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Reminder: Call for Ubuntu Community Council Nominations

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2022-10-04

The Community Council is still looking for nominees for the upcoming election.

We will be filling all seven seats this term, with terms lasting two years. To be eligible, a nominee must be an Ubuntu Member. Ideally, they should have a vast understanding of the Ubuntu community, be well-organized, and be a natural leader.

The work of the Community Council, as it stands, is to uphold the Code of Conduct throughout the community, ensure that all the other leadership boards and council are running smoothly, and to ensure the general health of the community, including not only supporting contributors but also stepping in for dispute resolution, as needed.

Historically, there would be two meetings per month, so the nominee should be willing to commit, at minimum, to that particular time requirement. Additionally, as needs arise, other communication, most often by email, will happen. The input of the entire Council is essential for swift and appropriate actions to get enacted, so participation in these conversations should be expected.

To nominate someone (including yourself), send the name and Launchpad ID of the nominee to community-council [AT] lists.ubuntu.com. The nominations period has been extended and will now close on 6 October 2022 11:59 UTC.

Once the nominations are collected, Mark Shuttleworth will shortlist them and an actual election will take place, using the Condorcet Internet Voting Service. All Ubuntu Members are eligible to vote in this election.

If you have any other questions, feel free to post something in the Ubuntu Discourse #community-council category so all may benefit from the answer.

Thanks in advance to all that participate and for your desire to make Ubuntu better!

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 755

By guiverc | Published: 2022-10-03

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 755 for the week of September 25 – October 1, 2022. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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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, this issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License

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Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) Final Beta released

By guiverc | Published: 2022-09-30

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 22.10 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products.

Ubuntu 22.10, codenamed “Kinetic Kudu”, 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.

This Beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavours.

The Beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper image build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 22.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 20, 2022.

Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Cloud Images:

Kinetic Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 5.19 kernel, and much more.

To upgrade to Ubuntu 22.10 Beta from Ubuntu 22.04, follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KineticUpgrades

The Ubuntu 22.10 Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.10/ (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server on x86)

This Ubuntu Server image features the next generation Subiquity server installer, bringing the comfortable live session and speedy install of the Ubuntu Desktop to server users.

Additional images can be found at the following links:

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/kinetic/current/ (Cloud Images)
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/22.10/beta/ (Non-x86)

As fixes will be included in new images between now and release, any daily cloud image from today or later (i.e. a serial of 20220929 or higher) should be considered a Beta image. Bugs found should be filed against the appropriate packages or, failing that, the cloud-images project in Launchpad.

The full release notes for Ubuntu 22.10 Beta can be found at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/kinetic-kudu-release-notes

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 Beta images can be downloaded at:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/22.10/beta/

Lubuntu:

Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu which uses the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (LXQt). The project’s goal is to provide a lightweight yet functional Linux distribution based on a rock-solid Ubuntu base.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/22.10/beta/

Ubuntu Budgie:

Ubuntu Budgie is community developed desktop, integrating Budgie Desktop Environment with Ubuntu at its core.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/releases/22.10/beta/

Ubuntu MATE:

Ubuntu MATE is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the MATE desktop environment.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/22.10/beta/

Ubuntu Studio:

Ubuntu Studio is a flavor of Ubuntu that provides a full range of multimedia content creation applications for each key workflow: audio, graphics, video, photography and publishing.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/22.10/beta/

Ubuntu Unity:

Ubuntu Unity is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the Unity7 desktop environment.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-unity/releases/22.10/beta/

Xubuntu:

Xubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that comes with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/22.10/beta/

Regular daily images for Ubuntu, and all flavours, can be found at:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for clients, servers and clouds, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit https://ubuntu.com/support

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:
https://ubuntu.com/community/participate

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to improve this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be found at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this Beta release on our website, IRC channel and wiki.

To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu’s very low volume announcement list at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Fri Sep 30 00:08:26 UTC 2022 by Brian Murray, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team