Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 504 for the weeks March 27 - April 9, 2017.

In This Issue

Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence

Welcome New Members and Developers

Ubuntu Stats

Lo Co Events

Alan Pope: Snapcraft Docs Day

Bryan Quigley: Juju's localhost LXD now works with offline images

Nish Aravamudan: iSCSI initiator names in cloud-images

Ted Gould: X11 apps on Ubuntu Personal

Canonical Design Team: What we learned at our first official GV design sprint

Dustin Kirkland: A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community, from Ubuntu

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Canonical News

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

Featured Audio and Video

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and 16.10

And much more!

General Community News

Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence

Mark Shuttleworth, on behalf of Canonical, announces changes coming to the Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu’s convergence effort. He writes, “I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.” He explains that the focus will now be “in the areas which are contributing to the growth of the company.”

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/

This announcement was covered by several sites, the following are several articles selected by our editors:

Ubuntu switches to GNOME desktop and gives up smartphone hopes - http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-switches-to-gnome-desktop-and-gives-up-smartphone-hopes/

Ubuntu Unity is Dead, Desktop to switch back to GNOME next year - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/ubuntu-unity-is-dead-desktop-will-switch-back-to-gnome-next-year/

Ubuntu 18.04 To Ship with GNOME Desktop, Not Unity - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/ubuntu-18-04-ship-gnome-desktop-not-unity

Unity and convergence are done but Ubuntu will live on - http://www.techrepublic.com/article/unity-and-convergence-are-done-but-ubuntu-will-live-on/

Welcome New Members and Developers

Simon Quigley, on behalf of the Ubuntu Membership Board, announces the latest Ubuntu Member:

Luis Michael Ibarra (Wiki Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Clvx | Launchpad Page: https://launchpad.net/~clvx) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2017-April/002644.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

Open (130948) +529 over last issue

Critical (436) -3 over last issue

Unconfirmed (65410) +453 over last issue

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 do I compute the mean from ASCII file data in bash? http://askubuntu.com/questions/900401/how-do-i-compute-the-mean-from-ascii-file-data-in-bash

How do I look up the name of the current workspace? http://askubuntu.com/questions/900970/how-do-i-look-up-the-name-of-the-current-workspace

Windows filepath converted to Linux filepath http://askubuntu.com/questions/900283/windows-filepath-converted-to-linux-filepath

How can I view history in terminal for specific date? http://askubuntu.com/questions/900114/how-can-i-view-history-in-terminal-for-specific-date

What is the meaning of combined commands curl + apt-key add ? http://askubuntu.com/questions/900693/what-is-the-meaning-of-combined-commands-curl-apt-key-add

Top Voted New Questions

How can I view history in terminal for specific date? http://askubuntu.com/questions/900114/

How to set up localhost to redirect a website http://askubuntu.com/questions/900234/

How do I look up the name of the current workspace? http://askubuntu.com/questions/900970/

Windows filepath converted to Linux filepath http://askubuntu.com/questions/900283/

How do I compute the mean from ASCII file data in bash? http://askubuntu.com/questions/900401/

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

LoCo Events

The following Lo Co team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Zesty Zapus Toronto Release Party, Ubuntu Canada: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ca/3546-zesty-zapus-toronto-release-party/

AZLOCO Install-fest/Linux Workshop, Arizona Lo Co Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-arizona/3509-azloco-install-fest/linux-workshop/

Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus Release Party at System76, Colorado Ubuntu Local Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-us-co/3545-ubuntu-1704-zesty-zapus-release-party-at-system76/

FLISOL Amazonas 2017, Ubuntu Venezuela Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ve/3540-flisol-amazonas-2017/

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the Lo Co Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Planet

Alan Pope: Snapcraft Docs Day

Alan Pope writes about Snapcraft Docs Day, an event to “ensure our documentation and tutorials are useful and accurate.” He gives details about the event, when it happened, and how to get involved.

http://popey.com/blog/posts/snapcraft-docs-day.html

Bryan Quigley: Juju's localhost LXD now works with offline images

Bryan Quigley writes a short blog post about offline Juju images with LXD, and links to the bug that this fixed.

https://bryanquigley.com/howto/jujus-localhost-lxd-now-works-with-offline-images

Nish Aravamudan: iSCSI initiator names in cloud-images

Nish Aravamudan writes about a bug that he fixed with iSCSI initiator names. He explains, “The iSCSI initiator name is intended to be unique, so that you can not only uniquely identify which system is using a given target on the iSCSI server, but also, if desired, restrict which initiators can use which targets.” He gives more details about the fix and links to the relevant bug reports.

https://naccblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/iscsi-initiator-names-in-cloud-images/

Ted Gould: X11 apps on Ubuntu Personal

Ted Gould writes about running X11 applications on a Unity 8 desktop with Mir. He explains the effort to snap all of the components, and explains how that will function for the end-user.

