Announcing Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – “Trusty Tahr”

Canonical Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Desktop septiembre 19, 2018

Ubuntu is the basis for the majority of cloud-based workloads today. With over 450 million public cloud instances launched since the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, a number that keeps accelerating on a day-per-day basis since, many of the largest web-scale deployments are using Ubuntu. This includes financial, big data, media, and many other workloads […]

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Optimised Ubuntu Desktop images available in Microsoft Hyper-V gallery

Will Cooke Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Desktop septiembre 17, 2018

Today we’re very pleased to announce that an optimised Ubuntu Desktop image is available from the Hyper-V gallery. This will give an optimum experience when running Ubuntu Desktop as a guest on a Windows 10 Pro desktop host. From the Ubuntu Report data we know that a lot of people are using Ubuntu as a […]

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Fresh Snaps from August 2018

Alan Pope Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Desktop, desktop snaps, sc:snap:altair, sc:snap:bitwarden, sc:snap:colibri, sc:snap:discographer, sc:snap:lepton, sc:snap:musescore, sc:snap:ponysay, sc:snap:termius-app, sc:snap:transitionsdj, sc:snap:whalebird, snapcraft, snapcraft.io septiembre 13, 2018

Another month passes and we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during August 2018. We have a mix of social tools, music creation and curation software, password storage systems, developer tools and some fun too. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. Whalebird AkiraFukushima Toot! […]

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Fresh Linux Applications On Demand

Alan Pope Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Desktop, sc:snap:chromium, snapcraft, snapcraft.io agosto 28, 2018

Traditionally Linux users have relied on central distribution-maintained repositories to get new software. With six-month or longer spans between releases, this meant many users just put up with old versions of applications & libraries. In many cases newer software was just missing from the archives. Modern applications iterate quickly, releasing new versions on a faster […]

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Retro Style Games on Linux

Alan Pope Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Desktop, games, retro, sc:snap:boa, sc:snap:codenamelt, sc:snap:dwarf-fortress, sc:snap:flare-rpg, sc:snap:mame, sc:snap:minecraft, sc:snap:minetest, sc:snap:openra, sc:snap:quake-shareware, sc:snap:scummvm, Snap, snapcraft, snapcraft.io agosto 14, 2018

Gaming on Linux doesn’t have to mean buying a ludicrously priced GPU (thanks crypto miners!). Nor does it require a beefy CPU. There’s a real resurgence in retro style gaming going on right now. We’ve pulled together a selection of retro-inspired games for you to play today, on your beloved Linux machine. You can stay […]

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Create your Linux development workstation in seconds

Martin Wimpress API, Articles, Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Desktop, Developer, go, Kotlin, Node.js, postgresql, Snap, snapcraft.io julio 31, 2018

Linux is the best platform for developers. Here’s how you can get popular languages and development environments up and running in moments. The first step is to install snapd (the service that runs and manages Snaps) on your distro, then you can install your pick from some of our recommendations below. We regularly share new […]

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Dell XPS13 Developer Edition ships with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS pre-installed

Canonical Canonical News, Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Dell, Desktop, Developer, Press releases, Snap, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS julio 27, 2018

Dell’s XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop is now available in the US on Dell.com with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) pre-installed, with European availability expected in early August. The launch signals the first availability of Ubuntu’s latest LTS on a major OEM’s hardware since its release in April. Canonical and Dell have worked together to […]

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