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Thomas Holbrook II | The *Nixed Report

Full Disclosure: Thomas owns a fraction of a share of Microsoft via SoFI Invest. He was also a Walmart Associate until December of 2016.

In the past, Ubuntu’s Unity Desktop was designed to work on mobile devices and desktop computers. When Canonical changed plans and moved back to GNOME 3 as their desktop environment of choice, the mobile variant all but disappeared.

Thanks to UBports, however, Ubuntu Touch is still being developed and works on several mobile devices.

Their newest release includes but is not limited to:

• QtWebEngine 5.14: Now allows more flexible text selection and opening of multiple file types (PDF, MP3, images, text).
• Icon-based System Settings Menu.
• Newer backend components that will allow Ubuntu Touch to be based on Ubuntu 20.04.
• Revamps of Messages, Dialer, and Contacts
• Better compatibility with IPv6.

Their official release announcement can be read here.

It’s nice to be able to have progress without dealing with political theater, which TikTok has fallen victim to, according to media mogul Barry Diller.

“It has now morphed into a ludicrous game-match between tossing ownership here, control there. … Its original aims are out the window. It has just come a whole political mismash.”

–Barry Diller on CNBC’s Squawk Box

Microsoft was initially going to attempt a deal with ByteDance until China placed more export restrictions on computer-based algorithms. Now it’s Oracle and Walmart. World politics will continue to impact e-commerce in 2020, especially in the age of COVID-19.

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Thomas Holbrook II | The *Nixed Report

I tried running Oracle Solaris on two of my machines, and was going to use it as the OS of choice for the next few weeks.  Unfortunately, the test was cut short, so the evaluation will be written here instead of in the next issue of the magazine.

The Live-DVD was used for installation.

The Interface and Included Apps

Gnome 2.3 is used for the desktop interface.  It comes with Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, Rythmbox, Brasero, and a handful of other applications.

What I Liked and What Needs Improvement

The live environment worked on the Breeze.  All the relevant hardware was detected and I was able to go online.  The Intel/Nvidia desktop on the other hand was a different story.

Either the driver was missing or was not loaded properly.  I was in no mood to either hunt down the driver or try some other fix to force the hardware to work correctly.  On the upside, the Nvidia drivers worked and I had 3D acceleration.

What was also perplexing was the fact that there was a category for Office in software management, but no word processing listed.  I know Solaris 11 is not supposed to be used on productivity machines, but why not have Abiword at the very least?

After all, GIMP 2.6 is included.

Then again, this is Oracle we’re talking about here.  This company is known more for their enterprise driven database products than operating systems and programming platforms.

Conclusion

Unfortunately, it seems that Oracle has ruined a potentially good product.  Even for developers, it can be a bit cumbersome to compile all the desired software from source just for the sole purpose of having the desired applications installed.

The online repositories are sparse.  The version of Firefox ESR is also out of date.  For that reason, this review will be on this site while the next stop on the Distro Journey for 2013 will be Linux Mint Debian Edition.