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.
Canonical has announced it will not ship stable release kernel updates during September. Critical security and bug fixes will be packaged up and pushed out to users when/if needed, but the routine rollup releases which […]
Ever wished you could use your Raspberry Pi 5, Android smartphone, or mini PC as a laptop? The CrowView Note, which hit Kickstarter last week, allows you to do precisely that. From a cursory glance […]
Launched less than a year ago, the Raspberry Pi 5 has proven widely popular with single-board computing fans and Linux ARM enthusiasts thanks to its increased performance, memory, and PCIe bus for expansion. But until […]
Do you like the idea of using the same profile picture in GNOME Shell on Ubuntu as your Gravatar? If you do, there’s a GNOME Shell extension to do it. It automatically makes your Gravatar […]
A new Mozilla logo appears to be on the way, marking the first major update to the company’s word-mark since 2017. Mozilla’s current logo incorporates the internet protocol “://” and was chosen using feedback from […]
Do you want to try the latest Thunderbird 128 release but don’t want to use the snap package available in Ubuntu? Your first thought might be to run sudo apt install thunderbird to install the […]
When Ubuntu 24.10 is released in October it will mark the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu, so it’s only fitting that the ‘Oracular Oriole’ come bearing a few easter eggs in honour if its past. And […]
Proton, the company behind a suite of privacy-focused services, has made its Proton VPN Chrome and Firefox extensions available to non-paying users on the Proton Free plan. Prior to today, only users who subscribed to a […]
The first Ubuntu 24.04 LTS point release won’t be released this week, as initially planned. Ubuntu developers were aiming to get Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS out of the door on Thursday, August 15th, but have had […]
The first Thunderbird 130 beta release is out, and when running it on Linux there’s a very obvious new feature: a tray icon! In the Thunderbird 130 beta release notes the ‘what’s new’ section lists […]
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users experiencing issues setting up Fastmail and mailbox.org providers in GNOME Online Accounts to access cloud files, calendars, and/or contacts will be pleased to hear a fix is inbound. Both aforementioned services […]
Ever get miffed reading about a major new Ubuntu release only to learn it doesn’t come with the newest Linux kernel? Well, that’ll soon be a thing of the past. Canonical’s announced a big shift […]
TUXEDO Computers has unleashed their latest Linux laptop, the InfinityFlex 14 — as you might have guessed from the name, it flips and folds. The company touts this dextrous new device as ‘the first 3-in-1 […]
The wait is over: System76’s new COSMIC desktop environment is ready for its first test flight. You’ve heard the hype about COSMIC. You’ve tracked news on its development. You’ve seen screenshots of formative builds on […]
Mozilla Firefox 129 is now available download, and comes with a couple of features customisation fans are sure to enjoy. It’s been 4 weeks since Firefox 128 dished out a unified cookie, cache n’ data clearing experience, […]
As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This is non-default package is “a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to […]
A new version of Qt-based music player Amarok is available to download. Amarok 3.1 lands three months after Amarok 3.0, which was the first release in nearly 6 years and saw the audio player’s developers […]
The latest Firefox Nightly build provides a feature that dramatically improves how its picture-in-picture (PIP) feature works — and I’m totally digging it! In current stable versions of Firefox you pop-out video content from (supported) […]