Joey Sneddon is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of OMG! Ubuntu. Since 2009, he has reported on Ubuntu and the wider open-source and Linux ecosystem, covering every major Ubuntu release since 9.04 to the present. With 16 years of hands-on experience reporting on Ubuntu and Linux, his coverage has been cited by leading technology news sites including Ars Technica, Engadget and Forbes.
Linux Kernel 4.13 is officially out! Announcing the release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) Linus Torvalds says: “last week was actually somewhat eventful, but not enough to push me to delay 4.13,” going on to […]
It’s been well over two and a half years since feature-rich screenshot tool Shutter was last updated — but a new release is finally here! Shutter’s last release was back in 2014, so this update has […]
GNOME 3.26 removes the legacy tray area still used by some desktops apps. We ask whether this decision is really as big of a deal as it sounds.
Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Beta 1 is now available to download alongside new betas of other Ubuntu flavours, including Xubuntu and Ubuntu Budgie.
LibreOffice 5.4.1 is now available to download. This is the first minor update since the LibreOffice 5.4 release earlier this month and offers a number of bug fixes and stability improvements. “LibreOffice 5.4.1 represents the bleeding edge […]
Upterm is billed as a ‘terminal emulator for the 21st century’ — a fairly bold claim. “An IDE in the world of terminals,” claims the Github project page; “Strictly speaking, it’s both a terminal emulator […]
The ‘radical’ redesign of Skype that most of the internet seems to hate is now available on Linux — hurrah! But before you get anxious about upgrading I should say that the redesign is not […]
Most of us expected that Ubuntu 17.10 would manage to with GNOME Shell 3.26 on board — but it’s nice to hear it confirmed. A feature-freeze exception filed pending a package update last week has […]
I love the GNOME Games app, it lets me manage and play my collection of retro games Not the best named app, GNOME Games is the desktop app for managing and browsing your games collection. […]
If you've been longing to see some progress on Firefox GTK header bar support you're going to want to feast your eyes on this.
Falkon is the new KDE web browser and KDE Neon is wasting no-time in getting it packaged up as a Snap app for users to help test.
GNOME 3.26 improves the appearance of GNOME Shell search results, making better use of screen space to show more results on screen.