Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 327

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-07-29

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #327 for the week July 22 – 28, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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

  • Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
  • Paul White
  • Nathan Dyer
  • John Kim
  • Joel Braun
  • Jim Connett
  • 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

13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Alpha 2 Available

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-07-25

The second Alpha of the Saucy Salamander (to become 13.10) has now been released for testers and early adopters.

This alpha features images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, UbuntuKylin, and Xubuntu.

Pre-releases of Saucy Salamander 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 developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready.

Alpha 2 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 Alpha 2 images have been tested and work, except as noted in the release notes, Ubuntu developers are continuing to improve Saucy Salamander. In particular, once newer daily images are available, system installation bugs identified in the Alpha 2 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 13.10 the best Ubuntu release yet. Always ensure your system is up to date before reporting bugs.

Kubuntu:

Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project.

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on Kubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Kubuntu

Lubuntu:

Lubuntu is a flavour of Ubuntu that targets to be lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI.

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on Lubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Lubuntu

Ubuntu GNOME:

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

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on Ubuntu GNOME Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/UbuntuGNOME

Xubuntu:

Xubuntu is Ubuntu flavour with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu;/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on Xubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha2/Xubuntu

UbuntuKylin:

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

The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/saucy/alpha-2/

More information on UbuntuKylin Alpha 2 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuKylin/1310-alpha-2-ReleaseNote

Regular daily images for Ubuntu (Unity) can be found at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

If you’re interested in following the changes as we further develop Saucy, 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, alpha releases and other interesting events.

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

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Jonathan Riddell on Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:48 UTC

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 326

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-07-22

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #326 for the week July 15 – 21, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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

  • Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
  • Paul White
  • John Kim
  • David Morfin
  • Jim Connett
  • 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 325

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-07-15

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #325 for the week July 8 – 14, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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

  • Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
  • Paul White
  • Tiago Carrondo
  • Nathan Dyer
  • Jim Connett
  • 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 Developer Summit: 27-29 August 2013

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-07-11

The next Ubuntu Developer Summit will be taking place from Tues 27th Aug 2013 – Thu 29th Aug 2013 from 2pm UTC – 8pm UTC. The event is completely open and accessible to everyone at summit.ubuntu.com. We welcome community members, upstreams, partners, and anyone else to come and join the sessions.

As usual, the entire event will be hosted online using Google+ Hangouts, integrated IRC discussion channels, embedded blueprints, and collaborative note-taking. This format provides a fantastic method of not only coordinating open sessions, but also providing full recordings of every session for those who either missed sessions or could not participate.

We will once again have 5 tracks: App Development, Community, Client, Server & Cloud and Foundations. The track leads for these will be:

  • App Development: Alan Pope, David Planella & Michael Hall
  • Community: Daniel Holbach, Nick Skaggs & Jono Bacon
  • Client: Jason Warner & Sebastien Bacher
  • Server & Cloud: Dave Walker & Antonio Rosales
  • Foundations: Steve Langasek

Track leads will be in charge of approving Blueprints and getting them on the schedule. If you are going to be responsible for running a session, please contact the track lead to make sure they have marked you as being required for that session.

If you would like to get a session added for this UDS, you can do so either by registering a Blueprint or proposing a meeting through Summit itself. Both approaches will require the approval of a Track Lead, so make sure you discuss it with them ahead of time.

Contributed by Jono Bacon.