Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 444 for the week November 23 - 29, 2015.
Links to UWN
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In This Issue
Community Council elected
Welcome New Members and Developers
Ubuntu Stats
Ubucon Paris 15.10
LoCo Events
Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: theme wrapping
Xubuntu: Xubuntu at FreeGeek Chicago
Didier Roche: Netbeans and Rust & JetBrains CLion and Twine game editor support in Ubuntu Make 15.11
Rohan Garg: A clockwork carrot
Canonical Design Team: An expanded device mono icon set
Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Munich Hackathon KDE CI work and Kubuntu workflow
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Ubuntu Font Family, version 0.84 (with Arabic and Hebrew) up for testing in Xenial
Upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Clinic
Ubuntu Cloud News
In The Blogosphere
FCM#103 is OUT!
Featured Audio and Video
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.04 and 15.10
And much more!
General Community News
Community Council elected
Daniel Holbach announces the results of the recent election for the seats on the Ubuntu Community Council on which Daniel himself, Laura Czajkowski, Svetlana Belkin, Michael Hall, Scarlett Clark, C de-Avillez, and Marco Ceppi will serve for the next two years. He thanks all the nominees and voters and also those who served on the council for the last two years.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/co...er/000034.html
Welcome New Members and Developers
At the Developer Membership Board meeting on November 23rd, the following applications were reviewed and new developers welcomed:
Contributing developer application for Dave Chiluk. - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/002349.html
Core developer application for Lukasz Zemczak. - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/002350.html
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
Open (120460) +31 over last week
Critical (283) -1 over last week
Unconfirmed (60083) +64 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 print "-n" without issuing a newline? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70161...uing-a-newline
Is it possible to have four equally sized windows on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70194...untu-14-04-lts
Can someone harm my computer just using grub? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70280...ust-using-grub
Leave old kernels installed could be dangerous? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70149...d-be-dangerous
What does the "-" in "bash -" mean? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70339...e-in-bash-mean
==== Top Voted New Questions ====
Does Ubuntu work on a Raspberry Pi Zero? http://askubuntu.com/questions/703070/
Is it possible to have four equally sized windows on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701945/
What does the "-" in "bash -" mean? http://askubuntu.com/questions/703397/
How can the login greeter drums be turned off in Ubuntu 15.10? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701431/
How to print "-n" without issuing a newline? http://askubuntu.com/questions/701616/
People contributing the best questions and answers this week: Serg (http://askubuntu.com/users/295286/serg), A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b), cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox), Pilot6 (http://askubuntu.com/users/167850/pilot6) and Mike (http://askubuntu.com/users/1269/mike)
Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com
LoCo News
Ubucon Paris 15.10
Marcos Costales shares a day by day journal of activities he participated in at Ubucon Paris, including a series of 25 photos taken throughout the event. The post is in Spanish (not French!).
http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/201...aris-2015.html
LoCo Events
The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:
Monthly meeting, FOSS User Group at Natick Community-Senior Center, Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu...senior-center/
Ubuntu Hour San Francisco, Ubuntu California: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu...san-francisco/
Ubuntu 15.10 Release Party and Offline Meeting in Japan, Ubuntu Japanese Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/japane...ting-in-japan/
Ubuntu Hour Berkeley, Ubuntu California: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu...hour-berkeley/
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
Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: theme wrapping
Graham Bancroft on behalf of the Canonical Design Team shows us how to build themes with the Vanilla framework for theme consistency across Ubuntu websites, writing that the post would be "delving a little further into how we include and customise the framework for our Ubuntu family of websites". He provides instructions for installing the framework and customizing it for your own theme.
http://design.canonical.com/2015/11/...heme-wrapping/
Xubuntu: Xubuntu at FreeGeek Chicago
Evelyn Lopez, Communications Coordinator at FreeGeek Chicago, is interviewed by the Xubuntu team and describes the use of Xubuntu in their production environment. She writes that they use purely open source software and that for some time Xubuntu was the main flavor that they used. She also shares the applications that they install on their systems, saying "Currently, we install LibreOffice, Krita, Inkscape, VLC Player, Firefox, Chromium, GIMP among others."
http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-at-freegeek-chicago/
Didier Roche: Netbeans and Rust & JetBrains CLion and Twine game editor support in Ubuntu Make 15.11
Didier Roche describes the new features in Ubuntu Make 15.11, notably adding Netbeans, Rust, JetBrains CLion, and Twine game editor support. He also shares that there have been minor fixes and changes in this new release, and describes the many tests done by the Ubuntu Jenkins system.
