Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 393 for the week November 17 - 23, 2014.

In This Issue

The Ubuntu Online Summit: A Community Success

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

Welcome New Members and Developers

Ubuntu Stats

Lo Co News

Charm Workshop: Your first five minutes of charming

Azure Global Outage - JUJU RESCUE INSTRUCTIONS

MAAS 1.7: one MAAS, multiple operating systems

Ronnie Tucker: Ubuntu Touch Music App Is Proof That Total Ubuntu Convergence Is Getting Closer – Gallery

Charles Butler: A Laymans Guide to the "Big Data" Ecosystem

Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu CI: the replacement for Project Neon

Alan Pope: Scopes Contest Mid-way Roundup

Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #5

Bryan Quigley: Would you crowdfund a $500 Ubuntu “open to the core” laptop?

Canonical News

In The Blogosphere

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10

And much more!

General Community News

The Ubuntu Online Summit: A Community Success

Michael Hall looks back over the second Ubuntu Online Summit [UOS] and says that it could have gone better. He specifically looks at the track leads, session hosts, community initiatives and improvements, and ends by saying "Finally, it’s never too early to start thinking about the next UOS and what sessions you might want to lead for it, so that you’re prepared when those track leads come knocking at your door."

http://mhall119.com/2014/11/the-ubuntu-online-summit-a-community-success/

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

Michael Hall informs us that November 20th each year is Community Appreciation Day when time is taken to say "thank you" to the people who help you and the rest of the community. After specifically thanking a couple of community members he says about the community: "Today more than ever I am reminded about how lucky I am to be a part of it."

http://mhall119.com/2014/11/community-appreciation-day/

The following community members also expressed thanks on their personal blogs:

Daniel Holbach: Appreciation for Michael Hall - https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2014/11/appreciation-for-michael-hall/

Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Appreciation for Riccardo Padovani - http://nik90.com/appreciation-for-riccardo-padovani/

Jorge Castro: I appreciate Jose Antonio Rey! - http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/11/20/i-appreciate-jose-antonio-rey/

Svetlana Belkin: Community Appreciation Day 2014 - http://ubuntusense.com/2014/11/20/community-appreciation-day-2014/

Benjamin Kerensa: Community Appreciation Day: You All Rock! - http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/11/20/community-appreciation-day-you-all-rock

Valorie Zimmerman: Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day - Thank you! - http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2014/11/ubuntu-community-appreciation-day-thank.html

José Antonio Rey: Community Appreciation Day - http://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/community-appreciation-day/

Charles Profitt: Community Appreciation Day: Humanity at its Finest! - http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/communinty-appreciation-day-humanity-at-its-finest/

Walter Lapchynski: happy Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day, phillw! - http://polka.bike/blog/ucaday-2014-markdown

Nicholas Skaggs: Virtual Hugs of appreciation! - http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/11/virtual-hugs-of-appreciation.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations to:

Colin King for PPU rights for eventstat, forkstat, health-check, idlestat, powerstat, smemstat, stress-ng, thermald and fwts

Ali Linx for Ubuntu Membership, with contributions across Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME and the QA team ( https://launchpad.net/~amjjawad | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad )

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

Open (116634) +540 over last week

Critical (249) +27 over last week

Unconfirmed (57989) -12 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

How can I make cowsay say something every time I close the terminal? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/550913/how-can-i-make-cowsay-say-something-every-time-i-close-the-terminal

Is there any default function/utility to prompt the user for yes/no in a Bash script? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/551378/is-there-any-default-function-utility-to-prompt-the-user-for-yes-no-in-a-bash-sc

Why are there two wikis? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/550993/why-are-there-two-wikis

Why “which” returns none on some commands I can run? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/551254/why-which-returns-none-on-some-commands-i-can-run

What $PATH means? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/551990/what-path-means

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

LoCo News

LoCo stands for Local Community

Benjamin Kerensa refers to a recent post on Planet Ubuntu which proclaimed that a certain Lo Co in the Ubuntu Community was no longer going to use the Lo Co term because they felt it was offensive in Spanish. He says that Lo Co is a positive abbreviation, having been used since the inception of the Local Community program.

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/11/16/loco-stands-for-local-community

Regular LoCo Council Meeting for November 2014

Stephen Michael Kellat posts a summary of the Lo Co Council meeting that took place on 18th November.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/11/18/regular-loco-council-meeting-for-november-2014/

Release party in Barcelona

Rafael Carreras shows us some photographs taken at the recent release party which was held in Barcelona and organized by the Catalan Lo Co team.

http://blogs.fsfe.org/rcarreras/?p=155

Ubuntu Cloud News

Charm Workshop: Your first five minutes of charming

Canonical write: As part of the [recent] Ubuntu Online Summit, Charles Butler and the rest of the crew go over some things you might want to consider during your first five minutes of charming.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/18/charm-workshop-your-first-five-minutes-of-charming/

