Support for Ubuntu 16.10 Ends Today

Yup, Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak hit end of life (EOL) on July 20. Released on October 13, 2016, Ubuntu 16.10 is a short-term release with a 9-month support cycle. That support period is at an end and Ubuntu 16.10 will reach end of life on Thursday, July 20, 2017.

Netrunner Rolling and Ubuntu Upgrades

• Netrunner Rolling Is Back After One and a Half Years, It's Based on Arch Linux

  After one and a half years of silence, the Netrunner Rolling series make a comeback today with the release of version 2017.07, based on Arch Linux and Manjaro operating systems. By our count, Netrunner Rolling 2017.07 is here sixteen months after the Netrunner Rolling 2016.01 release, which was unveiled on February 27, 2016, and it's an up-to-date version with all the latest GNU/Linux technologies. The good news is that it's here to stay, and will receive regular updates 3 or 4 for times a year.

• Clarification and changes to release upgrades

  I’ve recently made some changes to how do-release-upgrade, called by update-manager when you choose to upgrade releases, behaves and thought it’d be a good time to clarify how things work and the changes made. When do-release-upgrade is called it reads a meta-release file from changelogs.ubuntu.com to determine what releases are supported and to which release to upgrade. The exact meta-release file changes depending on what arguments, –proposed or –devel-release, are passed to do-release-upgrade. The meta-release file is used to determine which tarball to download and use to actually perform the upgrade. So if you are upgrading from Ubuntu 17.04 to Artful then you are actually using the the ubuntu-release-upgrader code from Artful.

KDE/Qt: Qt Creator 4.4, GSoC Projects

• Qt Creator 4.4 Enters Beta

  The Qt Company has announced the first public beta of the Qt Creator 4.4 integrated development environment.

• Gsoc Week 5 , 6 , 7

• Oware - Single player

  There are also some changes in my GSoC plan. I thought of working on computer activity after oware earlier when I made my proposal but with discussions with my mentors we came to a conclusion that musical activities are more important for a child. So I would be working on musical activities now which includes play piano and note names activity which were started in the branch Play piano and were earlier to be done in my last month. My aim would be to complete both these activities.

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