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How Does Ubuntu TV Look in Action? Like This…
More information on the newly revealed Ubuntu TV has been made available online by Canonical. Alongside a new mini-site to promote the OS to device manufactures, a short video showing off the UI of the entertainment-orientated OS spin in action has been put online. Features The official ‘Ubuntu TV’ site lists a features to be found in the [...]
Ubuntu TV Revealed at CES; to Ship in 2012
Ubuntu TV has been unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, after Jane Silber announced Canonical would have something to show last week.
The interface will look very familiar for Unity users, as it appears to simply be an Ubuntu installation running with some custom Unity lenses for browsing movies, TV Shows, music, watching YouTube, and more.
Banshee, Tomboy And Mono Dropped from Ubuntu 12.04 CD
Banshee will be replaced by Rhythmbox for Ubuntu 12.04.
The news was confirmed during the wrap-up session of the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
Website Hosting Linux Kernel Hacked: Don’t Worry, The World Isn’t Going To End
Kernel.org has been compromised by an intruder gaining root access to parts of their infrastructure which hosts the kernel source code.
A number of servers have been accessed, apparently via compromised user credentials. The intruder installed several rootkits and monitored user activity.
The intrusion went unnoticed for almost a month until the kernel.org staff discovered it on August 28th. The staff reassured the community in a blog post on kernel.org, stating that the actual repositories themselves are unaffected.
Video editor PiTiVi to be removed as default app in Ubuntu 11.10
GNOME Video Editor ‘PiTiVi’ is to be removed from the default application set in Ubuntu 11.10, the outcome of a discussion at UDS has decided.
‘LightDM’ to replace GDM login screen in Ubuntu 11.10
‘LightDM’ will replace the standard ‘GDM’ login experience for Ubuntu 11.10, based on a decision taken today at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
Ubuntu Global Menu Support comes to Chromium
The latest Daily Builds of open-source browser Chromium have added in experimental support for Ubuntu 11.04′s new Global Menu via the about:flags staging area.
Unity launcher behaviour to change
The way in which the Unity Launcher is accessed by users is changing to make it more ‘intuitive’ to new users.
Canonical retires free CD Shipping programme
Canonical have announced that they will be discontinuing the free CD shipping service Shipit.
Writing on the Canonical blog Ubuntu’s Gerry Carr said that the company would instead focus on their CD distributor programme and shipping CDs directly to LoCos – Local Ubuntu community teams – instead.
GNOME be trollin’ – 3.0 delayed (again) to September 2011
The GNOME Release team meeting at GNOME Bangalore hackfest have decided to postpone the 3.0 release to September of this year, release manager Vincent Untz unveiled today.
He cited various reasons for the delay, including a large number of freeze break requests, constant changes in the design, Mozilla dropping embedded versions of Gecko and more.
Google Earth renders cheeky Narwhal outside Canonical’s London office
Google are known to be a cheeky company. A cheeky company that also has many employees that use Ubuntu and are looking forward to Natty Narwhal.
That aside, we were still pretty surprised to see that the Google Maps team have added a giant Narwhal swimming in the Thames outside Canonical’s office in the Millbank Tower for a little Ubuntu-related April Fooling.
Houston, we have a problem – the X server has crashed
Bad news, guys! Looks like we’re having some server issues and the site is falling back to a command line prompt when you visit.
Luckily, though, here at OMG! Ubuntu!, we’re always prepared for any eventuality and “X server issues” (which are fairly frequent, actually) are no exception.
Volley Brawl released into Software Center for Maverick, Natty for $2.99 (Update: Now with more gameplay video!)
I’m happy to announce that Volley Brawl is finally available for everyone to try!
It’s just hit the Software Center for Maverick and Natty, right on time to meet the March 31st release date.
All you have to do is open up the Software Center and navigate to the “For Purchase” section.
Ubuntu 11.04′s new default desktop wallpaper revealed
Drop your laser guns, volley balls and pan flutes: the default wallpaper for Ubuntu 11.04 is here.
Ubuntu 11.04 adds 17 brand new wallpapers
The winning wallpapers that will form the Ubuntu 11.04 wallpaper pack have been selected. 17 images make up the set – excluding the default desktop wallpaper which can be seen here – which, for the first time, sees illustrated designs offered up alongside traditional photographic wallpapers. Pictures of each wallpaper follow – just click to [...]