Links 30/11/2013: Ubuntu News
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2013-12-01 19:22:54 UTC
- Modified: 2013-12-01 19:22:54 UTC
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mir, Canonical's replacement for the X window system, will not make it into the next version of the Ubuntu desktop.
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Canonical has announced, through the voice of Oliver Ries, that Mir and Unity8 will be default in Ubuntu 14.10.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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