Azure Global Outage - JUJU RESCUE INSTRUCTIONS

Charles Butler writes a brief email to inform us that Juju orchestrated environments can be easily recovered after an outage. Charles links to a blog post that he wrote previously.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju/2014-November/004577.html

MAAS 1.7: one MAAS, multiple operating systems

Canonical write that a few weeks ago Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for servers and cloud was released and included a beta version of MAAS 1.7 which can now provision Windows Server 2012 RT/Hyper-V, Cent OS, RHEL, SLES, and Open SUSE. The article explains what MAAS is and invites readers to look at Canonical's cloud pages to learn more about MAAS and other parts of the Ubuntu cloud portfolio.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/20/maas-1-7-one-maas-multiple-operating-systems/

The Planet

Ronnie Tucker: Ubuntu Touch Music App Is Proof That Total Ubuntu Convergence Is Getting Closer – Gallery

In article taken from Softpedia, Silviu Stahle writes that before long Ubuntu for Phones and Ubuntu for Desktop will converge, the biggest change being that applications for Ubuntu Touch won't have a problem running on the desktop. Using Music App 2.0 as an example, Silviu says that when it is run on a Ubuntu 14.10 desktop, users can resize the app and work much more easily with the playlist.

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2014/11/17/ubuntu-touch-music-app-is-proof-that-total-ubuntu-convergence-is-getting-closer-gallery/

Charles Butler: A Laymans Guide to the "Big Data" Ecosystem

Charles Butler gives some background regarding the Big Data ecosystem with Hadoop and other tools, and provides instructions for how to deploy these with Juju.

http://blog.dasroot.net/a-laymans-guide-to-the-big-data-ecosystem/

Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu CI: the replacement for Project Neon

Jonathan Riddell writes that Harald [Sitter] is working on Kubuntu Continuous Integration a replacement for Project Neon which makes packages each day from KDE Git for Frameworks and Plasma. He says that images are produced weekly and a Jenkins setup reports on what has built and what need to be fixed.

https://blogs.kde.org/2014/11/20/kubuntu-ci-replacement-project-neon

Alan Pope: Scopes Contest Mid-way Roundup

Alan Pope shares with us a handful of screenshots of some of the entries in the Ubuntu Scopes Contest that will end on 3rd December. He hopes that they will raise awareness of the competition and inspire more people to get involved.

http://popey.com/blog/2014/11/19/scopes-contest-mid-way-roundup/

Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #5

Randall Ross continues his series of posts about the shortcomings of smart phones, in this post talking about stories of unexpected “butt dialing” by users. He goes on to hope that the Ubuntu Phone will have a mechanism to prevent this.

http://randall.executiv.es/dumbphones05

Jonathan Riddell - We Strongly Suggest Using KDE This Christmas

In a new promotion for the holidays, Jonathan Riddell writes: "New seasonal KDE marketing campaign. Use Kubuntu to get off the naughty list."

http://jriddell.org/2014/11/23/167/

Elizabeth K. Joseph: My Vivid Vervet has crazy hair

Elizabeth K. Joseph posts a picture of her vervet stuffed toy that will be present at an Ubuntu Hour to be held in San Francisco on 10th December.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=9930

Bryan Quigley: Would you crowdfund a $500 Ubuntu “open to the core” laptop?

Bryan Quigley asks his readers if they would crowdfund a "very open $500 Ubuntu laptop." He suggests a specification, and says that if he gets 1000 Yes votes to the survey that he links to, then he'll approach manufacturers.

https://bryanquigley.com/uncategorized/would-you-crowdfund-a-500-ubuntu-open-to-the-core-laptop

Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 5: Touch-heavy

Joe Liau continues with part 5 of his series about phones by talking about the ongoing problem of poor battery life, particularly because phones are always wanting to be touched due to one alert or another.

http://blog.josephliau.com/documenting-the-death-of-the-dumb-telephone-part-5-touch-heavy/

Canonical News

Turbo Charge Your PHP Application with TurboLAMP.

Canonical write that they are working closely with IBM on a solution called Turbo LAMP which can be test-driven at the new App-a-Thon which is sponsored by IBM and runs until 10th December.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/21/turbo-charge-your-php-application-with-turbolamp/

In The Blogosphere

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! draws our attention to the draft release schedule for Ubuntu 15.04 which has now been published on the Ubuntu Wiki. He lists the important dates, and confirms: "The final release of the Vivid Vervet in all its vivacious glory is pencilled in for release on: Ubuntu 15.04 Final – April 23rd."

