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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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!)
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
After a couple of months and many, many delays, The Ubuntu Manual Team has released Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 in some more languages, Greek and German. The setbacks in translated editions being released was […]
We’ve opened up an OMG! Merchandise Store (link since removed) where you can purchase exciting designs printed on everything from clocks to t-shirts and help support us at the same time. We don’t get any […]
Staff at Snugburys Ice Cream Farm in Hurleston have recently finished work on a 36 ft tall Meerkat made out of steel and hay! While it doesn’t appear to have anything to do with Ubuntu, […]
I’m sure we’ve all asked dumb questions on IRC when we started using Ubuntu – and I’m sure those that hang out in IRC support channels like #ubuntu are all too familiar with said questions. […]
The Ubuntu Developer Week is back and at it again for another fun-filled, action-packed week of learning and education on how you can contribute to Ubuntu and become an exciting developer. Developers are in shortage […]
Something has always plagued the Ubuntu installations on my Toshiba Satellite, ever since I started using it early last year: Login time. No, not boot time, which is all the rage nowadays – I’m talking […]