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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Mir Plans In 13.10
    2. 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Alpha 1 Released!
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
    1. Chiedi: the Italian Ask Ubuntu is almost here
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. The heart of Juju and easier charms with Python helpers
    2. Mixing physical and virtual servers with Juju and MAAS
    3. Juju Ecosystem Report for 26 June
  6. The Planet
    1. Benjamin Kerensa: Xubuntu 30-Day Challenge
    2. Canonical Design Team: Latest design guides
    3. Jono Bacon: First Ubuntu Weekly Update Video
    4. Didier Roche: Versioning schema change in daily release
    5. Lubuntu Blog: München and Monaco go Lubuntized
    6. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Ubuntu tie clips or tie pins?
    7. Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Won't be Switching to Mir or XMir
    8. Howard Chan: People behind Canonical Quality — balloons
    9. Nicholas Skaggs: Testing all the things: Introduction
    10. Martin Pitt: Recent autopilot-gtk improvements for better automatic UI testing
    11. Canonical Design Team: Shorts: add, edit, share and adjust
    12. Chris Johnston: Ubuntu Quality – Key Performance Indicators
    13. Nicholas Skaggs: Mir joins Cadence Testing
    14. New CAG members from US, Indonesia and Australia
    15. Chris Wilson: How to build Ubuntu packages from source the easy way
  7. In The Blogosphere
    1. The new Ubuntu One accounts enabled for public consumption
    2. Canonical Is Hiring More Mir, Unity Developers
    3. Xfce, LXDE, & GNOME Are Running On Ubuntu XMir
    4. Chromium 28 available via Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04
  8. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine #74
  9. Other Articles of Interest
  10. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle Episode 119
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E18 – A Midsummer Night’s Ubuntu
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  13. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 13.04 Updates
  14. Subscribe
  15. Archives
  16. Additional Ubuntu News
  17. Conclusion
  18. Credits
  19. Glossary of Terms
  20. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  21. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 323 for the week June 24 - 30, 2013.

In This Issue

General Community News

Mir Plans In 13.10

Jono Bacon announces that Mir, Ubuntu’s new display server designed for fast, efficient and extensible display across devices are to be made default as XMir (an implementation of X on Mir) for users running open-source drivers in Ubuntu 13.10, along with Unity 7. He also mentions that proprietary drivers will fallback to X in 13.10 but will get XMir support in 14.04 LTS, explains that the decision is needed to make Mir production-stable for 14.04 LTS, and answers user’s possible questions.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/27/mir-plans-in-13-10/

Various press outlets and blogs have also covered this change. Here’s a selected sampling from our editors:

13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Alpha 1 Released!

Kate Stewart announces the release of the first Alpha release of Saucy Salamander from Kubuntu, Lubuntu, UbuntuKylin and Ubuntu GNOME. She points out that there have been some adjustments to the release schedules, lists the release details for Ubuntu flavors that have participated in the release and provides links to the downloadable images.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/27/13-10-saucy-salamander-alpha-1-released/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (78) +1 over last week
  • Critical (105235) +158 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (51320) +154 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: Radu Rădeanu (http://askubuntu.com/users/147044/radu-rdeanu), Eric Carvalho (http://askubuntu.com/users/65926/eric-carvalho), Mitch (http://askubuntu.com/users/59676/mitch), gertvdijk (http://askubuntu.com/users/88802/gertvdijk) and bodhi.zazen (http://askubuntu.com/users/35795/bodhi-zazen)

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

LoCo News

Chiedi: the Italian Ask Ubuntu is almost here

Mattia Migliorini writes that Chiedi, an Italian version of Ask Ubuntu, is finally ready after a year of working on it. He also announces a Hangout On Air session planned to introduce the new service.

http://www.deshack.net/chiedi-the-italian-ask-ubuntu-is-almost-here/

Ubuntu Cloud News

The heart of Juju and easier charms with Python helpers

Jorge Castro shares several links from community members, including Gustavo Neiemeyer’s introduction to juju concepts, Michael Nelosn write-up about using charms and Python helpers and some tips for smaller scale implementations of juju.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/06/25/the-heart-of-juju-and-easier-charms-with-python-helpers/

