Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 470

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 470 for the week June 13 - 19, 2016.

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In This Issue

• Universal "snap" packages launch on multiple Linux distros
• Welcome New Members and Developers
• Ubuntu Stats
• And we're back with UbuCon Latin America 2016!
• LoCo Events
• Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Calling for testers of the new Ubuntu SDK IDE
• Svetlana Belkin: Seeking: Ubuntu Membership Workshop Outline Review
• Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Snapd 2.0.8: universal snaps and desktop interfaces
• Dustin Kirkland: sudo purge-old-keels: Recover some disk space!
• Daniel Holbach: Second week of Snappy Playpen
• Canonical Design Team: QtDay 2016: Developing Ubuntu convergent apps with Qt
• Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Week 3 of the Snappy Playpen
• ubuntu-docs branch ready for yakkety
• Canonical News
• The XPS 13 DE: Dell continues to build a reliable Linux lineage
• 5 Reasons to Install Linux on Your Laptop
• In The Blogosphere
• Featured Audio and Video
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.10 and 16.04
• And much more!

General Community News

Universal "snap" packages launch on multiple Linux distros

Canonical aounces the availability of snaps on other platforms, writing "Snaps now work natively on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu. They are currently being validated on CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL, and are easy to enable on other Linux distributions." The aouncement goes on to explain the benefits of this new format and links to the source and details available at http://snapcraft.io/.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/06/1...linux-distros/

This news has been widely covered, the following is a selection of articles from our editors:

Welcome New Members and Developers

The Ubuntu Forums Council is happy to aounce their newest Ubuntu Member via forums contributions:

Rex has been a long time contributor to the forums.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ne/002496.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (123399) +160 over last week
• Critical (363) -14 over last week
• Unconfirmed (60804) +136 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: Byte Commander (http://askubuntu.com/users/367990/byte-commander), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), terdon (http://askubuntu.com/users/85695/terdon), andrew.46 (http://askubuntu.com/users/57576/andrew-46) and oblivian (http://askubuntu.com/users/88922/oblivian)

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

LoCo News

And we're back with UbuCon Latin America 2016!

Jose Antonio Rey aounces the next UbuCon Latin America, coming up in August 2016, and the opening of the Call for Papers and request for sponsors.

https://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/...-america-2016/

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

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Calling for testers of the new Ubuntu SDK IDE

Benjamin Zeller and Zoltan Balogh aounce the availability of and put out a call for testers for the new version of the Ubuntu Software Development Kit (SDK) Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The post gives step by step instructions for use, known issues and solutions, and some troubleshooting tips.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/...-sdk-ide-post/

Svetlana Belkin: Seeking: Ubuntu Membership Workshop Outline Review

Svetlana Belkin shares her current outline for an Ubuntu Membership workshop that she'll be ruing on Ubuntu On Air and asks for feedback from the community.

http://senseopeess.com/seeking-ubu...utline-review/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Snapd 2.0.8: universal snaps and desktop interfaces

David Calle aounces the availability of Snapd 2.0.8, featuring the new "snap try" and switch from lsb-release to os-release to support cross-distro support. He covers some of the new interfaces, command line changes, and links to the full changelog of changes. He concludes by offering some of the highlights to expect in future releases.

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog...op-interfaces/

Dustin Kirkland: sudo purge-old-keels: Recover some disk space!

Dustin Kirkland writes about the purge-old-keels utility that he wrote to clear out older keels from your Ubuntu system and gives a quick tour of how to use it.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/...d-keels.html

Daniel Holbach: Second week of Snappy Playpen

Daniel Holbach provides a summary of the work completed in the second week of Snappy Playpen, including the new snaps: Tyrant Unleashed Optimizer, mpv git build, imagemagick6-stable, keepassx, consul, dcos-cli and deis workflow. He also covers the work-in-progress snaps, updated snaps and some general updates, concluding with information about how to get involved.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/06...nappy-playpen/

Canonical Design Team: QtDay 2016: Developing Ubuntu convergent apps with Qt

Andrea Beabei, UX Engineer at Canonical, writes about his talk and Ubuntu's involvement in the recent QtDay 2016 in Florence, Italy.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/06/...-apps-with-qt/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Week 3 of the Snappy Playpen

Daniel Holbach aounces the Snappy playpen sprint in #snappy on Tuesday, 21st June 2016. The focus of this sprint is to "get all experts in one room and together we will make a push to get both Electron based apps and server apps snapped."

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/...nappy-playpen/

Other Community News

ubuntu-docs branch ready for yakkety

Guar Hjalmarsson aounces the availability of the ubuntu-docs branch for Yakkety, allowing community members to begin contributing to official documentation for the next release.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ne/020033.html

In follow up posts, community members also share a link to the contributing documentation at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Documentatio...tuDesktopGuide and that the documentation team is "happy to give begiers a helping hand. Just post your questions to this list."

Canonical News

In The Press

The XPS 13 DE: Dell continues to build a reliable Linux lineage

Scott Gilbertson for Ars Technica reviews the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (DE). He covers some of the struggles Linux users have with other laptops, the specifications of the DE edition and real-world performance. He concludes "The XPS is a lightweight, well-specced, Linux-supporting laptop" and provides a list of pros and cons.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/...linux-lineage/

5 Reasons to Install Linux on Your Laptop

Using Ubuntu as an example, David Nield of Gizmodo walks the reader through five reasons to install Linux on your laptop. His reasons include the ease of setting up and that it comes with "everything you need" such as an office suite, email and security programs.

http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/5-reas...top-1781833159

In The Blogosphere

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E16 - Reluctant Dragon - Ubuntu Podcast

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

This episode includes:

• Motivation to adopt Ubuntu Devices whole-heartedly.
• Going on holiday, the on-going saga of fixing Mark's laptop, and naming the new Entroware laptop.
• We share a Command Line Lurve - pv
• And more!

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/06/16/...uctant-dragon/

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 14th June 2016

"Daniel Holbach and Michael Hall [come] to you live on the air to give you updates on Ubuntu activity and answer your questions."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32o3BRsx44g

Ubuntu App Design Clinic

"We['re] on camera talking to Dan Wood regarding his work on the OwnCloud App."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io1sylEHZh8

The Changelog Podcast #207: Ubuntu Everywhere with Dustin Kirkland

"This week we talked with Dustin Kirkland about Ubuntu, the most widely used flavor of Linux. We talked about the rise of Ubuntu, Ubuntu being everywhere, their collaboration with Microsoft to bring Bash to Windows, and what we can expect from the future of this Linux distro."

https://changelog.com/207/

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

None.

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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