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First look: Huawei MateBook X Pro with Ubuntu 18.04 Linux

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The Huawei MateBook X Pro is a pretty nice little laptop, featuring a 13.9 inch, 3000 x 2000 pixel touchscreen display with super-slim bezels, an all-metal chassis, and support for up ton an Intel Core i7-8550U processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics. Huawei recently announced that the MateBook X […]

First look: One Mix Yoga running Ubuntu 18.04 Linux

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The One Netbook One Mix Yoga mini PC will ship with Windows 10 when it hits the streets in the coming weeks, but since I’ve been testing a pre-production prototype sent to me by the folks at Geekbuying (who are taking pre-orders for $460), I figured I’d see how it handles the recently-released Ubuntu 18.04 Linux operating […]

Dell introduces 2018 Precision Developer Edition laptops with Ubuntu Linux

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Dell introduced a new line of Precision mobile workstations last month, featuring high-power specs in (relatively) portable packages. Now the company is introducing “developer edition” versions that have the same feature set, but which ship with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows 10 software. The Dell Precision 3530 Mobile Workstation is already available as a developer-edition […]

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver is here

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Canonical is releasing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS today. Code-named “Bionic Beaver,” the latest version of the popular GNU/Linux distribution includes a number of updates including a newer Linux kernel, mitigations to help protect users from Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, and a number of tweaks for the user interface and core apps. Ubuntu 18.04 is also a […]

Using Linux on the GPD Win 2 (so far)

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The GPD Win 2 is a handheld gaming PC that ships with Windows 10. But it’s basically got the guts of a laptop or tablet and so it’s capable of running different software. GPD sent me a prototype to test, and so far I’ve had fun playing some PC games, set it up like a […]

Do desktop operating systems need desktop icons?

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The desktop of just about every Windows PC I’ve ever used has ended up being a mess. It gets cluttered with files I’d meant to save temporarily, but which are usually still there for months or years, shortcuts to applications I’d installed but rarely use, and other litter. I don’t think about it much, because […]

UBPorts bringing Android app support to Ubuntu phones (via Anbox)

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After Canonical essentially gave up on developing Ubuntu Linux software for smartphones earlier this year, a group of developers at UBPorts decided to pick up where Canonical left off. The community-based project doesn’t have the resources of a company like Canonical, but the developers still like the idea of running Ubuntu on smartphones, and so they’re […]



Ubuntu 17.10 brings the biggest changes in years

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Canonical releases a new version of the popular Ubuntu operating system every six months. Quite frankly, most of those updates are kind of boring, with incremental changes from one build to the next. But Ubuntu 17.10 launches on October 19th, and it’s actually kind of a big deal. Ubuntu has a new default desktop manager, […]

Ubuntu to stop releasing 32-bit desktop ISOs

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One of the things you often hear from fans of GNU/Linux is that Linux distributions can provide new life to old computers that aren’t powerful enough to run modern versions of Windows. But it seems like not all that many people are using recent builds of Ubuntu to do that… because the developers have decided […]