Posts from April 2014

Download Mass Effect Composer’s Ubuntu 14.04 Start Up Sounds

Award winning composer Sam Hulick, famed for his music scores in top tier gaming titles like Mass Effect, has released a set of alternative start-up sounds for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

16 April 2014

Canonical Begins E-Mailing Ubuntu One Users To Warn of Shutdown

Canonical has begun sending e-mails to users of the Ubuntu One file service informing them of the impending shut down.

15 April 2014

Cirrus 7 Nimbus PC Now Available With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

The company behind the award-winning Cirrus 7 Nimbus mini PC has announced that it is now available to buy pre-loaded with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

14 April 2014

Keyboard Shortcuts Added to LightDM GTK Greeter 1.8.4

We last wrote about LightDM GTK Greeter, the login screen used in many Linux distributions, most notably Xubuntu, back in January — a veritable eon in development terms.

14 April 2014

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth Will Support Linux at Launch

Sid Meier's next Civilization game, titled 'Beyond Earth', will be available on Linux at launch later this year.

13 April 2014
Vocal Podcast App for Linux

Vocal is a Promising New Podcast Manager App for Linux

I'm not a massive podcast fan, but I know plenty of people who are and one of the chief complaints I hear is that Linux lacks a decent app for managing them. But hopefully this won't be the case for much longer.

11 April 2014

Here’s How to Enable the Handy Apt Terminal Progress Bar in Ubuntu 14.04

Avid Apt users among you that are already running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS may want to enable the following new feature to make Terminal-time a tad more helpful.

11 April 2014

Ubuntu Style Themes For Fluxbox Window Manager

If your favoured window manager on Ubuntu is the lightweight resource-efficient Fluxbox, read on.

9 April 2014

Humble Bundle for PC and Android 9 Adds Three More Games

The Humble Bundle for PC & Android 9 has added three more puzzlers to sweeten its already unbeatable deal — and all available for Linux.

9 April 2014
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Elementary OS ‘Isis’ Demoed With Blistering Speed

With Ubuntu placing all of its eggs in a 'convergence' shaped basket, it's left to smaller Linux distributions to push forward the more traditional desktop paradigm that most users are comfortable with.

8 April 2014

Windows XP Support Ends Today …Sort Of

Today, April 8, finally sees Microsoft cut the cord on Windows XP after more than eleven years of support — or does it?

8 April 2014

Viber Desktop App for Linux Holds Its Own Against Skype, But Lacks Users

It is often touted as a superior alternative to the perennially popular VoIP service Skype — but is Viber truly able to live up to such claims?

7 April 2014