Find Creative Commons Music Easily With The Jamendo Scope for Unity

Looking for some new Creative Commons music? Before you fire up your browser to search the Jamendo website you might want to try out the following new Unity Scope.

25 November 2013
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Linux Audio App ‘DeaDBeef’ Updates With Interactive Layout Designer

The lightweight Linux audio player DeaDBeeF has been updated, with an interactive new design mode being one of several new features included in the 0.6.0 release.

25 November 2013

Twitter App Turpial 3 Coming Soon With Multi-Account, Tweet Filtering

The Desktop Linux Twitter app Turpial is undergoing something of a regeneration for its upcoming 'Version 3' release.

23 November 2013

Ubuntu’s New Mobile And Desktop Icon Theme Gets Shown Off

It's been a long time coming but work a revamped set of icons for the Ubuntu desktop is underway in 14.04 – and we've got screenshots.

22 November 2013

Jolicloud Desktop, OS To Be Discontinued In December

Updates to the Jolicloud OS, based on Ubuntu 10.04, and the Jolicloud desktop environment, available for Ubuntu 12.04 and up through a PPA, will be discontinued in December of this year.

21 November 2013

Experimental Ubuntu Touch Emulator Released

An experimental Ubuntu Touch emulator has been released today.

20 November 2013
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‘Household Brands’ Interested In Ubuntu for Phones and Tablets, Says Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth has said that an 'interesting set of household brands' are looking at putting Ubuntu Touch on their own phones and tablets.

19 November 2013

NSA Wanted Backdoor Access In Linux, Says Linus Torvalds’ Father

The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) are alleged to have to asked the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, to create 'backdoors' into GNU/Linux through which they could access.

19 November 2013
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Linux Mint Respond to Ubuntu Developer’s ‘Vulnerable’ Claim

Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre has responded to remarks made by a Canonical developer saying that the OS was 'vulnerable' to security exploits.

18 November 2013

Canonical Dev Calls Linux Mint ‘Vulnerable’, Wouldn’t Use it For Online Banking

Users of the popular Ubuntu-based operating system Linux Mint should not use it for online banking, a Canonical engineer has advised.

18 November 2013

SuperTuxKart 0.8.1 Release Candidate Revved Up And Ready for Testing

Hands up if you don't like open-source racing game SuperTuxKart? You, folks, are strange.

18 November 2013

Lightworks Linux Build Updated With DVD, YouTube Export Options

The Linux beta builds of professional non-linear video editing software Lightworks has been updated with a wider set of export formats and improved overall performance.

17 November 2013

Maxthon Web Browser For Linux Hits Alpha

Just a couple of months after announcing it was heading to Linux, the popular freeware web-rbwoser 'Maxthon' is now in alpha testing.

17 November 2013

Xubuntu Looks To Community for 14.04 Wallpaper Set

Xubuntu are looking to the community to help source a set of wallpapers for the upcoming release of 14.04 LTS.

15 November 2013

Ubuntu Tablet Will be ‘Key Focus’ During Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Cycle

Honing the Ubuntu Touch tablet interface will be the "focus" of Ubuntu's development activities over the next 6 months.

14 November 2013

Linux E-Mail App ‘Geary’ Updated With IMAP Fixes

In the first update to popular linux e-mail client Geary - the first since October's major release - a number of issues have been corrected.

12 November 2013

WhatsApp Coming to Firefox OS – Could Ubuntu Touch Be Next?

The popular Messaging client WhatsApp will be available on Mozilla's Firefox OS before the end of the year, according to one Spanish carrier.

8 November 2013
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Total War: Rome II Coming To Linux ‘Early Next Year’

Another week, another top title announces plans to support Linux gaming - this time in the shape of strategy war game Total War: Rome II.

7 November 2013