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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?

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).

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.

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.

Official announcement European Voxit community strengthens digital sovereignty: shared codebase completed.

Yesterday, I had to add support for running KVM virtual machines inside an LXC container.

Lomiri Codefest in Tilburg NL (May 16-17 2026) Just a quick invitation to an in-person event in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

On 25th Oct 2025, I announced via my personal blog and on Mastodon that Fre(i)e Software GmbH was hiring.

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 the…

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).

After (quite) a summer break, here comes the 4th article of the 5-episode blog post series on Polis, written by Guido Berhörster, member of staff at my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH.

Here comes the 3rd article of the 5-episode blog post series on Polis, written by Guido Berhörster, member of staff at my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH.

Lomiri Weather App goes Open Meteo In Ubuntu Touch / Lomiri, Maciej Sopyło has updated Lomiri's Weather App to operate against a different weather forecast provider (Open Meteo).

Here comes the 2nd article of the 5-episode blog post series written by Guido Berhörster, member of staff at my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH.

This is the first article of a 5-episode blog post series written by Guido Berhörster, member of staff at my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH.

This is a call for testing of Debian Edu based on Debian bookworm.

Yesterday, the UBports core developer team released Ubuntu Touch Focal OTA-1 (In fact, Raoul, Marius and I were in a conference call when Marius froze and said: the PR team already posted the release blog post; the post is out, but we haven't released yet…

Prologue For over a year now, Fre(i)e Software GmbH (my company) is involved in Ubuntu Touch development.

What is Ubuntu Touch?

For those, who haven't realized, yet: MATE 1.26 has now been uploaded to Debian and should be available in Debian testing to all happy testers.

More as a reminder to myself, but possibly also helpful to other people who want to use Firefox on a tablet running Debian...

An interesting mindset overcome by reality...

We (Robert Tari, the UBports developers team, myself) are very close to releasing Ayatana Indicators 0.9.x.

In this blog post, I will cover a few related but also different topics around X2Go - the GNU/Linux based remote computing framework.

For a customer project, I recently needed to take a closer look at best strategies of deploying Chromium settings to thrillions of client machines in a corporate network.

Over the past days, I have received tons of positive feedback on my previous blog post about forming the Debian BBB Packaging Team [1].

Today, Fre(i)e Software GmbH has been contracted for packaging Kurento Media Server for Debian.

Recently, I bought an Acer Spin 3 Convertible Notebook for the company and provided it to Robert Tari for his daily work on Ayatana Indicators (which currently is funded by the UBports Foundation via my company Fre(i)e Software GmbH).

Before and during FOSDEM 2020, I agreed with the people (developers, supporters, managers) of the UBports Foundation to package the Unity8 Operating Environment for Debian.

This is a very short notice that I am not available via Freenode anymore.