Ubuntu

Steam Is About to Drop Official Support for Ubuntu

Valve is dropping official support for Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases for its mega-popular Steam video game distribution platform, per Engadget, as the upcoming version of the OS will eliminate updates to 32-bit x86 components. According to Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais, the company will “evaluate ways to minimize breakage for existing users,” though it will also…

How to Run Linux on a Chromebook

Chromebooks may have started life as very basic laptops that were useless without an internet connection, but they’ve become more powerful and more useful with each passing year. Now, not only is it possible to run Linux on your Chromebook, you can access the operating system through a browser window. The tool you need to…

5 Reasons to Install Linux on Your Laptop

You can choose something other than MacOS or Windows 10 when it comes to an operating system for your computer. If you’re prepared to be a little more adventurous, Linux has plenty of great features that will save you time and make working a little less dull. The best part is that Live Installations allow…

Oh Hey, An Ubuntu Phone Is Actually Happening

Remember how there were maybe going to be some phones that ran Ubuntu? They’re coming! With a list of caveats approximately one mile long! Slated to go on sale next week, the first ever official Ubuntu phone will be a variant of something called the bq Aquarius E4.5. And you haven’t heard of it for…

Ubuntu Just Put the Cloud in This Small, Orange Box

Ubuntu might not have a perfect track record with hardware, but why let that stop it! Now it’s decided to put the cloud in a box. A bright orange box. https://gizmodo.com/ubuntu-mobile-hands-off-stripped-down-and-sleek-5974642 This is the appropriately named Orange Box: an OpenStack cloud-in-a-case It’s designed to be (kind of) portable, at just over the size of a…

The latest version of Ubuntu—14.04 LTS or Trusty Tahr to its friends—is now available, with support for touchscreens and super hi-res displays. Go download it now for free

Canonical has announced that it’s going to axe its Dropbox competitor Ubuntu One and, as a result, its streaming music service. Subscribers can expect a refund.

The first official Ubuntu hardware partners have been announced and companies you’ve never heard of! Expect the phones later this year, but don’t set your heart on US availability you crazy Linux junkie.

Ubuntu is going to add BitTorrent search capabilities directly into its Unity desktop. Which is neat.

Ubuntu’s crowdfunding effort for its Edge smartphone has fallen massively short on Indiegogo—by a staggering $19 million. Bad luck, Linux lovers.

A hack has exposed the e-mail addresses and login details for every registered user of the Ubuntu Forums—that’s almost 2 million accounts. Time to change your password.

This ARM-Based Ubuntu Box Only Costs $100

Forget your Raspberry Pi and all of those Android dongles: this quad-core, ARM-based box claims to offer up a PC-like experience for just $100. The Utilite, made by Compulab, will pack either a single, dual or quad-core Freescale i.MX6 Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, up to 4GB of RAM, an mSATA SSD, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI…

Your official Steam client for Ubuntu has arrived.

Ubuntu Phones Will Arrive in October

According to the Wall Street Journal, Canonical is claiming that its new Ubuntu OS will be with developers by late February—ready for phones to launch in “two geographically large markets” this October. The Wall Street Journal doesn’t explain which company will be making the first Ubuntu phones, but Canonical claims that it will be easy…

Ubuntu phones will come with a terminal, so you can fiddle with settings from the command line. How… user friendly?

Ubuntu Mobile Hands-Off: Stripped Down and Sleek

The world of mobile OSes is totally dominated by Android and iOS, but that hasn’t kept Ubuntu from trying to sneak in. And finding a way into already dominated markets is kind of Ubuntu’s strong suit. We got to take a “hands-off” look at the new mobile OS running on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. While…

Do You Care About Ubuntu?

So we were just having a discussion about Linux and someone mentioned that nobody cares about Ubuntu. While that may be true for the vast majority of folks, I’m wondering if it’s true of our readers. Please discuss.

Why Does Dell’s Ubuntu-Powered XPS 13 Cost More Than Its Windows Equivalent?

Dell’s Ubuntu-powered XPS 13, codenamed Project Sputnik, started life as an internal R&D project. Now it’s grown up and is available to buy online—but why does it cost more than a Windows equivalent? https://gizmodo.com/who-will-buy-an-ubuntu-ultrabook-5927650 The computer now takes the name XPS 13 Developer Edition, and comes with a Precise Pangolin Ubuntu build pre-installed along with…

Aspects of Ubuntu 13.04, Raring Ringtail, will be developed in secret. Open source just got less open. [Extreme Tech]

Canonical has released version 12.10 of Ubuntu, Quantal Quetzal. It seems more user-friendly than ever. [Ars Technica]