Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps
Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our s...
AMD Releases Orochi 3.0 For HIP & CUDA API Switching At Run-Time
Back in April 2022 was the announcement by AMD's GPUOpen team of Orochi as a library for HIP/CUDA API run-time switching. Making use of Orochi allows for dynamically targeting either AMD HIP or NVIDIA CUDA at run-time to ease the distribution/usage of ...
Important Changes To Intel TDX Coming With Linux 6.14
Important code restructuring to the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code is landing for the Linux 6.14 kernel to make it more robust moving forward and preparing for future features around this confidential computing / trusted execution environment...
VirtualBox Update Adds Support for Linux Kernel 6.13
VirtualBox 7.1.6 is out, the third maintenance release to the VirtualBox 7.1 stable series first released in September of last year. Headline offering in this update is initial support for the recently released Linux kernel 6.13 in Linux Guest Addition...
Wine 10.0 Released with New Drivers, Features & Changes
A cork has popped on a new stable release of Wine, the open-source compatibility layer that makes it possible to run Windows apps and games on Linux and macOS. Over 6 thousand changes were distilled in the Wine 10.0 release – changes collected, coll...
Wine 10.0 Release Brings New Drivers, Features & Changes
A fresh stable release of Wine — the open-source compatibility layer that makes it possible to run Windows apps and games on Linux and macOS — has been uncorked. More than 6,000 thousand changes were distilled in Wine 10.0, changes collected, coll...
Ubuntu Summit 2024 Reflections
As we move into 2025, we wanted to reflect on the crowning event of the year: the Ubuntu Summit. Just over two months ago, we celebrated Ubuntu’s 20th birthday in The Hague, the Netherlands. We’re still buzzing from the electric atmosphere you all ...
Ubuntu Devs Debate Moving from IRC to Matrix
Ubuntu is mulling a switch to Matrix from IRC to handle real-time development discussion. Canonical’s Robbie Bask has has begin a discussion on the Ubuntu Developer Mailing list regarding a potential switch in an effort to find consensus for or again...
Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI
As was expected this week, Wine 10.0 stable is now available as the newest annual feature release to this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's St...
