Category Archives: Planet

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 414

By lyz | Published: 2015-04-28

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #414 for the week April 20 – 26, 2015, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) released Announcing the next Ubuntu Online Summit Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Myanmar LoCo Team Interview Developers Conference 2015, Mauritius KDE and Ubuntu […]

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) released

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2015-04-23

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 features and fixing bugs. Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 3.19-based kernel, […]

Interview with YokoZar of the Ubuntu Community Council

By lyz | Published: 2015-04-22

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 seventh and final interview, we talk with YokoZar who […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 413

By lyz | Published: 2015-04-21

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #413 for the week April 13 – 19, 2015, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Announcement: New Ubuntu Membership Board Members Ubuntu Stats Call for nominations for the LoCo Council South East Linux Fest UbuCon LoCo Events Lubuntu Blog: Client […]

Announcement: New Ubuntu Membership Board Members

By lyz | Published: 2015-04-14

Following the recent call for nominations to the Ubuntu Membership Board and the consequent Community Council vote on the nominees, we’re happy to announce the 7 people who have been added to the board! In no particular order: Aaron Honeycutt Jorge Castro Miles Sharpe Walter Lapchynski ANIS El Achèche Iulian Udrea (incumbent) Torsten Franz Thanks […]