With the advent of an entirely new desktop shell for Ubuntu 11.04 one could be forgiven for thinking that Ubuntu Tweak - the popular third-party interface and settings tweaking app - might be rendered obsolete. The truth is anything but.
The GNOME Release team meeting at GNOME Bangalore hackfest have decided to postpone the 3.0 release to September of this year, release manager Vincent Untz unveiled today. He cited various reasons for the delay, including a large number of freeze break requests, constant changes in the design, Mozilla dropping embedded versions of Gecko and more.
The first beta release of Ubuntu 11.04 is available to download and test.
A pair of new ARM netbooks running Ubuntu have launched in the UK, described as the slimmest, lightest HD netbooks available.
While there is no exciting new bling to talk about this week, there are plenty of bugfixes to be had for this Unity release. This week the team welcomes Nico van der Walt as he makes his introduction fixing Bug #731212: "Applications" and "Files & Folders" keyboard shortcut overlays not drawn correctly with scalable launcher and Bug #741346: superkey shortcut labels does not scale properly.
The Ubuntu Unity Launcher extension for Thunderbird is now available for x64 bit Ubuntu users.
Amongst the never-ending-list-of-really-cool-features new in Ubuntu 11.04 is 'Test Drive' - a new Software Centre feature that allows you to try applications without installing them.
Window Dock applications such as AWN, Docky and Kiba are often used by users seeking something with more visual pizazz than the traditional 'icon + text' window option present in the default GNOME-Panel. But what if the traditional way could also be made to look "sexy"?
Love handles. Sounds non-sexy, but boy it is anything but.
It's a mug from Ubuntu.
Canonical and games publisher Introversion have teamed up to bring two hugely popular games to the Ubuntu desktop at a special price for a limited time only.
Visually impressive thought-gathering application 'The Board' is now available for plucky Ubuntu 11.04 testers to try out and offer feedback on.