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Condensed Variant of Ubuntu Font Debuts

A condensed varient of theUbuntu Font Family was uploaded to the Private testing PPA yesterday. The condensed font is provided in one weight, 'regular', and is provided without an accompanying italic.

2 August 2011
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Action Shooter ‘Steel Storm: Burning Retribution’ added to Humble Indie Bundle 3

As if paying whatever you want for 5 Linux friendly games wasn't tempting enough the Humble Indie Bundle 3 has added a sixth game to tempt: top-down action shooter 'Steel Storm: Burning Retribution'.

2 August 2011
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Ubuntu Software Centre’s New Look

Earlier today I pulled the latest development branch of the Ubuntu Software Centre to check in on development. Upon running the 'software-centre-gtk3' file inside this stunning Software Centre revamp appeared my desktop - and I just had to share...

1 August 2011
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Chrome Now Second Most Popular Browser in UK, Same for UK Linux Users?

With todays news that Google's Chrome web browser has overtaken Firefox as the second most used web-browser in the UK I turned to OMG! Ubuntu!'s visitor stats for UK Linux users to see if, here at least, that trend is also reflected.

1 August 2011
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DotA Clone ‘Heroes of Newerth’ Now Free To Play

Linux-supported DotA clone 'Heroes of Newerth' is now free for all to play.

31 July 2011
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Ubuntu One Hits One Million Users, Upgrades Free Storage to 5GB

Ubuntu One has increased the amount of free storage given to users of its basic plan from 2GB to 5GB. The upgrade will be applied to all user accounts on the basic plan, which has been renamed 'Ubuntu One Free'.

28 July 2011

Facebook Unity Applet for Ubuntu Puts Alerts on Your Desktop Launcher

Google+ might be the cool new kid in town but big ol' Facebook remains the grandaddy of social networking for many. Keeping up with Facebook on Ubuntu has never been an issue; there are a tonne of applications available that let you do everything from read your stream to upload photos and update your status.

28 July 2011
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Ubuntu 11.10’s New Look Alt+Tab [Video]

The new look Alt+Tab switcher present in the Ubuntu 11.10 development releases was touched on by Jorge and Ahmed in their weekly ‘Unity Development Update‘ post. If you’re sensible enough to be waiting until October […]

27 July 2011
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Wine Update Breaks Audio Playback for Windows Apps in Ubuntu

The latest update to Wine has broken audio support for Windows apps in Ubuntu. Wine 1.3.25, released last Friday, saw a rewrite of audio support based on that in Windows 7. The major issue resulting from this is the breakage of audio support for PulseAudio - Ubuntu's default sound server.

26 July 2011

Unity Progress Report – Alt-Tab style

Ubuntu's Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro are here with their weekly round up of what's been happening in Ubuntu 11.10 development land...

26 July 2011

Humble Indie Bundle 3: You Set The Price For Five Awesome Games

The third instalment of the Humble Indie Bundle is now love, letting you decide what to pay for five cross-platform, DRM free games worth $50 in total. The majority of the games in the bundle are "Physics" based.

26 July 2011
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GNOME 3: Awesome Designs for “Music” and “Documents” File Browsing

New and exciting ways of interacting with files are being explored in GNOME 3. Rather than just navigate to and 'view' your files the following designs show off features and interfaces that are helpful, modern and in keeping with the modern GNOME desktop.

25 July 2011