Author Archives: lyz

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 410

By lyz | Published: 2015-03-31

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #410 for the week March 23 – 29, 2015, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Final Beta released Ubuntu Stats [Announcement] Andorra Weekly Linux Meeting LoCo Events Robie Basak: On Ubuntu and License Compliance Kubuntu Wire: […]

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Final Beta released

By lyz | Published: 2015-03-27

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. Codenamed "Vivid Vervet", 15.04 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 […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 409

By lyz | Published: 2015-03-23

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #409 for the week March 16 – 22, 2015, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) reaches End of Life on April 30 2015 Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Mauritius during Developers Conference Riccardo Padovani: Two years later… Jonathan […]

Interview with dholbach of the Ubuntu Community Council

By lyz | Published: 2015-03-20

The Ubuntu Community Council is the primary community (i.e., non-technical) governance body for the Ubuntu project. In this series of 7 interviews, we go behind the scenes with the community members who were elected in 2013 serve on this council with Mark Shuttleworth. In this, our fifth interview, we talk with Daniel Holbach who shares […]

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) reaches End of Life on April 30 2015

By lyz | Published: 2015-03-18

Ubuntu announced its 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) release almost 5 years ago, on April 29, 2010. As with the earlier LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 10.04 will reach end of life on Thursday, April 30th. […]