Section: Dev

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Plans To Ship With Newer GRUB Bootloader

Ubuntu 14.04 may ship with a beta version of GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader used virtually all Linux distributions.

17 January 2014

‘Pocket’ Support Added to GNOME Online Accounts

Support for popular content bookmarking service Pocket has been added to GNOME Online Accounts, allowing for some nifty desktop integration.

16 January 2014
New Gedit UI

Gedit Text Editor Finally Gets a UI Revamp

GNOME has finally gotten around to updating the look and feel of their text editor, 'Gedit'.

15 January 2014
Tweets displayed on Ubuntu Touch

Ubuntu Touch Nexus 5 Support On Hold, Other Nexus Devices Dropped

The new Google Nexus 5 handset will not become a reference device for Ubuntu Touch development, Canonical's engineers have confirmed.

13 January 2014
new-nautilus in Ubuntu 12.10

Ubuntu 14.04 May Re-Enable Nautilus ‘Type-Ahead’ Feature

Type-ahead searching in the Nautilus file-manager could be re-added in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, developers have said.

12 January 2014

KDE Frameworks 5 Tech Preview Released

A tech preview of the next generation of KDE's extensive libraries, Frameworks 5, has been released.

7 January 2014

Nginx Web Server Promoted to Main Repo in 14.04

Developers, sysadmins, and everyone in between will be pleased to hear that the open source Nginx web server will be moving to the main repo in Ubuntu 14.04.

2 January 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 to Feature SSD TRIM Support By Default

Ubuntu users using SSDs have something extra to look forward to in April's release of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: TRIM support is finally included.

19 December 2013

Turpial 3 Beta Builds Available for Ubuntu

Desktop Twitter app Turpial 3 is available for testing on Ubuntu – albeit unofficially.

6 December 2013

Debian Switches to Xfce By Default, Will Evaluate Demand for GNOME

Debian, the foundation upon which many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, are based, is to switch to Xfce as its default desktop environment.

5 November 2013

Latest Linux Kernel Release Features GPU Power Management & Filesystem Improvements

GPU power management features arrive in the latest stable release of the Linux Kernel - an update that also brings EXT4 improvements.

5 November 2013

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Opens For Development

Take a deep breath and prepare to jump back on the development rollercoaster: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has opened for development.

21 October 2013