Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 878

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 878 for the week of February 2 – 8, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Spec: Switch to Dracut
• Ubuntu Studio: LTS Upgrades (22.04 to 24.04) ARE BACK!
• Welcome New Members and Developers
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• Rocks Public Journal; 2025-02-07
• LXD: Weekly news #381
• Other Meeting Reports
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Ubuntu Nepal’s First Training Session Completed Successfully
• Linux Fest by FOSS IIIT Kalyani, first event sponsored by Ubuntu India
• LoCo Events
• Lubuntu: Fancy Menu as default?
• UbuCon @ SCaLE 22x
• UbuCon Asia 2025 Happening This August ! Look At The Dates
• Support and Help Update in Edubuntu
• Call for testing: mesa-core22, mesa-2404 (Nvidia support), ubuntu-frame-vnc (authentication), ubuntu-frame-osk (themes)
• Canonical brings GenAI to GIMP 3.0 with Intel® OpenVINO AI Plugins
• Other Community News
• Ubuntu Cloud News
• Canonical News
• In the Blogosphere
• Featured Audio and Video
• Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
• And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Krytarik Raido
• Bashing-om
• Chris Guiver
• Wild Man
• Din Mušić – LXD
• Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) – Rocks
• Soumyadeep Ghosh
• And many others

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