Ubuntu Online Summit dates: 3-5 November 2015

By lyz | Published: 2015-09-13

I don’t believe we had any objections to the dates put forward by Daniel, so lets set the following dates for the next Ubuntu Online Summit (UOS):-

Tuesday November 3rd through Thursday November 5th, 14:00 to 20:00 UTC.

We’ll begin setting up summit and launchpad this week.

https://launchpad.net/sprints/uos-1511

I’d recommend everyone starts giving some serious thought as to sessions they want at UOS. It would be great to settle these nice and early as our next cycle is an LTS, so I imagine we have a lot to discuss! 🙂

Originally posted to the ubuntu-community-team mailing list on Sun Sep 13 14:08:51 UTC 2015 by Alan Pope

Kubuntu Council re-election results

By lyz | Published: 2015-09-11

The nomination period for the new council members ended yesterday, with these nominations:

  • Aaron Honeycutt
  • Clay Weber
  • Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan

as that matches the number of open seats, there will be no voting, so everyone please welcome our 3 new council members.

As previously announced, the membership of the other council members will be adjusted to end one year from now, and the new members will start a regular 2 year term.

Originally posted to the kubuntu-devel mailing list on Thu Sep 10 07:31:00 UTC 2015 by Philip Muskovac on behalf of the Kubuntu Council

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 433

By lyz | Published: 2015-09-08

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #433 for the week August 31 – September 6, 2015, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Paul White
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Nathan Handler
  • Aaron Honeycutt
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 432

By lyz | Published: 2015-09-01

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #432 for the week August 24 – 30, 2015, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Paul White
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Chris Guiver
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Wily Werewolf Beta 1 Released

By lyz | Published: 2015-08-27

"I am Groot."
– Groot

The first beta of the Wily Werewolf (to become 15.10) has now been released!

This beta features images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Xubuntu and the Ubuntu Cloud images.

Pre-releases of the Wily Werewolf are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu flavor developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready.

Beta 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.

While these Beta 1 images have been tested and work, except as noted in the release notes, Ubuntu developers are continuing to improve the Wily Werewolf. In particular, once newer daily images are available, system installation bugs identified in the Beta 1 installer should be verified against the current daily image before being reported in Launchpad. Using an obsolete image to re-report bugs that have already been fixed wastes your time and the time of developers who are busy trying to make 15.10 the best Ubuntu release yet. Always ensure your system is up to date before reporting bugs.

Kubuntu

Kubuntu uses KDE software and now features the new Plasma 5 desktop.

The Kubuntu 15.10 Beta 1 images can be downloaded from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/wily/beta-1/

More information about Kubuntu 15.10 Beta 1 can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/Kubuntu

Lubuntu

Lubuntu is a flavour of Ubuntu based on LXDE and focused on providing a very lightweight distribution.

The Lubuntu 15.10 Beta 1 images can be downloaded from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/wily/beta-1/

More information about Lubuntu 15.10 Beta 1 can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/Lubuntu

Ubuntu GNOME

Ubuntu GNOME is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME3 desktop environment.

The Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 Beta 1 images can be downloaded from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/wily/beta-1/

More information about Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 Beta 1 can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/UbuntuGNOME

Ubuntu Kylin

Ubuntu Kylin is a flavour of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users.

The Ubuntu Kylin 15.10 Beta 1 images can be downloaded from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/wily/beta-1/

More information about Ubuntu Kylin 15.10 Beta 1 can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/UbuntuKylin

Ubuntu MATE

Ubuntu MATE is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the MATE desktop environment for people who just want to get stuff done.

The Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Beta 1 images can be downloaded from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/wily/beta-1/

More information about Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Beta 1 can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/UbuntuMATE

Xubuntu

Xubuntu is a flavour of Ubuntu shipping with the XFCE desktop environment.

The Xubuntu 15.10 Beta 1 images can be downloaded from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/wily/beta-1/

More information about Xubuntu MATE 15.10 Beta 1 can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/Xubuntu

Ubuntu Cloud

Ubuntu Cloud images can be run on Amazon EC2, Openstack, SmartOS and many other clouds.

The Ubuntu Cloud 15.10 Beta 1 images can be downloaded from:

http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/wily/beta-1/

Regular daily images for Ubuntu can be found at:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com

If you’re interested in following the changes as we further develop Wily, we suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, beta releases and other interesting events.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

A big thank you to the developers and testers for their efforts to pull together this Beta release!

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list on Thu Aug 27 14:27:17 UTC 2015 by Martin Wimpress on behalf of Ubuntu Release Team