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Mark Shuttleworth talks about Unity 8 Touch and Ubuntu

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We’ve had a déjà vu . A couple of years ago we published a story with the same name, so this would be the “2013 edition” of the news. Mark Shuttleworth has returned to sit in front of your computer as part of the Ubuntu Open Week to answer user questions, and their answers will glimpse something of the future of Ubuntu .

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entire conversation can be found on this page, although we use the information published by I Love Ubuntu as a summary of the juiciest to come :

Unity

now Canonical has its sights on phones and tablets , but “will welcome patches begin to integrate the features of the desktop” (understand that the latter is on the unification of “Ubuntu experience”).
developer community around Ubuntu Touch is growing rapidly, and the portfolio of applications for the mobile system to the traditional desktop. We also aim to attract the more developers better , including GNOME and KDE, and to facilitate your experience with Unity.
not will jump to systemd , continue using Upstart .
browser used in Ubuntu Touch is based on WebKit or Blink , although it is unclear what will be (do not know, but in my opinion we can go betting Chromium). Also be present on the desktop, but – “probably” – not as a default option, but as a basis of webapps of Ubuntu (this would be the only silver lining that is left to continue keeping Firefox as Default , that achieves efficient use webapps with web browser. Now, does it make sense disperse user information eventually? we’ll see).

Regarding

main applications , although “it is tempting to develop a self” is to choose the best of its kind, seeking a balanced partnership with the community (in other words, not will seek to replace each base GNOME application, provided that this fits into the picture).
continue the integration of different services and data synchronization : “I think Ubuntu One is the answer, along with some kind of USB sync to phone and PC, “says Shuttleworth.

And here we read. Apparently, nothing relevant to Mir or Click Packages, for now. The future looks interesting. Canonical Will you reach the end of the yellow brick road? Next year, with the launch of the next LTS Ubuntu will be crucial for the company.

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Install and uninstall applications from Unity in Ubuntu

Many Ubuntu users complained when introduced Canonical Unity , but the interface was much improved from earlier versions, both in aesthetics and performance. One of its most attractive is that it facilitates access to available programs, and even allows you to install or uninstall directly from the “dash”.

Those who use Ubuntu

long surely feel more comfortable running apt-get install in terminal, but the board of Unity application offers friendly and fast method, ideal for those not used to the command line and create that the Software Center is very slow.

Below we will show how to install and uninstall programs from the Unity dash . It is a simple process and can find useful. As always, comments can leave any question or opinion.

The first thing we will do is open the application board from the Ubuntu button on the launcher. If we click on the second icon from the bottom bar will see the available applications, both installed as the Software Center catalog.

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install FileZilla in this example, we will enter the name in the search to find it.

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To view additional information

do right click on the icon and if everything is in order, press “free download” to install it.

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Ubuntu will ask you for the password and immediately begin downloading, whose progress appear in the Unity launcher . The icon “shake” once you have finished downloading and installing the software.

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Please note that payments software installation is performed or yes from the Software Center. Pressing ‘Buy’ on the application board, the transaction continues from the online store. The same applies to third-party apps that are not part of the official repositories of the distro, but Canonical has promised a solution to this counter in future versions of Ubuntu.

Uninstall programs from the Unity dash is as simple as installing . In case you want to remove FileZilla just have to locate the icon from the browser, right click on it and click on the “Uninstall” .

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removal software is done in the background and does not interfere with the use of other programs. As you can see, add and remove programs in Ubuntu is very easy from the Unity panel applications. What is your preferred method to accomplish this task?

Chromium as a web browser? Default in Ubuntu 13.10? [Updated]

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Again, the possibility is on the table: Chromium could replace Firefox as default web browser in Ubuntu 13.10 . It is neither the first nor the second time is proposed. To the third time lucky?

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We found the news

WebUpd8 where discuss some of the innovations that could take shape in Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu also-13.10. You know, the next version of Unity, which will serve as a testing ground for Mir, the server is cooking graph Canonical, the new packaging system and installer, Click Packages, or replacement Firefox for Chromium . We were the latest by this time.

According to Chad Miller, the developer of Ubuntu that has returned to release the hare, “ Chromium has matured to be as good or better than Firefox. It will be based quite a lot of code and webapps Ubuntu Touch . We should consider using Chromium as the default browser in Ubuntu “.

Apparently Chromium is ready for the first line. There are, however, some problems to fix, which Miller listed as follows:

Solution

bugs

facilitate data migration from Firefox
Incompatibility with accessories
Lack of support for some architectures, such as PowerPC
Lack of integration with tools like Orca screen reader

Possibly, this is one of the issues discussed at the Ubuntu Developer Summit which begins today, so it should not take long to know more.

[Update]

We forgot to mention that while this proposal arises, Lubuntu developers are considering doing the opposite , replace Chromium the default browser of the distribution, for Firefox . The reason is as obvious as the significant improvement in the management of resources that Firefox has experienced in recent times, while Chromium is increasingly ravenous for that matter, what a system designed to be functional while light not right.

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No more support for Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 11.10

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On Thursday May 9 ended official support for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. It is therefore time to upgrade for users of these versions and derivatives, which have not yet done.

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For Ubuntu 11.10, it will be unusual to find users stuck in that version, the second in having Unity as desktop interface. But Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is another thing then, with the permission of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, whose support ended last year, marked the farewell in style GNOME 2 desktop so dear.

So, what would be the recommendation for those users who will no longer receive any more updates? In the case of Ubuntu 11.10 could be the next version of the distro, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which has a long road ahead. Although the last 13.04 is another possibility, more chilly.

By contrast, someone who has so far kept in Ubuntu 10.04 may have other interests for your machine. What Debian 7 with Xfce? Recall that Wheezy has virtually the same packages that Ubuntu 12.04.

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On the possible new format for Ubuntu packages

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several who have sent us the news that WebUpd8 published in a couple of days ago, which indicated that Ubuntu is preparing a new package format as well as a custom installer . A story that went straight to PING , but that given the interest, we will tell now.

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Apparently in Ubuntu

continue cooking his “universal system” to run the multi-device without the user experience will suffer , and in addition to the ambitious changes in what is already working, read Mir, there other, at first, of lesser importance. It comes to this new format installer packages and applications to come to simplify software management process .

As explained in the Ubuntu developers list, which is the idea is quite advanced (eg occur throughout the conversation that arises). The new system is called, at least for the moment, “Click Packages” , and its main features are as follows:

No dependencies between applications
Each application would be installed completely in its own directory, independently

Nothing

scripts Maintenance
Users without root permissions can install applications to certain limits

Building and maintaining

packets would be easier to have this task

And those are just a few of the things we have planned. Now, what does this imply? Nothing. For now, nothing. first begin to implement this system in mobile systems to join with desktop lueo. not lose compatibility at any time or dpkg APT nor … what would be a suicide by all accounts, now.

What will happen in the future? That not know . The same Canonical gets built their own garden, but it is difficult that to happen in the short term. Meanwhile, next week marks the Ubuntu Desktop Summit, where they will discuss this and other hot topics in the Ubuntu universe. Until then and even after, no rush.

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