Links 30/11/2013: Ubuntu News
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2013-12-01 19:22:54 UTC
- Modified: 2013-12-01 19:22:54 UTC
-
Canonical has this week unveiled to the world its new unified Ubuntu mobile and desktop icons which have been designed to bring the two operating system closer together.
-
OIL will test all new OpenStack hypervisors and software-defined networking (SDN) stacks, as well conventional OpenStack technologies, to make sure Ubuntu OpenStack offers a wide array of validated and supported technology options. Canonical leads development of Ubuntu.
-
Discussed this morning during the virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit was figuring out the steps needed for bringing Ubuntu Touch mobile applications to the Ubuntu Linux desktop.
-
Calibre is the best software to manage your ebooks and to convert them from one format into another, but it lacked any real integration with the operating system. This can now be changed with the Unity Calibre Scope, in Ubuntu 13.10.
-
Canonical's Leann Ogasawara started off the kernel session by basically saying 3.13 is what more or less will happen, but then other developers chimed in that made Linux 3.14 a greater possibility. Given that Linux 3.14 is not likely to arrive until March or April, it's stable release is too close to the April debut of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to put much trust in its quality and fear of regressions. As a result, Linux 3.13 is the safe bet.
-
Ubuntu 13.10 shipped with Qt 5.0 instead of Qt 5.1, since while it was available for months prior there were some "unfixed regressions" in the newer tool-kit release. With Qt 5.2 being right around the corner, Canonical is looking to switch to the newer open-source tool-kit release if there isn't as much fallout.
-
While most Linux distributions have switched from using sysvinit or Upstart to systemd as their init daemon, Upstart continues to be happily used within the Ubuntu camp. For the Ubuntu 14.04 development cycle there are more Upstart improvements planned.
-
During the first day of the latest virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit, Canonical developers plotted out the enabling of TRIM/DISCARD support by default for solid-state drives on Ubuntu.
-
Mir, Canonical's replacement for the X window system, will not make it into the next version of the Ubuntu desktop.
-
Canonical has announced, through the voice of Oliver Ries, that Mir and Unity8 will be default in Ubuntu 14.10.
-
When the MK802 Android mini PC hit the streets in 2012, one of the most interesting things about it was the fact that you could install Linux on it and turn it into a cheap, tiny desktop computer. Since then, dozens of small ARM-powered devices designed to run Android apps on your TV have hit the streets, and hackers have figured out how to run Ubuntu and other Linux-based software on many of them.
-
Besides wanting to enable SSD TRIM support for Ubuntu Linux, developers are also looking at moving from DMRAID to MDADM for fake/software RAID configurations on the desktop operating system.
-
The milestone that Kevin DuBois is cheering about is that Canonical's display server for the Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu Touch is working with the big four Android GPU vendors. Mir-enabled Ubuntu images now work for the Nexus 10 with an ARM Mali T-604 GPU, the Nexus 4 with a Qualcomm Adreno 320, the Nexus 7 with a NVIDIA Tegra 3, and the Galaxy Nexus with PowerVR graphics.
-
A virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit is taking place this week. The event was kicked off again by Jono Bacon and Mark Shuttleworth. During the event a few interesting tidbits of information were learned about Ubuntu Touch and Mir.
-
The brightness settings for Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) have been broken since launch, and it seems that this problem has yet to be solved.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 127 Out of 200: Lawsuits by Americans Filed in the UK a Burden on British Taxpayers, No Way to Recover the Funds When Americans Lose Their Cases
- Are Garrett and Graveley 'pulling a 4Chan'?
- Being Prevented From Accessing One's Own System Means Getting Locked Out, Not Security
- a metaphor
-
- For USA 250 Microsoft is Messing With Our Minds (2.50%) to Distract From Mass Layoffs
- The slopfarms contribute to this noise
- "Defective by Design" Turns 20
- DBD is still as relevant as ever (probably more relevant than ever before)
- A Bicycle for the Feeble Mind, or How Computers Got Worse for Productivity (Intentionally)
- Many of us still adopt and champion the "workstation" mentality
- Links 04/07/2026: Microsoft Tax Haven (Evasion) Tactics, Tobacco Bans, and More
- Links for the day
- Links 04/07/2026: 2026 Old Computer Challenge and Trying Gopher
- Links for the day
- Links 04/07/2026: USMCA (Covering Software Patents) Might Not be Renewed, Slop Bros Try to Pay Weird Al to Endorse Their Scheme
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 03, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, July 03, 2026
- Gemini Links 03/07/2026: Mindfulness Practice and "Slop Is Killing the Human Spirit"
- Links for the day
- Links 03/07/2026: Openwashing of Slop in "Linux" Clothing and "Happy Birthday, America"
- Links for the day
- John Been (reallinuxuser.com) May Have Crossed Over to the 'Dark Side' of LLM Slop
- It 'smells' like it, a scanner seems to concur
- Who or What is "Nadeko"?