Mixing physical and virtual servers with Juju and MAAS

James Page shares his juju charm “virtme” as a solution to managing both physical and virtual servers.” The tool “can be deployed using Juju and MAAS to virtualize a physical server into a number of KVM instances which are also managed by MAAS.” Page provides a walkthrough to demonstrate how one would set this up.

http://javacruft.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/virtme/

Juju Ecosystem Report for 26 June

Jorge Castro shares updates for the week, including those in docs and framework. He also does a rundown of current goals and give status updates.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/06/26/juju-ecosystem-report-for-26-june/

The Planet

Benjamin Kerensa: Xubuntu 30-Day Challenge

Benjamin Kerensa took up a challenge set by Matt Cutts to try a community flavour instead of Ubuntu and set some requirements to do it. Kerensa writes that he tried Kubuntu but didn’t like its lack of Firefox as default and impacted his decision to select Xubuntu for this challenge.

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2013/06/23/30-days-of-xubuntu

Canonical Design Team: Latest design guides

Calum Pringle shares the latest additions to the growing resource of app design guides. He writes about designing for multiple screen sizes and addresses frequently asked questions about the Combo button, Option selector and slider.

http://design.canonical.com/2013/06/latest-design-guides/

Jono Bacon: First Ubuntu Weekly Update Video

Jono Bacon announces the first weekly Ubuntu Weekly Update from the engineering managers and leads which was opened up to questions from viewers after the summaries. Jono also reminds us of his weekly Q&A session.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/06/26/first-ubuntu-weekly-update-video/

Didier Roche: Versioning schema change in daily release

Didier Roche summarizes the changes that have been implemented in the simplified daily release versioning schema for Ubuntu.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Versioning-schema-change-in-daily-release

Lubuntu Blog: München and Monaco go Lubuntized

The Lubuntu blog reports “Munich City Council plan to make Ubuntu discs available as a ‘replacement for Windows XP’ – Microsoft’s 11-year old operating system for which support officially ends in April of next year. The proactive effort is been billed as an attempt to ‘prevent electronic waste’ from discarded computers that, whilst still serviceable with an alternative OS, would fail to meet the requirements of Windows 7 or Windows 8.”

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/munchen-goes-lubuntized.html

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Ubuntu tie clips or tie pins?

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph writes about Boutique Academia, known for selling Ubuntu earrings and necklaces. She shares that there is a possibility for tie clips and tie pins to be added to their lineup and provides a link to a poll to gauge interest in such items and to give feedback on the proposal.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8224

Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Won't be Switching to Mir or XMir

Jonathan Riddell writes that when Ubuntu Desktop switches to Mir, Kubuntu won't follow it. He says that Kubuntu will stay with X and will switch to Wayland after the 14.04 release in common with KDE and other distributions.

http://blogs.kde.org/2013/06/26/kubuntu-wont-be-switching-mir-or-xmir

Howard Chan: People behind Canonical Quality — balloons

Howard Chan interviews Nicholas Skaggs (balloons) who talks about Quality Assurance (QA), his role within Canonical and his view of the Ubuntu QA Community. He also gives advice to people wanting to join the community and reveals some facts about himself.

http://smartboyhw.tk/wordpress_smartboyhw/?p=76

Nicholas Skaggs: Testing all the things: Introduction

Nicholas Skaggs announces his new blogging series called “Testing all the things”, to share the automating experiences on Ubuntu Touch Core Apps, desktop applications and the ubiquity installer, and to encourage people to contribute to the automating progress.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/06/testing-all-things-introduction.html

Later in the week he posted two episodes of the series, Terminal App, and the Calendar App.

