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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) released
    2. V is for Vivid
    3. Happy 10th Birthday Ubuntu!
    4. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Regular LoCo Council Meeting for 21 October 2014
    2. Review of Ubucon 2014 Germany
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
  6. The Planet
  7. Other Community News
    1. Vivid Vervet (15.04) now open for business
  8. Canonical News
    1. Ubuntu 14.10 desktop: security for global users
  9. In The Press
  10. In The Blogosphere
  11. In Other News
  12. Other Articles of Interest
  13. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E30 – The One at the Beach
    2. Getting Started with Juju Relations
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 389 for the week October 20 - 26, 2014.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) released

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of Ubuntu 14.10 which is codenamed "Utopic Unicorn". In his announcement, Adam lists the flavors that are taking part in the release, advises from where support can be obtained, and provides links to the download sites.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-October/000191.html

The editors have also collected articles about the release from around the web:

Interested in the Flavors? Official 14.10 release announcements for each as follows:

V is for Vivid

Mark Shuttleworth writes "Glad to see the unicorn theme went down well, judging from the various desktops I see on G+." Mark reflects that each year brings something new, thanks the phone developer community, and announces the name of the next cycle, Vivid Vervet.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1425

The press and blogosphere picked up this news pretty quickly! Here’s a sampling selected by our editors:

Happy 10th Birthday Ubuntu!

Elizabeth K. Joseph, on behalf of the Ubuntu News Team, wishes Ubuntu a happy 10th Birthday, recalling that 10 years ago, Mark Shuttleworth announced the release of Ubuntu 4.10 on the ubuntu-announce-mailing-list. Elizabeth illustrates her post with several Ubuntu themed cakes, saying "With the release of 14.10 just days away, enjoy your release parties and perhaps take some time to reflect upon how far we’ve come in these 10 years!"

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/10/20/happy-10th-birthday-ubuntu/

Several members of the Ubuntu community have chimed in to reflect upon this milestone, here are a few of them:

Welcome New Members and Developers

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

Regular LoCo Council Meeting for 21 October 2014

Pablo Rubianes of the LoCo Council shares minutes from the latest meeting which covered several topics, including community discussion of the “Our teams reject the new LoCo Council policy” thread, reapproval of Ubuntu France, and granted requests by the Galician and Asturian teams to be formally recognized as non-country level LoCos who are qualified for the verification process.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/10/22/regular-loco-council-meeting-for-21-october-2014/

Review of Ubucon 2014 Germany

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran writes a review of the 8th German Ubucon that took place recently in Katlenburg-Lindau where he spoke about "Git for Beginners.” He gives us a daily summary of the weekend, describes the location, and links to some photographs of the event.

http://svij.org/blog/2014/10/25/review-of-ubucon-2014-germany/

Ubuntu Cloud News

The Planet

Other Community News

Vivid Vervet (15.04) now open for business

Adam Conrad announces that after a few small changes, merges and uploads to the proposed archives, Vivid Vervet is now open for development. Adams tells us that autosyncs will be running shortly, and that ISO builds will be turned on in the coming days.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2014-October/001116.html

Canonical News

Ubuntu 14.10 desktop: security for global users

In a release put out by Canonical, highlights of the 14.10 of the release are covered, including the first iteration of the Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre, ability to stream Netflix, the 3.16 kernel which offers better support for Power8 and ARM 64 architectures and graphics support and more.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/23/ubuntu-14-10-desktop-security-for-global-users/

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E30 – The One at the Beach

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Thirty of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Tony Whitmore bring you this episode whilst Mark Johnson is on a sun-lounger somewhere.

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss Mark’s blog post about diversity at OggCamp

  • We share some Command Line Lurve which saves you valuable time and regret
  • And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in!

We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/10/23/s07e30-the-one-at-the-beach/

Getting Started with Juju Relations

José Antonio Rey introduces a Juju Charm School session that deals with Juju Relations, which are the ability for Juju Charms to connect services together. The bulk of the session is conducted by Ben Saller, with contributions from Jorge Castro and Matt Bruzek.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/24/getting-started-with-juju-relations/

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, 14.04 and 14.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

Subscribe

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Archives

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Your Name Here
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/

Or get involved with the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter team! We always need summary writers and editors, if you're interested, learn more at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Join

Feedback

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