- Fijxu's services make life a lot easier for Free software sticklers
- 10 Years Since the World Lost Ian Murdock
- My wife and I still use Debian, as does this site
- No, Microsoft is Not Laying Off 5,000-6,000 But a Lot More
- There are "buyouts", "PIPs" (silence layoffs), pink slips, and future waves, not counting subsidiaries and contractors
- The Cyber Show's Andy and Helen Confronting 'Upgrades'
- the latest from Andy and Helen
- statCounter Sees Almost 1 in 10 Desktops or Laptops in Egypt as GNU/Linux Workstations
- 10% "market share" (for GNU/Linux) was nearly attained last month
- The March of GNU/Linux in the Russian Ally, Belarus
- record high for GNU/Linux in Belarus
- Technology is Getting Objectively Worse and Less Reliable
- Something went horribly wrong
- FOSS Force 2026 Independence Drive Lacks Independence From GAFAM's 'Linux' Foundation
- We're not trying to 'bash' FOSS Force
- News That Matters, News That's Exclusive, and News LLM Slop Will Never Get Right
- Churning out blog posts just for quantity's sake was never our goal
- 3/4 (Three-Quarter) of Requests Seen by statCounter (Originating From Desktops/Laptops) Deemed to be "Linux" in San Marino
- 74% Linux, it says...
- The Linux Foundation Does Not Work for Linux, Definitely Not for Free Software
- works for its biggest sponsors, i.e. companies like Microsoft, IBM, and others
- Independence and Software Freedom
- Much work remains to be done
- The European Patent Office's (EPO) Crisis Week Ends Today, the Rest of the Year Will be EPO Staff on Strike
- The outcome of the two-day meeting won't change the fact that EPO staff is on strike for the whole year
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Operation Monte Titano: Micro-State Diplomacy
- On 28th May 2026 EPO President António Campinos paid a visit to the Most Serene Republic of San Marino where he was received with full diplomatic honours
- Links 03/07/2026: Slop "Isn’t Replacing Lawyers", "App Fatigue"
- Links for the day
- Statement on This Week's DDoS Attacks
- DDoS attacks are not a "badge of honour". They are a nuisance.
- Skinnerboxes as Health Problems and Impediments (Against Happiness)
- skinnerboxes are a form of addiction
- Costa Ricans' Adoption of GNU/Linux Reaches New Highs
- Windows is doing poorly in general
- British Women Don't Want to Work for American Men Who Attack American Women
- "[g]reeting clients and preparing beverages"
- Mass Layoff Event on June 30 at Red Hat? Let Us Know...
- We are looking for more Red Hat whistleblowers
- Gaming on Windows is in Trouble, XBox is Practically Dead Already
- It seems increasingly clear that Microsoft wants to get rid of XBox
- New Record for GNU/Linux in the World's Largest Muslim-Majority Population (287,983,025)
- Will Indonesians leave GAFAM behind?
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 126 Out of 200: Becoming More Aggressive Against Us Only Proves Us Right
- the police involved
- IBM Red Hat Kicks Out the Community, Promotes Slop
- It has gotten so bad
- The Register MS Covers "AI" Because It Gets Paid to
- A lot of noise "in the news" about "AI" is paid-for trash
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 02, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, July 02, 2026
- Gemini Links 02/07/2026: OpenBGPD, Newt and OpenBSD, Indieweb Theme for Ghost
- Links for the day
- Links 02/07/2026: China "Ethnic Unity" Law a Global Threat, "EU Imposes €3 Duty on Parcels From China"
- Links for the day
- Japan's Share of GNU/Linux Has More Than Doubled
- GNU/Linux now sits around 3.5% compared to about 1% two years ago
- 'Largest Single Layoff Event In Gaming History' or 'Largest Single Layoff Event In Microsoft History'?
- we need whistleblowers, not official or semi-official statements from Microsoft
- Off-putting Terms or Behaviour That Keep Women Away From Areas of Technology (Not What IBM and GAFAM Tell Us)
- the use of language
- Microsoft Windows "Goes South" in South America, GNU/Linux Popularity Soaring
- Brazil and its neighbours must have paid attention to what happened earlier this year in Venezuela
- It's Not the Layoffs, It's the Debt
- PIPs and/or "silent layoffs" are about the companies flouting obligations to staff, reducing or eliminating the compensation packages
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Cutting Ribbons in Sintra While the EPO Burns
- Like the Roman Emperor Nero, Campinos fiddles in Sintra while the EPO burns
- In Spain, GNU/Linux Now Measured at 5.5%
- Microsoft and Windows are generally shrinking
- North America: GNU/Linux Leaps to 8% "Market Share"
- the trend is clear
- statCounter: GNU/Linux Has Risen to All-Time High of 6% Worldwide (July 2026)
- GNU/Linux has massive gains
- Not Tolerating Death Threats
- Death threads are a serious matter
- Silent Layoffs, 'Happy' Layoffs, and 'Buyouts' (Pretending to Voluntarily Retire)
- We've been seeing lots of that at IBM and Microsoft
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 125 Out of 200: Litigants in Person (LIPs) Handling American Lawfare Funded by Third Parties (About a Million Pounds for 100 Kilograms of Legal Papers)
- An appeal to the Court of Appeal can be justified at one point
- IBM HR "Process is Similar to Raising Farm Animals"
- IBM "silent layoffs" won't stop
- Attacks on the Sites
- These are clearly censorship attempts
- Links 02/07/2026: Microsoft May be Shutting Down 5+ Studios, Slop Got Too Expensive, "RAMpocalypse" Discussed
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 01, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, July 01, 2026
- Gemini Links 02/07/2026: Kondo, Theological Thought, and X4
- Links for the day
