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.
It may have only just got a name, but work on April's release of Ubuntu 12.04 is already underway. Posting a video detailing some improvements to Ubuntu's Overlay Scrollbar is Canonical's Andrea Cimitan.
Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the codename for Ubuntu 12.04 will be 'Precise Pangolin'.
I love, love, love seeing Ubuntu crop up in unexpected places - and if I still lived in Lincoln I would certainly find the following unexpected...
Hurry folks - if you're reading this before 10pm UK time (UTC+1 to other folk) you still have chance to blag a free copy of 'arcade-style dungeon-crawler' 'Cardinal Quest' from the awesome folks at Gameolith.
The creator of flash-free desktop YouTube application 'Minutube' and stylish music player 'MiniTunes' has announced the release of a new application: MusicTube. Musictube is a mish-mash of the developers former two applications, and is designed to let you find, arrange and listen to whatever music you like - as long as it's on YouTube. The idea is similar to on-demand music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora: you search for an artist or a track and, if it's there, you can play it.
The recently released 'Monospace' variant of the Ubuntu Font Family has been set as the default monospace font in Ubuntu 11.10.
The latest 'stable' (stop chuckling at the back) version Adobe's Flash Player has been released.
The Canonical Store has seen some new Ubuntu-branded wearables added to is shelves. Amongst them are the official Ubuntu 11.10 t-shirts in both male and female versions, a sleek slate-grey Ubuntu polo, and a svelte looking ladies Ubuntu hoody.
A new pre-alpha release of multi-column twitter application Polly is available for download.
Evernote – it’s one of the most widely used note taking/to do applications around, yet it still lacks an official Ubuntu client. We’ve covered Evernote clone ‘Nevernote‘ previously, but if you’re seeking something less full-blown […]
Whether or not you’re a fan of GNOME 3’s default ‘stripy blue’ wallpaper there’s no denying that it is striking. If you plan on using GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 (it’s just a click away) […]
As a Brit the whole "Netflix" phenomenon has largely passed me by. But I do know that Linux support for the video-streaming service is a long-held dream for many of you. The good news is that a native Linux client is, apparently, in the works.
Long-time users of Ubuntu might recall that a handy 'Force Quit' applet was once available to add to the desktop panel, which made 'closing' misbehaving applications a cinch. Thankfully for the lazy amongst us reader Josh Leverette has put together a script that adds a 'Force Close' button to the Unity Launcher. With one click you can once again kill crashy, CPU-hogging applications without having to reboot or revert to the Terminal.
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...
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, […]
The community wallpapers chosen as part of Ubuntu 11.10 community wallpaper contest have 'landed' in Ubuntu 11.10.
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 […]
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.