Ubuntu 15.04 'Vivid Vervet'

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This is the name of Ubuntu 15.04 — And It’s Not Velociraptor

Ubuntu 14.10 may not be out of the door yet, but attention is already turning to Ubuntu 15.04. Today it got its name: ‘Vivid Vervet’.
Announcing the monkey-themed moniker in his usual loquacious style, Mark Shuttleworth cites the ‘upstart’ and playful nature of the mascot as in tune with its own foray into the mobile space.

“This is a time when every electronic thing can be an Internet thing, and that’s a chance for us to bring our platform, with its security and its long term support, to a vast and important field. In a world where almost any device can be smart, and also subverted, our shared efforts to make trusted and trustworthy systems might find fertile ground.

Talking of plans for the release Shuttleworth states one goal is to “show the way past a simple Internet of things, to a world of Internet things-you-can-trust.”

Ubuntu 15.04 is due for release in April 2015. It’s not expected to arrive with either Mir or Unity 8 by default, but given the veracious speed of acceleration in ambitions, it may find its way out for testing.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/10/ubuntu-15-04-named-vivid-vervet

A 5 dias do lançamento do 14.10 Utopic Unicorn já há nome para o Ubuntu 15.04

 

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Canonical's Plans For Unity 8 & Mir In Ubuntu 15.04

Kevin Gunn of Canonical laid out some of Canonical's plans for Unity 8 and Mir for the Ubuntu 15.04 development cycle.

In a 25 minute presentation today during the virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit, Gunn covered the Unity 8 / Mir accomplishments of the Ubuntu 14.10 cycle and then focused on work they plan to do over the next six months for Ubuntu 15.04.

Among the upcoming focus for Mir in Ubuntu 15.04 is GTK+3 support for Mir and they also plan to support libinput! The libinput library has been used by Wayland clients up to now for unified input handling and there's optional support for an X.Org input driver for using libinput there too. Canonical now seems interested in using libinput too, which will be supported alongside Android's input stack.

Here's the notes for the Ubuntu 15.04 Unity 8 / Mir action items:

Unity 8:

- Shell rotation
- Dash 3.0 updates
- Proper prompts
- Improved testing

Mir:

- Mir support for GTK port
- Fence sync improvements on client side rendering
- Integrating libinput alongside Android Input support
- Working on window management and Unity 8 non-full screen windowing elements
- Working on integrating rootless X window into Unity 8 / Qt Mir
- Refactoring Unity-System-Compositor

Ubuntu 15.04 on the desktop will still use Unity 7 with Mir. It's looking like Unity 8 with Mir won't be the default on the desktop until Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgzODM

 

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Ubuntu Developers Devise New Terminal & Calculator Apps

Among the "Ubuntu Apps" being discussed for development today during the final day of this first Ubuntu 15.04 Online Summit is the planned improvements to the calculator and terminal applications.

While an Ubuntu Tablet could come next month and Ubuntu Phones are coming soon too, Ubuntu developers still have a long way to go to mature their default applications that ship for Ubuntu Touch as part of the Unity 8 user experience. On Wednesday I wrote about the many improvements needed to the Ubuntu File Manager and being discussed today were improvements still needed to their new terminal and calculator apps. Like the file manager, the calculator and terminal are being custom written for Unity 8 in Qt/QML and to fit in with Canonical's converged vision with these apps ultimately hitting the desktop -- likely in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Among the features that the application developers hope to tackle for the terminal are user experience improvements, possible restructuring of the UI, determining how to expose advanced terminal features on touch devices, a possible terminal first run wizard, and many other changes. The notes to the Ubuntu Terminal planning can be found at summit.ubuntu.com.

The calculator app planning was also discussed with a focus on just being a simple calculator but to add a scientific mode later. The calculator is a brand new app compared to the existing calculator. The calculator will use a QML front-end but they haven't even decided on what back-end math library to use for the app nor many other details. The calculator planning was in this session.

On a related note, new app guidelines are being rolled out for those designing apps for Ubuntu Touch.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgzOTM

 

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Ubuntu 15.04 Gets Tentative Release Date of April 23, 2015

Doing anything special on April 23 next year? You might well be — it’s the tentative release date being given for Ubuntu 15.04 ‘Vivid Vervet’.

The date, along with those of various other development milestones, is listed as part of a draft release schedule on the Ubuntu Wiki page for the ‘V’ update. As of writing all dates are subject to approval from the Ubuntu release team and are therefore not final.

Ubuntu’s previous spring release, 14.04 LTS, went live on April 17, 2014.

Veracity Potential is Void
Draft means just that, but having covered some 10 Ubuntu release over five years I do know that the proposed dates don’t tend to differ too wildly from those that go final (famous last words, I’m sure!).

