All articles by Benjamin Humphrey

Interface Designer, OMG! Ubuntu! tech journalist and co-founder, Google and Ubuntu fanboy, part time musician, private pilot, geek. @humphreybc on Twitter.

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I said a few things wrong, let’s move on

A couple of days ago I posted an article which, believe it or not, had a fundamental message buried somewhere amongst the stereotyping, name-calling trollop. It was a mistake on my behalf to use such […]

10 August 2010
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Doing the LoCo-Motion with OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu is all about community. A community that is distributed all around the world. If anyone should be given credit for spreading Ubuntu (Canonical Marketing Teams and the general media excluded) then it should be […]

9 August 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 Light themes new look

The default Ubuntu light themes are getting a bit of a spruce in time for Ubuntu 10.10 – but how far a spruce will it go? Since we first posted this article it has been […]

8 August 2010
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Dude, you’re a 35 year old with a neck beard

As most of you probably know, I’m pretty much the equivalent of a newborn in the world of free software. This open source gig has been going for almost 30 years, but I only got […]

7 August 2010
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UDS-N announced, to be held in Orlando, Florida

Robbie Williamson has announced on Twitter that the next Ubuntu Developer Summit for the 11.04 release will be held in Orlando, Florida from the 25th – 29th October, 2010. Robbie says “With Disney AND Ubuntu there, […]

5 August 2010
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OMG! Interviews: Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon is a number of things in the open source community and is possibly one of the most well known faces associated with open source. He's been a public figure staying in the limelight ever since he got involved in the free software movement way back in the late 90s. From successful podcasts, albums, coding, writing books and being Canonical's community manager, Mr Bacon has certainly fried it all. (Ha!)

5 August 2010
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Download some OMG! Wallpapers!

I whipped up four OMG! wallpapers in three different resolutions for you hardcore fans to download and show the love for your favourite sources of open source news. In the pack you’ll find the following […]

5 August 2010
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Last call to submit papers for linux.conf.au 2011

My friend Marco Ostini from the super cool Lunar Numbat Project pinged me today to let me know that if you want to talk about something at the Australian Linux Conference, linux.conf.au, which takes place at the end of January next year in Brisbane, you've only got until this Saturday to submit your paper.

4 August 2010
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Share your music with your mates using Firefly

Earlier this year I was looking for a way to set up music sharing for my flatmates. I knew that Rhythmbox supported DAAP sharing, so I set that up using the DAAP plugin and that […]

2 August 2010
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GNOME Census is out, reveals Canonical commit 16x less than Red Hat, shit hits the fan

Dave Neary has posted the results of the GNOME census which has been looking at contributions to GNOME, who develops what, where it's coming from and who's been doing it over the last two years. The report has revealed that most of the upstream commits to GNOME are from people in their spare time with over 70% of respondents listing themselves as volunteers.

30 July 2010
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Gnome Shell mockup – the beast has a pretty side

A new mockup of Gnome Shell shown off at GUADEC this week gives us a hint as to what the it may look like further down the track. While it’s a distinct improvement on what […]

29 July 2010
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Guadec live streams available, are history in the making

The annual GNOME conference for developers and community members alike is running this week in The Hague, Netherlands. From the GUADEC web site: GUADEC (pronounced gwah-dec) is the largest get together of GNOME users, developers, […]

28 July 2010