Commenting on the recent Ubuntu Touch review done by @SwitchandClickOfficial on Youtube June 18 2026 07:49:10 by Mike Gabriel There has been a video blog post recently published with a review of Ubuntu Touch as an option to opt out of the Android world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTK6TS3pXgc Thanks to @SwitchandClick for spending time on this and publishing that video.…
Ubuntu Touch development - 24.04-2.0 Beta and Meaning of Branching-Off June 16 2026 11:14:29 by Mike Gabriel The next Ubuntu Touch major release is approaching rapidly, yesterday we reached a major step in the preparation of the upcoming Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 release: The branching-off (see below on what that is). Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta is Now…
Ayatana Indicators: Call for Translations June 12 2026 21:50:34 by Mike Gabriel In the process of preparing a major Ubuntu Touch release (v24.04-2.0, coming soon...) we will also update Ayatana Indicators in Ubuntu Touch. Last week various new features have been added to some of the indicators (toggle switch to keep the display…
Future of libayatana-appindicator (v0.6.0 released today) June 10 2026 20:15:00 by Mike Gabriel Some of you might have noticed that the recent (or rather: previous) version of libayatana-appindicator (v0.5.94) notified users and developers of the library being deprecated. This short post is to notify you, that with today's…
Voxit 1.0 has been released June 9 2026 09:45:00 by Mike Gabriel Official announcement European Voxit community strengthens digital sovereignty: shared codebase completed. Read the official announcement at: https://www.voxit.org/european-voxit-community-strengthens-digital-sover... The Voxit community and platform…
KVM Support inside LXC Containers [updated] April 27 2026 09:44:28 by Mike Gabriel Yesterday, I had to add support for running KVM virtual machines inside an LXC container. More as a reminder to myself, in case I ever have to do this again, here the simple recipe: LXC Container Config Adjustment Enable lxc.autodev and execute hook…
Join us at Lomiri CodeFest on May 16-17 & Fre(i)e Software GmbH is hiring more Lomiri Developers April 21 2026 17:35:40 by Mike Gabriel Lomiri Codefest in Tilburg NL (May 16-17 2026) Just a quick invitation to an in-person event in Tilburg, the Netherlands. All people interested in the Lomiri Operating Environment are invited to join us at the Lomiri Codefest [codefest] taking place…
Debian Lomiri Tablets 2025-2027 - Project Report (Q4/2025) March 12 2026 08:59:05 by Mike Gabriel On 25th Oct 2025, I announced via my personal blog and on Mastodon that Fre(i)e Software GmbH was hiring. The hiring process was a mix of asking developers I know and waiting for new people to apply. At the beginning of November 2025 / in mid…
Debian Lomiri Tablets 2025-2027 - Project Report (Q3/2025) February 28 2026 18:36:37 by Mike Gabriel Debian Lomiri for Debian 13 (previous project) In our previous project around Debian and Lomiri (lasting until July 2025), we achieved to get Lomiri 0.5.0 (and with it another 130 packages) into Debian (with two minor exceptions [1]) just in time for…
Debian Lomiri Tablets - We are hiring! October 25 2025 20:58:24 by Mike Gabriel We at Fre{i}e Software GmbH now have a confirmed budget for working on Debian based tablets with the special goal to use them for educational purposes (i.e. in schools). Those Debian Edu tablets shall be powered by the Lomiri Operating Environment…
