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Linux PC company System76 introduces Pop!_OS Linux distribution

06/30/2017 at 10:00 AM by Brad Linder 4 Comments

System76 has been assembling and selling computers with Ubuntu Linux for years… but starting this fall the company will shift to a new customized Linux distribution called Pop!_OS. The new operating system is basically a lightly modified version of Ubuntu with a customized version of the GNOME Shell user interface. But the biggest advantage is […]

Chuwi Lapbook 12.3 laptop with 2736 x 1824px display now available

06/19/2017 at 2:17 PM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

Chuwi’s 12.3 inch laptop with a high-resolution display, an Intel Apollo Lake processor, and a reasonably low price tag is now available for purchase. When Chuwi introduced the laptop, the company said it would sell for $349. But Gearbest is running a promotion that lets you pick one up for as little as $300 right […]

Now you can run Linux on Windows 10 without developer mode

06/09/2017 at 3:15 PM by Brad Linder 13 Comments

One of the more surprising (and geeky) features Microsoft introduced with the launch of Windows 10 was something called Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Basically, it’s a tool that lets you run a Linux-based operating system such as Ubuntu within Windows. Up until now the only way to do that was to enable Developer Mode from […]

UBports is keeping the Ubuntu Phone dream alive (through third-party development)

06/05/2017 at 9:45 AM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

The company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system may have given up on Ubuntu for phones and tablets. But as expected, third-party developers are picking up where Canonical left off. UBports was originally founded to port Ubuntu to devices that weren’t originally supported by Canonical. Now that Canonical doesn’t really support any of those devices […]

Soon you’ll be able to use SUSE or Fedora on Windows 10, in addition to Ubuntu

05/11/2017 at 2:26 PM by Brad Linder 2 Comments

One of the most surprising things about Windows 10 is that there’s an option to load a Linux subsystem that lets you run Ubuntu software using a Bash terminal. The feature is aimed at developers who might want to use Windows, but also need to run command line Linux tools and don’t want to keep […]

Canonical to stop supporting Ubuntu Phone in June

04/24/2017 at 4:48 PM by Brad Linder 5 Comments

Canonical had already announced development of its Ubuntu Phone software was ending. Now we know when the final nail goes in the coffin: June. That’s when Canonical plans to end support for the handful of phones and tablets running the touchscreen-optimized version of Ubuntu Linux. In a message to NetworkWorld, Canonical notes that “Ubuntu phones and […]

Ubuntu 17.04 released… as developers prepare to make GNOME the default desktop in 2018

04/13/2017 at 1:34 PM by Brad Linder 5 Comments

Ubuntu’s been in the news a bit lately due to the decision to drop the Unity desktop environment, give up on smartphones and tablets, and switch to the GNOME desktop by this time next year. But today Canonical released the latest stable build of Ubuntu, and it still very much features the Unity desktop experience […]

Windows 10 Creators Update includes big Windows Subsystem for Linux improvements

04/12/2017 at 3:12 PM by Brad Linder 2 Comments

One of the most surprising things about Windows 10 is that it supports some Linux software. That’s thanks to a feature called the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which is an Ubuntu-based file system designed to let developers run command line tools in a Linux terminal window. Now that Microsoft has begun rolling out the Windows […]

What’s next for Ubuntu Linux?

04/09/2017 at 10:42 AM by Brad Linder 19 Comments

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth recently announced that Ubuntu will be ceasing development of the Unity 8 desktop environment and dropping its Ubuntu touch development for phones and tablets. So what’s next for the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system? A few years ago the developers made a bet that the next big thing was mobile. They […]

Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment may live on… as a third-party fork

04/06/2017 at 2:00 PM by Brad Linder 9 Comments

Canonical has announced that it’s abandoning plans to develop versions of the Ubuntu operating system that run on smartphones and tablets… and that means the company is also giving up on the Unity desktop environment that was supposed to provide a “convergence” experience no matter what type of device you were using. Starting with Ubuntu 18.04, […]

Ubuntu for phones and tablets is dead

04/05/2017 at 4:45 PM by Brad Linder 5 Comments

When Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced today that the team behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system would be dropping the Unity desktop environment and going back to GNOME starting in 2018, I wondered what it means for the Ubuntu Phone project. Apparently what it means is that Canonical is giving up on Ubuntu Phone. […]

Ubuntu 18.04 to feature GNOME desktop by default (DisUnity?)

04/05/2017 at 2:36 PM by Brad Linder 12 Comments

After years of working on a user interface designed to run across phones, tablets, and desktop computers, the developers of the Ubuntu operating system have decided to shift focus. Starting next year, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu will be GNOME rather than Unity. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says the change will start with the […]