Introduction Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the Trifecta Tech Foundation The change will be effective from the release of Ubuntu 25.10. You c...
That is surprisingly huge. I’ve inspected the .deb package contents, and the /usr/bin/coreutils file is in the package is 23.7Mb. According to the debian/rules file, the build command it runs is make SELINUX_ENABLED=1 PROFILE=release MULTICALL=y, which on my machine creates a 13.1MB file when buildi...
Development today opened on Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka", the next short-term release of Ubuntu, due for release in October. Canonical engineer Utkarsh
Canonical has announced the first official Ubuntu desktop image for the Qualcomm DragonWing platform. A beta image of Ubuntu 24.04 desktop compatible with
The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin,” available to download and install from ...
Introduction Back in February I wrote some thoughts on Ubuntu’s documentation and its role within the community. For a mostly-online software community, documentation is one of our most critical forms of communication. In the last two years there has been lots of focus on the technical aspects of o...
Calling for Ubuntu snap package testers!
Inkscape 1.4 is finally available as a snap package for beta testing!✨
Install it with:
* GUI: Select the "candidate" version in the application store.
* Terminal: Use "snap refresh --candidate inkscape" for updating, "snap install --candidate inkscape" f...