Thanks to a recent pledge on OMG! Ubuntu!, popular weather app Stormcloud has been revived as Cumulus. Continue reading Cumulus: weather app Stormcloud restored
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is in! What’s new?
Canonical has announced Ubuntu 16.04 (aka Xenial Xerus) and the ISOs of the Ubuntu family are available for download. Ubuntu 16.04 (with Unity desktop) comes with tonnes of goodies and fresh software for end users as well as server maintainers. Let’s take a quick look. Continue reading Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is in! What’s new?
Ubuntu 16.04 will support ‘snaps’
The pain of LTS users having to stick to older versions of apps would be over with Ubuntu 16.04. An announcement from Olli Ries (Head of Engineering for Canonical’s Product Strategy team) today confirmed that snap packages will be supported from Ubuntu Xenial Xerus alongside the regular deb packages. Remember adapt? snap is similar. However, snaps will use Ubuntu Snappy instead of LXD containers. Continue reading Ubuntu 16.04 will support ‘snaps’
Flexible launcher placement on Ubuntu 16.04
Unity on Ubuntu 16.04 will allow placing the launcher at the top or bottom of the desktop
ClassicMenu Indicator for Ubuntu 16.04
If you have already started trying Ubuntu 16.04 (which is reasonably stable in my experience) with Unity for non-production usage, you might be missing the ClassicManu Indicator in the repos. Here’s the good news: the developer has released a new version with support for Ubuntu 16.04 a few hours back! Continue reading ClassicMenu Indicator for Ubuntu 16.04
GNOME Software on Ubuntu 16.04
Those who aren’t happy with Ubuntu Software Center have reasons to rejoice now. The Ubuntu team has decided in favour of ditching it for GNOME Software. Continue reading GNOME Software on Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 16.04 official Unity 8 theme
Ubuntu 16.04: Unity 8 vs Unity 7 indicator panels
Ubuntu 16.04, Mir, custom Unity 8 theme
Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator to be overhauled
After OOBE, plans to rewrite Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator (SDC) surfaced today. The goal is to write a completely new tool and release it with Ubuntu 16.04. The new tool would be written in GO and QML and some mock-ups are available. Non-Ubuntu ISOs might also be supported. Continue reading Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator to be overhauled