A new blog post by Ubuntu community superstar Daniel Holbach reveals some impressive data on Ubuntu Touch. Most outstanding is the fact that Ubuntu Touch has been ‘ported’ to 34 devices thus far. Daniel writes: It’s been three weeks since we published the Porting guide for Ubuntu Touch. Since then we have Ubuntu Touch running [...]
Unity 7 Fast-tracked Into Ubuntu 13.04
Unity 7 Ubuntu developer Michael writes in his blog that his feature freeze extension request in launchpad has been approved. Because of this feature freeze, Unity 7 will now ship as a component of 13.04. He writes: It’s a lot of new code, but it should all be available in a PPA in the next [...]
Improve Linux Gaming Performance With FSGamer
Gaming on Linux Ever since the advent of Steam for Linux, performance issues have miffed gamers; especially those who are using Ubuntu’s Unity and are forced to use Compiz as their display compositor. Those issues have been combated in several ways. Nvidia and AMD have been ‘stepping up to the plate’ so to speak with [...]
Jonathon Riddell, Others, Not Subtle In Attacks Against Ubuntu’s New Approach, Paradigm
Amidst all the drama stemming for Ubuntu’s announcement of the the Mir display server, their new secretive approach, and the increasing commercialization of the product, the easy thing to do is point a finger. And where do you point it first? You might point it at Mark Shuttleworth. You might point it at Jono Bacon. [...]
Two Major KDE Developers Weigh In On Mir, Wayland
To the average user, the announcement of Mir is simply news of something that’s going to ‘happen’. To the seasoned user, Mir raises a lot of questions. Those questions have been asked and speculated upon back & forth across the Internet for days now, and finally we’ve got some real meat from two KDE developers; [...]
Will SurfaceFlinger Replace Compiz In Ubuntu 14.04?
Secrets & Lies Canonical has been hard at work on some very interesting projects lately. This new direction started last year when it announced Ubuntu for phones, a fully featured desktop loaded onto an Android device. More recently — and more mysteriously — they’ve been working on the Ubuntu operating system for phones and tablets [...]
Ubuntu May Become Rolling Release With 14.04
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ Watchers of Ubuntu On Air, Ubuntu’s series of public Google Hangouts that detail some of the behind the scenes happenings, were greeted with some extremely interesting information. This information could potentialyl lead to the biggest (only) departure in the Ubuntu release model ever, and align it with Linux die-hard favorites such as [...]
Building Doom 3 BFG Edition From Source (Part 1)
Hey gang, recently we wrote about the availability of Doom 3 BFG Edition for Linux, which is awesome! But what good is a bunch of source code if you don’t have it in a compiled, playable form? That’s what we’re here for. We are going to show you how to successful build the latest sources [...]
Ubuntu For Android Makes Animated Debut
Ubuntu Ren & Stimpy Remember that really cool concept debuted by Canonical last February? Ubuntu for Android? Yeah? Well, guess what, it’s still cool and it’s still happening. The proof? This new ad from Canonical explaining the benefits! The selling point remains the same; You’re walking around with the uber-powerful device in your pocket with [...]
Indie Game Dev Rotating Canvas Develop Google Play Lens For Ubuntu
Independent games developer Rotating Canvas has been developing a Google Play lens for Ubuntu which is now available for installation! The lens allow you to search apps in the Google Play store, though not much else, so the practical use of this lens is yet to be discovered, but we’re sure something interesting will come [...]