Author Archives: lyz

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 388

By lyz | Published: 2014-10-21

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #388 for the week October 13 – 19, 2014, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.10 (utopic) in effect Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Cloud News Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren’t – Reason #2 & Reason #3 […]

Happy 10th Birthday Ubuntu!

By lyz | Published: 2014-10-20

10 years ago today, Mark Shuttleworth made the 4th post ever to the ubuntu-announce mailing list when he wrote: Announcing Ubuntu 4.10 “The Warty Warthog Release” In this announcement, Mark wrote: Ubuntu is a new Linux distribution that brings together the extraordinary breadth of Debian with a fast and easy install, regular releases (every six […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 387

By lyz | Published: 2014-10-14

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #387 for the week October 6 – 12, 2014, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today Ubuntu Stats Kubuntu: KDE Plasma 5 beta 1 in next ppa ready for testers. Please read on for known issues. […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 386

By lyz | Published: 2014-10-06

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #386 for the week September 29 – October 5, 2014, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Nominations open for two positions on the Ubuntu IRC Council Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats LoCo Forums Cloud Images and Bash Vulnerabilities […]

Nominations open for two positions on the Ubuntu IRC Council

By lyz | Published: 2014-10-03

We are opening nominations for two positions on the Ubuntu IRC Council. We are filling in slots opened by resignations (IdleOne resigned last year, and AlanBell just announced to us he is resigning). We felt we could still perform with four members of the council but not with just three. Details of the IRC Council […]