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 seems everyone and their pet parrot has an opinion on what Ubuntu's new Unity interface could be doing better right now. But Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff did more than mock-up, moan or migrate to a different Shell entirely when "driven nuts" by Unity's 'inconsistent launcher-duplicating Dash': he created a proof-of-concept implementation of his desired 'old school gnome-menu-like Dash'.
The 'light' variant of the Ubuntu Font Family is available for download.
Keir Thomas, author of the hugely successful 'Ubuntu Pocket Guide', has released two new Ubuntu-based books on Amazon's Kindle bookstore.
The first update of refined desktop mail application Postler is now available to download.
With every new release of Ubuntu comes a rare but welcomed update to the official website. Only a month away from Natty, the Server section of the website has been completely replaced by a new Business section.
Gnome-Shell may not be to everyone's taste out of the box, but one can't deny that its themeing capabilities allow it to look utterly beautiful. The following GNOME-Shell theme, by regularly-featured-on-OMG! designer ~half-left, provides a light, airy overhaul of GNOME's big interface revamp.
Indicator-Weather, the weather forecast applet, has updated this weekend, adding support for forecast data caching, extra weather service providers and making available more locations.
Elementary's Nautilus-fork 'Nautilus-elementary' has been revived - just in-time for Ubuntu 11.04! The project, which was announced as no longer being in development last November, has proven incredibly popular with users of various distributions thanks to to its refined, uncluttered interface and themeable features. Writing on his blog Nautilus-Elementary's chief developer, ammonkey, gave his reasons for the revival, which are after the break...
The bi-annual call for designed to create and submit Ubuntu release-date countdown widgets has been made - and here's how you can get involved.
Reader Isantop has created the first theme designed specifically with Unity in mind - and here's how you can download it.
One of Ubuntu's most popular desktop Twitter applications, Hotot, is now available as a Google Chrome extension.
Longing to install and try out the open-source accelerated 'Nouveau' driver in Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10? There's a guide that just might help... Nouveau is a project tasked with creating Open Source 3D drivers for NVidia cards. Whilst they don't (yet) provide anywhere near the same level of performance as the proprietary drivers most folks use they are a free and capable drop-in.
In this guest post, Alejandro Tamalet shares his thoughts on lightweight music application Guayadeque.
Ubuntu's Jorge Castro talked about how interested folks can build their own 'Places' for Unity, but today we've learnt word of Unity Lense that's in development.
The first beta release of Opera 11.10 'Barracuda' is now available for download with an improved speed-dial page, automatic Flash installation and few other odds and ends.
They make some of the most beautiful handsets on the market and, judging from a recent YouTube promo video, their developers also use use Ubuntu internally.
The development team behind much-hyped puzzle game 'SnapShot' have today confirmed that a Linux version of the soon-to-be-released 'is in the works'.
Another Thursday and another update to Ubuntu 11.04 desktop shell Unity. What's new today? Eyes down for a gander at the goodies...