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Spotify video is now on Android and iOS
Spotify's new video content section, dubbed Shows, hit Android devices this week. And though the feature wasn't supposed to make it to iOS devices until sometime next week, there is a way for you to access it right now. You won't be able to access it from the Browse page, as you would on an Android. Instead, iOS users will need to first navigate to the Your Library page and look for the Shows listing under Playlists. That's it. Once you're in the Shows page, you'll be able to browse and search through video content from more than a dozen providers including the BBC, Comedy Central and ESPN.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/29/spotify-video-is-now-on-android-and-ios/
You Can Now Use an Ubuntu Phone's Screen as a Touchpad, Miracast Coming Soon
Google+ user Richard Somlói published a few interesting photos earlier on his profile page, showcasing the new functionality on his Nexus 4 Ubuntu Phone connected to an LCD as a converged desktop and using the latest Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system from the rc-proposed channel (only for developers and early adopters).
“Nexus 4 - rc-proposed channel: You can use the phone screen as a touchpad. And if you click in a text field the keyboard appears on the phone screen instead of the external screen,” said Richard Somlói in the Google+ post.
We were very intrigued by the whole thing, so we've contacted Michael Hall from Canonical regarding the images posted by Richard Somlói. Mr. Hall reveals exclusively for Softpedia that Nexus 4 devices currently support this functionality, and you can even use two-finger scrolling and three-finger tap for right click.
KDE Neon offers the latest and greatest KDE software on a stable Ubuntu base
KDE Neon is a product of the upstream KDE community, an international body that works to advance the development and availability of free software for both Unix-like and Windows systems. One such piece of KDE software is the Plasma Desktop, a popular and customizable desktop environment used with many Linux distributions. KDE Neon will provide packages of the latest Plasma Desktop as well as other KDE apps for long-term-service versions of Ubuntu: currently Ubuntu 15.10, but also Ubuntu 16.04 when it's released in a few months.
Android Wear gets voice calling and message dictation in major update
Android Wear is getting updated in a big way this month. Google is beginning to roll out an update with some major new features for Android Wear, including the ability to make and listen to calls directly on the watch. You'll need a watch with a speaker to do that, of course, and only two watches currently have one: the Huawei Watch and the 49mm model of the Asus ZenWatch 2. The update also adds in expanded support for controlling Wear watches with gestures — though you may need someone to decode them for you — and the ability to dictate messages to be sent from apps like Hangouts and WhatsApp.
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10917308/android-wear-gestures-voice-calls-dictation-update
Fairphone 2 Ubuntu Touch Port Is in the Making, Here's What Works
While Canonical employees are working hard these days on the enablement of the Ubuntu Tablet device, it looks like we're getting the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system on the Fairphone 2 smartphone.
How did that happen? Well, you might have heard of Marius Gripsgård, the skilled developer who managed to port Ubuntu for Phones on the OnePlus One smartphone.
He teased us earlier, on his Google+ profile page, with a photo of the Ubuntu mobile OS working on Fairphone 2. So we just had to get in touch with him to find out a few more details about what's going on, what works right now on the device, and what users should expect in the coming months. Please note that Marius Gripsgård is part of the ubports.com community, a group of devs trying to port Ubuntu Touch to as many devices as possible.
Exton|OS Light Is One of the First Linux Distributions Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, which, of course, is in heavy development at the moment, Exton|OS Light is, in fact, one of the first distributions to adopt the upcoming OS from Canonical. The good news, however, is that it doesn't use the Unity 7 user interface, nor Ubuntu 16.04 LTS' kernel packages.
“I’ve made a new extra version of Exton|OS based on upcoming Ubuntu 16.04 (alias Xenial Xerus) 64-bit with only a minimum of packages pre-installed,” reveals Arne Exton for Softpedia. “Exton|OS Light’s Window manager Openbox guarantees lightness and elegance. My special kernel 4.4.0-3-exton, equivalent to kernel.org’s latest stable kernel 4.4.1.”
Firefox 44.0.1 Now Available for All Supported Ubuntu OSes
The Ubuntu maintainers of Firefox have been quick to push the new version into the repositories in less than a day. They moved pretty fast and now Ubuntu users can benefit from the changes and improvements that have been implemented.
In the past few months, the Ubuntu maintainers didn't wait around too long to push the latest version of Firefox in the repos, and they have kept this habit. Long gone are the days when Ubuntu users had to wait for days before the upgrade was made available.
USN-2880-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update introduced a regression which caused Firefox to crash on startup with some configurations. This update fixes the problem,“ reads the security notice.
