Core Apps Hack days are an easy way for app developers to get started contributing to one of the most important and visible parts of Ubuntu, and learn and share knowledge with an exciting community of some of the best Open Source developers around.

Canonical has been promising Ubuntu phones in the early part of 2014, and it may still reach that goal. However, the phones likely won't be sold by what the company calls major carriers or handset manufacturers.

Canonical's UK financial report shows willingness to invest in Ubuntu's future.

Users of Chromium on Linux will be left unable to play Flash content from this coming April as Google is dropping support for NPAPI plugins, including Adobe Flash, from Linux builds of the browser earlier than was originally planned, to coincide with the arrival of Chrome 34 in early spring.

The official support period for Ubuntu 13.04 comes to an end later this month. From January 27 the Raring Ringtail will receive no further security updates, bug fixes or package upgrades.

Canonical is working to enable its OS to search torrents by default. The torrent scope will be included in Ubuntu by default, currently relies on the Pirate Bay

Valve have announced 12 new hardware partners shipping Linux-powered Steam Machines.

Ubuntu 2014: One Linux codebase to rule them all: smartphone, tablet, and desktop.

Linux distros store Wi-Fi passwords in clear text, Ubuntu isn't the only distribution that does this.

Ubuntu is finally getting around to adding TRIM support, a pretty basic feature of most modern OSes. It's an essential command for maintaining the performance and health of solid state drives, since they operate in a fundamentally different way than your standard spinning-platter.

With a recent proclamation by Mark Shuttleworth that an “interesting set of household brands' are looking at putting Ubuntu Touch on their own phones and tablets,” the mobile landscape has become quite interesting. Ubuntu Phone was having serious issues gaining any traction with major brands but with Ubuntu 14.04 placing a major focus on honing the Ubuntu tablet experience, things are going to get interesting.

Eager to compete with Apple iOS and Google Android, the Ubuntu Linux design team has been busy in recent weeks rethinking the icons in the popular open source operating system. team has unveiled a set of new designs with an eye toward compatibility with both PCs and mobile platforms.

Corporate conversion from Windows to Ubuntu or any flavor of Unix is currently very low. Novel is the easiest one to point at as they're in the process of doing a complete migration from Windows desktop to Linux. On the other hand, start-ups and small companies are in a unique position to just take the plunge and go full Ubuntu. I don't know about you, but if I start a job and they hand me an Ubuntu computer, I don't start complaining that it isn't Windows.

The flow of LibreOffice's arrival in Ubuntu has seen numerous improvements across the latest years, yet, it seems that the versions of LibreOffice that are to be available in Ubuntu will probably gain a more rolling release-like nature.

Mark Shuttleworth has expresses his belief that Ubuntu will deliver true mobile/desktop convergence ahead of Microsoft.

It's not even January 2014 yet, and already Canonical faces another media flare-up about its Ubuntu Linux operating system. But this time, the negative stories about the open source vendor -- which critics accuse of storing WiFi passwords in an insecure way via NetworkManager -- are not fair.