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Indicator-weather update puts temperature on panel

Weather information applet 'indicator-weather' has added some spit and polish to its latest release - including the display of current temperature directly on the panel.

15 February 2011
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Banshee to ship with Ubuntu Music Store in Ubuntu 11.04

With Banshee selected as Ubuntu 11.04’s default music player one question has been circling our minds: will there be two music stores enabled by default, or just one? And if one – which one?

15 February 2011
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Putting Your Brick In The Natty Wall – Jono Bacon

In this article, Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, guest posts and discusses a rallying call for delivering Unity in Natty. Wow, what a cycle Natty has been already. Back in Orlando, when Mark proposed Unity for inclusion in Ubuntu 11.04, we knew this cycle was going to be a busy one, and the Design, Desktop Experience, Ubuntu Platform, and community teams have been working at full steam to make Natty a rocking release.

14 February 2011
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A few new updates to Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha

Another weekend has passed, so how's Natty looking so far? We pick out some select highlights from updates landed during the last few days.

14 February 2011
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Create desktop launchers for Wine apps easily with WLCreator

Zarko Zivanov dropped by the OMG! Ubuntu! inbox to spread word of a new tool he's made for easily creating launchers for WINE apps in Ubuntu.

13 February 2011
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Natty pimps audio call requests

Audio call requests made via Empathy are to receive some long over due 'pimping' in Ubuntu 11.04. Here's a video of them in action.

13 February 2011
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Ubuntu One in Natty gets notification-savvy

It may not have an Indicator icon on the panel like Dropbox does, but that doesn't mean that you won't be notified by Ubuntu One about what it's up to, with your files.

12 February 2011
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Ubuntu 11.04 to drop Release Candidate, add second beta

Ubuntu Release Manager, Kate Stewart has announced on the ubuntu-devel mailing list that the Release Candidate scheduled for April 21 would be dropped and Beta 2 scheduled for April 14 would take it's place instead.

11 February 2011

Workspaces come to Unity 2D

Fans and followers of Unity 2D - the less hardware intensive Qt-using version of Unity currently in development - may be pleased to see that 'workspaces' have arrived in the latest builds. Take a peek at how it looks in this short video.

11 February 2011
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Canonical launch list of Ubuntu-compatible PC components

Building your next Ubuntu-based PC is going to be a lot easier from now on. Canonical have today launched the largest online list of Linux-compatible PC components, featuring over 1300 certified different components from 161 […]

10 February 2011
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GNOME+Mono hackfest day 2+3

A double whammy update, mostly since day 2+3 were largly just expanding on the work everyone started on day one.

10 February 2011
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‘Suspended Sentence’ becomes first post-release ARB app to land in Ubuntu

The first post-release application to be approved by the Application Review Board is now  available to install from the Ubuntu 10.10 Software Centre.

10 February 2011