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.
This guide will walk owners of HP Mini 110 series and Compaq Mini CQ10-500 series netbook owners - along with any one else owning a device using a Realtek rts5159 card reader - through downloading and installing the required driver.
Being an avid user of Android I'm always on the hunt for Ubuntu related apps on the Market place. A few days ago I came across 'Ubuntu pocket reference' - a free application for Android that claims to list 'the most popular and most useful Ubuntu/Linux commands.'
The Unity Launcher may, after all, end up with a few user-adjustable settings. A recent Unity launcher 'hack' by Andrea Azzarone allows icons on the Unity launcher to re-sized. By dragging a simple slider within Unity's CCSM settings page icons can be made as small as 32px or as big as 64px.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Serial designer - and perennial OMG! favourite - BigRZA has begun a work-in-progress theme for panel applet 'DockBarX' that aims to admirably ape the look and feel of Ubuntu 11.04's Unity launcher, which is itself a work in progress. The video below shows it in action.
Have you gone the extra mile to install Ubuntu on every device you possibly can, even your kitchen toaster? When you get yourself a shiny new car, is the first thing you do customize it? Then the Navisurfer II is just what you need to "pimp your ride".
The second maintenance update of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has been released. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will be supported with routine maintenance updates until April 2013 on desktops and April 2015 on servers. The release integrates 'numerous post-release updates' including security updates and 'corrections for high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.'
It's been over one year since the very first Alpha release of Firefox 4 was made available for testing and now news reaches us it could be hitting Release Candidate status as early as next week.
Meet an Ubuntu running cardboard computer with ideals fastened on saving the environment...
Ubuntu 11.04 will, in an update later today, add theme support for Unity's top panel.
As far as Ubuntu One has come over the last year there are things people think it could - or should - do better. I'm not sure that the 'everything bar the kitchen sink' approach, as ~usrnametaken proposes in his mock-up below, is entirely the right approach - but I can admit to running out of fingers counting options I see in the mock-up that I'd love to find available in the Ubuntu One Dashboard - particularly the inspired 'Ubuntu One Backup Service'.
A new extension for Chrome enables Ubuntu users to receive Chrome notifications using Ubuntu's default desktop notification system
The Document Foundation is aiming to raise a giant €50, 000 by March 21st - but what for and why?
Two words that form the code name for the new version of Ubuntu - but both are rather unique. Here we take a look at where each word comes from and what it means...
Ever been frustrated at just missing a notification bubble in Ubuntu by a split second? Log 'em with NotifyLog.
Bored of Gedit? Looking for something fresh and a bit more powerful? Check out Scribes.
Like wet Gremlins snacking after midnight, there are some categories of apps where the amount of choice available borders on crazy . Wallpaper changing applications are very much of this breed, so what makes 'Wallpaper Gallery' - a new 'timed wallpaper changer' app for Ubuntu - more Gizmo and less manic Mogwai?
The following Docky tip may pander to a 'niche' desire but it has the knock on effect of letting you create a rather surreal desktop experience...
Unity 2D users (or rather, 'testers' since it's still very much in development) bored of the solid bar launcher background can, with a bit of jiggery-pokery, get a fully transparent version.