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. [...]
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; [...]
Steam For Linux Adoption Closes In On Mac
Full Steam Ahead For those of you who have been abroad the Linux Steam train since the early betas late last year, things are really on the up & up. Valve has just released its February, 2013 Steam Hardware & Software Survey, and the results are absolutely mind blowing. Linux is now standing strong as [...]
Play HTML5 Games In Your Login Screen With MDM
MDM, the Mint Display Manager, now offers an awesome features for artists and web developers that want to design attractive login screens for Linux. MDM now supports themes made with HTML5. But can you use it? Well, kind of… From the Linux Mint Blog: MDM 1.2 will be available in Linux Mint 15 and will [...]