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Update: Appears not! From bordered to borderless, and then back again: Natty GTK theme change deemed ‘bland’

Update: Shocker! Mark Shuttleworth has just added a comment to the bug report stating that once the issues with Unity 2D are fixed, the theme will be going back to 0px border goodness. As if to prove our own wisened words of Alpha Caution true, one of our favourite tweaks to Natty has been reversed in less than 24 hours.

12 March 2011
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Indicator-Network Looking Good in Ubuntu 11.04

It's been a while since I last played around with alternative Ubuntu connection manager 'Indicator-Network' - but by jove it's come a long way since!

11 March 2011
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Free AutoCAD clone ‘DraftSight’ hits Linux Beta

A beta release of professional 2D CAD application 'DraftSight' is now available for Linux users to download.

11 March 2011
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Ubuntu Themes Go Borderless for Natty

We've expressed our own love of borderless GTK+ themes before so we're delighted to find Ubuntu 11.04's Light themes have followed suit, adopting zero-pixel window borders on windows.

11 March 2011
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Ubuntu Natty adds ‘Control Centre’ entry to Session Menu

A menu entry for 'Control Centre' has been added to Ubuntu 11.04's Session Menu.

11 March 2011
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ALT+F2 returns to Unity – looking rather swish

Alt+F2 returns to Unity - with some visual kick.

11 March 2011
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Thunderbird getting some Unity love

Thunderbird fans should flap with joy: the e-mail app is getting some Unity launcher love courtesy of Mozilla Messaging's Mike Conley.

10 March 2011
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The new Ubuntu One logo: beautiful

The Ubuntu One team have officially unveiled the new-look Ubuntu One logo - and boy is it sexy.

9 March 2011

Ubuntu Netbook Edition To Be Discontinued

Canonical has announced that 'Ubuntu Netbook Edition' - the netbook-orientated version of the Ubuntu operating system - will be 'folded' into 'Ubuntu Desktop Edition' for Ubuntu 11.04, with the latter being rebranded simple as 'Ubuntu'.

9 March 2011
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Adobe Flash Player 10.3 beta released

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 beta saw release yesterday/today/tomorrow (depending on your timezone) - but what's new? Quite a bit. Read on for more.

9 March 2011
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Ubuntu Global Jam: Call for Events!

A great method of building our community up is to get people together face-to-face to work together, develop social bonds, and have fun. We see this at every Ubuntu Developer Summit; when we get contributors together, it helps seal a sense of camaraderie as we work and play together. All of this helps unite us all as we work to bring Free Software to the masses with Ubuntu.

9 March 2011
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Unity Bitesize Progress Report for 8 March

Another week and another round-up of the latest Unity fixes, patches and superstars.

8 March 2011