Banshee 2.0 is out and default in Natty which is all good and well but.. Banshee has not been resting. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, these new features are presented to you as screenshots.
The second beta release of Ubuntu 11.04 is now available for download.
After several years in development the Blender Foundation have today announced the first official stable release in the 2.5.x series of their 3D graphics software 'Blender'.
I take a pre-beta play with Ubuntu Tweak 0.6
"The folks at Kogan are pretty good when it comes to Linux" said reader Paul when tipping us off to Australian (and UK) technogloy outfit 'Kogans' latest laptop. Available for ordering, but not shipping until late May, the new 'Agora Pro' ultra-portable comes with the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu so far - Ubuntu 11.04 - but is it a fitting shell for an operating system so, well, natty? Kind of.
Packaging has often been lamented as a massive weak point in getting software to users for testing or distribution. It can sometimes be more complicated to package a piece of software than it is to write it in the first place. Thankfully, the Launchpad team have been hard at work trying to make packaging easier.
It was billed as the "social browser" but it never found enough friends; 'Flock' web-browser will be formally discontinued on April 26th this year, an announcement on the company's website reads.
Sentinella might sound like name of a posh fragrance but the small app has been designed to keep your OS feeling fresh rather than yourself smelling such. It does this by monitoring your system resources for a pre-set 'condition', and then launching a specified action when this condition is met.
Would you love to see Minecraft for sale in the Ubuntu Software Centre? One plucky Minecraft fan has gone right ahead and suggested that to the developers behind the game, and you can add your voice too.
Where Chromium leads, Chrome surely follows... Following yesterday's news of Chromium Daily adding experimental support for Ubuntu's new Global Menu, Google Chrome Unstable - which is based upon Chromium - has also been updated with support for it.
YouTuber briantwill has taken a rather long and thorough look at the design of Ubuntu 11.04's Unity in the following 26 minute long video. The length of the video may put you off, but whether you're an avid critic or gallant fan of Unity the chances are you'll find a lot to agree with in what briantwill has to say. And he looks at it all - from the Dash to the Launcher, to Global Menu and the Panel. Video after the jump.
With its version number jumping up almost as fast as a kid on a bouncy castle, Yorba have announced a new release of digital photo manager Shotwell.