Want some Android-style live wallpaper on your Ubuntu desktop? Now you can.
So you’ve downloaded Ubuntu 10.10, made yourself a freshly minted copy and installed it with haste. Now what? Here is our guide to the top 10 post-install must-do’s that will help ensure you get off […]
The latest update to the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system – Ubuntu 10.10 – has been officially released at 10:10:10 GMT on October 10th, 2010. Codenamed ‘Maverick Meerkat’, the worlds most popular Linux operating system gains […]
Free disk space, improve system performance and maintain your privacy using the latest version of system cleaning tool BleachBit. BleachBit 0.8.1 adds support for deleting HTML 5 and stubborn ‘evercookie’ tracking cookies, removing MB’s worth […]
Canonical Landscape is a service designed to simplify management of many Ubuntu installations, be they physical computers (usually servers) or cloud based. It's aimed at commercial deployment where system administrators need to keep an eye on dozens, if not hundreds of installations - keeping them all running smoothly, bug free, cool and up to date.
The Ubuntu Stack Exchange site which we previously covered is now out of beta in time for the release of Ubuntu 10.10.
The popular elementary-style Firefox theme ‘Firefox Elementary’ has received an update adding full support for Firefox Personas and theme enhancements amongst various others.
The last time I tried Google Earth on Ubuntu was late last year and I remember I couldn't get it working with Compiz enabled - OpenGL was slow and flickered so much it was unusable when effects were enabled. When they were disabled, it wasn't much better. I installed Google Earth on Maverick and I was blown away by how awesome it was. Click through for videos and install instructions.
As some of you may know, Seif has been working closely with the Software Center developers to integrate Zeitgeist into the Software Center. We blogged about the Software Center using Zeitgeist to display app usage a couple of weeks ago, and naturally the next step would be for that information to be translated into recommendations, which is very, very cool.
The open source reference management software Zotero is to see a standalone desktop application for Linux, Mac and Windows and support for more browsers.
Parodying the 1996 cult film Trainspotting, Caroline Pimenta's Linspotting advert is a well made and incredibly funny short that will have you laughing throughout.
Roman Yepishev, routinely annoyed by the lack of clear, accessible visual UbuntuOne sync notification, has started work on an indicator-applet for displaying the sync-status of your UbuntuOne account.