Index FO066 Title APT deb822 sources by default Status Draft Authors @juliank Type Standard Created 2021-05-13 Abstract APT’s deb822 sources format is an alternative, often shorter, representation of sources.list that also interacts better with new features … | Continue reading
Are there any plans to migrate ubuntu to pipewire and wireplumber by default for audio, now that the LTS is out of the way? My anecdotal experience is that it seems to be working fine and in some cases (eg bluetooth audio, especially headsets) surparssing pulseaudio. Using Ubuntu … | Continue reading
That’s right, as of today the Kinetic iso (pending, not yet current since the changes were just made) has been updated to run only pipewire and not pulseaudio. So @copong, you can look forward to this for kinetic. For Jammy, you might notice that you have both pipewire and pulse … | Continue reading
Canonical is going all in on the gaming experience on Ubuntu and we’ve started building out a team dedicated to working on just that. As part of these efforts, our first step is to simplify the process of getting your gaming environment setup without the need to add PPAs to get … | Continue reading
GNOME will officially support a global dark style for the first time with its 42 release next week. You might be thinking, how can this be new when I’ve been using a dark theme for a long time? In early GNOME 3 releases, developers of some media apps like photo viewers enabled a … | Continue reading
This is a discussion thread for the “Open source and its social impact” presentation. Remember this video has been shared unpolished and unedited. Please feel free to ask any questions below. Please remember the Ubuntu code of conduct. Resources YouTube video: “Open source and … | Continue reading
Planting the Firefox snap seed Today, Sept 16th 2021, the Desktop Team has opened a Feature Freeze exception to replace the Firefox seed in ubuntu-desktop from a deb package to a Mozilla-official Firefox snap. This is the result of cooperation and collaboration between the Deskto … | Continue reading
Impish Indri Release Notes Introduction These release notes for Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours. Support lifespan Ubuntu 21.10 will be supported for 9 months until July 2022. If you need Lo … | Continue reading
Hirsute Hippo Release Notes Introduction These release notes for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours. Dedication Subscribers to the ubuntu-announce mailing list and long term participants in t … | Continue reading
Why The current Ubuntu Desktop installer, Ubiquity, dates back to 2006. While still functional, Ubiquity hasn’t seen significant feature development for some years and due to its legacy is becoming cumbersome to maintain. Meanwhile, a new installer for Ubuntu Server has been dev … | Continue reading
Hey there, The topic of what to do about the new GNOME started being discussed and after some consideration we decided to stick to GTK3 and GNOME 3.38 this cycle. There are quite some moving parts in GNOME 40 The new shell design, is it going to be fully ready in one cycle? w … | Continue reading
Mir in 2020 It is time for my annual review of progress. When I do this I’m always amazed at how recent some of the changes are and how much has changed. Graphics platforms Over the course of the year, we’ve restructured our graphics platforms and formalized the requirements fo … | Continue reading
Ubuntu Web Remix is a privacy-focused, open source alternative to Google Chrome OS/Chromium OS and it employs Firefox instead of Google Chrome/Chromium. The first stable release (20.04.1) can be downloaded from http://linux.darkpenguin.net/distros/ubuntu-unity/ubuntu-web/20.04.1. … | Continue reading
Hi folks, Today the Ubuntu 20.10 Beta is now available for testing that means were just 3 weeks away from the Final release. Note: This is Beta software and there will be bugs so do not run this on any production/daily driver machines of yours. If you have any spare hardware you … | Continue reading
Well, yes and no. I recognise the frustrations being expressed, but disagree with the picture being painted. I’m not absent. In fact, for the past few years I have set aside all other interests and concerns to help Ubuntu get into a position of long-term sustainability. That has … | Continue reading
Mir 2.0.0 Release We are pleased to announce the release of Mir 2.0.0. For Ubuntu, Mir is available from the Mir PPAs. It is also available as a source tarball Summary This release combines a number of ABI breaking changes that we’ve been working on this year. In particular, i … | Continue reading
