Category: Linux

new Ubuntu Desktop Installer

Ubuntu is developing a new Ubuntu Desktop Installer

Canonical Design Team and Ubuntu Desktop Team are working together to develop a new installation program for the Ubuntu Desktop Installer. The installer will take full advantage of technologies such as Flutter (bring Flutter...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Kernel Patch

Ubuntu 21.04 will enable LTO optimization for its packages

According to the mailing list, Ubuntu 21.04 will enable LTO support for its package construction. Link time optimization (LTO) is a method for optimizing multiple compilation units of the entire program during linking. The...

freebsd

FreeBSD 13 reduces support for i386 architecture

The FreeBSD development team announced that starting from FreeBSD 13.0, the level of support for the i386 architecture will be downgraded to Tier 2. In the future, FreeBSD 14.0 may further reduce the support...

install software Linux

Linux 5.10 LTS may only be supported until 2022

Linux announced in 2017 that it would extend the support time limit of the “Long Term Support (LTS)” version from 2 years to 6 years. This means that the Linux 5.4 LTS released later...

Apple M1 Ubuntu

Developers successfully run Ubuntu on Apple M1

Apple previously launched a MacBook device equipped with a self-developed M1 processor, which can only use Apple systems or use virtualization to install other systems. However, developers have already completed the adaptation by themselves,...

Firefox WebRender Linux

Firefox supports hardware acceleration on Linux

Recently, Firefox developer Martin Stransky introduced the latest WebRender function of Firefox 84, saying that it is the first hardware acceleration function implemented by Firefox on a Linux system, reaching an important milestone in...

Linux kernel i486 processors

Linux kernel developers discuss deleting old CPU platforms

Recently, Arnd Bergmann, a well-known Linux kernel developer, initiated a discussion about deleting support for a bunch of old CPU platforms. Since Linux 5.10 was officially announced as the LTS version, he found that...