Issue336
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 336 for the week September 23 - 29, 2013.
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta released
Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the final beta release of Ubuntu 13.10, lists the flavors that are participating in the release and links to where the images can be downloaded. Adam also provides links that tell us further information about the release, how we can help shape Ubuntu and where to report bugs.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2013-September/000176.html
Several news and blog sites covered the release, the following is a sampling selected by our editors:
Ubuntu 13.10 Beta Downloads Go Live – This Is What’s New - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/09/ubuntu-13-10-final-beta-released-download
Ubuntu 13.10 Final BETA released and available for download - http://iloveubuntu.net/ubuntu-1310-final-beta-released-and-available-download
Ubuntu 13.10 final beta: Ubuntu for smartphones is almost here - http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-13-10-final-beta-ubuntu-for-smartphones-is-almost-here-7000021282/
Ubuntu 13.10 Beta Review - http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/ubuntu-13-10-beta-review
Welcome New Members and Developers
Grant Aron Xu membership of ubuntukylin-dev (carried) - https://launchpad.net/~happyaron
“We welcome Aron as the first member of ubuntukylin-dev”
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2013-September/001061.html
The Ubuntu Forums team also welcomed a new Ubuntu member this week:
Caboose885 http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=900617 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/caboose885 https://launchpad.net/~caboose885
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2013-September/001873.html
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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
Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com
LoCo News
OhioLinuxFest 2013
Jorge Castro shares a photo of some attendees from the Ohio LinuxFest holding an Ubuntu banner and thanks them for their participation in the event.
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/09/23/ohiolinuxfest-2013/
The Planet
Nicholas Skaggs: Nicholas Skaggs: Spreading the (testing) weight
Nicholas Skaggs writes that the Ubuntu Quality Team has gained more responsiblities than reporting bugs on the latest desktop development images and building tools. Because handling testcases for the Ubuntu touch images and apps is adding some undue "weight," the Ubuntu CI team was born to specialize in Ubuntu Touch-related testing. He also hopes that the Ubuntu Quality team will have a better vision for the next cycle. http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/09/spreading-testing-weight.html
Jonathan Riddell & Kubuntu: Kubuntu România
Jonathan Riddell announces the launch of Kubuntu România, a Romanian language website for Kubuntu news and support, and shares a photograph with us of site creator Ovidiu-Florin who had a launch ceremony with wine and ribbon to open it.
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-rom%C3%A2nia, http://ro.kubuntu.org/ & http://blogs.kde.org/2013/09/25/site-ul-kubuntu-românia-fost-lansat
Jonathan Riddell: Switching to Kubuntu comments
Jonathan Riddell quotes some comments from a recent Slashdot article about switching to Kubuntu.
http://blogs.kde.org/2013/09/26/switching-kubuntu-comments
Nicholas Skaggs: A vision for our testing future
Nicholas Skaggs writes about bringing the Quality team closer to automation. He proposes that the group take an exploratory approach to manual testcases, start writing more automated testcases, and manually test phablet devices. He also explains how these actions are necessary or will affect the team.
http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/09/a-vision-for-our-testing-future.html
Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Dash Search Is Still Not Anonymous
Benjamin Kerensa writes that the "Ubuntu Dash Search is very much still not anonymous despite several Canonical employees announcing otherwise on Google+" and links to some posts that summarize why.
http://benjaminkerensa.com/2013/09/23/ubuntu-dash-search-still-anonymous
Canonical Design Team: Wednesday App Clinic – Update
Katie Taylor reports that there has been a fantastic response to the two Wednesday App Clinics and thanks those who sent her their apps and questions. Katie reminds us that the the clinics are on Wednesdays at 1pm UTC on Ubuntu On-Air and that previous design clinics can be viewed on YouTube.
http://design.canonical.com/2013/09/wednesday-app-clinic-update/
Canonical News
Canonical Design Team: Latest from the web team — September 2013
The Canonical Web Team gives us a quick update on all the work they have been doing during September 2013.
http://design.canonical.com/2013/09/latest-from-the-web-team-september-2013/
In The Blogosphere
Canonical is gold sponsor at October 2013's OggCamp open-source event
razvi from iloveubuntu tells us that Canonical is a gold sponsor at OggCamp, which is happening next 18th October. “The OggCamp sponsoring is yet-another evidence of Canonical's awareness of and participation in the open-source ecosystem, another evidence of Canonical's deep and constantly-maintained interest in pushing forward the adoption of open-source collaborative software and projects at a planetary scale”, they say.
http://iloveubuntu.net/canonical-gold-sponsor-october-2013s-oggcamp-open-source-event
Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu?
Bruce Byfield from Datamation writes an article about how they see the current status of Ubuntu and its relation with Canonical.
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/are-we-witnessing-the-decline-of-ubuntu-1.html
Ubuntu 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 13.10 In A VMware VM
Michael Labarel from Phoronix writes a comparison between Raring and Saucy running in a VMware VM.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ2OTg
Ubuntu converged's Ubuntu System Settings received Bluetooth support
razvi from iloveubuntu tells us about the now supported feature of Bluetooth for Ubuntu Touch.
http://iloveubuntu.net/ubuntu-convergeds-ubuntu-system-settings-received-bluetooth-support
Dell Still Offers Ubuntu Amid Microsoft Loan, Windows 8.1
The VAR Guy explains a bit the relationship that Ubuntu and Dell have.
http://thevarguy.com/ubuntu/dell-still-offers-ubuntu-amid-microsoft-loan-windows-81
How to easily share items with Ubuntu One in a matter of seconds
razvi from iloveubuntu gives a tutorial on how to share files with Ubuntu One, all from your Ubuntu desktop.
http://iloveubuntu.net/how-easily-share-items-ubuntu-one-matter-seconds
In Other News
Full Circle Magazine #77
“Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our seventy seventh issue.
- This month:
- Ubuntu News
Command & Conquer
How-To : Python, LibreOffice, and Lazarus.
- Graphics : Blender, and Inkscape.
- Review: Elementary OS
- Book Review: Instant XBMC
plus: Q&A, Linux Labs, Ask The New Guy, My Story, and soooo much more!”
http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-77/
Featured Audio and Video
Ohio Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 132
“The owner and engineer of Erie Looking Productions, Mike Kellat, takes over this weekend to share some audio he collected from Ohio Linux Fest 2013 where Jorge Castro was speaking about Juju.”
http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/168
Ubuntu Weekly Update - 24th Sep 2013
Jono Bacon introduces the latest Ubuntu Weekly Update with contributions from Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, Kevin Gunn, Michael Hall and Pat McGowan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6bcgwUOEj4
App Dev Advocacy Brainstorming - 24th Sept 2013
Presented by David Planella with Michael Hall and Daniel Holbach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnJcwuMSd8
Design Review and Q&A - 25th Sep 2013
Alan Pope introduces the latest App Design Clinic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_F4ttHiNtg
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E31 – Reservoir Ubuntu
"Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back together for the thirty-first episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!"
In this week’s show:
- We experiment with live video again!
- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news.
- We catch up with what’s happening in the Ubuntu community.
- And not in the Ubuntu community.
And we talk about OggCamp13.
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/09/26/s06e31-reservoir-ubuntu/ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkOvOzKSxcc
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - September 24, 2013 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2013-09-24
Security Team - September 23, 2013 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20130923
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
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
Ubuntu 13.04 Updates
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