Monthly Archives: February 2016

Xenial Xerus Beta 1

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This Beta […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 455

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #455 for the week February 15 – 21, 2016, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition launches globally Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS released Ubuntu Stats report of Ubuntu Korea Loco Team LoCo Events Dustin Kirkland: ZFS is […]

Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support. We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with 14.04.4, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 454

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #454 for the week February 8 – 14, 2016, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: GCI [Google Code-In] Wrap-up Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04 LTS Release Party Trip report: UbuCon Summit + SCaLE14x UbuCon and SCaLE 2016 trip report […]

Google Code-In Wrap-up

As you may have already heard, Google announced the winners for GCI 2015, including those from ubuntu. Overall, we had a total of 215 students finish more than 500 tasks for ubuntu! The students made contributions to documentation, created wallpapers and other art, fixed Unity 7 issues, hacked on the core apps for the phone, […]