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/ubuntu-15-04-release-schedule-date-vivid-vervet

Cirrus7 Add Haswell CPUs To Award-Winning Ubuntu PC

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reports that Cirrus7 has given its award-winning desktop PC an Intel Haswell refresh with no increase in price. He gives us a brief specification of the Nimbus, details of the processor options, and says that it is arguably the best looking PC if not the most well known.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/fanless-nimbus-cirrus7-haswell-update

FFmpeg Returns To The Official Ubuntu Repositories With Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet

Andrew of Web Upd8 reminds us that FFmpeg hasn't been available in recent releases of Ubuntu but that will change with Ubuntu 15.04, which is currently under development. He says that due to conflicts in the FFmpeg community, FFmpeg was forked, resulting in the Libav project. Many developers prefer FFmpeg, and through the renaming of libraries both Libav and FFmpeg can coexist in the Ubuntu repositories for Ubuntu 15.04.

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/ffmpeg-returns-to-official-ubuntu.html

Firefox Switches to Yahoo! for Search, Ubuntu Not Affected

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that after 10 years of using Google as the default search engine in Firefox, Mozilla has announced that Yahoo!, as part of a five year deal, will replace it from December. He says that Ubuntu ships with its own semi-customised version of Firefox so Google will remain as the default search engine.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/firefox-set-yahoo-default-search-engine-ubuntu-not-affected

Ubuntu Phone Partner ‘Bq’ Holding Mystery Press Event Next Week

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! informs us that BQ Readers, one of two companies who plan to ship mobile handsets powered by Ubuntu for Phones, is holding a mystery media event on November 25th, to announce three new products. One of them, he suggests, will be the Bq Ubuntu Phone which may not now be available until next year.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/ubuntu-phone-partner-bq-november-event

Imp mini PC is a tiny, ARM-based Ubuntu computer

Brad Linder of Liliputing reports that Imp want to deliver a tiny desktop computer with an ARM -based CPU,2GB of RAM and open source software so will launch a crowdfunding campaign to fund the project. Brad gives us an insight into the specification and some photographs of the developer edition.

http://liliputing.com/2014/11/imp-mini-pc-tiny-arm-based-ubuntu-computer.html

Other Articles of Interest

Debian Project News - November 14, 2014 - https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2014/15/

The Case Against Rolling Release Linux Distros - http://www.datamation.com/open-source/the-case-against-rolling-release-linux-distros-1.html

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E33 – The One with the Late Thanksgiving

Join Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson in Studio L for season seven, episode thirty-three of the Ubuntu Podcast! We have some rather iffy sound problems that get a bit better if you stick with it past the introduction. Mark explains a bit more at the start. Thanks for listening!

In this week’s show:

We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: A major security flaw in Windows has been patched after existing for 19 years… Microsoft will port the server-side .NET stack to Mac and Linux, and open sourcing it under the MIT license… The Internet archive is now host to The Internet Arcade, a collection of over 900 arcade games playable in a web browser… A prize for cracking Telegram encryption… Learn about copyleft…in just 142 pages of PDF… Raspberry Pi foundation announce the newest and cheapest model of Raspberry Pi, the model A+ The Humble Bundle’s Humble Store is 1 year old…

We take a look at what’s been happening in the community: Linux Outlaws podcast announce their show’s end… Where they’re going with LXD…



We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be talking about the ind.ie crowdfunding project and looking over your feedback.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/11/17/s07e33-the-one-with-the-late-thanksgiving/

Ubuntu Community Q&A: 18th November 2014

Alan Pope is joined by Daniel Holbach for another regular Q&A Session. They talk about the recent Online Summit and answer questions put to them on IRC.

http://youtu.be/lcX3-UEONWY

Juju Charm School – Debugging Hooks

José Antonio Rey introduces a Juju Charm School session in which Charles Butler and Cory Johns go over the traditional way to debug Juju charm hooks, and Cory introduces his new Juju plugin, DHX, designed to make debugging hooks much easier.

http://youtu.be/NjERFuBs2S8

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E34 – The One with Unagi

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Thirty-four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Just Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson here again.

In this week’s show:

We discuss the Ind.ie crowdsourcing campaign.

We also discuss: Visiting a crocodile sanctuary in rural Oxfordshire. Going to the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square to see Tremors and Jaws on the big screen.

We share some Command Line Lurve (from ionagogo) which finds live streams on a page. It’s great for watching online feeds without Flash. Just point it at a web page and it finds all the streams. Run with “best” (or a specific stream type) and it launches your video player such as VLC: livestreamer

And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in!

We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/11/23/s07e34-the-one-with-unagi/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Kernel Team - November 18, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2014-11-18

Security Team - November 17, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20141117

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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

[USN-2411-1] mountall vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002728.html

[USN-2410-1] Oxide vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002729.html

[USN-2412-1] Ruby vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002730.html

[USN-2413-1] App Armor vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002731.html

[USN-2414-1] KDE-Runtime vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002732.html

[USN-2415-1] Linux kernel vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002733.html

[USN-2416-1] Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002734.html

[USN-2417-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002735.html

[USN-2418-1] Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002736.html

[USN-2419-1] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002737.html

[USN-2420-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002738.html

[USN-2421-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-November/002739.html

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