The process of making an application compatible with a system that it was not originally made for.

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Porting Ubuntu-Touch (No Touchscreen, squished landscape) [closed]

So, I have the Mobile World Congress Demo working on a Nook Color, save for two things. The TouchScreen does not respond to input, making testing difficult, to say the least. The widgets appear to ...
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Mir the X Server replacement [closed]

I read much about the X Server replacement Mir, but I am not quite sure which benefits it will have. Ok it is a newer technologie, the currently used X server uses code that is twenty years old or ...
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Ubuntu Touch for iPhones, iPods and iPads? [duplicate]

Is there any sign of Ubuntu Touch for iThingys in the near future?
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How to resize a partition to the min-size via a script

I need to shrink my partition to min-size, like resize2fs -M /dev/sba6 but, it seems that resize2fs does not change the physical partition, just the structure of the filesystem. parted can resize ...
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Ubuntu TV on Samsung Smart TV 2012

Are there any chances that Samsung Smart TVs from 2012 will be supported by Ubuntu TV? Only thing i could find is: SamyGo.tv: They have a Forum, a Wiki and there even is Quake running on it!
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Why don't popular programs like Photoshop or World of Warcraft support Ubuntu? [closed]

The only thing stopping me from making Ubuntu 12.04 my main OS is that a lot of programs I use on Windows 7 and Mac aren't available for download on Ubuntu. Why don't popular programs like Photoshop ...
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How do I install Anything-sync-daemon?

From the Arch Linux wiki: Anything-sync-daemon (asd) is a tiny shell script designed to manage target directories in tmpfs and to periodically sync them back to your physical disc (HDD/SSD). This ...
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Porting “import gobject” to use GObject-Introspection. (PyGTK to PyGI and GTK 3)

I've been trying to port a library from PyGTK to use GI and GTK3. The problem is I can't find any resources specific to the gobject imports, but only for GTK. I was hoping that if someone would ...