Martin Pitt: Recent autopilot-gtk improvements for better automatic UI testing

Martin Pitt writes about autopilot-gtk, a GTK module to provide introspection of widget states used in automated testing and lists some some improvements he has made.

http://www.piware.de/2013/06/recent-autopilot-gtk-improvements-for-better-automatic-ui-testing/

Canonical Design Team: Shorts: add, edit, share and adjust

Lisette Slegers looks at adding and editing content, sharing an article and adjusting the reading view in Shorts, the RSS reader app. She shows us how to add, change and delete topics, feeds and online accounts.

http://design.canonical.com/2013/06/shorts-add-edit-share-adjust/

Chris Johnston: Ubuntu Quality – Key Performance Indicators

Chris Johnston writes about what are the indicators of the good performance the Quality Assurance team is having, as for example the QA Dashboard.

http://www.chrisjohnston.org/ubuntu/ubuntu-quality-key-performance-indicators

Nicholas Skaggs: Mir joins Cadence Testing

Nicholas Skaggs announces that Mir, Ubuntu’s new display server, joins the bi-weekly Cadence Testing program. He writes about the ultimate goal for smoke-testing XMir against normal X.org server and reminds people of instructions and tutorials on Cadence testing.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/06/mir-joins-cadence-testing.html

New CAG members from US, Indonesia and Australia

Mark Shuttleworth announces of the new additions from carriers in the United States, Indonesia and Australia into the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group (CAG). He would also want to invite Japanese and African carriers into the group to have deeper discussions.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1264

Chris Wilson: How to build Ubuntu packages from source the easy way

Chris Wilson writes about one of the biggest hurdles facing new Ubuntu contributors, the Autotools based build system to build packages from source code. He provides a link to a guide he has written pointing out that the process is quite simple once you know what tools to use.

http://www.notgary.com/2013/06/how-to-build-ubuntu-packages-easy-way.html

In The Blogosphere

The new Ubuntu One accounts enabled for public consumption

razvi of I Love Ubuntu writes about Ubuntu One's increased role to centralize all users’ online accounts. He says that the new accounts are now enabled and provides a screenshot of the new web page to familiarize the user with the transition to Ubuntu One.

http://iloveubuntu.net/new-ubuntu-one-accounts-enabled-public-consumption

Canonical Is Hiring More Mir, Unity Developers

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes that Canonical is hiring more engineers to work on Mir and Unity. He writes about the required experiences and directs those who want to take up the challenge to the job links.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5NjM

Xfce, LXDE, & GNOME Are Running On Ubuntu XMir

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes about Canonical developer Thomas Voss' success in getting various desktop environments running on Xmir.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM5NDQ

Chromium 28 available via Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04

razvi of I Love Ubuntu writes that following on from the announcement of the potential adoption of Chromium as the default web-browser in Ubuntu, Chromium 28 is now available as a regular update.

http://iloveubuntu.net/chromium-28-available-ubuntu-software-center-ubuntu-1204-ubuntu-1210-and-ubuntu-1304

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine #74

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our seventy fourth issue.

This month:

  • Ubuntu News

  • Command & Conquer

  • How-To : Gpodder, LibreOffice, and Connecting With IPV6.

  • Graphics : Blender, and Inkscape.
  • Review: Clementine

plus: Q&A (NEW & Improved!), Linux Labs, Ask The New Guy, My Story, and soooo much more!

Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-74/ now with 'Send to Ubuntu One' delivery!

Google Currents Edition: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowv4-oBw/full_circle_magazine_74_lite

Also available via Issuu: http://issuu.com/fullcirclemagazine

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle Episode 119

“This week's episode is posted slightly early. Mentioned in this episode are the need to sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct as only 85 out of over 400 members have signed it, the need to find a deputy to sign the Ohio Linux Fest 2013 table contract, and that we're looking at an upcoming alpha release for Saucy Salamander.”

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/153

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E18 – A Midsummer Night’s Ubuntu

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are all back in Studio A. In this week’s show:-

* An interview with Linda Sandvik about Code Club, a network of volunteer-led after school coding clubs for 9-11 year olds. * Sharing some Gooey Lurve: gprename * A chat about supporting various Kickstarter projects and your marvellous feedback.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/06/27/s06e18-a-midsummer-nights-ubuntu/

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 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

None.

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2014

Ubuntu 13.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2014

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • Paul White
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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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