No doubt you’ll notice something different round these parts. That’s right, after two months of design and development, we have unleashed the new face of OMG! Ubuntu!
So what’s new?
Make the jump to find out.
SAMSUNG & UBUNTU PLAY VERY NICELY THANKS TO USER EFFORT
Seeking out a new laptop or notebook but dreading the all-too-frequent compatibility issue with function keys, blue tooth, wifi, webcam etc?
Don’t.
Maverick Beta hits tomorrow
Well, for some of you readers, it’s already the 2nd of September, and the Beta release of 10.10 is out today. Originally, this was scheduled to be Alpha 4, but the Maverick Release schedule was slightly altered a few weeks ago to give a bit more time to “Release Quality” (read:bug hunting and rough edges).
Click through to read more and learn how to upgrade from Lucid if you’re keen.
Banshee 1.7.5 released with improved hardware support
Grab your portable gadgets, even your iPhone. Banshee 1.7.5 is here with new hardware support and we need YOU to break it (and file bugs if you succeed naturally).
With 1.7.5 you will not just get all new and improved hardware support but also 47 bug fixes. Most notable of these writing metadata to video files is now supported.
OMG! 5! – Five ways to make Wine apps feel native in Ubuntu
Applications running in Wine more often than not look like second-class citizens. That’s no way to experience your OS – we’re put together five tips for getting Wine applications looking, feeling & behaving like everything else on your desktop.
In this OMG! 5! we take a look at five ways to improve the look and feel of Wine in Ubuntu.
Inkscape 0.48 released – new airbrush tool, greatly improved text tool & multipath editing
Scalable Vector Graphic fans of the world rejoice – Open Source’s premier vector drawing application Inkscape has been bumped up to 0.48, adding lots of fixes and features for artists to get excited about in the process.
Gorgeous Elementary Firefox skin is coming soon
Elementary fans longing for a Firefox theme to match do not have much long to wait.
The skin is the work of a Thomas ‘Seahorse Pip’ and looks every bit as sumptuous as you’d expect.
Choqok 1.0 Beta 3 released – adds OAuth support
KDE twitter client Choqok has rolled out a new beta release with timely OAuth support to ensure Choqok users are able to continue using Twitter – which switches off API requests for non-OAuth applications today.
Feature list after the jump.
C’mon Mozilla, show me my Firefox icon!
Firefox – why won’t you adhere to my icon theme!?
Small issues sometime grate the most and the following bug falls squarely into that category…
Click through for the rest of the rant.
Ubuntu 10.10 Opera 10.70 skins – Opera has never felt this native!
We’ve mentioned Kyle Baker’s superb Opera themes before so, and in light of sad news yesterday that PPC support for Opera will be discontinued, it’s nice to see said skins have been updated for the new & improved default themes in Ubuntu 10.10.