Although we here at OMG! Ubuntu! are Ubuntu fans (shock, right?) it’s always interesting (and a bit exciting) to take a look at what else exists out there, in the wild waters of alternative operating […]
The title says it all, really. A PPA for 64bit Ubuntu users to get the latest Adobe Flash plugin from. In light of the recent malware issues from .deb’s on gnome-look.org I’ve checked over these […]
We’re massive fans of Dock application ‘Docky’ here at OMG! Ubuntu! and one of the principle designers working on it is a young man with a wonderfully conceptual imagination by the name of ‘Dan Rabbit’. […]
One of the most popular themes for GNOME, Elementary theme, has finally landed itself in a PPA so that users may stay up-to-date with the latest tweaks, changes and improvements to the already flawless theme. […]
Lucid may not be getting a new GTK theme but it will still be getting an entirely new look. Ubuntu’s Ayatana team (most famed for creating those awesome ‘new’ notification balloons that came in Jaunty) […]
The first Alpha of the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx development cycle will be released later on today. This will be the first of 3 Alpha releases, the following of which will arrive January 14th and […]
Yesterday we were the first to bring you the news about malware being targeted at Ubuntu users, and today, sadly, another malicious file was uploaded to gnome-look, this time masquerading as a theme called ‘Ninja’. […]
We exclusively told you last week that a "refresh" (I.E. a new alpha version) of Adobe’s Flash Plugin for 64bit Linux was going to be released on the 8th of December and lo and behold […]
Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous ‘waterfall’ screensaver .deb file made available on popular artwork sharing site Gnome-Look.org. The .deb file installs a script with elevated privileges designed to perform a DDoS attack […]
Google Chrome’s official Extensions Gallery is finally open for business. Tons of new extensions are available from the official extension gallery, including adblockers and official extensions from big tech names like eBay, StumbleUpon and (of […]
No major tech site is currently reporting on this, but (Edit: 45 minutes later the rest of the big tech sites catch up! yet another OMG!Ubuntu! first…) The Google Chrome Beta for Linux is now […]
MadsRH over on his awesome blog has just written about ‘Simple Scan’ – a new new scanning tool that Lucid will be getting, repalacing X-Sane. ‘Simple Scan’ Simple Scan will provide a new UI for […]
