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KDE Tablet ‘Vivaldi’ Gets Gutted

The €200 KDE tablet might have been given a new name but it still has the same lure on the surface: a low price, stylish design, and awesome open source software. But what about inside? Is there anything to tempt potential buyers under the hood?

25 March 2012
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Unity 5.8 Lands in Ubuntu 12.04

Unity 5.8 landed in Ubuntu 12.04 this weekend - but what's new and what's improved? Let's take a quick gander...

25 March 2012

15 New Photo Wallpapers Chosen for Ubuntu 12.04

From a poll of thousands, 13 photographic wallpapers have been chosen for inclusion in Ubuntu 12.04. As with previous releases, the submissions were picked through an open contest run on social networking site Flickr.

22 March 2012
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Firefox 13 Alpha 2 Appears in the Wild

The second alpha release of Firefox 13 (no, we can barely keep up either) is now available for download. The release doesn’t see too much in the way of ‘stuff to shout about’, with its […]

22 March 2012
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Beta Demo of Adventure Game Incursion Sees Release

A beta demo release of old-skool text based adventure game Incursion has been made available to download.

22 March 2012
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Banshee 2.4 Goes Stable, Adds DVD Playback Support

The latest stable version of desktop music player Banshee has been released. Now on version 2.4, the popular media app adds support for DVD playback, ‘genre’ and ‘years’ filtering of music, and UPnP music and […]

21 March 2012

GNOME Classic in Ubuntu 12.04: It’s Like Nothing Ever Changed

Come April 26th and the release of Ubuntu 12.04 a vast number of Ubuntu users will be getting their first taste of the Unity desktop since its basic beginnings as the Ubuntu Netbook Remix in the last LTS. But for all of the innovation, aesthetics and features that the unity desktop offers there is a chance that, for many, the change will be too much. But Unity is only one desktop environment available to install in Ubuntu.

21 March 2012
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Apple Tried to Hire Linus Torvalds, Kill Linux

Could you imagine a world without Linux? Such a thought could have been stark reality had Apple managed to successfully recruit Linus Torvalds back in 2000.

21 March 2012
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Ubuntu 12.04 CD to Give WUBI The Boot

There are many ways to install Ubuntu on a computer, some of which are simpler and easier than others. WUBI (Windows Ubuntu Installer) is an example of the easy approach. It offers the Ubuntu curious a relatively safe way to install Ubuntu on their PC from within Windows - negating the need for disk partitioning and adding an easy way to 'uninstall it' through Windows 'Add or Remove' feature. But changes to way the way the tool is provided in Ubuntu 12.04 are now being discussed.

20 March 2012
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Ubuntu 12.04 Multi-Monitor Launcher Behaviour Decided

We recently ran a poll in conjunction with the Ubuntu Design Team to seek out your preferred option for the default Unity launcher behaviour for multi-monitor usage in Ubuntu 12.04. Almost 13,000 of you voted in that poll, and, based on those results, a decision on the default behaviour has been decided by the Ubuntu Design Team.

20 March 2012
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Latest Humble Bundle Brings New Games to Linux

Gamers rejoice: a new Humble Bundle has arrived! The Humble Bundle for Android 2 comprises of 4 games of varying genres – from RPG to a ‘meditative puzzler’. But don’t let the ‘Android’ in the […]

19 March 2012
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MyUnity To Offer Interactive tweaking of the Unity Desktop

Small Unity-tweaking tool ‘MyUnity‘ offers users of Ubuntu an easy way to customize parts of their desktop – from the size of fonts to the colour of the Dash. Presently MyUnity follows the trend of […]

19 March 2012