Ubuntu: Didier Roche's Interviews Series and Resurgence of Ubuntu Touch

• Welcome To The (Ubuntu) Bionic Age: Behind communitheme: interviewing Aaron

  I’m Aaron Papin and I’m from Trinidad and Tobago. I work at an IT consultancy that specializes in open-source solutions for SMBs. I’m a technician, but I also work in designing and deploying websites and even on ads from time to time. It’s pretty freeform and fun. I knew of Linux for years, but I only dove in after a hard drive failure a couple years ago. Because why not at that point? It didn’t take me long to start using it mostly full time (games). Even though I’ve worked on my own themes in the past, I’m still pretty new to the Linux community. Hobby-wise, I really like TV, cooking, video games and keeping fit when I’m not on an “extended break”.

• Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5

  Purism and UBports are partnering to offer Ubuntu Touch as a supported operating system on Purism’s Librem 5 smartphone. Being able to work with Purism and focus on the Librem 5 hardware platform ensures that the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system developed by UBports will be well supported, tightly integrated, and that future compatibility will remain. When the Librem 5 is delivered to pre-order customers, it will become one of just a few smartphones that support the free and open source operating system.

• Open Source Smartphone Librem 5 Will Officially Support Ubuntu Touch

  When Canonical decided to halt the development of Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system, it came as a surprise to many. However, due to the lack of interest of smartphone manufacturers and community, this tough decision was taken. Later, UBPorts decided to take up the Ubuntu Touch development work.

• Purism Partners with UBports to Offer Ubuntu Touch on the Librem 5, Red Hat Storage One Launches and More

  Purism has partnered with UBports to offer Ubuntu Touch on its Librem 5 smartphone. By default, the smartphone runs Purism's PureOS, which supports GNOME and KDE Plasma mobile interfaces. UBports is ensuring Ubuntu Touch will run on the phones as well, so the Librem 5 can "now offer users three fully free and open mobile operating system options".

BSD: DragonFlyBSD's Latest and NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 1

• DragonFlyBSD Implements Part Of Linux's IRQ Subsystem, Improves DRM Driver Portability

  DragonFlyBSD has implemented a portion of the Linux IRQ subsystem within its kernel. The purpose of implementing some Linux IRQ subsystem functionality within this BSD kernel is to improve the portability of the Linux DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver code.

• NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 1

  The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.0 RC 1, the first release candidate for the upcoming NetBSD 8.0 release.

• Celebrating 25 Years Of Work, NetBSD 8.0 RC1 Officially Released With USB3 & UEFI

  Last week I wrote about the NetBSD 8.0 RC1 images being available and the changes coming in this big update to this popular BSD platform. This morning that official NetBSD 8.0 RC1 announcement was issued. With NetBSD 8.0 they are celebrating 25 years since the first official release of their operating system: NetBSD 0.8 was released back on 19 April 1993.

Games Leftovers

• The Once Very Promising Unvanquished Game Hasn't Seen A New Release In Two Years

  Going back several years one of our most favorite open-source games to monitor was the Unvanquished game project with its roots in the Tremulous game and built off the Daemon Engine that is a distant fork to ioquake3 by way of the also once very promising ET: XreaL work. Back in 2012 I considered Unvanquished to be one of the most promising open-source games and was pumping out decent artwork and visuals compared to many other open-source/indie games. The engine work they were doing while building off the ioquake3/XreaL lifting was also fascinating to watch.

• Pirates, Vikings, and Knights II updated with character dismemberment

  The free multiplayer action game Pirates, Vikings, and Knights II [Steam] was updated recently with a character dismemberment system and plenty more. [...] The latest update brings in the ability to slice and dice your enemies along with blood spray and explosion particles. On top of that, they've added the ability for players to call a vote, added a bunch of new animations, more achievements to hunt down and lots of general bug fixes.

• The fun top-down shooter State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem recently had a big content update

  For those who love their top-down shooters, State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem [Steam] is a pretty good one that recently had a big free content update.

• Fallout-inspired ATOM RPG has another big content update

  For those of you wanting another RPG to play, one perhaps a bit like the old Fallout games it seems ATOM RPG might be a good choice.

• All four chapters of the text-parser driven adventure game 'Snail Trek' are now on Linux

  Do you miss the days of the classic adventure games? The Snail Trek [Official Site] chapters might be exactly what you're after. They're all "bite-sized" adventures, with all four chapters each having between 20-90 minutes gameplay time depending on how you play. What makes them interesting, is that they're style liked early Sierra Online adventure games, including an interface that sees you typing out what to do, although it includes modern enhancements like auto-correct and auto-suggest to make it a little easier.

• The action-RPG 'Last Epoch' that's currently crowdfunding has a working Linux demo now

  . There's also now a Linux demo available.

• The huge 'Opportunity Update' for Surviving Mars is out

  Surviving Mars just got quite a bit nicer, thanks to the effort from Haemimont Games based on player feedback.

What's New in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver

Have a look at the new features coming to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.