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Novell ‘agrees to be Acquired by Attachmate’ for $2.2 Billion, sells intellectual property to Microsoft-led group

Novell, Inc. - the company behind SUSE Linux, OpenSUSE, Banshee and a raft of other innovations - have announced they are to be acquired by the Attachmate Corporation in a deal worth a estimated $2.2 billion.

22 November 2010
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Clementine music player adds Sound menu support

Chalk another one up people for the latest developer builds of Clementine now supports the Ubuntu sound menu. If you want it now there's a PPA and some .deb's too!

22 November 2010
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Firefox 4 Beta 7 – how it should look on Linux

Yesterday we mentioned that Firefox 4 Beta for Linux now boasts a 'menu' button rather than a menu bar. Whilst it's undoubtedly welcome it doesn't look as good as it could - nor should. Take a peek and see why.

22 November 2010
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Jolibook goes on sale in the UK for £279

The Jolibook netbook from Jolicloud is available to purchase in the UK via Amazon and manufactuer Vye's own online shop.

21 November 2010
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Ubuntu Software Centre adds more paid apps

A few of you have dropped us a line to point out that the Ubuntu Software Center has new 'paid' apps for sale.

21 November 2010
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Firefox 4 Nightlies finally adds ‘menu’ button

The long-awaited ‘Firefox’ menu button has arrived in the latest nightly Linux builds – for now. The feature, already present in the Windows version of Mozilla’s browser, replaces the menu bar with a single button. […]

21 November 2010
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Some simple Natty sound menu updates

Caution: Don’t get overly excited. We’re not even at Natty Alpha 1 yet so the updates below will change over the coming months. That said it’s always nice to check in and monitor the changes […]

21 November 2010
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Unity Place People – Update

In my second day of hacking Unity Place for people I managed to get chat activity from Zeitgeist, get contacts from folks and create sections and groups and assign them results. Read on for more.

20 November 2010
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Zeitgeist adds more data providers, speeds up, will appear in GNOME-Shell and gets a dedicated MeeGo dev

Some call it Zeitgeist, a few paranoid people call it Skynet. Either way Zeitgeist is one of the most exciting technologies to have arisen in the last few years. I have a tonne of Zeitgeist news to bring you up-to speed on, so enough with these pointless introductions that plague every article I write...

19 November 2010
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Ubuntu running on the Samsung Galaxy Tab

Splashed on a Samsung Galaxy Tab but miss the familiar trappings (or should that be tappings :P ) of Ubuntu? Rejoice! Two users over on the XDA forums – which is a breeding ground for […]

19 November 2010
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Unity’s ‘People’ Place gets pictured

Seif Lotfy has posted a 'in progress' screenshot of a new 'People' place for Ubuntu Unity.

19 November 2010
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Ubuntu One for Windows enters beta testing

A limited beta testing program for Ubuntu One Windows client has  been announced. Development on a Windows port was first announced in January this year. ‘Why Windows?’ you ask? Ubuntu One’s Cristian Parrino explains: – “Expanding to Windows is […]

18 November 2010