Section: Dev

Netflix Works with Ubuntu to Bring Native Playback to All (Updated)

We saw last month just how close native Netflix support for Linux is to arriving. Now Netflix wants to go one step further...

19 September 2014

This Ubuntu Installer Bug Wipes Your Disk Without You Realising

Installing any operating system, Linux or otherwise, is never risk-free. But according to user reports, a long-standing bug in Ubuntu's official installer is making unexpected issues a little too expected.

28 August 2014
Tweets displayed on Ubuntu Touch

You Can Now Get Twitter, Facebook and Gmail Alerts on Ubuntu Phone

With the first Ubuntu Phones still on course to ship later this year, its developers are now in the final furlong of preparing for a 'Release To Manufacturing' milestone.

14 August 2014
KDE Plasma 5 desktop

First Monthly Update to KDE Frameworks 5 Now Live

KDE has announced the first big update to KDE Frameworks 5, the first in a series of planned monthly releases. I love the smell of progress.

7 August 2014

The Native Dropbox Linux Client Debuts New Qt Interface

The latest experimental build of the native Dropbox Linux client has debuted with an all new Qt interface.

20 July 2014

KDE Frameworks 5 Sees First Stable Release

The release of Frameworks 5 represents three years of work to update KDE's libraries to Qt 5 and to separate the KDE Platform into modularised frameworks.

7 July 2014

First Alpha of Moonlight Desktop Environment Now Available for Testing

The first alpha of new modular Qt5 desktop environment 'Moonlight' has been released — despite the current shortcomings it looks promising.

7 July 2014
mir display server

Ubuntu Devs Demo GTK+ App Support for Mir

Canonical software engineers have shared word on work they've been doing to get GTK+ applications running on Mir in Unity 8 on Ubuntu 14.10.

18 June 2014

Raspberry Pi’s Maynard is a Modern Linux Desktop Using Wayland

Maynard is a modern, lightweight Linux desktop using Wayland being tailored for use on the single-board Raspberry Pi computer.

15 June 2014

Unity Tweak Tool Makes Enabling Unity ‘Minimise on Click’ Easier

The latest development release of Unity Tweak Tool makes it easier to enable 'Minimise on Click' behaviour on the Unity Launcher in Ubuntu.

10 June 2014

Popular Cinnamon PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 To Close

Installing the 'Cinnamon' desktop environment on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is about to get harder, as a widely used PPA offering builds shuts down.

26 May 2014
Vocal Podcast App for Linux

Vocal is a Promising New Podcast Manager App for Linux

I'm not a massive podcast fan, but I know plenty of people who are and one of the chief complaints I hear is that Linux lacks a decent app for managing them. But hopefully this won't be the case for much longer.

11 April 2014