http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Netbean...ntu-Make-15.11
http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/JetBrai...u-Make-15.11.2
Rohan Garg: A clockwork carrot
Rohan Garg describes his collaboration with other Kubuntu developers at the annual LiMux sprint to work on the Continuous Integration system used by developers, improving file tracking in projects and use of packagekit and appstream with Muon. He also mentions a backward clock that they made, inspired by one at the event venue and provides a link from where it can be downloaded.
https://kshadeslayer.wordpress.com/2...ckwork-carrot/
Canonical Design Team: An expanded device mono icon set
Matthieu James from the Canonical Design Team shares the new Suru icon theme. He notes that this update focuses on more desktop icons, as before they focused only on mobile icons. He briefly describes the process they went through to make them, noting that he had to match it with the previous set.
http://design.canonical.com/2015/11/...mono-icon-set/
Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Munich Hackathon KDE CI work and Kubuntu workflow
Scarlett Clark provides her take on the recent LiMux hosted sprint in Munich, notably announcing that the Kubuntu team have developed a plan for the Xenial Xerus release and that they will be syncing with Debian on a lot of their work. She also delves into some of the infrastructure, talking about working through where the CI system should be hosted, use of a Docker sandbox for developers and some issues that they run into with Phabricator. Scarlett concludes: "Overall this was an essential team building and work event that I could not have participated in without your help. So thank you to all of you that support Ubuntu community donations."
http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2015/...untu-workflow/
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Ubuntu Font Family, version 0.84 (with Arabic and Hebrew) up for testing in Xenial
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos announces the availability of the testing version of the Ubuntu Font Family in Xenial Xerus, which finally includes both the Arabic and Hebrew glyphs created by the team working with Dalton Maag in 2011.
https://fitoschido.wordpress.com/201...esting-xenial/
Other Community News
Upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Clinic
Daniel Holbach gives us advance notice that the next Ubuntu Snappy Clinic will be on Ubuntu on Air! at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 2nd December. He says that the subject matter will be what's new in snapcraft, and that he looks forward to seeing us all there.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sn...er/001320.html
Ubuntu Cloud News
Opus 2 develops the "legal cloud of the future" on Ubuntu OpenStack - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/...ntu-openstack/
Diving into Juju - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/...ing-into-juju/
Juju plugin: search charmstore - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/...ch-charmstore/
#MadeWithJuju: Apache Analytics SQL - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/...analytics-sql/
In The Blogosphere
Vinux Enhances Productivity for Visually Impaired Users
Jack M. Germain of Linux Insider provides a review of Vinux 5.0, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 and is specifically designed for blind and partially sighted users. He provides some history about the project and founder Tony Sales, explains how Unity works well for the platform describing some of the other software available, including Orca. He also explored usability of the dash and various keybindings, concluding: "The Vinux Linux distro can be both an educational requirement and a personal tool for sight-impaired computer users. It's not a perfect in its performance, but it does provide an improved and more productive computing environment for visually impaired users."
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/82784.html
November Ubuntu News Roundup
Sam Tran of OMG! Ubuntu! provides a summary of Ubuntu News from various sources in November, including: the Kernel 4.4-rc2 release, the Ubuntu Online Summit, the dropping of Python 2, Brasero and Empathy from the default installation of the Xenial Xerus release, new Kubuntu release managers and an Ubuntu SDK Update.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/11/n...5-news-roundup
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Continues To Focus On The Linux 4.4 Kernel
Michael Larabel of Phoronix shares the latest from the kernel team, writing that the Linux 4.4 kernel is the target for the upcoming Xenial release in April. He goes on to share some of the features of the kernel and some of the details about how the team at Ubuntu handles backporting of various types of support.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...04-Linux-4.4-1
First Ubuntu Touch Images Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Are Now Live
Marius Nestor of Softpedia writes that Ubuntu Touch images based on 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) are now available in the development channel. However, he also passes on the warning that these early development images are buggy and might not work as expected.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/first...e-496830.shtml
In Other News
FCM#103 is OUT!
This month:
Command & Conquer
How-To : Python in the Real World, LibreOffice, LaTeX and Practice Programming
Graphics : Inkscape.
Chrome Cult
Linux Labs: 3D Printer Building
Ubuntu Phones: OTA-8
plus: Ubuntu Games, News, Arduino, Book Review, Q&A, Security, and soooo much more.
