Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 874

By guiverc | Published: 2025-01-13

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 874 for the week of January 5 – 11, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • First Plucky Puffin test rebuild
  • Phased updater and weekends
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-01-10
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Studio: 24.04 LTS Backports Megathread
  • Ubuntu Studio: Support and Help Updates
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • 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
  • Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) – Rocks
  • 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!

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 873

By guiverc | Published: 2025-01-06

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 873 for the week of December 29, 2024 – January 4, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Asia 2026 – Call for bids!
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Studio: Upgrades from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS are NOT WORKING
  • Other Community News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • 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
  • 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!

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Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek

By tsimonq2 | Published: 2025-01-06

The following is a post from Mark Shuttleworth on the Ubuntu Discourse instance. For more information, you can find the full post here.

Steve Langasek is one of my heroes in open source and in life. He epitomises everything that is great about the movement – depth of technical insight, generosity of spirit, rigour in design, care for those who put their trust in us, curiosity about the future and a willingness to do hard work in the face of uncertainty to bring that future into being.

Our biggest choices are all about where we spend our time, who we spend it with, and whose lives we hope to improve in the process. Steve shone with a clarity of purpose that motivated many others to build the very best open source platforms they could dream about. He beautifully merged friendships and professional relationships, commercial and community goals, leadership and service. He touched thousands of people’s lives directly, and his work improves the lives of millions.

In recent years he battled illness with stoicism, humour and science. Through it all he remained active and engaged in our community and our exploration of the future. Even in terribly difficult moments I saw grace, precision and care in his actions and his priorities.

Steve passed away at the dawn of 2025. His time was short but remarkable. He will forever remain an inspiration. Judging by the outpouring of feelings this week, he is equally missed and mourned by colleagues and friends across the open source landscape, in particular in Ubuntu and Debian where he was a great mind, mentor and conscience.

It has been a singular honour to share these years and dreams. Thank you Steve. I will not forget, nor waver.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 872

By guiverc | Published: 2024-12-30

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 872 for the week of December 22 – 28, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • New Ubuntu Membership Board 2024
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Asia 2024
  • LoCo Events
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • 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
  • 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!

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 871

By guiverc | Published: 2024-12-23

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 871 for the week of December 15 – 21, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Vote Extension: 2024 Ubuntu Technical Board
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • LXD: Weekly news #376
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-12-20
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • UbuCon Latin America, Barranquilla 2024!
  • LoCo Events
  • Advanced Intel® Battlemage GPU features now available for Ubuntu 24.10
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • 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
  • Cristovao Cordeiro – cjdc
  • 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!

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