Ubuntu Has ‘No Plans’ To Make a Smartwatch

Canonical has no plans to join the current tech trend for wearable technology, Canonical’s Jono Bacon has said. With many of the mobile industry’s major players, including Mozilla, Google and Apple, toying with wrist-mounted tech, […]

8 January 2014

Multiple Ubuntu Phones To Launch in 2014

The coming year will see a 'number of Ubuntu phones hitting the market', says Canonical community manager Jono Bacon.

8 January 2014

‘Legal Issues’ Blamed For SteamOS Dropping Ubuntu for Debian

Ever since Valve announced Steam OS last year one small detail has left many in the Linux community a little confused: why is the gaming OS based on Debian rather than Ubuntu?

8 January 2014

Humble Indie Bundle X Drops with 6 Games for Linux

The latest Humble Indie Bundle is here with all 6 games available for Linux!

7 January 2014

Stunning Space Strategy ‘Solar Flux’ Lands On Linux

Light years ahead of the competition is Solar Flux – one of finest physics-based puzzle games I've played in a long time, now on Linux.

7 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

Ubuntu 13.04 Support Period Ends January 27

The official support period for Ubuntu 13.04 comes to an end later this month. From January 27 the Raring Ringtail will receive no further security updates, bug fixes or package upgrades.

7 January 2014

Valve Announce 13 Steam Machine Partners at CES

Valve have announced 12 new hardware partners shipping Linux-powered Steam Machines.

6 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

Hands On with the ZaReason Zeto Compact Gaming PC

We go hands on with ZaReason's latest gaming rig for space-conscious Linux gamers.

30 December 2013

Ubuntu Will Reach True Convergence Before Microsoft, Says Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth has expresses his belief that Ubuntu will deliver true mobile/desktop convergence ahead of Microsoft.

29 December 2013

LightDM GTK+ Greeter 1.7 Adds Custom Window Placing, Avatar Options

LightDM GTK+ Greeter, the login-screen used in Lubuntu and Xubuntu, has gained support for custom dialog window placing in its latest update.

29 December 2013