Canonical and Google have been working together to bring the Flutter toolkit to Linux. It uses GTK for windowing, but implementation details mean it currently only supports X11. Wayland support is in the works. It’s not quite ready yet, but here’s a screenshot of Flutter running … | Continue reading
Mircade snap: An example confined user shell Mircade demonstrates how it is possible to take a collection of applications, a user shell and Snap technology and deliver a portable, secure package to multiple Linux platforms including Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Desktop and many other di … | Continue reading
Hi all, V3 is now available! Download it from: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cpq9rkuzu638b/ Torrent copy available at https://k-jtan.ca/torrents/distributions/ubuntu-unity/ Please join our Telegram Channel and Group at t.me/ubuntuunityannouncements and t.me/ubuntuunitydisc … | Continue reading
We’re into release week for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The first (of likely many) release candidate ISOs have been built. These will almost certainly not be the last ISOs spun this week, so do not consider them final or production ready. Please join the effort to help test all the flavou … | Continue reading
Mir graphics support Mir supports graphics and input “platforms” by using modules loadable at runtime. This means that applications built with Mir can run across a range of graphics stacks. There are Mir platforms supplied with Mir and the potential to develop more. There is als … | Continue reading
I want to know why you think that introduce threading will probably don’t needed. Cite [here]: I do not know of anyone working on introducing threading yet, but the need for it is rapidly shrinking toward zero. Have threading it’s not in fact a way to make things much more f … | Continue reading
Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10 As you may have read many times, Gnome 3.34 brings much improved desktop performance. In this article we will describe some of the improvements contributed by Canonical, how the problems were surprising, how t … | Continue reading
Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10 As you may have read many times, Gnome 3.34 brings much improved desktop performance. In this article we will describe some of the improvements contributed by Canonical, how the problems were surprising, how t … | Continue reading
Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10 As you may have read many times, Gnome 3.34 brings much improved desktop performance. In this article we will describe some of the improvements contributed by Canonical, how the problems were surprising, how t … | Continue reading
Mir 1.5.0 Release We’re pleased to announce the release of Mir 1.5.0. For Ubuntu, Mir is available from the Mir PPAs: It is also available as a source tarball. Community contributions We have a contribution from community member @pajn allowing the window manager the option t … | Continue reading
The Ubuntu wallpaper competition has attracted over 160 entries this year, the most ever! Thanks to everyone who entered their art for consideration by the Ubuntu community as wallpaper for 19.10 Eoan Ermine. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching the thread expand over the months wi … | Continue reading
Mir 1.4.0 Release We’re pleased to announce the release of Mir 1.4.0. For Ubuntu, Mir is available from the Mir PPAs. It is also available as a source tarball. Wayland layer-shell This release is mostly about supporting Mir based shells using Sway’s layer-shell extension protoc … | Continue reading
I’m sorry that we’ve given anyone the impression that we are “dropping support for i386 applications”. That’s simply not the case. What we are dropping is updates to the i386 libraries, which will be frozen at the 18.04 LTS versions. But there is every intention to ensure that … | Continue reading
I’m sorry that we’ve given anyone the impression that we are “dropping support for i386 applications”. That’s simply not the case. What we are dropping is updates to the i386 libraries, which will be frozen at the 18.04 LTS versions. But there is every intention to ensure that … | Continue reading
Q. What is i386? “i386” is the architecture name used internally in Ubuntu, Debian and some other Linux distributions to refer to the 32-bit instructions used in many Intel and Intel-compatible CPUs. Typically an i386 installation of any Linux distribution is able to run a kerne … | Continue reading
Cross posted from the Ubuntu Devel Announce mailing list. Last year, the Ubuntu developer community considered the question of whether to continue carrying forward the i386 architecture in the Ubuntu archive for future releases. The discussion at the time was inconclusive, but i … | Continue reading