In the latest (and seemingly final) batch of documents dumped on The Pirate Bay by computer hacker outfit 'LulzSec', a familiar looking operating system can be seen in use.
Open-source "Nvidia Optimus" graphics switching tool 'Bumblebee has a PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu.
Advanced system packaging tool 'Synaptic Package Manager' has been dropped from the latest builds of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.
The second, and final, beta release of Mozilla Thunderbird 5.0 has been made available for download.
Apple will "probably" lose in its fight to block Amazon's use of the term 'AppStore, the Federal Judge over-seeing the case has said.
Indie games studio Big Fat Alien have refreshed the website for their premier ttitle 'BEEP', ahead of its release in the Ubuntu Software Centre later this year. BEEP, a 'high-definition physics-based platformer' in which you explore an solar system with a small robot, was announced for release on Linux, as well as OS X, back in May.
Opera Software have shown off the first phase of 'Project Featherweight' - a new initiative designed to refine and improve the interface of the Opera web browser.
This is the Unity weekly report for 22 June. We're sliding into the week before the Ubuntu Platform Rally in Dublin, Ireland, and after that we're in Alpha-2 mode, so the team is getting a bunch of house cleaning out the way. In many ways, this should be the last super-boring Unity report as things will get more exciting from here on out, as such we continue to chip away at the rock.
Big. Bad. Apple.
Picking up where the great gtk+ kick-start tutorial by Alberto Ruiz ended Daniel Siegel decided to introduce a new way of teaching new comers how to develop your own GNOME apps. His new initiative will introduce screencasts that will teach you basics of the GNOME platform and language bindings such as python, JS, C, Vala, etc...
LibreOffice 3.3.3 is now available for download. LibreOffice 3.3.3 is a minor release containing stability fixes and improvements primarily aimed at corporate users, however all users will benefit from upgrading. Quoted in the official announcement was LibreOffice developer Thorsten Behrens, […]
The Canonical design team are currently hard at work designing, testing, evaluating new layouts for the Ubuntu Software Centre version 5.0. Their work so far has resulted in three highly impressive mock-ups of Ubuntu Software Store interfaces heavily featuring an aggregated set of features that are par-the-course for Application Stores across various platforms.