In the same way as you wait ages for a bus only for two to come along at once, it's the season for new linux releases. Today Canonical released Ubuntu 14.10, aka Utopic Unicorn, and in less than two weeks OpenSuSE will push out 13.2. I'm a SuSE user so I'll be downloading that over the weekend and getting stuck in. It's good to see such a flurry of activity. The new releases all have a plethora of new features. Interestingly, Ubuntu is going after the Android developers with the new Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre which helps coders develop apps. The new Centre downloads the Android toolkits along with libraries and dependencies, bringing them into the launcher. Although first available for Android, the plan is to extend this to other platforms such as Go and Dart . A big win too is that Netflix now plays in Chrome without any trickery! From OpenSuSE , the new release focuses on the much-improved Gnome desktop (3.14), though KDE users aren't forgotten either with plenty of improvements there too. I think it would be fair to say that it's an incremental release but there's still plenty to look forward to – more will be revealed as the release gets closer. Reflecting on recent use, I don't get to use my desktop as much as I used to. Like many other people have found, tablets have taken over for day-to-day computing and the desktop has been relegated to occasional use. Between a Nexus 7, a Chromebook, a local NAS and the cloud, my big ... More @
Friday, October 24, 2014
New Linux Releases from Ubuntu and SuSE
Thursday, October 23, 2014
In the same way as you wait ages for a bus only for two to come along at once, it's the season for new linux releases. Today Canonical released Ubuntu 14.10, aka Utopic Unicorn, and in less than two weeks OpenSuSE will push out 13.2. I'm a SuSE user so I'll be downloading that over the weekend and getting stuck in. It's good to see such a flurry of activity. The new releases all have a plethora of new features. Interestingly, Ubuntu is going after the Android developers with the new Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre which helps coders develop apps. The new Centre downloads the Android toolkits along with libraries and dependencies, bringing them into the launcher. Although first available for Android, the plan is to extend this to other platforms such as Go and Dart . A big win too is that Netflix now plays in Chrome without any trickery! From OpenSuSE , the new release focuses on the much-improved Gnome desktop (3.14), though KDE users aren't forgotten either with plenty of improvements there too. I think it would be fair to say that it's an incremental release but there's still plenty to look forward to – more will be revealed as the release gets closer. Reflecting on recent use, I don't get to use my desktop as much as I used to. Like many other people have found, tablets have taken over for day-to-day computing and the desktop has been relegated to occasional use. Between a Nexus 7, a Chromebook, a local NAS and the cloud, my big ... More @
In the same way as you wait ages for a bus only for two to come along at once, it's the season for new linux releases. Today Canonical released Ubuntu 14.10, aka Utopic Unicorn, and in less than two weeks OpenSuSE will push out 13.2. I'm a SuSE user so I'll be downloading that over the weekend and getting stuck in. It's good to see such a flurry of activity. The new releases all have a plethora of new features. Interestingly, Ubuntu is going after the Android developers with the new Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre which helps coders develop apps. The new Centre downloads the Android toolkits along with libraries and dependencies, bringing them into the launcher. Although first available for Android, the plan is to extend this to other platforms such as Go and Dart . A big win too is that Netflix now plays in Chrome without any trickery! From OpenSuSE , the new release focuses on the much-improved Gnome desktop (3.14), though KDE users aren't forgotten either with plenty of improvements there too. I think it would be fair to say that it's an incremental release but there's still plenty to look forward to – more will be revealed as the release gets closer. Reflecting on recent use, I don't get to use my desktop as much as I used to. Like many other people have found, tablets have taken over for day-to-day computing and the desktop has been relegated to occasional use. Between a Nexus 7, a Chromebook, a local NAS and the cloud, my big ... More @
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