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A New Desktop Theme Is Coming For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
A New Desktop Theme Is Coming For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

With Ubuntu 20.04 to see installation on many desktops (and servers) given its Long-Term Support status, Canonical and the Yaru community team have begun working on a successor to the Yaru theme for this Linux distribution release due out in April.

14 January 2020 - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - 46 Comments
Unity 8 Desktop On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Take A Year Before Being Usable
Unity 8 Desktop On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Take A Year Before Being Usable

While Canonical no longer develops their Unity 8 stack for Ubuntu, the UBports crew continues advancing Ubuntu Touch mobile as a community project and as part of that they do work on Unity 8 for their devices and desktop support. But if you're hoping to see Unity 8 running nicely on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, that could be a while.

14 January 2020 - Unity 8 + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - 61 Comments
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Could Better Support Scanners Compliant With Apple AirScan

Apple AirScan is akin to their AirPrint technology for supporting various printers from Apple devices without the need for specialized drivers. Multi-function printers compliant with AirPrint also need to implement AirScan for scanner functionality, thus opening up most of today's multi-function printers to supporting this scanning standard. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS could end up supporting AirScan nicely thanks to new SANE back-ends.

8 January 2020 - AirScan Support - 3 Comments
Ubuntu 13.04 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Development Performance Comparison Without Mitigations

Last week I posted benchmarks looking at seven years of Ubuntu Linux performance in re-testing the releases of Ubuntu 13.04 through Ubuntu 19.10 stable and even the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS daily development image. A question that came up was how much better that performance would have been without any CPU vulnerability mitigations in place for Ubuntu 20.04... Well, here's that answer.

29 December 2019 - Seven Year Difference - 2 Comments
Ubuntu 19.10 Laptop Disk Encryption Benchmarks
Ubuntu 19.10 Laptop Disk Encryption Benchmarks

A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about the performance impact of LUKS LVM-based disk encryption that continues to be offered by Ubuntu's Ubiquity installer on new installations and if it's worthwhile. As I've said for many years, it's certainly recommended for production systems -- particularly laptops where there are greater chances of theft -- and the performance impact isn't generally all that bad with modern CPUs and the likes of AES-NI.

20 December 2019 - Ubuntu Disk Encryption - 6 Comments
Ubuntu's Mir Display Stack Accomplished A Lot In 2019 For Being Discounted Two Years Ago

It was back in April 2017 that Canonical decided they would abandon Unity 8 and switch back to GNOME. While Mir played a big role together with Unity 8, they continued working on Mir with staffing changes and a shifted focus of adding Wayland support and tailoring it for primarily IoT use-cases and tightly integrated with their Snap packaging concept. Two years later, Mir is still alive and earlier this month marked the release of Mir 1.6. Here's a look back at the Mir highlights for 2019.

14 December 2019 - Mir 2019 - 8 Comments
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Might Still End Up Shipping With WireGuard Support

There are early discussions going on over the possibility of shipping WireGuard support in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS that could be done either using the existing DKMS kernel module or patching their Linux 5.5-based kernel with WireGuard now that the necessary crypto API changes made it into that release.

12 December 2019 - WireGuard Possibility - 3 Comments
Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS To Retire Their Old Debian Installer To Focus On Subiquity

Introduced back in Ubuntu Server 17.10 and improved upon since has been "Subiquity" as a new Ubuntu Server install option rather than their classic installer derived from Debian. But with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, they will be dropping that Debian Installer based option and focusing solely on their modern "Subiquity" server installer option.

11 December 2019 - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server - 20 Comments
UBports' Ubuntu Touch Porting Now Easier To Newer Devices

The UBports community developers maintaining Ubuntu Touch have landed the 64-bit ARM (ARM64/AArch64) version of libhybris into their "Edge" development branch. This in turn opens up Ubuntu Touch to more easier porting to newer Android devices.

25 November 2019 - libhybris - 2 Comments
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Continuing To Work On Python 2 Removal

The goal for Ubuntu 20.04 is to ship with Python 2 removed since Py2 will be end-of-life after the start of the year and this next Ubuntu Linux release is a Long-Term Support release, but there still are many Python 2 depending packages left currently in Debian unstable and Ubuntu's "Focal Fossa" archive.

11 November 2019 - Ubuntu 20.04 - Python 3 Only - 38 Comments
Benchmarks Of 10 Higher-End Intel/AMD CPUs On Ubuntu 19.10

With Ubuntu 19.10 bringing some CPU/system performance changes compared to earlier Ubuntu releases as a result of compiler/toolchain upgrades, the newer kernel, and more, here is a quick weekend look at how the Ubuntu 19.10 performance compares across ten different AMD Ryzen and Intel Core systems.

9 November 2019 - HEDT Systems - 3 Comments
ZFS/Zsys Improvements Are Already Underway For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

While Ubuntu 19.10 just shipped two weeks ago with its initial desktop install support to a root ZFS file-system option, feature work is already happening of ZFS changes destined for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu's Zsys daemon being built around ZFS' advanced feature set.

5 November 2019 - Ubuntu ZFS - 40 Comments
Canonical Working To Ramp Up Ubuntu Support For The Raspberry Pi 4

With the recently released Ubuntu 19.10 there is initial support for the Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computers sans the highest-tier 4GB version that embarrassingly suffers from USB ports not working with the current Ubuntu 19.10 build. Fortunately, Canonical is working to address that issue with the RPi4 4GB version as well as making other Raspberry Pi support improvements.

3 November 2019 - Raspberry Pi 4 + Ubuntu - 21 Comments
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Released

The UBports community has released the eleventh over-the-air update to Ubuntu Touch that they continue advancing as the open-source Linux smartphone/tablet stack based currently on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

23 October 2019 - Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 - 6 Comments
Canonical Is At Around 437 Employees, Pulled In $99M While Still Operating At A Loss
Canonical Is At Around 437 Employees, Pulled In $99M While Still Operating At A Loss

In addition to this week being exciting for the Ubuntu 19.10 release due out on Thursday followed by the kicking off of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" cycle, Ubuntu maker Canonical coincidentally made their financial statement filings in the UK this week where they are headquartered that gives a fresh look at their financial performance ahead of a possible IPO in the next few years.

16 October 2019 - Canonical Group - 67 Comments
Ubuntu's ZFS Installation Work Will Continue Into The 20.04 LTS Cycle

With Ubuntu 19.10 one of the changes we have been looking forward to the most is the planned Ubuntu desktop installation support atop ZFS as a root file-system and Canonical's related work around the new ZSYS daemon. It's looking like the basic ZFS root installation support will make it in time for next month's Ubuntu 19.10 release but more advanced installation features won't be ready in time.

24 September 2019 - Ubuntu ZFS Install - 23 Comments
Ubuntu/Mir Developer Issues Porting Guide To Help Port MATE To Wayland

Canonical's Mir developers since re-shifting focus to serving as a Wayland compositor have been working with the likes of the GNOME2-forked MATE desktop environment to implement Wayland support using Mir. For helping those interested in porting MATE applications from X11 to Wayland, one of the Mir developers has now issued a porting guide.

21 September 2019 - Wayland / Mir - 10 Comments
The 32-Bit Packages That Will Continue To Be Supported Through Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Earlier this year Canonical announced they would be pulling 32-bit support from Ubuntu ahead of next year's 20.04 LTS. But following public backlash, they stepped back to provide 32-bit support for select packages. Today they announced the 199 32-bit packages that will continue to be supported through Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

17 September 2019 - 52 32-Bit Packages - 27 Comments

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