Today the Fedora Project officially unveiled Pidora, a remixed version of the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution targeted for everyone’s favorite low-cost ARM board, the Raspberry Pi. Pidora 18 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix) Release We’re excited to announce the release of Pidora 18 — an optimized Fedora Remix for the Raspberry Pi. It is based on a [...]
ReKonq Gaining Chrome Extension Support, Still Sponsored By Blue Systems
It’s been just a little over a year since the mystical Blue Systems started sponsoring development of ReKonq. Blue Systems is second only to the KDE e.V. in platform investment, sponsoring not only numerous core applications, but multiple distributions as well. ReKonq has come a long way since 0.9.2 (May 2012) and with the help [...]
Plasma Workspaces 2 Coming To Wayland, KDM Not Invited
Auf Wiedersehen KDM The first part of today’s headline is probably obvious to many of you. KDE will be moving on from Xorg to Wayland. And considering Gnome’s aggressive plans to move to it, this may happen sooner rather than later. KDE & Gnome having a mutual interest in Wayland is great, and we can’t wait to [...]
Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 ISOs Now Available
Pits and Landings If you’ve been following the Ubuntu GNOME developments over the last couple of days, you’ve likely had a lot of questions about how to try it. Well, the Powerbase was the first publication to try and answer that question with this guide; but you no longer need it. As of about an [...]
Ubuntu Touch Boasts Support For 34 Devices, 22 On The Way
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 [...]
How To Roll Your Own 13.04 Ubuntu Gnome Remix
Well now that news is out in the wild that Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 is now an official Ubuntu derivative, you’re probably wanting to test it out. Problem is, there is no ISO for it. That makes it pretty hard to try it out… We were expecting to find an ISO ourselves after the news broke [...]
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 [...]
Linux Mint “Not in the Business of Picking Winners”, Continues With Xorg
Since Ubuntu’s announcement of the Mir display manager, the fate of Ubuntu derivatives such as Kubuntu and Linux Mint have been questioned and discussed by both the community and it’s leaders. Finally, one of those leaders has made its path clear. Clement Lefebvre has come forward in the Linux Mint Blog to announce that Linux [...]
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. [...]