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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Fatal flaw connected to GRUB found at very late notice, never fear!

This bug report which was reported yesterday suggests that Lucid was about to ship with an issue that caused the secondary operating system to be missing from GRUB when installing in a dual boot setup; […]

29 April 2010
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OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star

Firstly, let me apologize for the lack of interviews these past couple of weeks! I’ve been pretty busy and never got around to doing an interview, but today I’ve got a rockin’ interview with Elizabeth […]

20 April 2010
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Become a fan of OMG! Ubuntu! on Facebook

Couple of days ago we created a Facebook group and that was cool but Benjamin probably should have made a Facebook page instead which, as it turns out, is a damn sight better. So, I […]

20 April 2010
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Enjoy your PDF images a touch smoother in Lucid

For the last couple of years, this bug has been plaguing poppler – the PDF rendering engine that drives Evince in Ubuntu. The problem was that images weren’t being anti-aliased properly, and hence looked very bad […]

1 April 2010
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Quickshot released, PPA and LiveCD’s available!

April 1st is a big day for the Ubuntu Manual Project, with their beta released and an announcement of a new audio book edition. The fun doesn’t stop yet as the team have just unleashed […]

1 April 2010
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The Ubuntu Manual Beta available to download; hits writing freeze

The beta of Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 (aka ‘The Ubuntu Manual’) was released earlier today at exactly 0000 UTC on the 31st. Over the last two weeks the Manual team have been working absolutely […]

1 April 2010
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Ubuntu Manual Team to Release Audio Version

In a press release this evening the Ubuntu Manual Team have announced that “Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04” – A.K.A the Ubuntu Manual – will be made available on audio tape later this month. This […]

31 March 2010
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OMG! Interviews: Chris Johnston from the Ubuntu Beginners Team

Once again we’re back for another week, which means it’s another Wednesday where we feature someone in the Ubuntu community and ask them a few questions. This week we’ve got the pleasure of talking to […]

31 March 2010
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Kubuntu gets updated splash screen to match new branding

We reported earlier that a new Kubuntu logo was in the works. Now that the ‘k’ has been properly made in the new ubuntu font, the Kubuntu folks can rejoice as they’re in on all the […]

31 March 2010
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Ubuntu around the world: KanchiLUG

For the Ubuntu Manual Project, we are aiming to have our final product available in over fifty languages. This means that we have to have a lot of translators and translating teams. Luckily, the good […]

25 March 2010
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OMG! Interviews: Laura Czajkowski

At OMG! Ubuntu! we’ve decided some consistency might be in order, so we thought we’d try our hand at profiling and interviewing one upstanding Ubuntu member each week to give you lucky readers a personal […]

24 March 2010
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The Ubuntu Manual Project needs you!

Because the readers of OMG! Ubuntu! have been so kind to the project over the last couple of months, we’ve picked you guys to help us ensure the high quality of the manual so it’s […]

22 March 2010