With every new release of Ubuntu comes a rare but welcomed update to the official website. Only a month away from Natty, the Server section of the website has been completely replaced by a new Business section.
Over a year ago I founded the Ubuntu Manual Project, an open source Ubuntu project aimed at creating a comprehensive beginner's manual for each Ubuntu release. I led the team for around 10 months, before I had to step down as Team Lead due to other commitments (namely University, and also Ohso - the company that runs OMG! Ubuntu! etc). The team went through a bit of a lull, with a lack of contributors, no leader and little motivation to continue this awesome project - which was a complete shame. Luckily though, they've re-grouped and are now working on building a new website (which I designed way back in June last year), as well as head-hunting for two suitable people to act as Project Leader and Editor-in-Chief.
Elementary's Nautilus-fork 'Nautilus-elementary' has been revived - just in-time for Ubuntu 11.04! The project, which was announced as no longer being in development last November, has proven incredibly popular with users of various distributions thanks to to its refined, uncluttered interface and themeable features. Writing on his blog Nautilus-Elementary's chief developer, ammonkey, gave his reasons for the revival, which are after the break...
The bi-annual call for designed to create and submit Ubuntu release-date countdown widgets has been made - and here's how you can get involved.
Longing to install and try out the open-source accelerated 'Nouveau' driver in Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10? There's a guide that just might help... Nouveau is a project tasked with creating Open Source 3D drivers for NVidia cards. Whilst they don't (yet) provide anywhere near the same level of performance as the proprietary drivers most folks use they are a free and capable drop-in.
They make some of the most beautiful handsets on the market and, judging from a recent YouTube promo video, their developers also use use Ubuntu internally.
Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu's CTO, and Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Leader, worked together to setup the DEX project. It's a new initiative to improve collaboration between Debian and its derivatives, Ubuntu included.
The development team behind much-hyped puzzle game 'SnapShot' have today confirmed that a Linux version of the soon-to-be-released 'is in the works'.
What is Debian CUT and why should you care? Let's take a look...
Another Thursday and another update to Ubuntu 11.04 desktop shell Unity. What's new today? Eyes down for a gander at the goodies...
Take one torrent application, one almost-beta OS and add in some indicator-applet support. What do you get? A bunch of relieved users...
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users wanting to install Shotwell 0.8.x on their computers now can thanks to one users' hard work. Like many of those sticking with Ubuntu's Long Term Support release Martin Wimpress found that many updates to his favourite applications weren't being made available for 10.04. Rather than moan or go without he decided to do something about it.