On January 9th, 2021 with 21 comments
Thelasko quotes gHacks: Linux Mint 20.1 is now available.
The first stable release of Linux Mint in 2021 is available in the three flavors Cinnamon, MATE...
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On September 27th, 2020 with 74 comments
"More top-tier computer OEMs are now offering a broad assortment of Linux desktops," reports ZDNet.
"In the latest move, Lenovo, currently the top PC vendor...
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On June 6th, 2020 with 50 comments
TechRepublic calls it "a tectonic shift in the landscape... a massive company showing serious support for both Ubuntu Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
For
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On March 31st, 2020 with 84 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Today, we learn some new details about the upcoming Linux Mint 20. While most of the newly revealed information is...
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On February 10th, 2020 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: In May 2019, South Korea's Interior Ministry announced plans to look into switching to the Linux desktop from...
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On February 8th, 2020 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes TechRadar:
Intel's Clear Linux distribution looks like it could be the best operating system to run on cheap AMD hardware, with...
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On February 8th, 2020 with 17 comments
In 2017 Elementary OS built a pay-what-you-want app store -- funded with $10,000 raised on IndieGogo. Now they're trying to raise another $10,000 for a...
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On February 2nd, 2020 with 147 comments
Phoronix's Michael Larabel is doing some performance testing on Walmart's $199 Motile-branded M141 laptop (which has an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor, Vega 3...
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On January 20th, 2020 with 98 comments
You can buy an official Kubuntu laptop. Called "Focus". It is an absolutely powerhouse with top specs. From a report: Here's the specs list:
CPU: Core i7-9750H...
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On December 5th, 2019 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Security researchers found a new vulnerability allowing potential attackers to hijack VPN connections on affected *NIX devices and...
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On September 27th, 2019 with 41 comments
Canonical today released the official beta for the upcoming Ubuntu Linux 19.10. Code-named "Eoan Ermine," it features Linux kernel 5.3. From a report: There...
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On July 24th, 2019 with 80 comments
New submitter Grindop53 shares a report: Widespread reports of a "critical security issue" that supposedly impacted users of VLC media player have been...
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On July 13th, 2019 with 121 comments
intensivevocoder quotes TechRepublic: Following Canonical's pivot away from its internally-developed Unity user interface and Mir display server, Ubuntu has...
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On June 24th, 2019 with 94 comments
Canonical has issued a statement on Ubuntu's 32-bit future, saying it will continue to build and maintain a 32-bit archive going forward. From a report: Of...
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On June 21st, 2019 with 209 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: The news that Ubuntu will drop support for the 32-bit x86 architecture was discussed recently by the Wine developers, on...
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On May 30th, 2019 with 139 comments
"While Linux-preloaded laptops have been available for years from smaller companies, and have represented a fraction of their own sales with the much-admired...
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On May 15th, 2019 with 584 comments
sfcrazy writes: Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical, summed it in a few words: "I think the bigger challenge has been that we haven't invented...
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On December 21st, 2018 with 111 comments
Lubuntu, a popular Ubuntu flavor which announced earlier this year that it would stop supporting old hardware, is now dropping support for 32-bit x86 releases....
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On September 30th, 2018 with 73 comments
Roughly three weeks ahead of the scheduled release of Ubuntu Linux 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish", the latest major update for the popular Linux distro, beta of all...
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On May 18th, 2018 with 81 comments
Canonical's Will Cooke on Friday talked about the features the company is working on for Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" cycle. He writes: We're also adding...
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On May 11th, 2018 with 107 comments
Billly Gates shares a report: It was this time last year that Microsoft announced that it was bringing Ubuntu to the Windows Store (now the Microsoft Store),...
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On April 6th, 2018 with 97 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu Linux 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" is almost here -- it is due on April 26. In the interim, today, the second -- and final -- beta...
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On December 20th, 2017 with 167 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Canonical has temporarily pulled the download links for Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" from the Ubuntu website due to ongoing...
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On November 26th, 2017 with 136 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Recently completed Linux distro benchmarks by Phoronix show Intel's Clear Linux is the most powerful on x86 hardware. A six-way,...
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On November 12th, 2017 with 100 comments
Slashdot reader boudie2 tipped us off to some Linux news. Liliputing reports:
Samsung's DeX dock lets you connect one of the company's recent phones to an...
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On September 28th, 2017 with 67 comments
BrianFagioli writes: Next month, a new era of Ubuntu begins. Unity is dead, and GNOME 3 takes over as the default desktop environment. While this change was...
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On September 24th, 2017 with 269 comments
TechRepublic got different answers about Microsoft's new enthusiasm for Linux from Canonical's founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, and from Richard Stallman. ...
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On July 9th, 2017 with 141 comments
After collating 30,171 responses, Phoronixhas released some results from their first Linux Laptop Survey. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
To little...
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On June 29th, 2017 with 117 comments
BrianFagioli writes: Not content with simply following Canonical and embracing vanilla GNOME, System76 has decided to take its future into its own hands....
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On June 6th, 2017 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader shares an article: Canonical is playing host to a 'fractional scaling hackfest' in its Taipei offices this week. Both GNOME developers and...
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