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Raspberry Pi Flavour Lets Anyone Build an Ubuntu OS for ARM Devices
Running Ubuntu Linux on Raspberry Pi hardware – and, maybe, ARM-based devices in general – has become easier thanks to a new tool called Ubuntu Pi Flavour, which is developed by the team behind Ubuntu MATE.
The goal of the new tool is to “make as many Ubuntu flavours for the Raspberry Pi 2 as we can,” according to its developers. That means releasing new Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distributions that run on top of Raspberry Pi – the tiny, inexpensive devices that lend themselves to IoT-type applications, among other endeavors.
Ubuntu Pi Flavour is not a project sponsored by Canonical, the company that supports Ubuntu. It's instead the work of the developers behind Ubuntu MATE, a derivative of Ubuntu that uses the MATE desktop interface in place of Canonical's Unity.
The tool grew out of efforts to build an Ubuntu MATE release that supported Raspberry Pi, according to the programmers.
Ubuntu aims for true convergence across devices in 2016
It seems Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, may achieve its convergence goal in the new year. The move will allow you to get the same experience of Ubuntu whether on PC, tablet or phone. This will likely mean apps, too, will become cross-platform.
The news came from Ubuntu's Google+ page. It posted an image showing convergence on the Ubuntu platform.There are two desktop releases of Ubuntu planned for 2016 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Long Term Support) and Ubuntu 16.10. With LTS releases, Canonical likes to keep the releases stable enough for deployment in an enterprise environment.
Unity 8 - the desktop environment that will allow for convergence - has not been used as the default desktop environment on any prior Ubuntu for desktop releases. Therefore, it may not be stable enough to be used as the default in the LTS release, but it will definitely be an option for more advanced users to select on the login screen.
Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-aims-for-true-convergence-across-devices-in-2016
Google plots WhatsApp rival with artificial intelligence
The service will pull information from the web in order to answer users' questions in addition to allowing people to connect with friends like a traditional messaging app. However, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Google could be planning a new way of going about getting information. Google's own chatbot service is headed up by Google old-timer Nick Fox, who is now VP of communication services at Google, with sources claiming the search giant has been working on the service for at least a year already. There are a number of popular messaging applications like WhatsApp and Messenger services offered by Facebook, and WeChat service offered by Tencent Holdings Ltd. Google also has a messaging service known as Hangouts. The latest rumors say that Google is working on an entirely new messaging service, but instead of just providing messaging capabilities, it will also feature chatbots. Google hasn't commented about the WSJ reports yet. Google may have a new artificial intelligence project in the works. Additionally, Google will allow other developers to hook in their own services via chatbots.
Source: http://thevillagessuntimes.com/2015/12/27/google-plots-whatsapp-rival-with-artificial-intelligence/
Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42
Debian GNU/Linux founder Ian Murdock has died. He was 42. Murdock, who lived in San Francisco, is best known for creating the open-source distro in 1993. He had just last month started working for tech startup Docker in the city. On Monday afternoon, he posted a string of distressing and erratic tweets, revealing he had been arrested near his home by police, accused of assaulting an officer, and taken to hospital. He also threatened to kill himself. After people reached out to him, Murdock appeared to calm down, and vowed instead to clear his name. Murdock died that evening. His Twitter account has since been disabled.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder
Kali Linux NetHunter 3.0 Android Mobile Penetration Testing Platform released
Security researchers, ethical hackers and pentesters can now rejoice. The ultimate pentesting tool for Android smartphones and tablets, Kali Linux NetHunter 3.0 Android application, has been released by Offensive Security, the company behind Kali Linux. The application was in development for over a year. Kali NetHunter 3.0 boasts of a completely redesigned user interface which has been application centric. Offensive Security said that the new application will support new and complex attacks while providing support for managing your Kali chroot independently, including the ability to delete and rebuild the chroot, along with support for selecting individual metapackages in the respective chroot.
Canonical: One Billion People “Benefit from” Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Linux has more than one billion users – or at least people who “benefit” from it, whether they know it or not – according to a recent statement from a Canonical executive about how many people actually run its open source operating system.
Dustin Kirkland, who works on Ubuntu Product and Strategy for Canonical, said in a blog post that “more people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows.” That language seems to be an admission that Canonical actually has relatively little idea how many people run Ubuntu, and Kirkland offered few hard statistics.
He did, however, provide some figures that give a sense of just how widely used Ubuntu is. The most concrete ones center on the cloud, where 20 million instances of Ubuntu were launched in 2015, according to Kirkland. He also remarked that Docker users have created Ubuntu images more than 35 million times.
Noting that Ubuntu is also in use on smartphones, Google's self-driving cars, the servers of lots of companies and plenty of other places, Kirkland concluded, “I bet there are over a billion people today using Ubuntu – both directly and indirectly. Without a doubt, there are over a billion people on the planet benefiting from the services, security, and availability of Ubuntu today.”
Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Is Unofficially Available for Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint
As you may or may not know, Linux kernel 4.4 LTS was officially released on January 10, 2016, and Softpedia was the first to announce it, along with the details about the multitude of new features that were included in this long-term supported branch of the Linux kernel.
Arne Exton is known to immediately build a custom kernel for Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint systems based on the latest stable and most advanced Linux kernel release, version 4.4 in this case, which users can install right now on their supported GNU/Linux operating systems (see below for installation instructions).
But first, a few technical details that you need to know before attempting to install this custom Linux kernel package on your OS. The kernel 4.4.0-0-exton package that has been compiled by Arne Exton is the equivalent of the Linux kernel 4.4 found on the kernel.org website, it is supported only on 64-bit systems, and has been compiled the same way as all official Ubuntu kernels are.
“I have compiled yet another Ubuntu/Debian kernel for 64-bit systems. This time kernel 4.4.0-0-exton, equivalent to Kernel.org’s latest stable kernel 4.4.0 released 160110,” said Arne Exton for Softpedia. “My self-compiled Ubuntu kernels can be used in all types of modern Ubuntu systems, including Mint.”
GNOME Software Now Available in Ubuntu 16.04, with a PPA
One of the most interesting things that came out of the latest Ubuntu Developer Summit was the fact that Canonical wanted to ditch the Ubuntu Software Center for GNOME Software. This information has been very well received by the community, which is not terribly fond of that particular application.
In fact, users have been asking why GNOME Software isn’t available in the daily build of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The launch of this OS is planned for April 2016, so there isn’t much time left. It turns out that they have been working on this transition, but it’s not as simple as you might think, and a lot of things depend on it.
The Ubuntu developers are not yet ready to push the modified GNOME Software into the main Xenial branch, and there still a few problems that have to be solved before that happens.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/gnome-software-now-available-in-ubuntu-16-04-with-a-ppa-498977.shtml
Lubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Has Been Ported to Raspberry Pi 2, with LXQt
Built with the Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker tool, which we've introduced you to last month, made by the Ubuntu MATE team, the Raspberry Pi 2 port of the upcoming Lubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system is currently in development stage; but at least we see some progress with the implementation of LXQt in Lubuntu.
“A nice experiment made by wxl from the Lubuntu QA Team: running Lubuntu Xenial Xerus on a Raspberry Pi 2, with LXQt desktop. Made with Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker,” said Rafael Laguna in the brief announcement. “And that’s all. Enjoy Lubuntu in your new Pi. Remember this is just an experiment, it may be unstable.”
If you want to test the Lubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system on your Raspberry Pi 2 single-board computer, you will have to download the experimental image, install it on an SD card, upgrade to the Xenial branch, and then follow the Lubuntu Wiki guide to install the LXQt packages.
SCaLE 14x, day 1: Shuttleworth delivers the grand vision for Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth praised the differences and diversity in the Ubuntu community. He said the differences in what people are doing and their motivations is what makes the Ubuntu community strong. “There is a great misconception that Ubuntu is what I want,“ he said. “It’s not. Ubuntu is the son of what many different diverse groups want. What we struggle and fight for is the framework for collaboration that enables people to get what they want.”
He then talked about how Ubuntu is innovating with changing times: they developed Snappy to offer a much more secure, sandboxed Ubuntu experience to enable people to use Ubuntu in a variety of devices such as drones, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, smart cars, etc.
During the Q&A session, someone asked about people taking Ubuntu and creating their own stuff with it, by which I assume he meant derivatives. Shuttleworth said that he thinks that’s a good thing; people can do whatever they want to do with Ubuntu. Then he also mentioned that they are trying to avoid Snappy having the fragmentation Android is experiencing, because, irrespective of where you are running Snappy Ubuntu Core, you are running the same code everywhere.
Ubuntu Phone OTA-9 Update Received Well by Users, Nexus 10 Port to Be Removed
According to Mr. Zemczak, the OTA-9 update has been received well by Ubuntu Phone users, but only those lucky enough to get it in the first hours. However, the rest of them should be able to upgrade to OTA-9 in the coming hours, so make sure you keep checking for updates regularly.
“OTA-9 phased upgrades are in progress! Just in a little while all users should be able to upgrade. We're also really happy that the update itself was so nicely welcomed,” says Łukasz Zemczak, Ubuntu Foundations, in his daily report, which we received as an e-mail dated January 27, 2016.
As reported a few days ago, the OTA-9.5 hotfix will enter final freeze on January 29 and will land for all Ubuntu Phone users on February 10, 2016. Then, the devs can finally concentrate all of their efforts on the next major update, OTA-10, which will bring even more cool features.