This New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to Do Nearly a Decade Ago
Currently in beta, it pairs Prairie, a new desktop, with a native app suite and an AI assistant.
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Ubuntu by Canonical is one of the most widely used Linux distributions. A new release ships every six months, and every two years in April a long-term support (LTS) version. This page collects news about releases, Snap, flavours and Ubuntu on servers and in the cloud.
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Ubuntu Announced the Tech Preview of Its Myna Speech to Text App
Ubuntu introduced Myna Speech to Text project a few months ago. Now, it’s officially available for testing in Ubuntu 26.04 | 24.04 through an official PPA.
PhoronixDistrosUbuntu's Myna Speech-To-Text Now Available In Tech Preview
A few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop.
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Ubuntu’s Myna Speech-to-Text App Is Now Available as a Technology Preview
Ubuntu's Myna local speech-to-text application is now available for public testing on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.10.
Ubuntu release tech preview of Myna, its AI tool for voice dictation
Canonical announce that Myna, its AI-powered speech-to-text tool for Ubuntu desktop, is available to install as a technology preview.
Ubuntu's App Center makes it easy to install missing media codecs
Ubuntu 26.10's new Add-ons page in App Center can now install restricted media codecs as well as hardware drivers. The new flow should make things simpler
Ubuntu now has official desktop images for RISC-V
Installing the Ubuntu desktop on RISC-V hardware is made easier with 26.10, as Canonical is now building official riscv64 desktop images. Experimental
Ubuntu websites offline due to 'sustained' DDoS attack
Canonical reports a 'sustained distributed denial of service attack' on its websites, leading to outages. It says its teams are working to get them back online.
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NVIDIA 615 Driver is Finally Available in Official Ubuntu Repository
NVIDIA 615, the latest feature branch driver for Linux, is finally made into official Ubuntu repository for Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 22.04.
Ubuntu drops Btrfs, XFS & ZFS boot support with Secure Boot
Canonical has changed how Ubuntu 26.10 boots on system with Secure Boot enabled, in an effort to reduce the attack surface of the boot process.
Ubuntu Is Speeding Up Kernel Releases
If there's one good thing that has come out of this mess of AI getting heavily involved in software development and a massive rise in CVEs it's causing Canonical to push out Ubuntu updates much …
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Ubuntu 26.10 has completed its migration to the Rust-based coreutils.