Even so, take the proposals with a pinch of optimism for now. I’ll be keeping both this page and the fancy-schmancy graphic updated as, if or when anything changes.

Key Ubuntu 15.04 Release Dates
As with all releases post-13.04, Ubuntu proper only makes fleeting appearances in select milestone releases, specifically the ‘final beta’ and the ‘release candidate’ stages.

Ubuntu’s family of flavours, which may include Ubuntu MATE this cycle, take full advantage of the testing opportunities at hand.

• Alpha 1 – December 18th (for flavours)
• Alpha 2 – January 22nd (for flavours)
• Feature Freeze — February 19th
• Beta 1 – February 28th (for flavours)
• UI Freeze — March 12th
• Final Beta – March 26th
• Kernel Freeze — April 9th
• Release Candidate – April 16th

The final release of the Vivid Vervet in all its vivacious glory is pencilled in for release on:

• Ubuntu 15.04 Final – April 23rd

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/ubuntu-15-04-release-schedule-date-vivid-vervet

 

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FFmpeg Returns To The Official Ubuntu Repositories With Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet

Quick update for Ubuntu users: FFmpeg isn't available in recent Ubuntu releases but that will change with Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet (currently under development, to be released in April, 2015).

FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. Due to conflicts in the FFmpeg community, FFmpeg was forked back in 2011 and the resulting project was Libav.
Since then, various Libav changes were merged back into FFmpeg, while Libav did its own development, ignoring any changes from FFmpeg, and as a consequence, many developers prefer FFmpeg. For more information, see these pages: 1 2.
Ubuntu replaced FFmpeg with Libav a while back - for instance, Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 have only Libav -, but there's some great news for those who prefer FFmpeg: with Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, FFMpeg returns to the official Ubuntu repositories.
Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet currently has FFMpeg 2.4.3 (imported from Debian) and because both Libav and FFmpeg use the same library names, the new FFmpeg package ships with renamed libraries, like "libavdevice-ffmpeg", "libavutil-ffmpeg" and so on, so the packages can coexist in the Ubuntu (and Debian) repositories.

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/ffmpeg-returns-to-official-ubuntu.html

 

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Ubuntu 15.04 Alpha 1 Releases Now Ready for Download

The first alpha releases in the Ubuntu 15.04 development cycle are now available to download for testing.

Four flavors participate in this milestone, including Ubuntu GNOME and Kubuntu. Ubuntu ‘proper’ will once again only participate in the final beta release due March 2015.

What’s New?
Naturally, being this early on in the development cycle means there aren’t huge wholesale changes on show.

Breaking that tradition nice and early is Kubuntu 15.04 Alpha 1. It ships with the brand new KDE Plasma 5 desktop as default. No opt in or separate ISO, just there, ready to go. And what a change it makes.

Kubuntu feels lighter and fresher than ever before, and the outstanding gaps in features and UI are easily overlooked. Kubuntu developers consider Plasma 5 to be ‘stable enough for everyday use’, and thanks to a rapid development cadence, it is getting better by the day.

With the world’s biggest mobile operating, China Mobile, this week throwing its weight behind Ubuntu for Phones it is great to see the China-focused Ubuntu Kylin 15.04 Alpha 1 arriving fresh faced and ready for play.

It features a bunch of bug fixes including new versions of Kylin Software Center, China Music Scope, Youker Assistant and China Calendar.

Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 Alpha 1 is a little light on major changes while it waits on the arrival of GNOME 3.14 and associated apps to Ubuntu’s repositories. By Alpha 2 the spin should be shipping with 3.14 apps, features and related improvements.

One notable change you can see in this release: applications now show a ‘close’ button only, in keeping with upstream GNOME design decisions. Minimise and Maximise controls can be re-added using the Tweak Tool application available from the Software Center.

Lubuntu 15.04 Alpha 1 features a handful of bug fixes as development continues on readying LXQt for a future release.

Alpha means bugs, bugs mean headaches
Alpha releases are not suited for use by regular users, as a primary OS, or in mission-critical (read: essay due) situations. There will be bugs and breakages. There may even be tears before bedtime. Consider yourself warned.

For a reminder of the rest of Ubuntu 15.04 release schedule plans feast your eyes on the following graphic, kindly ignoring the word ‘draft’ as the dates are now final.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/12/ubuntu-15-04-alpha-1-flavors

 

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Unity 8 & Mir Are Moving Along For Ubuntu 15.04

Canonical's work on the next-generation Unity 8 interface for the Ubuntu desktop powered by the Mir display server is taking shape on the desktop and complementing their mobile work well.

