Google’s Flutter Team Layoffs Leave Ubuntu Devs in a Flap
Tue 11:01am By Joey SneddonGoogle’s recent ‘structural simplification’ led to 200 people across many of its core development teams, including Python, Dart, and Flutter, losing their roles. With Canonical committed to using Flutter for its own desktop apps the news of layoffs in…Ubuntu 24.10 Release Date Set for October 10, 2024
Mon 1:33pm By Joey SneddonCanonical has published a draft release schedule for Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’. According to the timetable we should expect the final stable release of Ubuntu 24.10 to arrive on Thursday October 10, 2024. Six months of development lay ahead, with a…Ubuntu 24.04 Support WIP for Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Laptop
Sun 10:26am By Joey SneddonCanonical kernel engineer Juerg Haefliger has shared an update on Ubuntu support for the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s (Gen 1) laptop. The 13-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is an ARM laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (gen3) processor with Adreno 690 GPU, 16 GB…SuperTuxKart 1.5 Gears Up For Release, v2.0 in the Works
Fri 10:45am By Joey SneddonFans of open-source racing game SuperTuxKart will be stoked to hear devs are busy in the pit lanes pepping the next major update — and it’ll launch this summer. SuperTuxKart 1.4 was released back in 2022 with a ton of improvements that fine-tune, fix-up,…Add a Progress Bar to GNOME Shell Media Control Applet
Thu 1:11pm By Joey SneddonMedia Progress is a new GNOME Shell extension that adds a real-time progress bar to the MPRIS notification/sound control doohickey that shows in the notification area. This extension doesn’t do else bar (heh) that, but as simple enhancements go it’s a…Linux Mint 22 Will Include Preinstalled App for Matrix
Apr 30, 2024, 5:24 pm By Joey SneddonLinux Mint 22 will include a Matrix web client preinstalled when released later this year. The IRC-based desktop chat app Linux Mint has been building, Jargonaut, to replace Hexchat and provide real-time communication for its users, will no longer be included…Neofetch Development Ends as GitHub Project Archived
Apr 30, 2024, 11:10 am By Joey SneddonIt seems that the popular command-line system info tool Neofetch is dead, Jim. The Github repo for the project was archived by its main developer last week and is now read-only, a sure sign that development has well and truly ceased to be. Not that this is a…Amarok 3.0 Released, Ported to Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5
Apr 29, 2024, 8:25 pm By Joey SneddonA new version of the open-source music player Amarok has been released, the first major update to the Qt-based media app since 2018. Amarok 3.0 is the first stable release to use Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, and work to port the music player to the the newest Qt…Mozilla Devs Adding ‘New Tab Wallpapers’ to Firefox
Apr 28, 2024, 8:53 pm By Joey SneddonMozilla devs are bringing more customisation options to the new tab page in Firefox. A number of modern web browsers, including Google Chrome, allow users to set a custom image as the backdrop for the new tab page: As the new tab page is (by default) set to…Ubuntu 24.10 Codename Revealed as Development Begins
Apr 28, 2024, 5:37 pm By Joey SneddonWant to know the official codename of Ubuntu 24.10? Although Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has only just been released the pace of development marches ever on. Ubuntu developers are already beginning to bootstrap the base on which the next short-term release of the popular…Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Yet
Apr 26, 2024, 9:25 am By Joey SneddonWith Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released and a long weekend upon us you might be planning to upgrade an existing Ubuntu install to the latest version. But don’t. For one, “officially” you can’t since Ubuntu 24.04 LTS upgrades are not yet enabled, neither from…Ubuntu 24.04 Official Flavours Available to Download
Apr 25, 2024, 9:26 pm By Joey SneddonArriving alongside the main Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release are new versions of the official Ubuntu flavours, including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Cinnamon. What follows is a concise, top-level overview of the key new features and changes in some of the most…
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