Section: Dev

Ubuntu Phone on Pause? No New Devices or OTA Updates Planned

No new Ubuntu phones are in the pipeline, and existing devices won't get major new updates. Is Ubuntu Phone dead? The answer is a little complicated…

5 January 2017

LibreOffice ‘Ribbon Interface’ Called MUFFIN, Gets Detailed

“Microsoft Ribbon UI Coming to LibreOffice” shouted we last week, as we told you about the (experimental) ‘Notebook Bar; interface in testing in the latest development builds of LibreOffice, the hugely popular open-source office suite. Today, The Document Foundation who […]

22 December 2016
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GNOME Recipes Serves Up Some Tasty New Designs

GNOME developer Matthias Clasen is back to share another slice of news on his GNOME Recipes application — and it’s starting to look really delicious! Since our last look at the open-source recipe app for Linux, […]

19 December 2016
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These Unity 8 Desktop Designs Show a Striking New Feature (Updated)

New Unity 8 desktop mock-ups shared by the Canonical design team show an interesting new approach to presenting Scopes to desktop users.

18 December 2016
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Ubuntu 17.04 Swaps Swap Partitions for Swap Files

Do you like, use or see the need for Swap partitions on your Ubuntu system? If not, Ubuntu 17.04 ships one change that’ll be of interest. Canonical’s Dimitri John Ledkov announced today that Ubuntu 17.04 will use Swap files by default on […]

16 December 2016
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Microsoft Office Ribbon UI Is Coming to LibreOffice

Been hoping for LibreOffice Ribbon style interface? Well, it's getting one. The latest dev builds have a hidden 'notebookbar' interface, and here's how to enable it.

15 December 2016

Devs Plan ‘Ultra Minimal’ Version of Ubuntu Budgie

You know I love a good tease, and the Ubuntu Budgie team have done just that. Ubuntu Budgie tweets that it is testing an “ultra minimal version” of the spin which ‘uses 220MB or less of RAM’. Intriguing. The […]

12 December 2016
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Stable Mesa PPA Offers Latest Drivers on Ubuntu

Games company Feral Interactive’s call for a PPA be set up to offer the latest Stable Mesa drivers on Ubuntu has been semi-answered. Emphasis on semi, there. As noted by Gaming on Linux, a new stable Mesa PPA is […]

8 December 2016
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Trisquel GNU/Linux 8.0 Alpha Is Now Available to Download

Trisquel GNU/Linux 8.0 alpha is now available for download and testing. Based on Ubuntu 16.04, Trisquel 8.0 also ships with the MATE 1.12 desktop.

1 December 2016

This Tool Lets You Use Fedora and Other Distros with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Add you likely know, Windows 10 Anniversary Update offers a hidden developer-orientated feature called  Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and also known as ‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’. The feature allows fans of popular open-source and Linux-based […]

20 November 2016

Games Company Asks Canonical to Make Latest Mesa Drivers Available on Ubuntu

Do you recall that natty PPA Canonical set up to help Ubuntu gamers install the latest graphics drivers on Ubuntu?  Heck, you might even be using it. And if you are it won’t have escaped your notice that the PPA only […]

18 November 2016

Unity 7 Low Graphics Mode Is Super Fast [Video]

Curious to know more about Unity low graphics mode in Ubuntu? Canonical has explained more.  We first reported that Unity 7 was getting low graphics mode back in July. Since then, the feature rolled out as part of […]

17 November 2016