Category Archives: Planet

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released

By lyz | Published: 2016-04-21

The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce our sixth long-term support release, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core. Codenamed “Xenial Xerus”, 16.04 LTS 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 […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 462

By tsimonq2 | Published: 2016-04-19

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #462 for the week April 11 – 17, 2016, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Scopes Showdown: Here are the winners! Adding snaps for secure, transactional packages in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu Stats LoCo Events Simon Quigley: Contributing to […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 461

By lyz | Published: 2016-04-12

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #461 for the week April 4 – 10, 2016, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: IRC Council Election Results Phone Update: OTA-10 – New theme and color palette Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats LoCo Events Xubuntu: My media […]

Nominations to the Tech Board

By lyz | Published: 2016-04-05

The nominations for Ubuntu Technical Board are, in no particular order: Ben Collins Kees Cook Steve Langasek Jason de Rose Marc Deslauriers Adam Conrad Stéphane Graber Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre Didier Roche Paul Sladen Sebastien Bacher Robie Basak We are very fortunate to have such an excellent group of nominees, and I am confident that the Ubuntu […]

IRC Council Election Results

By lyz | Published: 2016-04-05

Thank you all for your participation in a successful election process. Three candidates were chosen from a field of five for a two-year term. The poll has ended and the results are available here: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_c06586adb67f376b Please welcome Unit193 to the IRCC and congratulate hggdh and Tm_T on their re-elections. Also, please thank Na3iL and rww […]