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From Space Stations to Snapchat: Ubuntu Is Everywhere [Infographic]

Canonical shares some impressive stats in a new infographic (which you can see below). helps to offer further insight into just how widely used Ubuntu is.

8 April 2016

Ubuntu Is Coming to Windows 10. No, Really.

Don’t rub your eyes: you’re not misreading the headline. Microsoft and Canonical are working together to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10 desktops, according to a reliable rumour out of ZDNet. In what is likely an early […]

30 March 2016
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Serious Steam Controller Improvements Land in Latest Steam Client Update

Grab your Steam Controller (and probably your wallet) because a shiny new stable release of the Steam client has begun rolling out to Windows, Mac and Linux desktops.

29 March 2016

GNOME 3.22 Pencils In a Release Date

The release date for GNOME 3.22 has been pencilled in, with work on the next major release of the open-source desktop kicking off in April.

27 March 2016
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Ubuntu 16.04 Flavors Make Second Beta Available to Download

The second beta releases of Ubuntu 16.04 flavors have diligently made themselves available for download.  Now, first things first: the change-logs for a few of these spins is …modest. Both Lubuntu and Xubuntu 16.04, the two […]

25 March 2016

GNOME 3.20 Released, This is What’s New

GNOME 3.20 has been released. Six month and almost 29,000 changes later, the latest version of the popular free Linux desktop is ready.

23 March 2016
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KDE Plasma 5.6 Released, This Is What’s New

Plasma 5.6, the latest feature-packed version of the KDE desktop user interface, has been released.

22 March 2016

Blender 2.77 Is Now Available to Download

Blender 2.77 is the first update to the popular open-source 3D animation software this year. We look at what's new.

20 March 2016

Firefox 45 Now Available To Download, This Is What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 45 has been released and is now available to download. We look at the new features in Firefox 45, and show you how to upgrade.

8 March 2016

Microsoft Wants To Patent Convergence Style Technology

Canonical is not the only software company who is interested in the idea of using a single mobile device to power additional computing experiences.  Microsoft — boo, hiss, etc — has long pursued the idea, starting with Windows XP […]

7 March 2016
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Ubuntu 16.04 Beta 1 Is Now Available to Download

The first Ubuntu 16.04 beta builds are now available to download.

25 February 2016
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Linux Users Say They’re ‘Unable to Join’ Calls on Skype

Have you been experiencing issues with Skype calls on Linux lately? If so, know that you are not alone. Linux users say they are unable to join Skype group calls started using the most recent version of the VoIP client on other operating systems. The latest (in […]

25 February 2016