2+ hour, 49+ min ago   (458+ words) Ain't no-one buying one to run Kodi Arduino’s VENTUNO Q, which runs Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, went up for pre-order in late August – and quickly sold through its initial allocation. The board is is targeted at edge AI, robotics and industrial use…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (367+ words) Fixes need to land before the gate officially opens If you’re wondering why you can’t do a directly upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 from 24.04 yet, despite the Resolute Raccoon’s first point release being live, there is a reason. Canonical’s Oliver Reiche said…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (345+ words) Getting is planning to ‘sunset’ IRC as an official support method, and some long-time users aren’t happy. The recently Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS release announcement didn’t include a link to the Ubuntu Support IRC channel under its “if you have a question…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (578+ words) Those running it since April don't need to do anything Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available to download, the first of 5 point releases scheduled for the ‘Resolute Raccoon’ in the 3 years. The release doesn’t add new features per se, but does…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (328+ words) The shape of things to come Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, entered feature freeze on 20 August – though the formal announcement arrive later than usual. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along with the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (229+ words) A major update to open-vm-tools, a package that integrates Linux virtual machines with VMware hypervisors, is rolling out to users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. “Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more recent hypervisors”, Canonical’s Lena Voytek explained…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (582+ words) Launchpad didn't get the memo about 2017 layoffs… A decades-old bug on Ubuntu’s Launchpad marked as invalid at the weekend led to an impromptu reunion for many of Canonical’s former engineers. Bug #1589796 was filed in 2016 by a user who’d spent £700 on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (580+ words) A decades-old bug on Ubuntu’s Launchpad was marked as invalid at the weekend, and lead to an impromptu reunion for many of Canonical’s former engineers. Bob Harvey filed bug #1589796 in 2016, having spent £700 on Ubuntu phone and tablet hardware but, on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (814+ words) You wait years for a modern email client for GNOME to appear, then several appear at once. Postcard is a new email client for GNOME that has echoes of Geary The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (487+ words) Plus, collections and experimental Android build A big update to Tuba, the GTK4/libadwaita Fediverse client, has landed – along with an experimental version for Android. Tuba 0.11.0 is the first major update to the social app in a year and brings full…...