Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 240

By akgraner | Published: 2011-11-10

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #240 for the week October 31 – November 6, 2011, and the full version is available here.

In this Issue we cover:

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

  • Amber Graner
  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Philip Ballew
  • 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

Automatic packaging progress

By David Planella | Published: 2011-11-10

We’re doing some work to automatically package the things that application developers submit to the Ubuntu App Developer site, and we thought you might be interested in following along.

In a nutshell, we’re going to put a service behind MyApps that harnesses pkgme to automatically generate packaging for binary applications. We hope to extend it to automatically package other types of applications (e.g. ./configure; make; make install) some day soon.

If you want to know more, you can read the spec, look at the system diagram, read our implementation plan or watch the demo of pkgme doing a binary application.

At the moment, it’s James Westby and I working on this as our day jobs at Canonical. However, we’re both pretty keen to do everything in the open, and would gladly welcome contributions.

Oh, speaking of openness. We’re trying to gather up all of the work that Ubuntu is doing to make life for application developers easier and stick it on one wiki page so that everyone can figure out what everyone else is doing. That page is:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppDevelopers

It’s so important I couldn’t possibly leave it as a mere hyperlink. It also has links to the various Launchpad projects that we’re using for the automated packaging service.

Originally posted on the Ubuntu App Developer Blog by Jonathan Lange on Thu Nov 10 2011

Ubuntu Community mourns the loss of André Gondim

By dholbach | Published: 2011-11-04

André Gondim

The Ubuntu Project has lost an active member of its community. André Gondim died on 3rd November after fighting with ill health for several months.

André was a major contributor of Ubuntu Brazil, the leader of the Brazilian Translations team and member of the Brazilian Community Council. He was 29 years old and married. Even despite his poor health condition, he was always there to support Ubuntu and the community.

The Ubuntu Project honours his excellent work and strong dedication to Ubuntu and the broader Open Source community. André was always there for others as a friend. He will be sorely missed and his dedication and contributions will serve as inspiration to us all.

Our thoughts are with his wife, his family and friends.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 239

By akgraner | Published: 2011-10-31

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #239 for the week October 24 – 30, 2011, 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
  • Neil Oosthuizen
  • Philip Ballew
  • Amber Graner
  • 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

End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook and ARM – 2011/10/29

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-10-29

Ubuntu announced the 10.04 Netbook Edition and Ubuntu for ARM products 18 months ago, on April 29, 2010. At that time, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months for these specific products.

This support period is now ending, and on October 29, 2011 the 10.04 Netbook Edition and Ubuntu for ARM products will no longer be supported. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop and Server products continue to be supported.

The upgrade path from Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook and ARM is to Ubuntu 10.10. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for Desktop and Server products continues to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes. All announcements of official security updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be found at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce.

Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes, schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Originally posted on the ubuntu-announce mailing list by Kate Stewart on Fri Oct 28 21:31:53 UTC 2011