Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 386 for the week September 29 - October 5, 2014.

In This Issue

Nominations open for two positions on the Ubuntu IRC Council

Welcome New Members and Developers

Ubuntu Stats

Lo Co Forums

Cloud Images and Bash Vulnerabilities

Alan Pope: XDA Developer Conference 2014

Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE 4.14.1 on Trusty released.

Ubuntu and HP’s Moonshot extend the benefit of the ARM architecture to the data centre

The Ubuntu Open Stack Training Programme

Borderlands: The Pre-sequel to launch on SteamOS alongside Windows

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 and 14.04

And much more!

General Community News

Nominations open for two positions on the Ubuntu IRC Council

C de-Avillez of the IRC Council announces the opening of two positions on the IRC Council and puts out a call for nominees. The announcement includes details about the nominations process and a link to the requirements for the positions.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2014-October/001751.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

The results from the Oct. 2nd membership board meeting are as follows:

Fan Jun Kong https://launchpad.net/~fjkong | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FanjunKong

Please join us in welcoming him as an Ubuntu Member!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

Open (114656) +130 over last week

Critical (236) -7 over last week

Unconfirmed (57364) +90 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

Package 'lib32ncurses5-dev', 'lib32z1-dev' has no installation candidate [this is NOT a duplicate since I tried all soution posted here] http://askubuntu.com/questions/532744/package-lib32ncurses5-dev-lib32z1-dev-has-no-installation-candidate-this-i

ls command is only showing files, and no folders http://askubuntu.com/questions/532679/ls-command-is-only-showing-files-and-no-folders

I am not able to get my TP LINK WN727N v4 to work on Ubuntu PC http://askubuntu.com/questions/532741/i-am-not-able-to-get-my-tp-link-wn727n-v4-to-work-on-ubuntu-pc

Permanently have a CLI/Terminal in one Workspace? http://askubuntu.com/questions/532726/permanently-have-a-cli-terminal-in-one-workspace

No applications in search option http://askubuntu.com/questions/532729/no-applications-in-search-option

Top Voted New Questions

What does su > echo "<username>" mean? http://askubuntu.com/questions/532263/

Why does Ubuntu 14.04 keep shutting down when playing video? http://askubuntu.com/questions/530249/

How do I change the GRUB 2 menu? http://askubuntu.com/questions/532238/

Finding all .cpp files in the users home directory http://askubuntu.com/questions/531075/

How to safely remove proprietary Intel driver http://askubuntu.com/questions/531540/

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: g_p (http://askubuntu.com/users/146791/g-p), Whaaaaaat (http://askubuntu.com/users/208574/whaaaaaat), LonelyKing (http://askubuntu.com/users/255036/lonelyking), Harshal Benake (http://askubuntu.com/users/246996/harshal-benake) and Rmano (http://askubuntu.com/users/16395/rmano)

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

LoCo News

LoCo Forums

The Forums Council announces the decommissioning of unused Lo Co forums on ubuntuforums.org. They conclude: “If the Lo Co Contact for any of the closed areas wants to discuss the situation with regard to their own forum we would be happy to do so.”

http://ubuntuforumsorg.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/loco-forums/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Cloud Images and Bash Vulnerabilities

Ben Howard announces the release of new Ubuntu cloud images following the recent, high profile bash vulnerabilities that the team has been following. He writes: “Canonical has been in contact with our public Cloud Partners to make these new builds available as soon as possible.“

http://blog.utlemming.org/2014/09/cloud-images-and-bash-vulnerabilities.html

The Planet

Alan Pope: XDA Developer Conference 2014

The second annual XDA Developer Conference was held last weekend in Manchester, UK and attended by Alan Pope of Canonical. Alan took the opportunity to meet up with contemporaries from other hardware and software projects and discusses his experiences at the non-Ubuntu-centric conference.

http://popey.com/blog/2014/10/01/xda-developer-conference-2014/

Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE 4.14.1 on Trusty released.

Scarlett Clark announces the release of the KDE 4.14.1 update for Ubuntu Trusty Tahr which is now available in the Kubuntu Backports PPA.

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2014/kubuntu-kde-4-14-1-on-trusty-released/

Canonical News

Ubuntu and HP’s Moonshot extend the benefit of the ARM architecture to the data centre

John Zannos writes about the release of HP’s new ARM-based server cartridges for the Moonshot line of enterprise servers. On the partnership with Canonical with Ubuntu, he writes “With Ubuntu on the Moonshot program, HP has made a huge commitment to Canonical, and Ubuntu Server (including the powerful management tools Canonical delivers) will enable our joint customers to confidently deploy massively scaled-out workloads.”

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/09/30/ubuntu-and-hps-moonshot-extend-the-benefit-of-the-arm-architecture-to-the-data-centre/

The Ubuntu OpenStack Training Programme

Canonical announces the availability of a third training program in their Open Stack and Ubuntu portfolio: “The Ubuntu Open Stack Training course is a one-week, classroom-based combination of lectures and lab work, and gives a comprehensive introduction to Ubuntu Open Stack and our leading cloud toolset including Juju for service orchestration, MAAS for hardware provisioning and Landscape for systems management and monitoring.”

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/03/the-ubuntu-openstack-training-programme/

In The Press

Borderlands: The Pre-sequel to launch on SteamOS alongside Windows

Kyle Orland of Ars Technica reports on 2K Games’ announcement that “Borderlands: The Pre-sequel”, the next installment in their Borderlands franchise, will be playable on SteamOS at launch on October 14th. This is great news for the Linux-based operating system, which is still in beta, since most developers do not prioritize their top games on Linux or SteamOS for its initial release.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/10/borderlands-the-pre-sequel-to-launch-on-steamos-alongside-windows/

In The Blogosphere

Three Things to Expect from the First Ubuntu Phones - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/ubuntu-phones-three-things-to-expect

Mir 0.8 Works On Less ABI Breakage, Touchspots, Responsiveness - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMTg

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) Desktop Screenshots Tour - http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-14-10-utopic-unicorn-desktop-screenshots.html

Ubuntu - 10 Years Strong - http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2014/10/ubuntu-10-years-strong.html

IBM Expands POWER8 Server Portfolio with Ubuntu Linux - http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/ibm-expands-power8-server-portfolio-with-ubuntu-linux.html

Linux micro computer runs Android and Ubuntu - http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/embedded-systems/linux-micro-computer-runs-android-ubuntu-2014-10/

Other Articles of Interest

Debian Project News - September 29, 2014 - https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2014/13/

Linux Kernel News - October 3, 2014 - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMzQ

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Lo Co: S07 E26 – The One Where Underdog Gets Away - http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/09/29/s07e26-the-one-where-underdog-gets-away/

Ubuntu Touch RTM Video Tour - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-RTM-Video-Tour-460978.shtml

DELL Storage Server: CEPH on Ubuntu (ARM Tech Con 2014) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX07xbMi82A

September 30th Ubuntu Community Q&A! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSSFTYweLI8

CSE Asian Penguins - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDYt8BbqTQo

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Kernel Team - September 30, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2014-09-30

Security Team - September 29, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20140929

Server Team - September 30, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20140930

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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

[USN-2365-1] LibVNCServer vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-September/002681.html

[USN-2366-1] libvirt vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-September/002682.html

[USN-2367-1] OpenSSL update - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-October/002683.html

[USN-2368-1] OpenVPN vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-October/002684.html

[USN-2369-1] file vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-October/002685.html

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