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Tuesday, April 12th, 2016

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    12:55a
    The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 461

    http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2016/04/12/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-461/


    Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #461 for the week April 4  10, 2016, and the full version is available here.

    In this issue we cover:

    The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

    • Elizabeth K. Joseph
    • Simon Quigley
    • Leonard Viator
    • Daniel Beck
    • And many others

    If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

    Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

    3:30p
    Jono Bacon: Upcoming Speaking at Interop and Abstractions

    http://www.jonobacon.org/2016/04/12/upcoming-speaking/

    http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=6864

    I just wanted to share a couple of upcoming speaking engagements going on:

    • Interop in Las Vegas  5th May 2016  I will be participating in the keynote panel at Interop this year. The panel is called How Open-Source Changes the IT Equation and I am looking forward to participating with Colin McNamara, Greg Ferro, and Sean Roberts.
    • Abstractions in Pittsburgh  18-20 Aug 2016  I will be delivering one of the headlining talks at Abstractions. This looks like an exciting new conference and my first time in Pittsburgh. Looking forward to getting out there!

    Some more speaking gigs are in the works. More details soon.

    6:18p
    Thomas Ward: Ubuntu Xenial: NGINX and PHP7.0

    http://dark-net.net/?p=125

    Hello again! NGINX 1.9.14 is now available in Ubuntu Xenial. Theres quite a few things we should make known to everyone who uses nginx in Ubuntu, with php5-fpm currently!

    HTTP/2 is now enabled

    Yes, HTTP/2 is now enabled for nginx-core, nginx-full, and nginx-extras in Ubuntu Xenial. Add http2 to your SSL listener line in your server blocks, and HTTP/2 will be enabled for that port and site.

    For HTTP/2 on non-Xenial Ubuntu releases, you can use the Mainline PPA for Wily and later. Anything before Wily does not have full HTTP/2 support, and very likely will not be usable to get HTTP/2 working as intended.

    Ubuntu Xenial ships php7.0-fpm, and not php5-fpm, and this will break existing site configurations

    The Ubuntu Xenial packages for nginx have already been updated for this change, pointing to php7.0-fpm instead of php5-fpm.

    However, users who have existing site configurations will not benefit from these changes. They must manually apply the changes.

    Effectively, this is what a default setup uses to interface with the default php5-fpm setup on Ubuntu versions before Xenial, passing all PHP processing to the php5-fpm backend. This is from the default configuration file, but its still similar for all PHP passing:

        location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    
        # With php5-cgi alone:
        #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        # With php5-fpm:
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    }

    In Ubuntu Xenial, the TCP listener for php7.0-cgi will be unchanged, however for php7.0-fpm, it will be necessary to update the configuration to look like this for existing site configurations:

        location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    
        # With php7.0-cgi alone:
        #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        # With php7.0-fpm:
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }

    This will prevent HTTP 502 Bad Gateway errors, and will use the updated php7.0-fpm instead of the php5-fpm packages.

    (If for some reason you still want to have php5-fpm under Xenial, you will not be able to get support from Ubuntu for this; you will need to use a PPA. I explain this on a different post on my blog.)

    7:56p
    Ubuntu Insights: Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

    http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/12/ubuntu-openstack-growth-confirmed-by-latest-openstack-user-survey/

    The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. Were super excited about the support the community continues to show for Ubuntu. Here at Canonical we get to work with the worlds largest production OpenStack clouds, from telco to big data and pure IaaS clouds, Ubuntu OpenStack is everywhere. For that, we are thankful to the incredible open source community.

    Ubuntu OpenStack continues to dominate the majority of deployments with 55% of production OpenStack clouds. The last survey showed Ubuntu OpenStack at 33% of production clouds  thats almost 67% growth in an area where Ubuntu was already the market leader! These numbers are a huge testament to the community support Ubuntu OpenStack receives every day. We couldnt be more proud of how the open source and OpenStack community have made the Ubuntu family part of their own.

