Just days after proposing the creation of a new PPA to provide Ubuntu users with the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers the Ubuntu community has clubbed together to do, well, just that.
The plainly named ‘Graphics Drivers PPA‘ contains the latest release of NVIDIA’s proprietary Linux grapics drivers, packaged up for Ubuntu users to upgrade to – no binary runtime headaches needed!
The PPA is designed to offer gamers a way to run the latest games on the latest on Ubuntu as easily as possible.
Jorge, who soft launched the PPA in a post to the Ubuntu desktop mailing list, also notes that gamers using existing PPAs, like xorg-edgers, for timely graphics driver updates won’t notice any driver difference for now (as the drivers have simply been copied over from some of those PPAs to this new one).
“The real fun begins when new drivers are released,” he adds.
Right now, as of writing, the PPA contains a batch of recent Nvidia drivers for Ubuntu 12.04.1 through 15.10. Note all drivers are available for all releases.
Remember: if the PPA breaks your system you are allowed to keep both halves.
To roll back/undo changes made the PPA you should use the ppa-purge command.
If you work in technology you’ve probably had this dream. You wake up and your whole house is a computer, a starship in cyberspace that listens to you, understands you, and performs tasks effortlessly. Mycroft A.I. is achieving that dream using Snappy Ubuntu Core. Mycroft is an open source / open hardware project that is working to bring natural language recognition and Internet of Things (IoT) integration to homes and offices everywhere.
Mycroft is a state of the art A.I. based on Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi 2 and Arduino – three of the world’s most popular open development platforms. Mycroft uses natural language processing to respond to your voice. It makes online services like YouTube, Netflix, Pandora, Spotify and others available to you instantly. No need to pull out your smart phone, log in, select a network, load an app and hunt down a feature. Want to hear great music? Say “Mycroft, play ‘Uptown Funk’ from YouTube on my Chromecast” and seconds later your video begins to play.
It isn’t just for streaming devices. Mycroft has an integrated high quality speaker. It can play music directly using ALSA. Just ask Mycroft to play your favorite Pandora playlist, kick back and enjoy your tunes.
Mycroft also integrates with your smart devices and allows you to control the Internet of Things. Connect Mycroft to your SmartThings hub, WeMo devices or Phillips Hue lights and command your devices with the sound of your voice. Turn on lights, lock doors, make coffee, water plants and feed pets. Whatever it is – If it is connected to the internet – Mycroft can control it.
Mycroft is an open source and open hardware platform. It allows developers, makers and tinkerers to explore their own ideas. Want Mycroft to post to your Facebook account? Control a Roomba? Start your 3D printer? You can do it. At Mycroft’s core is Snappy Ubuntu Core running on Raspberry Pi 2, there are already thousands of tutorials, Instructables and project kits available so you can personalize him with Snappy Apps to meet your needs.
Much like Siri, Google Now, Cortana and Echo, Mycroft uses the power of the cloud to process natural speech, determine user intent and respond seamlessly. Mycroft is always listening. When you call him, he responds. Otherwise he ignores you so your conversations are confidential. Mycroft respects your privacy.
With Mycroft we want to innovate and push the boundaries of what people think is possible with an open source solution. We are challenging the idea that only large companies can innovate in this space. We are creating a product in Mycroft that marries the latest and greatest in voice recognition and machine learning with the open source ethos behind so many great projects already.
Mycroft will be shipping with Snappy Core Ubuntu as the operating system. Snappy Ubuntu Core will allow Mycroft to ship secure devices that utilize the latest and greatest containerization and app delivery technologies. Ubuntu’s parent company is changing the landscape of IoT and the cloud, and we are ecstatic to be a part of this revolution.
Mycroft open source hardverska i softverska AI platforma za smart homes i Internet of Things, pogonjena Snappy Ubuntu Coreom kao i Raspberry Pi 2 i Arduino platformama.
The largest of the LinuxONE systems launched by IBM is called ‘Emperor’ and can scale up to 8000 virtual machines or tens of thousands of containers – a possible record for any one single Linux system.
The LinuxONE is described by IBM as a ‘game changer’ that ‘unleashes the potential of Linux for business’.
IBM and Canonical are working together on the creation of an Ubuntu distribution for LinuxONE and other IBM z Systems. Ubuntu will join RedHat and SUSE as ‘premier Linux distributions’ on IBM z.
IBMov LinuxONE sustav nazvan Emperor koji može scaleati do 8000 virtualnih mašina ili desetke tisuća containera dobiti će verziju Ubuntua za LinuxONE i time će se Ubuntu pridružiti RedHatu i Suseu kao premijerna Linux distribucija na ovim sustavima.
Marco Parillo had the pleasure of announcing that the recently released KDE Plasma 5.4 desktop environment just landed in the development release of Kubuntu, Wily Werewolf.
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JH-IM je napisao/la:
X aplikacije u Unityju 8 sa Mir display serverom.
Ohoho. Kako radi to?
X aplikacije se vrte preko XMir backenda afaik, Mir ima sandboxed aplikacije kao na Ubuntu Touchu, ali pošto X aplikacije ne podržavaju sandboxing toga tipa mislim da se X aplikacije instaliraju u LXC container pa se vrte u sandboxed environmentu bez obzira što ne podržavaju sandboxing same po sebi.
Ideja je koliko ja znam da se OS odvoji od aplikacija radi sigurnosti i radi lakšeg updateanja aplikacija što će donijeti budući snap paketi, to će omogućiti updateanje aplikacija, pa i imanje više verzija iste aplikacije, odvojeno od OSa, po tome bi svaki Ubuntu imao uvijek up to date aplikacije jer bi se umjesto u PPA repositoryje uploadalo u Ubuntu Store, a upstream bi samo napravio snap paket i uploadao ga kada hoće updateati. To bi olakšalo i updateanje OSa. Snappy Ubuntu Core za IoT primjene sada koristi takav princip. Snap paketi su slični click paketima kakvi se sada koriste na mobitelu.
Snappy baza je korak poslije, sada se radi na Unityju 8 da dostigne jednaku funkcionalnost kao Unity 7.
