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Linux Mint, Canonical/Ubuntu, and Gaming
The Register UK ☛ Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop
Linux Mint 27 is expected next month, and it's starting to take shape. Its flagship desktop, Cinnamon 2.8, is already available.
The team behind the popular, beginner-friendly Linux just released Cinnamon 2.8, which will be the default desktop in Mint 27. Since 2014, Linux Mint versions have been based on the LTS releases of Ubuntu. Since a new LTS, Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" arrived in late April, that means that a corresponding version of Mint is in development.
The Mint project blog post last month revealed the codename: "Adrien." This is the first male codename since Mint 1.0 "Ada" in 2006, based on the first ever Ubuntu LTS release, 6.06 "Dapper Drake", but the project has run through the whole alphabet since then (except for the letter “Y”.) That blog also revealed it will have a new alarm clock app, but the subsequent Mint Blog post imparted more information.
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Canonical ☛ Canonical validates Charmed Apache Spark on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service
Enterprise data teams now have further validations and support around their big data processing workloads deployed using Charmed Apache Spark on VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), – the Kubernetes component of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
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Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Summit 26.10: Less than a week away!
This will be our third Summit since switching to our twice-yearly schedule. What initially seemed like a huge challenge, fitting a year of planning into six months, then starting again, has become a massive opportunity for those of us who put the event together.
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Ubuntu ☛ The missing piece: bringing up to 15 years of support to Zephyr for microcontroller-based ECUs
While central high-performance computer ECUs capture most of the industry spotlight in software-defined vehicle (SDV) architectures, the operational reality of modern vehicles is far more distributed. Under the chassis sit hundreds of microcontroller-based electronic control units (ECUs) managing real-time sensor loops, power distribution, and domain specific control tasks.
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HowTo Geek ☛ Ubuntu gaming has never been better, so why am I still stuck on Windows?
Ubuntu hasn’t been in better shape for gaming, probably ever. And for casual players with single-player libraries, it’s finally starting to feel like an actual alternative to Windows. But after I moved my gaming PC over, I realized the remaining issues aren’t just annoying little hiccups—they are the exact reasons why most gamers are still stuck on Windows.