Get it while it's hot!
http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-103/
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: 08E38 - Santa with Muscles - Ubuntu Podcast
It's Episode Thirty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording as normal over the internets which are suffering slightly from the storms outside...
In this week's show:
We talk about Laura's recent experience 3D printing Christmas tree-shaped Christmas tree decorations:
We chat about buying yet another new phone, playing Bandit, and watching Mr Robot.
We go over your feedback.
That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/11/26/...-with-muscles/
Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 24th November 2015
Alan Pope and Daniel Holbach host another regular Q&A session on behalf on Canonical's Community team in which they answer questions that are put to them on IRC. They also update us on a new version of snapcraft, OTA-8, the Google Code In, and the UbuCon Summit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbENdhTAvvQ
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Security Team - November 23, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20151123
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, 15.04 and 15.10
Security Updates
[USN-2816-1] Django vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/003198.html
[USN-2817-1] IcedTea Web vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/003199.html
[USN-2818-1] OpenJDK 7 vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/003200.html
[USN-2820-1] dpkg vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/003201.html
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
cloud-init 0.6.3-0ubuntu1.24 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024656.html
xen 4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024657.html
xen 4.1.6.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024658.html
python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024659.html
python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024660.html
whoopsie-daisy 0.1.34.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024661.html
virtualbox 4.1.44-dfsg-1+deb7u1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024662.html
virtualbox 4.1.44-dfsg-1+deb7u1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024663.html
dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024664.html
dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...er/024665.html
End of Life - April 2017
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
cloud-init 0.7.5-0ubuntu1.15 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020535.html
linux-meta-lts-vivid 3.19.0.37.24 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020536.html
linux-lts-vivid 3.19.0-37.42~14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020537.html
linux-signed-lts-vivid 3.19.0-37.42~14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020538.html
linux-lts-vivid_3.19.0-37.42~14.04.1_amd64.tar.gz - - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020539.html
python-django 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.11 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020540.html
icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020541.html
multipath-tools 0.4.9-3ubuntu7.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020542.html
libmbim 1.6.0-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020543.html
qemu 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.20 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020544.html
unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20150916-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020545.html
python-debianbts 1.11ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020546.html
python-xlib 0.14+20091101-1ubuntu3~trusty - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020547.html
linux-firmware 1.127.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020548.html
icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020549.html
python-django 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.11 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020550.html
gccgo-4.9 4.9.3-0ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020551.html
policykit-1 0.105-4ubuntu3.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020552.html
modemmanager 1.0.0-2ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020553.html
virtualbox 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020554.html
virtualbox 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020555.html
openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020556.html
openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020557.html
dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020558.html
dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...er/020559.html
End of Life - April 2019
Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
linux 3.19.0-37.42 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009651.html
linux-meta 3.19.0.37.36 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009652.html
linux-signed 3.19.0-37.42 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009653.html
linux_3.19.0-37.42_amd64.tar.gz - - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009654.html
cloud-init 0.7.7~bzr1091-0ubuntu12 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009655.html
neutron 1:2015.1.2-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009656.html
python-django 1.7.6-1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009657.html
icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009658.html
python-debianbts 1.12ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009659.html
qemu 1:2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu9.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009660.html
ceph 0.94.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009661.html
linux-firmware 1.143.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009662.html
icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009663.html
python-django 1.7.6-1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009664.html
policykit-1 0.105-8ubuntu5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009665.html
virtualbox 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009666.html
virtualbox 4.3.34-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009667.html
openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009668.html
openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009669.html
dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009670.html
dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...er/009671.html
End of Life - January 2016
Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
python-pylxd 0.18-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012451.html
python-django 1.7.9-1ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012452.html
icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012453.html
qtcreator 3.5.0+dfsg-1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012454.html
dkms 2.2.0.3-2ubuntu6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012455.html
linux-firmware 1.149.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012456.html
python-django 1.7.9-1ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012457.html
icedtea-web 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012458.html
policykit-1 0.105-11ubuntu3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012459.html
ffmpeg 7:2.7.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012460.html
ffmpeg 7:2.7.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012461.html
virtualbox 5.0.10-dfsg-2ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012462.html
virtualbox 5.0.10-dfsg-2ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012463.html
openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012464.html
openjdk-7 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012465.html
dpkg 1.18.2ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012466.html
dpkg 1.18.2ubuntu5.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/wi...er/012467.html
End of Life - July 2016
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