Monthly Archives: February 2015

Vivid Vervet Beta 1 Released

The first Beta of the Vivid Vervet (to become 15.04) has now been released! Pre-releases of the Vivid Vervet 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 flavour developers and those who want to help in […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 405

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #405 for the week February 16 – 22, 2015, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS released Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations Ubuntu Stats LoCo Events Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make community releases 0.6 with 5 new supported […]

Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support. We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with 14.04.2, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack […]

Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations

As you may know, Ubuntu Membership is a recognition of significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community. To this end, the Community Council recruits members of our current membership community for the valuable role of reviewing and evaluating the contributions of potential members to bring them on board or assist with having […]

Interview with Laura Czajkowski of the Ubuntu Community Council

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 third interview, we talk with Laura Czajkowski about her […]