Section: News

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Ubuntu Community reaches out to Japan

As Japan continues to show strength in the face of such heart-breaking catastrophe a number of Ubuntu users have set up a website for users to send a message of support to the Japanese Ubuntu LoCo team.

17 March 2011
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Weekly testing of nVidia drivers begins

Jean-Baptiste Lallement from the Ubuntu Quality Assurance team has announced the introduction of a weekly testing program for nVidia proprietary drivers.

16 March 2011
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Empathy’s new icon

Kiss goodbye to the telepathic blue twins: Instant messenger Empathy has had a logo-revamp.

16 March 2011
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Ubuntu One Contacts sync heading to Thunderbird

Mozilla's Mike Conley's quest to integrate Thunderbird and Ubuntu continues apace. Following Messaging Menu and Unity launcher support comes news of impending Ubuntu One contacts sync.

16 March 2011
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Google Chrome Dev channel update brings new logo to Linux

Google Chrome drops it's revamped logo into Linux - and boy is it an improvement.

16 March 2011
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Firefox 4 to be released March 22nd

Some said it would never land, but according to Mozilla it's closer than you think...

16 March 2011
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Unity Bitesize Bug report for 15 March

In this Unity Bitesize Bug Report, Jorge introduces new contributor Anrea Azzarone as well as covering a few new Unity updates and of course letting everyone know how you can get involved! Hit up the link for the juicy details...

15 March 2011
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Double-sided Unity launcher patch demoed [video]

Yesterday Benjamin showed off some slick conceptual Unity behaviour mock-ups. Today some of those ideas presented in those exist in code thanks, once again, to the work of Andrea Azzarone.

15 March 2011
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Help Test Shotwell 0.9.0 Before Release

We love Yorba here at OMG! Ubuntu! and no-doubt many of you do to. Share some of that love by getting your coding digits dirty and compiling the latest Shotwell from trunk to hunt down bugs ahead of Shotwell's next release...

15 March 2011
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Empathy 3.0 adds contact blocking (finally)

Empathy 3.0 will finally include 'user blocking/unblocking ' - a feature long demanded by users of the multi-protocol chat application.

14 March 2011

Project Bossanova announces contest, partnership with Desura

Another fortnight, another exciting update from the folks running Project Bossanova. Project Bossanova have just now announced the results of the poll in an email to the mailing list, along with a partnership with game distributing company Desura, and also possibly most excitingly, a contest for indie developers to submit their games for potential sponsorship.

14 March 2011
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Six Conceptual Unity behaviour mock-ups

David Reichling has created a bunch of neat mockups of how Unity should behave, most notably around the Launcher and Dash button. He shared his ideas with me via Twitter, and I thought they were so cool I'd have to publish them on here.

14 March 2011