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Awesome (And Unofficial) Spotify Web Player for Linux Discontinued

Spotify Web Player for Linux has been discontinued, with the developer of the unofficial Spotify app citing changes to the music streaming service's backend.

10 April 2017
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New GNOME Games App Makes it into Ubuntu 17.04 Repos

It's now easy to install GNOME Games on Ubuntu 17.04 as this awesome games browser-come-player is now available straight from the Zesty repos.

10 April 2017

What’s Next for Ubuntu Desktop? Mark Shuttleworth Shares His Plans

Mark Shuttleworth has revealed more about what's next for the Ubuntu desktop following last week's dramatic news that the next LTS release will use GNOME.

9 April 2017

Flatpak Apps Are Awesome, But Boy Do They Look Bad on Ubuntu

This week I installed my third Flatpak app on Ubuntu (the awesome GNOME Twitch 0.4, incase you’re interested) and it was an absolute breeze. I opened a terminal on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop, ran a […]

8 April 2017

Mozilla Thunderbird 52 Released with Various Improvements

Mozilla Thunderbird 52 has been released. The latest stable release of Mozilla's popular desktop email app picks up a modest set of improvements.

7 April 2017
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Canonical to Cut Jobs, Axe Unprofitable Projects

Jobs are to go at Canonical as the company looks to pull itself into fitter financial shape for the future, Mark Shuttleworth has confirmed.

6 April 2017
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Are You Happy, Sad or Indifferent to Ubuntu’s Bombshell Announcement?

It's been just over 24 hours since Mark Shuttleworth's bombshell announcement. How are you feeling about the news that Ubuntu is to 'refocus'?

6 April 2017

5 Questions We’re All Asking About the Future of Ubuntu

News that Ubuntu is to drop Unity and switch back to GNOME has been greeted by users with a mixture of confusion and surprise. It is, without doubt, big news. Probably the single biggest bit of Ubuntu news since January […]

5 April 2017
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Ubuntu 18.04 To Ship with GNOME Desktop, Not Unity

Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical is to end its investment in Unity 8, Mir, Ubuntu for phones, tablets, and convergence.

5 April 2017
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Chrome Adds Initial Support for Native Linux Desktop Notifications

Last month we told you that Google Chrome might start using native notifications on Linux — and now the first bit of code to enable this has landed.

5 April 2017

Polychromatic, the Razer Config App for Linux, Scores a New Update

Polychromatic, an unofficial desktops that lets Razer mouse and keyboard users configure their devices on Linux, has received an update.

5 April 2017

Lightworks 14.0 Video Editor Premieres with Brand New UI, New Features

A brand new version of Lightworks, the professional-grade video editor, is available for download on Windows, macOS and — hurrah — Linux.

5 April 2017