Planet Ubuntu

A few weeks ago, in episode 25 of Linux Matters Podcast I brought up the subject of ‘Coding Joy’. This blog post is an expanded follow-up to that segment. Go and listen to that episode - or...

https://popey.com/blog/2024/04/the-joy-of-code/

The latest release of uCareSystem, version 24.04.0, introduces enhanced maintenance and cleanup capabilities for Ubuntu and its derivatives. It’s definitely worth exploring the new features As ...

https://utappiablog.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/ucaresystem-24-04-0-released/

Over coffee this morning, I stumbled upon simone , a fledgling Open-Source tool for repurposing YouTube videos as blog posts. The Python tool creates a text summary of the video and extracts some...

https://popey.com/blog/2024/04/do-you-know-simone/

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed “Noble Numbat”, is here. This release continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, eas...

https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2024/04/25/ubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat-released/

The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 24.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.27 simple by default, powerful when needed. Codenamed “Noble Numbat”,...

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat-released/

The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS, code-named “Noble Numbat”. This marks Ubuntu Studio’s 34th release. This release is a Long-Term Support...

https://ubuntustudio.org/2024/04/ubuntu-studio-24-04-lts-released/

CANONICAL’S 10TH LONG TERM SUPPORTED RELEASE SETS A NEW STANDARD IN PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING, ENTERPRISE SECURITY AND DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE. LONDON, 25 APRIL 2024. Today Canonical announced th...

https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat

20 years in the making. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS brings together the latest advancements from the Linux ecosystem into a release that is built to empower open source developers and deliver innovation for...

https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-desktop-24-04-noble-numbat-deep-dive

Ubuntu MATE 24.04 is more of what you like, stable MATE Desktop on top of current Ubuntu. This release rolls up some fixes and more closely aligns with Ubuntu. Read on to learn more 👓️ UBU...

https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-noble-numbat-release-notes/

We are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro, 24.04 Long Term Support. The LTS version is supported for 3 years while the regular releases are supported for 9 months. ...

https://ubuntubudgie.org/2024/04/ubuntu-budgie-24-04-released/

Thanks to the hard work from our contributors, Lubuntu 24.04 LTS has been released. With the codename Noble Numbat, Lubuntu 24.04 is the 26th release of Lubuntu, the 12th release of Lubuntu with ...

https://lubuntu.me/noble-released/

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 24.04. Xubuntu 24.04, codenamed NOBLE NUMBAT, is a long-term support (LTS) release and will be supported for 3 years, unt...

https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-24-04-released/

With the work that has been done in the debian-installer/netcfg merge-proposal !9 it is possible to install a standard Debian system, using the normal Debian-Installer (d-i) MINI.ISO images, tha...

https://blog.slyon.de/2024/04/25/creating-a-netplan-enabled-system-through-debian-installer/

Desta vez recebemos a visita do André Bação e a conversa seguiu animada em torno de leis de termodinâmica, panelas de esquentadores, alegria de famílias chinesas, computadores azeiteiros e -...

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e296/

Ubuntu MATE 23.10 is more of what you like, stable MATE Desktop on top of current Ubuntu. This release rolls up a number of bugs fixes and updates that continues to build on recent releases, wher...

https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-mantic-minotaur-release-notes/

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, ISSUE 836 FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 14 – 20, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here . In this issue we cover: Noble Numbat (24.04) Final F...

https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2024/04/22/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-836/

Por ocasião da Wikicon Portugal 2024 em Évora, caímos numa anomalia gravitacional no tecido espacio-temporal e viajámos até à Quinta Dimensão, um Cosmódromo de Ideias e depósito de Raspb...

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e295/

Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is a Long Term Support release with 3 years of support by your distro maintainers, from April 2024 to May 2027. These release notes showcase the key takeawa...

https://ubuntubudgie.org/2024/04/ubuntu-budgie-24-04-release-notes/

Years ago, at what I think I remember was DebConf 15, I hacked for a while on debhelper to write build-ids to debian binary control files , so that the build-id (more specifically, the ELF note ....

https://notes.pault.ag/debugfs/

It has been a very busy couple of weeks as we worked against some major transitions and a security fix that required a rebuild of the $world. I am happy to report that against all odds we have a ...

https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kubuntu-noble-numbat-beta-available-qt6-snaps-coming-soon/

JOIN THE EXCITEMENT: TEST KUBUNTU 24.04 BETA AND EXPERIENCE INNOVATION WITH KUBUQA! We’re thrilled to announce the availability of the Kubuntu 24.04 Beta! This release is packed with new fe...

