# Linux Action News 14

URL: /show/linux-action-news/14/
> Flatpak and Snaps get a boost, changes to the Ubuntu community, and development on Ubuntu 17.10 and taken an interesting turn. Plus good news about Firefox and Android updates.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 14
- Date: 2017-08-12
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:31:36
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/2adaaab3-82a5-457f-a971-a4e281856dd8.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISzYguNkd00





### Episode Links

  * [Snaps in Solus](https://plus.google.com/+IkeyDoherty/posts/QF86urMjkqo "Snaps in Solus") — Occurs to me that I likely have to make some kind of statement or whathaveyou about the whole "Solus adopting snaps" thing. 
  * [Ubuntu Community Hub Proposal](https://popey.com/blog/posts/ubuntu-community-hub-proposal.html "Ubuntu Community Hub Proposal") — I propose we replace the Community Portal with a dynamic and collaboratively maintained site. The site would raise the profile of conversations and content, to improve our onboarding and communication issues.
  * [Ubuntu Artful Desktop Fit and Finish Sprint](https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/08/08/ubuntu-artful-desktop-fit-and-finish-sprint/ "Ubuntu Artful Desktop Fit and Finish Sprint") — First up is the Desktop Fit & Finish Sprint on August 24th and 25th.
  * [50% CPU savings w/Hardware Accelerated Video Playback](https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/08/11/ubuntu-desktop-weekly-update-august-11-2017/?utm_content=buffer6b52b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer&_utm_source=1-2-2 "50% CPU savings w/Hardware Accelerated Video Playback") — We’re testing some patches to Chromium 60 in Artful to enable video acceleration and we’re seeing roughly a 50% saving in CPU overhead when using VA API. 
  * [Nextcloud push into education](https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-moodle-and-4-other-partners-announce-education-edition/ "Nextcloud push into education") — Today we are very proud to officially announce the Nextcloud Education Edition, developed in collaboration with Moodle, DeiC, regio iT, the TU Berlin and Univention.
  * [Firefox 55](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/55.0/releasenotes/ "Firefox 55") — Performance changes include significantly faster startup times when restoring lots of tabs and settings that let users take greater control of our new multi-process architecture. We’ve also upgraded the address bar to make finding what you want easier, with search suggestions and the integration of our one-click search feature, and safer, by prioritizing the secure - https - version of sites when possible.
  * [Firefox 55 Advanced Performance Features](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/firefox-55-supports-webvr/ "Firefox 55 Advanced Performance Features") — Firefox 55 introduces several new low-level capabilities that help improve the performance of demanding web applications
  * [Epiphany gets Firefox Sync](https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2017/08/09/on-firefox-sync/ "Epiphany gets Firefox Sync") — You can sync bookmarks, history, passwords, and open tabs with other Epiphany instances and as well as both desktop and mobile Firefox. 
  * [Photon UI](https://www.xda-developers.com/firefox-nightly-new-photon-ui/ "Photon UI") — Version 57 of Firefox is slated to be released sometime in November and the biggest user facing change is its new user interface.
  * [Android 8.0’s “streaming OS updates” will work even if your phone is full | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/android-8-0s-streaming-os-updates-will-work-even-if-your-phone-is-full/ "Android 8.0’s “streaming OS updates” will work even if your phone is full | Ars Technica") — Starting with Android 8.0, the A/B system partition setup is being upgraded with a "streaming updates" feature. Update data will arrive from the Internet directly to the offline system partition, written block by block, in a ready-to-boot state.