Joey Sneddon is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of OMG! Ubuntu. Since 2009, he has reported on Ubuntu and the wider open-source ecosystem, documenting every major Ubuntu release since 9.04 to the present. With over 16 years of hands-on experience in Linux desktops, distros and apps, Joey's insights and reporting have been cited by leading technology outlets including Ars Technica, The Verge, Engadget and Forbes.
'Grub Customizer' aims to make it a bit easier, providing a graphicl interface for allows for changing/setting various grub2/burg settings.
For one hour in the week following the release of the latest Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, the 'founder' of Ubuntu, holds a question and answer session as part of 'Ubuntu Open Week'. Below follows highlights from that session. Read on to find out what changes are coming to Unity next release, what happened to the much-heralded 'Windicators' and whether Mark prefers the iPhone or Android...
Yesterday we shared news that the daily builds of Chromium web browser have added download progress bar and badge support for Ubuntu 11.04's Unity Launcher. But what about Firefox users?
Running amok in Ubuntu need no longer be confined to running risky Terminal commands or toying with your GRUB menu with the beta release of 'Greedy Car Thieves' - an upcoming action game inspired by the pre-millennial action smash GTA2.
Bring the rich world of Plasma widgets into Ubuntu 11.04.
The on-going campaign to persuade Adobe to release (at least parts) of their 'Creative Suite' software on Linux is beginning to resemble a game of tic-tac-toe: One second it appears to be going one way and then, slam, a big fat 'X' falls down, and the game is off in a different direction.
The latest daily builds of Chromium come with a neat gift for Natty users - Unity Launcher progress bar and badge support. This is the second Unity-specific feature to land in Chromium. Ubuntu Application Menu support landed in the 'about:flags' staging area back in mid-April. Read on for install instructions.
The ability to easily customise your desktop is, arguably, one of the boons of using Linux. Unity is no exception. The following hack allows you to fully integrate some of the more popular 3rd party themes into the Unity desktop.
Installed Ubuntu 11.04 but miss your sexy BURG bootloader? Fear not, a forward thinking chap, Nate Muench, has knocked up a PPA that publishes BURG for use in Ubuntu 11.04.
Trim-Slice, 'the worlds first Tegra 2 desktop PC', is now on sale. Available in 3 versions - 2 of which run Ubuntu. More information, pictures and promo-video tucked away inside...
The new Banshee development cycle has official begun and within comes a number of big changes. Let's look at what is already in the tree now and which will be in the first development release 2.1.0...
Lubuntu 11.04 - the latest version of lightweight, LXDE based Ubuntu derivative - has been released.