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As part of work on the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 release Canonical’s engineers have been working on improving the Ubuntu installer — with “provisioning” the key aim. “Provisioning?” Yes, now that the Ubuntu desktop installer uses the same backend tech as the one in Ubuntu Server, Canonical wants to bring features mainly used in server deployments to desktop. It says talking to OEMs made it realise its “focus was too much” on installing so will begin the process of “evolving from installation to provisioning”. Doing so streamlines their development process and make life easier those who need to install Ubuntu in […]
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Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, is the latest tech company to announce layoffs. The non-profit says it is scaling back development on a number of projects and, as a result, 60 employees (roughly 5% of its total workforce) will lose their jobs. Among projects TechCrunch reports Mozilla has earmarked for cutbacks is its Online Footprint Scrubber — a paid-for feature that was announced barely a week ago. Mozilla VPN, Relay and other privacy products are also being scaled back, with the company of the opinion its products don’t offer much differentiation with competitors. The Mozilla.social Mastodon instance is also […]
Ubuntu is working on a new Desktop Security Center that aims to make it easier for users to access some of the distro’s underlying security features. An early version of the Flutter-based tool was made available to install from the Canonical Snap Store this week — but before anyone gets too excited I should stress it’s very much a WIP and not entirely functional (so set expectations accordingly)! Even so, there’s enough to pique interest. Read on for a more detail on what this tool is, the features Canonical plans to surface through, and how you can install the early […]
Tab previews are in the works for Mozilla Firefox. In current versions of the browser, hovering your mouse over a non-focused browser tab shows a small tooltip that displays the web page title — and that’s it. While this is handy, especially if you have a ton of open tabs (including many from the same site) and are able to read enough of the tab title to distinguish which tab is for which page, you may be more visually-orientated. Enter tab previews. In the latest Firefox 123 beta builds Mozilla devs have added a new flag. When this is enabled […]
A new version of PeaZip, a popular free, open-source archive manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is available to download. PeaZip 9.7 is the first release to offer a native build for AArch64/ARM64 Linux. This means anyone can now use PeaZip on devices like the Raspberry Pi 4 & 5, the PineBook Pro, Lenovo X13s Gen 1, and similar. Although experimental testing and community-based ports of PeaZip for ARM have been available in the past PeaZip 9.7 is the first formal, native, official, etc build — though it’s provided as a portable build only (i.e. not a DEB or RPM). […]
A new version of Musictube, a Qt-based desktop app that lets you stream music from YouTube, is available for download for Windows, macOS and Linux. Musictube 2 is described as a “major overhaul” offering an improved search algorithm that now supports genres in addition to artists, albums and song titles. The user interface has been refreshed, sporting a “more modern, flatter and generally cleaner” look — a look matching the revamped UI Flavio’s local music player app Minitunes received a few months back. Other changes in Musictube 2 include lighter resource usage by only streaming audio when videos are hidden; […]
If you’re an Ubuntu user who uses the Thunderbird e-mail client there are some interesting changes on the way you will want to know about. First up, Canonical’s Thunderbird snap package is now being built using source code rather than repacking upstream binaries. That subtle-sounding difference offers some decent-sounding opportunities. For one, the change will allow the Thunderbird snap to be built for architectures other than AMD64, thereby enabling the Thunderbird snap to (theoretically; it’s not currently) be installed in Ubuntu running on, say, the Raspberry Pi — which is neat. Secondly, by building the Thunderbird snap from source code […]
Support for accessing Microsoft OneDrive files through Nautilus is planned for GNOME 46, which is due for release next month. GVfs (GNOME virtual filesystem) provides a number of backends that allow SFTP, SMB, HTTP, MTP, WebDAV and other mounts/shares to be accessed through the Nautilus file manager (i.e. as folders and files you can open, move, edit, etc). That tech already offers a Google Drive backend (which is setup via the Settings > Online Accounts panel). On the way is OneDrive support, thanks to a revived effort utilising the MS Graph API library (and a related task to add the […]
Bluesky, the much-hyped open-source alternative to X/Twitter, is now open for all — invites code no longer needed! Launched in the spring of last year, Bluesky is a decentralised social network modelled after early Twitter. You sign up, post, follow people, repost, and generally enjoy seeing content from people you choose in a reverse-chronological feed. And for fans of algorithms, Bluesky has an open marketplace where developers can share custom feeds that users can add, access, and even make their default experience. This focus on giving users choice will, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says, shortly extend to moderation. Despite being […]