Enlarge / You might draw a fairly similar schematic diagram to give someone a simplified idea of how a traditional Linux distribution is put together—but it wouldn’t be as close to literal accuracy as this Ubuntu Core diagram is. Canonical Canonical released Ubuntu Core 20 today, and it is now available for download. If you’re […]
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Ubuntu Linux is now running on M1 Macs
The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. Samuel Axon The chassis is the same as before, but it’s only available in classic Mac silver. Samuel Axon The rubber bottom. Samuel Axon For the first time, users of Apple Silicon Macs using Apple’s M1 chip—such as the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and MacBook Air—can now boot […]
Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management [Updated]
Enlarge / This is a Fossa. It appears to be focusing. (Cryptoprocta ferox is a small, catlike carnivore native to Madagascar.) Mathias Appel Last October, an experimental ZFS installer showed up in Eoan Ermine, the second interim Ubuntu release of 2019. Next month, Focal Fossa—Ubuntu’s next LTS (Long Term Support) release—is due to drop, and […]
Steam and Ubuntu clash over 32-bit libs
Enlarge / The new icon theme in Ubuntu 19.04. Scott Gilbertson It has been a tumultuous week for gaming on Linux. Last Tuesday afternoon, Canonical’s Steve Langasek announced that 32-bit libs would be frozen (kept as-is, with no new builds or updates) as of this October’s interim 19.10 release, codenamed “Eoan Ermine.” Langasek was pretty […]
Ubuntu 19.04: The Disco Dingo arrives and will really make your IT dept. happy
Enlarge / Behold, the default desktop for the latest Canonical release: Ubuntu 19.04, gloriously nicknamed “Disco Dingo.” Scott Gilbertson Canonical recently released Ubuntu 19.04, the latest version of its flagship GNOME-based Linux desktop. But if you’re a desktop user, you might be feeling a little left out. The big points of emphasis in this latest […]
Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows just got a whole lot more streamlined
Enlarge / Hyper-V Quick Create. Microsoft and Canonical have been working for some time to make Ubuntu and Windows play nice with each other. Ubuntu was the first distribution supported in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and now an Ubuntu image is available through Hyper-V Quick Create, which offers three-click creation of Virtual Machines. The […]