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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 479

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #479 for the weeks of August 15 – 28, 2016, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Yakkety Yak Beta 1 Released Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu in Philadelphia LoCo Events Canonical Design Team: Convergent terminal Canonical Design Team: What is the best […]

Yakkety Yak Beta 1 Released

The Jogpa, in our mad flight, cut off a long lock of the yak’s silky hair. Having secured this, he appeared to be quite satisfied, let go, and sheathed his sword. – Arnold Henry Savage Landor The first beta of the Yakkety Yak (to become 16.10) has now been released! This milestone features images for […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 478

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #478 for the week August 8 – 14, 2016, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Stats LoCo Events Zygmunt Krynicki: Snap execution environment Canonical Design Team: Web team hack day Canonical Design Team: Competition winner – Timer App Dustin […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 477

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #477 for the week August 1 – 7, 2016, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS released Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party San Francisco Concluded! LoCo Events Luke Faraone: Snappy Sprint Heidelberg Laura Czajkowski: NoSQL Podcast: Service […]

Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04.5 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 14.04.5, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack […]