walks us through some of how we'd go about testing a Lubuntu 16.10 daily build, saving bandwidth by using zsync, creating or selecting a test case, and logging bugs via Launchpad. Links are provided for further explanation, but and he asserts that if you're thinking you'd like contribute to Ubuntu via testing, this could be a starting point.

http://tsimonq2.net/blog/2016/04/27/

Canonical Design Team: Wallpaper design for Xenial Xerus 16.04

Grazina Borosko writes about how the default wallpaper for Xenial Xerus 16.04 was designed using the Suru visual language. Grazina starts by showing default wallpapers of 14.10 through 15.10, shares the Origami animal made in the image of Xerus and notes that the final resulting default wallpaper of Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus is inspired by the Origami folds.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/04/...l-xerus-16-04/

Sam Hewitt: Extending the Ubuntu Icon Spec.

Sam Hewitt talks about his extension to the Ubuntu Icon specification, saying, "When I started designing app icons for folks, I (too) felt the official specification was lacking detailed instructions and explanations for the Suru design -not to mention it's woefully out of date- which isn't much help. My only recourse was to follow updates to the official icons themselves and to dissect the icons to determine the elements and visual principles that make up the Suru style and updates to it." He links to his extension to the guide.

http://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2016-04...on-design-spec

Michael Terry: In-App Purchases Available in the Ubuntu Store

Michael Terry points out the new ability to have in-app purchases in Ubuntu Touch apps. He points out, "Besides allowing someone to write the next Candy Crush, this also means that app authors can stop providing separate 'donation' versions of their app. Which means less busywork for authors, reviews are all on the same app, and less confusion for users."

https://mterry.name/log/2016/05/01/i...-ubuntu-store/

Other Community News

Yakkety Yak is now open for development

Matthias Klose reports that Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) is now open for development. Matthias encourages developers to not procrastinate on the targeted development goals and to begin working on merges as soon as possible.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...il/039331.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

A DIY guide to the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet

Amrisha Prashar illustrates the versatility of the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet by providing a detailed diagram of the ways in which the device may be configured. The versatility of the tablet combines a desktop Ubuntu experience with the mobility of a tablet.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/2...dition-tablet/

Wolfram Research releases Data Drop Logging app for Ubuntu Phone

David Pitkin aounces that in collaboration with Wolfram Research, Canonical has released the "first app collaboration with cloud coect functionality for Ubuntu developers and users," Wolfram Data Droptm Logging. He writes: "The application tus an Ubuntu phone into a powerful cloud-coected sensor collection device. It has the ability to send location, acceleration and rotation data directly to a Wolfram Cloud Databin where you can then interact and use your own data just like any other Wolfram data source." The post concludes by including the community in their celebration of this new app, asking users to tweet the most original findings from their collected sensor data using the #UbuntuWolfram hash tag.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/2...-ubuntu-phone/

The most powerful Ubuntu phone is available to buy

Amrisha Prashar aounces that the Ubuntu edition of the Meizu Pro 5 is now available for ordering. She shares that this device is the most powerful Ubuntu phone on the market, boasting a 5.7 inch 1080p screen and 32GB of memory.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/2...ilable-to-buy/

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Full Circle #108

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

This month:

• Command & Conquer
• How-To : Python, LibreOffice, Migrating From VAX, and LaTeX
• Graphics : Inkscape
• Chrome Cult: Options
• Linux Labs: Debian (Noroot) in Android & Testing and Troubleshooting Hard Drives
• Ubuntu Devices
• Review: Linux Lite
• Ubuntu Games: GoPanda

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

Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-108

Featured Audio and Video

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 12.04, 14.04, 15.10 and 16.04

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

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2021

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