Posts from September 2011

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A Handful of Minor Unity Changes Land in Ubuntu 11.10

A bunch of bug fixes and minor tweaks to Unity in Ubuntu 11.10 slid down the update pipe yesterday - but what exactly has changed? Read on in for a handful of notable highlights...

30 September 2011
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[How To] Change LightDM Background in Ubuntu 11.10

Early demonstrations of Ubuntu 11.10’s new ‘login manager’ LightDM showed it changing wallpaper background based on the account selected. This feature has yet to appear in the current implementation rocking out in the Ubuntu beta, […]

30 September 2011
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14 New Wallpapers Land in Ubuntu 11.10 [Download]

The community wallpapers chosen as part of Ubuntu 11.10 community wallpaper contest have 'landed' in Ubuntu 11.10.

30 September 2011
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Emesene 2.11.9 Adds In-App Theme, Plugin Downloads

A new version of MSN-dedicated chat client Emesene has been released.  Updated to version 2.11.9, Emesene sees a handful of new features and improvements, including: – In-app downloading of additional plugins and themes Improved Plus! color parser Improved […]

30 September 2011
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Ubuntu 11.10 Development Update 14

This is a guest post from Daniel Holbach, who will be posting updates about Ubuntu Development. (Original Post). Ubuntu Development Update These are the days where the release team is awake for 24 hour per […]

30 September 2011
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Ubuntu Font Family Update Adds Monospace Variant

A new release of the Ubuntu Font Family is available, and it comes with two new font styles: a monospaced variant, and a tight Condensed variant.

29 September 2011
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Ubuntu One Sync App Released for Windows

The official Ubuntu One desktop client for Windows has been has released. Ubuntu One is the cloud-storage service from Canonical and installed by default in Ubuntu. All users are entitled to 5GB of free space, with additional […]

29 September 2011
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Unity Music Lens Adds Ubuntu One Music Store Searching

A recent update to the Music lens in Unity has added 'scope' for searching the Ubuntu One Music Store.

28 September 2011
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PiTiVi Video Editor Update Adds New Features, Changes

The folks behind user-friendly Linux video editor PiTiVi have announced the release of version 0.15, which adds faster start-up time, new transformation features and support for saving project presets.

28 September 2011
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LibreOffice Hits First Anniversary, Boasts 15 million Linux Users

It's hard to believe but today marks the first anniversary of The Document Foundation and the beta release of their OpenOffice-fork LibreOffice.

28 September 2011
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Give ‘Well Wishes’, Get a Free Copy Of Time Travel Strategy Game ‘Achron’

I am back on OMG! Ubuntu! and to celebrate it is time for another game giveaway This time I have for you a brand spanking new copy of the Indie Realtime Strategy game Achron where time is your play thing... yes that is right, meta-time gaming and it runs on your Linux desktop.

28 September 2011

Humble Indie Bundle Returns, Brings Linux Debut of ‘Frozen Synapse’

The Humble Bundle is back once again, this time letting you choose your own price for indie game 'Frozen Synapse'.

28 September 2011