Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 878 for the week of February 2 – 8, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.
In this issue we cover:
- Spec: Switch to Dracut
- Ubuntu Studio: LTS Upgrades (22.04 to 24.04) ARE BACK!
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Hot in Support
- Rocks Public Journal; 2025-02-07
- LXD: Weekly news #381
- Other Meeting Reports
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Ubuntu Nepal’s First Training Session Completed Successfully
- Linux Fest by FOSS IIIT Kalyani, first event sponsored by Ubuntu India
- LoCo Events
- Lubuntu: Fancy Menu as default?
- UbuCon @ SCaLE 22x
- UbuCon Asia 2025 Happening This August ! Look At The Dates
- Support and Help Update in Edubuntu
- Call for testing: mesa-core22, mesa-2404 (Nvidia support), ubuntu-frame-vnc (authentication), ubuntu-frame-osk (themes)
- Canonical brings GenAI to GIMP 3.0 with Intel® OpenVINO AI Plugins
- Other Community News
- Ubuntu Cloud News
- Canonical News
- In the Blogosphere
- Featured Audio and Video
- Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
- And much more!
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
- Krytarik Raido
- Bashing-om
- Chris Guiver
- Wild Man
- Din Mušić – LXD
- Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) – Rocks
- Soumyadeep Ghosh
- And many others
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