Kevin Gunn of Canonical wrote a Mir and Unity 8 update on Tuesday. Among the landed Unity 8 work includes a new Dash list overview, continued work on full-shell rotation, Unity 8 on the desktop is starting to look into multi-monitor support, the welcome wizard was migrated to Unity 8, and various bugs have been squashed.

On the Mir side, recent work includes Hardware Composer (HWC) 1.3 support, continued work on making the input platform dynamic, integration work for libinput functionality alongside Android input support, moved to a less ABI-breakage prone interface, prep work for supporting external displays on Android devices, automatic driver probing, a desktop zoom feature was added, wider support for display buffer pixel formats in the Mesa driver, and Mir is now starting to work with HDMI connections -- including Mir with 4K resolution displays.

The full Unity 8 and Mir update can be found via the ubuntu-phone mailing list. For those out of the loop, Ubuntu 15.04 on the desktop will still be sticking to Unity 7 with an X.Org Server.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg4MjQ

 

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Ubuntu 15.04 Finally Lets You Set Menus To ‘Always Show’

If you hate the way that Unity’s global menus fade out of view after you mouse away, Ubuntu 15.04 has a little extra to win you around.

The latest build of Unity for Ubuntu 15.04, currently sitting in the ‘proposed’ channel, offers an option to make app menus visible in Ubuntu.

No fading, no timeout, no missing menus.

The drawback for now is that it can currently only be enabled through a dconf switch and not a regular user-facing option.

I’d hope (if not expect) that an option to set the feature is added to the Ubuntu System Settings > Appearance section as development continues.

Right now, if you’re on Ubuntu 15.04 and have the “Proposed” update channel enabled, you should find this switch waiting in com > canonical > unity > ‘always show menus’.

Better Late Than Never?
Developers plan to backport the option to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in the next SRU (assuming nothing unexpected crops up during testing).

Locally Integrated Menus (LIM) debuted in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to much appreciation, being widely seen as the best compromise between those who liked the simplicity of the “hidden” approach and those who disliked the mouse and trackpad aerobics using it required.

While locally integrated menus brought us half way to silencing the criticisms levelled at this aspect of Unity, the default “fade in/fade out” behaviour left an itch unscratched.

The past few releases of Ubuntu has seen proactive addressing of concerns and issues experienced by its earlier UX decisions. After several years on the ‘to do’ list we finally got Locally Integrated Menus last year, as well as an unsupported option to minimise and restore apps to the Unity Launcher by clicking on their icon.

A year on from that we finally get an option to make application menus always show, no matter where our mouse is. Better late than never, right?

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/01/ubuntu-15-04-always-show-menu-bar-option

 

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Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" Alpha 2 Released

The Ubuntu flavors opting in for a second alpha release for the 15.04 Vivid Vervet cycle have out their new releases today.

Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu Cloud have out 15.04 Alpha 2 releases today. As usual, there isn't out an official Ubuntu 15.04 Alpha 2 build but rather Canonical encourages daily testing of the latest Ubuntu Vivid ISOs.

Those wishing to find out more about these Ubuntu 15.04 Alpha 2 derivatives out this morning, see the ubuntu-devel-announce list. Ubuntu 15.04 and its various flavors will be officially out in April.

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Ubuntu 15.04 Will Soon Move To The Linux 3.19 Kernel

To no major surprise, Ubuntu 15.04 will soon switch to using the Linux 3.19 kernel.

Ubuntu 15.04 is using the Linux 3.18 kernel right now but with Linux 3.19 having just been released and it bringing new features and improvements, the Vivid Vervet archive will soon land Linux 3.19. As Ubuntu 15.04 is shipping in April, it will almost definitely finalize on Linux 3.19 given that Linux 3.20 would be too close of a call for shipping in time.

Today's Ubuntu kernel team minutes mention that Linux 3.19 will soon come to the Ubuntu Vivid archive. "We would like to push the v3.19 based kernel we have up to the archive soon. We are just cleaning up some DKMS drivers before we do so. For anyone interested in getting an early preview, we have a v3.19 based kernel available for testing in our ckt PPA."

For those wishing to easily try out Linux 3.19 (or even Linux 3.20 Git) on older Ubuntu releases, you can always give the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA a shot.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-15.04-Linux-3.19

 

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Ubuntu 15.04 Released, This Is What’s New

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/ubuntu-15-04-download-new-features

 

[cd23]

Vou experimentar hoje a nova release! Vamos lá ver como está

 

[Running_Wild]

Desde que o ubunto adaptou o unity nunca mais o usei... esta versão já estará mais estável e o unity sem breaks??

 

[Minguno]

O Unity amadureceu muito.

Eu uso ambientes leves porque os meus pcs são fracos, no entanto o 15.04 deve trazer melhorias, não esquecendo que o Debian 8 sai hoje!