Posts from April 2017

Android and Linux

Anbox Lets You Run Android Apps on the Linux Desktop

Meet Anbox, a novel new way to run Android apps on the Linux desktop. “Anbox puts the Android operating system into a container, abstracts hardware access and integrates core system services into a GNU Linux system. […]

11 April 2017

System76 Isn’t Giving Up On Ubuntu, Plans to Put its Own Spin on GNOME

System76 sells millions of dollars worth of Ubuntu laptops and PCs every year — but they're not letting news that Ubuntu is dropping Unity affect them.

11 April 2017

How Linux Figures Reacted to Ubuntu’s Unity Bombshell

News that Ubuntu is to u-turn on Unity, can Convergence, and scrap its smartphones took the open-source community by total surprise last week. In this post we roundup the reactions that some prominent free software stalwarts, Linux pundits, and former Canonical employees had to […]

11 April 2017

More Screenshots of Firefox’s Photon Redesign Surface Online

More screenshots of Firefox’s Photon redesign have surfaced online. The new screenshots continue to reveal more details about the upcoming redesign, including the purpose of the library button, the behaviour of side panels, and the […]

10 April 2017

How To Make GNOME Shell Look Like Unity

Following news that Ubuntu is to switch to GNOME as its default desktop in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, some users have been keep to get a head start and switch over a little sooner. Bad Voltage podcaster Stuart Langridge is among […]

10 April 2017

Awesome (And Unofficial) Spotify Web Player for Linux Discontinued

Spotify Web Player for Linux has been discontinued, with the developer of the unofficial Spotify app citing changes to the music streaming service's backend.

10 April 2017

New GNOME Games App Makes it into Ubuntu 17.04 Repos

It's now easy to install GNOME Games on Ubuntu 17.04 as this awesome games browser-come-player is now available straight from the Zesty repos.

10 April 2017

What’s Next for Ubuntu Desktop? Mark Shuttleworth Shares His Plans

Mark Shuttleworth has revealed more about what's next for the Ubuntu desktop following last week's dramatic news that the next LTS release will use GNOME.

9 April 2017

Flatpak Apps Are Awesome, But Boy Do They Look Bad on Ubuntu

This week I installed my third Flatpak app on Ubuntu (the awesome GNOME Twitch 0.4, incase you’re interested) and it was an absolute breeze. I opened a terminal on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop, ran a […]

8 April 2017

Mozilla Thunderbird 52 Released with Various Improvements

Mozilla Thunderbird 52 has been released. The latest stable release of Mozilla's popular desktop email app picks up a modest set of improvements.

7 April 2017

Canonical to Cut Jobs, Axe Unprofitable Projects

Jobs are to go at Canonical as the company looks to pull itself into fitter financial shape for the future, Mark Shuttleworth has confirmed.

6 April 2017

Are You Happy, Sad or Indifferent to Ubuntu’s Bombshell Announcement?

It's been just over 24 hours since Mark Shuttleworth's bombshell announcement. How are you feeling about the news that Ubuntu is to 'refocus'?

6 April 2017
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