Section: Video

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Open-source kinect driver demoed

Hector Martin (aka marcan42 on YouTube) has created – and demoed – a free, open-source driver for Microsoft’s ‘Kinect’ camera dubbed ‘Libfreenect’.

10 November 2010
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Interview with the Founder of Ubuntu based linutop OS

Charbax over at ArmDevices.net poked us with news of a new video interview he conducted with Frederic Baille, the founder of the Ubuntu-based Linutop OS.

30 October 2010
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New Ubuntu Advert makes for a slick introduction to the OS

During Mark's keynote address at the Ubuntu Developer Summit he played a very slick new video advertisement for Ubuntu. Whilst I doubt this will be rocking up on your TV anytime soon it's nonetheless an extremely slick introduction to Ubuntu and what it's all about.

27 October 2010
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Short video shows off uTouch on Ubuntu Unity

Canonical's Gerry Carr has posted a neat video demonstration of Ubuntu 10.10's new multi-touch features in action with the Ubuntu Unity interface.

14 October 2010
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Linux Action Show review 10.10, talk with OMG! editor Benjamin

Just a quick heads up - The guys over at Jupiter Broadcasting have released a new episode of their very popular video podcast The Linux Action Show featuring a full review of Ubuntu 10.10 as well as a 10 minute interview with yours truly! Catch the video after the jump.

12 October 2010
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‘Linspotting’ – Linux ad spoofs Trainspotting

Parodying the 1996 cult film Trainspotting, Caroline Pimenta's Linspotting advert is a well made and incredibly funny short that will have you laughing throughout.

8 October 2010
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Screenkey desktop recording tool displays key presses on screen

Screenkey display key presses on-screen, making it a perfect foil for use in 'how-to' or tutorial videos.

5 October 2010
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Parallax & user-proximity controlled Ubuntu desktop demoed

Christian Giordano has posted a video mock-up of a motion-aware Ubuntu desktop today. The demo was created following internal discussions on how Ubuntu could make use of user-proximity based data in informing input on the […]

14 September 2010
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GUADEC video interviews

Jeremy Allison nabbed some really neat interviews with various awesome people related to/involved with GNOME at this years 2010  GUADEC event and since so many of you enjoyed our interview with GNOME Co-Found Federico Mena […]

14 September 2010
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OMG Video: Probing Your Box, Grub 2 and You!

If I had to pick one horror story that I get messaged about the most, it would be the dreaded bootloader. “It’s missing” or “I have a black screen of death..” and some people edit […]

6 September 2010
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GNOME Activity Journal goes on steroids

The boys on the Activity Journal team managed to boost the performance up to an average of 620% It now navigates quicker and loads faster than ever. Funny enough that even the memory consumption went down. Look […]

6 September 2010
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Generative Wallpaper idea proposes subtle evolution for your desktop background

Generative wallpapers were an interesting topic at the last Ubuntu Developers Summit in Belgium, but unfortunately the design team ran out of time to implement it in the furry Meerkat release this coming October. Community member Martin Owens shares some insight into what could have been, had time been on the design team's side. Go out on a whim and click the title OR the "continue reading" link to.. well.. continue reading. Bam!

3 September 2010