Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 286

By akgraner | Published: 2012-10-08

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #286 for the week October 1 – 7, 2012, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Nitin Venkatesh
  • Jasna Benčić
  • Mathias Hellsten
  • Nathan Dyer
  • Jim Connett
  • Matt Rudge
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

24 Hours Later. £5133.70 Raised.

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2012-10-05

Over the last 24 hours the Canonical Community Team spent an entire 24-hour period together working, interviewing community members, planning further work, and fund-raising for our six charities; Oxfam (Daniel Holbach), Greenpeace (David Planella), Little Kids Rock! (Jorge Castro), Autism Research Trust (Michael Hall), WaterAid (Nicholas Skaggs), and Homeless International (Myself). I am delighted to announce that at the end of this period we each raised the following for our charities:

  • £1055 – Daniel Holbach
  • £610.50 – David Planella
  • £898 – Jorge Castro
  • £709.13 – Michael Hall
  • £588.68 – Nicholas Skaggs
  • £1272.39 – Myself

…this totaling £5133.70 for charity!

Thank-you to everyone who donated, many of whom donated to multiple horsemen; your generosity is hugely appreciated, not just by us, but also by the many people, families, and neighborhoods that will benefit from your contributions. Throughout our 24 hours online we were joined by many people for interviews and discussions. Thanks to Gema Gomez, Daviey Walker, Carlos de-Avillez, Chuck Short, Joey-Elijah Sneddon, Laura Czajkowski, Alan Pope, Rick Spencer, Marco Ceppi, Clint Byrum, Ted Gould, Martin Pitt, Mark Shuttleworth, and Didier Roché. Thanks also to everyone in the IRC channel and on Twitter who stayed up to support the marathon and watch the discussions, interviews, see us coordinate projects and UDS work, joke around with each other, and even cook and barbecue together. It was a blast!

Finally, of course, I want to thank Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, David Planella, Nicholas Skaggs and Michael Hall for agreeing to take a full 24 hours out of their life, away from their families, and outside of their comfortable beds to take part in this madness. Spending 24 hours with the same five other somewhat-sleep-deprived people could be a recipe for frustration, but I think I speak for everyone in that it was simply a pleasure to spend time together as a team and as friends. I feel blessed to work with such a talented, hard-working, and friendly team, and the last 24 hours was another reminder of why I feel so fortunate to have such a wonderful job and with such a rocking team.

And with that written up…I am going to bed. Night all!

Originally posted here by Jono Bacon, on Friday, 5 October 2012

New members of the Ubuntu LoCo Council Announced

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2012-10-02

On the behalf of the Community Council I would like to welcome our newly appointed members to the LoCo Council:

Thank you to all who their names forward, we always have great applicants, and the decision is never easy and we hope you all consider applying again in the future.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-news-team mailing list on Tue Oct 2 15:11:58 UTC 2012 by Laura Czajkowski

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 285

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2012-10-01

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #285 for the week September 24 – 30, 2012, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Nitin Venkatesh
  • Jasna Benčić
  • Nathan Dyer
  • Matt Rudge
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 2 Released!

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-09-27

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.

Codenamed "Quantal Quetzal", 12.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

With Ubuntu 12.10, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio also reached Beta 2 status today. These images will continue to have daily updates for the remainder of the release.

Ubuntu Changes

Some of the new features available since Beta 1 are:

  • Quantal Beta-2 includes the 3.5.0-15.23 Ubuntu Linux kernel which is based on the v3.5.4 upstream Linux kernel.
  • Unity has been updated to version 6.6 which contains the new default web application in the launcher, a new shopping lens, improvements to the dash and multiple bug fixes.
  • GNOME has been updated to 3.5.92 for most components (some to 3.6.0)
  • Accessibility is turned on by default.

Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ for details.

Ubuntu Server and Cloud Images

  • Cloud Images now have Quick Start buttons to enable Quick Start like function for Amazon AWS images. They also no longer have a five second boot time out.
  • Ubuntu now has native packaging for Amazon AWS RDS (rdscli), Identity Management(iamcli), Elastic LoadBalancing (elbcli), ElastiCache (elasticache), and CloudWatch (moncli).

Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ for details.

Kubuntu

  • The addition of encrypted and LVM partitioning options in the Kubuntu desktop images removes the need for alternate images, which will no longer be shipped for 12.10.
  • Calligra’s Krita adds a world class painting application while Kexi provides a full featured database application.

Please see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/QuantalQuetzal/Beta2/Kubuntu for details.

Edubuntu

  • The Gnome Fallback session (also known as the "Ubuntu Classic") will now be made default when LTSP is selected, since Unity 2D is no longer available in the archives.
  • Changes from the Ubuntu defaults for certain packages.

For more details on what has changed in Edubuntu 12.10, please refer to http://www.edubuntu.org .

Xubuntu

New features in Xubuntu Beta 2 include:

  • Updated artwork, including new wallpaper, documentation looks and updates to LightDM, Greybird and Ubiquity slideshow.
  • New versions of Catfish and Parole

For more details on what has changed in Xubuntu 12.10, please refer to http://xubuntu.org/news/quantalbeta2/.

Lubuntu

Lubuntu has seen many bug fixes applied since Beta 1. There are some known issues with PowerPC ports that are being worked through so they aren’t part of Beta 2.

For more information about the changes in Lubuntu 12.10, please go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu .

Ubuntu Studio

Ubuntu Studio has had many bug fixes applied since Beta 1.

Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/quantal/beta2 for more details on the above products.

About Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for clients, servers and clouds, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support .

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate .

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to improve this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be found at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

To Get Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2

To upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 from Ubuntu 12.04, follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/QuantalUpgrades

Or, download Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 images from a location near you:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/download (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server) .

In addition they can be found at the following links:

The final version of Ubuntu 12.10 is expected to be released on October 18, 2012.

More Information

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this beta release on our website, IRC channel and wiki.

To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu’s very low volume announcement list at:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce

Originally posted to the ubuntu-release mailing list on Thu Sep 27 19:31:54 UTC 2012 by Kate Stewart