New Video Shows Multi-Tasking Improvements Coming to Ubuntu Touch

An Ubuntu Touch developer has demoed a new multi-tasking effect aimed at making app switching on the mobile OS faster and more precise.

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

Don’t Expect Ubuntu Phones from Major OEMs Before 2015, Says Jono Bacon

Mark Shuttleworth recently stoked hopes of "household brands" shipping Ubuntu-powered phones, but Canonical's Community Manager has poured cold water on it happening any time soon.

15 January 2014
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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

Mir 0.1.4 Debuts With Nexus Bug Fixes and GL Texture Caching

Mir 0.1.4 has been released, bringing with it a raft of bug fixes, helpful developer tools and performance enhancements. Canonical’s in-house display server has been designed from the ground up to drive the Unity interface […]

13 January 2014
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Ubuntu 12.04 Beats Windows, Mac In GCHQ Security Report

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has topped a UK security agency's security assessment of the most popular mobile and desktop operating systems.

13 January 2014
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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

Turpial 3 Hits PPA, Gives Ubuntu’s Twitter Addicts More Choice

Ubuntu users are now able install the latest stable release of desktop Twitter application Turpial.

12 January 2014

MATE Desktop Environment Will Be Available in Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 will, for the first time, allow users to install the MATE desktop environment straight from the Ubuntu Software Centre.

10 January 2014

How To Dual Boot Android and Ubuntu Touch on Nexus Handsets

Trying Ubuntu Touch on your smartphone or tablet was made much easier recently, with the launch of a new dual-boot mode that enables Canonical's mobile OS to be installed alongside Android.

9 January 2014

Use Chromium on Linux? Adobe Flash Will Stop Working From April

Adobe Flash will no longer work in Chromium on Linux from this April, as NPAPI plugin support is removed from the codebase.

9 January 2014