Intel Unveils Android Phone That Can Be Used As Linux Desktop
Intel has grabbed attention with a smartphone prototype that can also create a desktop PC experience. No, it’s not running on Windows 10 Mobile and is not using Continuum for phone software. Rather, the smartphone is a low-power phone with an Intel Atom x3 processor and two operating systems: Android and a custom version of Debian Linux. You can use it like a phone and run Android apps, or you can plug it into an external display with an HDMI cable and run desktop-style apps on a big screen. All one has to is connect a keyboard, mouse and display to make it a desktop Linux device.
“Android is based on a Linux kernel, so we’re running one kernel, we have an Android stack and a Linux stack, and we’re sharing the same context, so the file system is identical. The phone stays fully functional,” Intel’s Nir Metzer, Path Finding Group Manager, told The Register.
Source: http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/02/intel-android-phone-linux-desktop/
Steam And Linux Gaming Poised To Thrive As Vulkan API Will Come Gunning For DirectX
Linux-based Steam machines and mobile devices will get enhanced graphics due to the upcoming Vulkan API (application programming interface).
Vulkan is useful in many applications, but games benefit from it more than most. It performs the same actions as DirectX does for Windows, but it is far better adapted to new technologies.
Vulkan is a welcome upgrade to OpenGL, which starts to show its age, 25 years after its launch.
The Vulkan API should ensure that Mac systems, Linux and mobile devices get better visuals in games. What is more, games will use system resources more judiciously as well as save more battery life in mobile devices and laptops.
Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 (Atticus) Officially Released, Based on Debian 8 “Jessie”
Dubbed Atticus, Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5r0 is the first stable release of the distribution, which has been in development for the past three months, during which the project's developers have announced no less than three test builds with all sorts of improvements and updated packages.
Prominent features in Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5r0 (Atticus) include the long-term supported Linux 4.1.17 kernel injected with the BFS, TuxOnIce 3.3, as well as several other extra patches, the latest GNOME 3.18 desktop environment with the GNOME Shell 3.18.3 user interface, and GRUB 2 as the default bootloader.
Being based on the latest Debian GNU/Linux 8 (Jessie) operating system, Parsix GNU/Linux 8.5 (Atticus) has been fully synchronized with its default software repositories as of February 13, 2016. Also, the Live ISO images, which are now available for 64-bit and 32-bit systems, have been compressed with the XZ and SquashFS methods.
Nvidia releases 361.91 driver and improves Linux support
Street Fighter V is coming out tomorrow, and Nvidia is making sure that gamers can hadouken each other with maximum graphical fidelity. The company has just released its WHQL-certified 361.91 drivers, which offer some tweaks for Capcom's fighting game and a bevy of SLI profile updates for other titles.
Linux-using gerbils will be happy with another tidbit of news. Nvidia has released signed firmware blobs for cards with GM200 and GM204 GPUs, paving the way for the open-source Nouveau project to enable full hardware acceleration on those chips.
Until now, Linux gamers had to use Nvidia's closed-source driver to get 3D acceleration support, a situation that's likely to change soon. Phoronix says the Mesa and Nouveau teams expect to have support for GM200 and GM204-based cards baked into the Linux 4.6 kernel cycle.
Source: http://techreport.com/news/29717/nvidia-releases-361-91-driver-and-improves-linux-support
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Beta 1 Launches February 25, Remains Based on Linux Kernel 4.4.1
On February 19, 2016, Canonical's Joseph Salisbury reports for the Ubuntu community the latest news from the Ubuntu Kernel Team, which just released their weekly newsletter with information about the latest kernel work for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
“Our Xenial kernel remains based on v4.4.1 and is available for testing in the archive, i.e linux-4.4.0-6.21. Please test and let us know your results. Also, as an early reminder, Xenial Kernel Freeze is Thurs, April 7. We encourage anyone needing kernel patches pulled into Xenial to please submit them well in advance of Kernel Freeze to allow for as much testing as possible,” developers explained.
Please note that Ubuntu itself won't be part of the first Beta release, but it will be ready for public testing during the Final Beta announcement on March 24, 2016. After that, the development cycle of Xenial Xerus will continue with the Final Freeze on April 14, when the Release Candidate images will be available internally, and the final release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on April 21.
Java 9 to address GTK GUI pains on Linux
Plans are afoot to have Java 9 accommodate the GTK 3 GUI toolkit on Linux systems. The move would bring Java current with the latest version of the toolkit and prevent application failure due to mixing of versions. The intention, according to a Java enhancement proposal on openjdk.net, would be to support GTK (GIMP Toolkit) 2 by default, with GTK 3 used when indicated by a system property. Java graphical applications based on JavaFX, Swing, or AWT (Advanced Window Toolkit) would be accommodated under the plan, and existing applications could run on Linux without modification with either GTK 2 or 3.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3035505/java/java-9-to-address-gtk-gui-pains-on-linux.html