Mark Shuttleworth has opened UbuCon Latin America 2012 with a short video introduction. Aside from the video having, quite possibly, the best Ubuntu-themed opening of any video ever created in the history of moving image, it's also a really warm and positive message that makes me want to punch the air.
Ubuntu and free-software was the topic of discussion on Greek TV channel 'Sunny' earlier this morning. Nick Kakouros from Greek technology site osarena.net appeared to talk about open-source software, Linux, Ubuntu and the 'global scale' of free software within the context of the economy, government, etc.
I never tire of seeing Ubuntu for Android demoed in videos. Largely because it's as close as close as I'm going to get to experiencing one (though Mark Shuttleworth says we can expect the first devices to ship later this year).
Over the weekend Unity 5.10, the last major update to the Unity interface before the release of Ubuntu 12.04, landed in Precise. Primarily a bug-fix and stability update, Unity 5.10 brought with it a couple of notable 'new' things - including the final version of the 'Application Installation Animation'. This, developers hope, will assist new users in quickly locating apps installed through the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Unity is said to make your workflow faster and easier. But is that true? Ubuntu contributor Jo-Erlend Schinstad decided to see how much time he would save using Unity compared to Gnome Panel (Classic) when performing a set of simple tasks.
You use Linux daily - but do you know how it's built? The Linux Foundation explain in this slick 3-minute video.
The second beta release of Ubuntu 12.04 is now available to download.
Small Unity-tweaking tool ‘MyUnity‘ offers users of Ubuntu an easy way to customize parts of their desktop – from the size of fonts to the colour of the Dash. Presently MyUnity follows the trend of […]
Tech blogger Chris Prillo's Dad has become a viral celebrity after his toe-curling 'first experience' with Windows 8 garnered hundreds-of-thousands of views almost over night. Capitalising upon this, and perhaps in the interest of fairness, Chris has sat his Dad Joe down in front of, and filmed his first take on, OS X and Ubuntu 11.10. How did he get on? Click in to find out...
The feature parity between Ubuntu and its Qt counterpart Unity 2D shrinks ever smaller with the arrival of Precise's flagship 'HUD' feature introduced to Unity 2D.
The first beta release of the Ubuntu 12.04 development cycle is now available to download. Keeping to the mantra of 'polish, performance and predictability', Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 offers up a stable and usable desktop, a faster Unity experience, and a handful of neat new features. A second beta candidate is due out in 28 days time, March 29th, with the final release itself expected to pop out on April 26th.
Ubuntu is not perfect. It crashes, breaks and bugs out on us – often at the worst of times. But as talented as many developers are they are not psychic. In order for issues to […]