http://gould.cx/ted/blog/2017/04/05/X11-apps-on-Ubuntu-Personal/

Canonical Design Team: What we learned at our first official GV design sprint

Inayaili de León Persson from the Canonical Design Team writes a detailed post about the first sprint they did “as outlined in The Sprint Book, by Google Ventures’ Jake Knapp.” She shows what they did each day, and what they got out of the sprint.

https://design.canonical.com/2017/04/what-we-learned-at-our-first-official-gv-design-sprint/

Dustin Kirkland: A Thank-You Note to the HackerNews Community, from Ubuntu

Dustin Kirkland thanks the Hacker News community for giving feedback on the thread “Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?" He goes into detail about what questions were asked, how many people asked those questions, and the answers to them.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2017/04/thank-you-note-to-hackernews.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Cloud Chatter: March 2017 - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/03/cloud-chatter-march-2017/

Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/ubuntu-on-aws-gets-serious-performance-boost-with-aws-tuned-kernel/

USB hotplug with LXD containers - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/29/usb-hotplug-with-lxd-containers/

NVidia CUDA inside a LXD container - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/28/nvidia-cuda-inside-a-lxd-container/

Ubuntu Phone News

Marcos Costales: New uNav for Ubuntu Phone - http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/new-unav-for-ubuntu-phone.html

Canonical News

Snaps are now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop and server - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/30/snaps-are-now-available-for-ubuntu-14-04-lts-desktop-and-server/

The MirAL story - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/03/the-miral-story/

Nexiona collaborates with Canonical and Dell to create MIIMETIQ Edge - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/04/nexiona-collaborates-with-canonical-and-dell-to-create-miimetiq-edge/

Scalable, Secure Access to Data with DBaaS on IBM LinuxONE - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/scalable-secure-access-to-data-with-dbaas-on-ibm-linuxone/

How Bosch Rexroth is innovating the PLC market - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/how-bosch-rexroth-is-innovating-the-plc-market/

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/06/from-ros-prototype-to-production-on-ubuntu-core/

10 snaps written in March - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/06/10-snaps-written-in-march/

In The Press

Staff, projects shed as Ubuntu maker Canonical tries to lure investors - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/canonical_cuts_jobs_with_unity_bullet/

In The Blogosphere

Reset Ubuntu to Default with This New App - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/reset-ubuntu-desktop-default-settings

Ubuntu System Cleaner Stacer Scores a Spring Update - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/stacer-ubuntu-system-cleaner-update

Unity and convergence are done by Ubuntu will live on - http://www.techrepublic.com/article/unity-and-convergence-are-done-but-ubuntu-will-live-on/

Canonical to Cut Jobs, Axe Unprofitable Projects - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/canonical-ubuntu-job-losses-outside-investors

Multiple Developers Come Forward To Continue Unity Development - http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2017/04/multiple-developers-come-forward-to.html

Some In The Ubuntu Community Want To Fork, Maintain Unity 8 - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unity-8-Community-Hopes

Mark Shuttleworth Reveals What's Next for Ubuntu Desktop - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/whats-next-ubuntu-desktop-mark-shuttleworth

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E04 - Sulky Meek Work

“It’s Season Ten Episode Four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/03/30/s10e04-sulky-meek-work/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E05 - Supreme Luxuriant Gun

“It’s Season Ten Episode Five of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Stuart Langridge are connected and speaking to your brain.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/04/06/s10e05-supreme-luxuriant-gun/

Ubuntu Testing Day: Ubuntu Mate

Leo Arias hosts another Ubuntu Testing Day. This testing day features Martin Wimpress from Ubuntu MATE. They talk about new Ubuntu MATE features coming soon, the upcoming 17.04 release, and much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zgIVHkXRA

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Security Team - April 3, 2017 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20170403

Server Team - March 28, 2017 - https://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-03-28-16.03.html

Server Team - April 4, 2017 - https://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-04-04-16.01.html

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

[USN-3244-1] GStreamer Base Plugins vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003793.html

[USN-3245-1] GStreamer Good Plugins vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003794.html

[USN-3246-1] Eject vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003795.html

[USN-3247-1] AppArmor vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003796.html

[USN-3236-1] Oxide vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003797.html

[USN-3248-1] Linux kernel vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003798.html

[USN-3249-1] Linux kernel vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003799.html

[USN-3249-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003800.html

[USN-3250-1] Linux kernel vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003801.html

[USN-3250-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003802.html

[USN-3251-1] Linux kernel vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003803.html

[USN-3251-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003804.html

[USN-3242-2] Samba regression - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003805.html

[USN-3216-2] Firefox regression - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-March/003806.html

[USN-3253-1] Nagios vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-April/003807.html

[USN-3254-1] Django vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-April/003808.html

[USN-3255-1] LightDM vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-April/003809.html

[USN-3256-1] Linux kernel vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-April/003810.html

[USN-3256-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2017-April/003811.html

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