    SQUARE

    Up 2% from the previous survey, 36% of users are now installing unmodified OpenStack packages from the distribution vendor. I imagine for Ubuntu OpenStack clouds that number is even larger. Thats because Ubuntu users know they have the latest, most stable version of OpenStack already available to them. Theres no lag in package releases, and theres confidence in the community and Canonical to support them. It also helps standardize the cloud deployments, driving better economics, which brings us to another great point.

    Juju, our application modeling and deployment tool, is also picking up traction as an OpenStack installer. OpenStack installations can be tricky, they can be complex; but with Juju, they become easier with an almost building blocks like approach.

    Since the last user survey, Juju has increased its market share as a deployment/management tool by 50%. Thats validation and momentum in the right direction of building OpenStack clouds. Jujus best practices and application intelligence are built into each application you build. Repeatable, standard results build cloud economics that work. If you havent tried installing OpenStack with Juju, you should check it out.

    Learn more about Ubuntu OpenStack and our Autopilot installer

    8:56p
    Xubuntu: My media manager: The cloud

    http://xubuntu.org/news/my-media-manager-cloud/

    Xubuntu 16.04 LTS will be the first Xubuntu release without a default media manager. To help those without a favorite one, weve put up this series where some of the Xubuntu team members talk about their favorite media managers. Later in the series we discuss some cloud services and other media manager options in the Ubuntu repositories. Enjoy!

    In addition to the more traditional media managers which manage local collections, more and more people use cloud based streaming services. In this article, we talk about the cloud services and players used by the Xubuntu team.

    Google Play Music

    Google Play Music is available widely in the world, coverage areas including most of the Americas, Europe, Australia and more. You can use Google Play Music for free, but paid subscription options are available. Their song catalogue covers 35 million songs.

    David: I mainly listen to music locally, CDs and vinyls. At work I usually use Google Play Music. Apart from their huge catalogue, theres also the possibility of uploading up to 50000 songs, using the Google Play Music Manager API.

    Elizabeth: I also listen to a lot of music locally, typically MP3s Ive bought or created from CDs. However, I also have a monthly subscription to Google Play Music for the latest music I dont feel compelled to buy directly. Im using the web-based player in Google Chrome on Xubuntu, but it also seamlessly integrates with all my Android devices (including my watch!) via the Android apps.

    Pandora

    Pandora is available in Australia, New Zealand and the United States only. Their song catalogue is between one and two million songs.

    The easiest way to use Pandora on Xubuntu is the web interface at pandora.com. For those seeking tighter or geekier (read: more fun) integration with the desktop, there are unofficial GTK+ and terminal clients available. The GTK+ client, Pithos, includes sound indicator and notification support. The terminal client, pianobar, allows station management and playback, as well as keybinding support. Both clients are available in the Ubuntu repositories.

    Sean: I stream all of my music. I have a small music library from when I was younger, but became bored with my own lack of variety. While I occasionally use Spotify, I almost always stream Pandora, switching between the web interface, Android application, and the Pithos GTK+ client. If Ive got music playing, its coming from one of my 50+ Pandora stations.

    Spotify

    Spotify is available widely in the world, coverage areas including most of the Americas, Europe and Australia. You can use Spotify for free, but paid subscription options are available. Their song catalogue covers about 30 million songs.

    Currently, the easiest way to use Spotify on Xubuntu is the web interface at play.spotify.com. Playing and browsing works well with the web interface, but if you want desktop integration (sound indicator and notifications), you will have to install the desktop client. The desktop client isnt available from the Ubuntu repositories directly, but Spotify offers their own repository and instructions on setting the desktop app up at the Spotify website. Please note: The desktop client is unsupported by Spotify. Since its closed source, it is also unsupported by the Xubuntu team. That said, our experience says it works well for most of the people and is totally worth trying if you want to use Spotify with desktop integration.

    Pasi: While I mostly listen to music locally, I occasionally use Spotify to listen to new music that I want to try before I buy. For this purpose the web interface is more than good enough  the collection is also large enough to find most of the things Im looking for.

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