Section: News

Lightworks Video Editor Delays Linux Beta Release

Lightworks - the Oscar winning video editing software that is in the process of being open-sourced - has had its Linux beta release pushed back.

23 November 2011
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Mark Shuttleworth Talks New Icon Theme, Criticisms, GNOME-Shell & Ubuntu on TVs, Phones…

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth holds a 1 hour Q&A session following each release of Ubuntu. And today was the first chance many have had to ask Mark questions about upcoming changes, plans and more following the release of Ubuntu 11.10. The most interesting questions asked during the session are presented inside...

23 November 2011
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Firefox 8 Finally Lands in Ubuntu 11.10

An upgrade to Firefox 8 is finally available to Ubuntu 11.10 users through Ubuntu’s Update Manager – no PPA or additional downloads required. The upgrade comes 2 weeks after Firefox 8 was officially released. So […]

23 November 2011
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Doom 3 has been open sourced

The seminal survival horror game Doom 3 has been open sourced.

23 November 2011
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‘Humble Introversion Bundle’ Launches with 4 DRM-Free Linux-Friendly Games

A new pay-you-what-want 'humble bundle' of games, this time featuring titles from indie developer Introversion, is on offer for the next 2 weeks.

22 November 2011
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Unity 3D Ported to OpenGL ES on ARM

The Ubuntu Developer Summit held earlier this month in California, US, was home to a wealth of discussion, demo and debate on all manners Ubuntu. Part of that extended to Linaro - the ARM-orientated software engineering company of which Canonical are a driving member - who showed off a port of Unity 3D running on an ARM Cortex-A9 Pandaboard using OpenGL ES - a "..subset of the OpenGL 3D graphics API designed for embedded systems such as mobile phones, PDAs, and video game consoles." And its potential is massive.

22 November 2011
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Help Ubuntu Redesign The Sound Settings Menu by Taking this Survey

Ubuntu's Sound Settings menu isn't the worst designed options pane in the history of user interfaces, but there's no denying that a bit a redesign wouldn't hurt. The Canonical Design team are on to this, and have launched a short survey to find out what users think about the current design, what they use, and what could be improved.

21 November 2011
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‘Steel Storm’ Sequel To Land on Linux First, Will Be First-Person Shooter

A sequel to the hugely successful game 'Steel Storm' is in the works - and it's coming to Linux first.

20 November 2011

KDE Default Wallpaper ‘Kontest’ Kicks Off

KDE users are being asked to design the default wallpaper for the next major release of the popular desktop environment. Want to take part? Click on in for the details...

20 November 2011
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Cotton Candy: The USB Sized ARM PC That Runs Ubuntu

A quad-core computer the size of a USB stick. A few years ago that would've sounded like a pipe-dream, but today it's a reality.

20 November 2011
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Google Music Frame Gets Renamed, Adds Grooveshark, 8Track Support

Google Music Frame has a new name, and some new service support to boot.

20 November 2011

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day Kicks Off; We’d Like To Thank…

Today marks the first Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day - a new initiative designed to 'thank' people in the wider community whose work or inspiration has helped better Ubuntu.

20 November 2011