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-24-04-beta-released/

The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS, codenamed “Noble Numbat”. While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper installer bugs, yo...

https://ubuntustudio.org/2024/04/ubuntu-studio-24-04-lts-beta-released/

We are happy to announce the Beta release for Lubuntu Noble (what will become 24.04 LTS)! What makes this cycle unique? Lubuntu is a lightweight flavor of Ubuntu, based on LXQt and built for you....

https://lubuntu.me/noble-beta-released/

And it’s finally out, our first LTS (Long Term Support) release of Incus! For anyone unfamiliar, Incus is a modern system container and virtual machine manager developed and maintained by th...

https://stgraber.org/2024/04/04/announcing-incus-6-0-lts/

New “netplan status –diff” subcommand, finding differences between configuration and system state As the maintainer and lead developer for Netplan, I’m proud to announce the general ava...

https://blog.slyon.de/2024/04/04/netplan-v1-0-paves-the-way-to-stable-declarative-network-management/

My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. Python team: I updated zope.testrunner to 6.4. I fixed a build failure in celery-haystack-ng , which included an upstream ch...

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2024-03.html

Docker > Settings > Overview > Recreate, making sure that “Rest variable to default” is NOT checked. Finally start.

https://dougiewougie.com/2024/03/31/update-plesk-docker-images/

Incus is a manager for VIRTUAL MACHINES (VM) and SYSTEM CONTAINERS. There is also an Incus support forum . Typically you would use the incus command-line interface (CLI) client to get access t...

https://blog.simos.info/how-to-install-and-setup-the-incus-web-ui/

PERSONAL: As many of you know, I lost my beloved son March 9th. This has hit me really hard, but I am staying strong and holding on to all the wonderful memories I have. He grew up to be an ama...

https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kubuntu-kde-report-in-loving-memory-of-my-son/

Incus is a manager for virtual machines (VM) and system containers. There is also an Incus support forum . A VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM) is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer,...

https://blog.simos.info/how-to-run-an-incus-vm-inside-an-incus-vm-nested-virtualization/

The last Incus release before we go LTS has now been released! This is quite the feature packed release as this is meant to include just about every features we want in Incus 6.0 LTS except for...

https://stgraber.org/2024/03/26/announcing-incus-0-7/

I’ve recently switched back from vscode to Sublime Text , which means that after all the time I spent training my fingers to type “code somefile.txt” instead of “subl somefile.txt” I no...

https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/03/24/the-matrix-has-you-part-2/

Multipass is pretty useful but what a pain this was to figure out, due to Ubuntu’s Node.js package not working with AWS-CDK. Multipass lets you manage VM in Ubuntu and can take cloud-init s...

https://dougiewougie.com/2024/03/24/multipass-cloud-init/

On Mastodon, the question came up of how Ubuntu would deal with something like the npm install everything situation. I replied: > Ubuntu is curated, so it probably wouldn’t get th...

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/ubuntu-install-everything.html

LAUNCHPAD’S NEW HOMEPAGE Launchpad has been around for a while, and its frontpage has remained untouched for a few years now. If you go into launchpad.net, you’ll notice it looks quite dif...

https://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpads-new-homepage

Plasma Pass is a Plasma applet for the Pass password manager This release includes build fixes for Plasma 6, due to be released later this week. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-pa...

https://jriddell.org/2024/02/25/plasma-pass-1-2-2/

Oxygen Icons is an icon theme for use with any XDG compliant app and desktop. It is part of KDE Frameworks 6 but is now released independently to save on resources. This 6.0.0 release require...

https://jriddell.org/2024/02/21/oxygen-icons-6-released/

There’s a YouTube channel called Clickspring , run by an Australian bloke called Chris who is a machinist: a mechanical engineer with a lathe and a mill and all manner of little tools. I am not...

https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/01/30/somewhere-between-silver-and-tin/

Linux kernel getting a livepatch whilst running a marathon. Generated with AI. Livepatch service eliminates the need for unplanned maintenance windows for high and critical severity kernel v...

http://blog.surgut.co.uk/2024/01/ubuntu-livepatch-fips-s390-arm64.html

This is a follow up to my previous post about How to test things with openQA without running your own instance , so you might want to read that first. Now, while hunting for bsc#1219073 which ...

https://foursixnine.io//blog/linux/tech/qualityassurance/openqa/2024/01/25/testingkernelswithsporadicissuesuntilheisenbugshowsinopenqa.html