Here you can discover the latest Linux apps, software and system utilities to use on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and related distributions, from office suites and music players to dev tools and CLI scripts for getting things done.
Tomboy is Ubuntu's default note-taking application - and a pretty good one at that. Developer Rémi Rérolle thinks so too, and wrote in to share word of his 'Tomboy' Lens for Ubuntu.
The Document Foundation have announced the release of LibreOffice 3.4.4 - an updated version of their popular open-source office suite.
Firefox 8 might have been 'out in the wild' for a few days, but today marks its official release. Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 will automatically upgrade to Firefox 8 at some point in the coming days - no PPAs or downloads necessary.
The developers of popular third-party MSN client 'emesene' have warned that some users may experience login issues with the stable version of the client. But fear not - there is a temporary fix available that should tide you over until the issue is sorted.
It might be getting the ol’ heave-ho from the default application set in Ubuntu 12.04, but Banshee still has a lot to give. For example, the most recent release of Banshee, version 2.3.1, added in […]
Unity's Application Lens is pretty much perfect: you can search apps by text, or by category. Simple stuff, right? Well it's not simple enough for those who prefer the more traditional approach to application-menu structure. To that end the maintainer of the Unity Application Lens, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen, has put together an GNOME Menu inspired alternative. A lens he's called 'Unity Bliss'.
Just a short update to those who helped Seif with Gedit stats earlier this week: his wdashboard overview start page for Gedit is available to download.
If it seems like it was only last week that I mentioned Boggle-style word game Tanglet - and that's largely because it was. But my timing in highlighting the app was ripe: Tanglet has just been updated with improved graphics and new game-play feature.
A selection of game titles from software publisher MumboJumbo have landed in the Ubuntu Software Center.
The first stable version of the elementary project's text editor 'Scratch' has been released - and you don't need to be running elementary OS to use it. Scratch, written in Vala and Gtk+3, is similar to other text editors such as Gedit, but adds in additional user-friendly features that elementary project's apps are known for.
A new version of flash-free desktop YouTube app ‘Minitube’ has been released. The bulk of the changes concern Mac OS X Lion users (as the app is cross-platform) but there are few goodies that Ubuntu […]
Kettle's on! Pizza's in the oven! Only 23 minutes until a new episode of Inspector Spacetime - all are situations where keeping an eye on the time is important. Now hopefully you're not like me (i.e. useless at doing so) but, should you be, then TeaTime is a neat Unity-launcher based alarm applet that works wonders.