LibreOffice ‘Ribbon Interface’ Called MUFFIN, Gets Detailed

“Microsoft Ribbon UI Coming to LibreOffice” shouted we last week, as we told you about the (experimental) ‘Notebook Bar; interface in testing in the latest development builds of LibreOffice, the hugely popular open-source office suite. Today, The Document Foundation who […]

22 December 2016
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Openshot 2.2 Released With 4K Editing, Improved Performance

It’s been a few years since the OpenShot Kickstarter campaign end successfully, but progress on the ‘next generation’ version of OpenShot has been, for various practical reasons, a little slow. But this year the open-source non-linear video editor has (thankfully) […]

22 December 2016
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Recent Linux App Updates Round-Up, incl Temps and Vivaldi

A number of nifty Linux apps we’ve written about previously have shared some updates over the past few days. Rather than write about each of them individually we thought we’d round-up them up into one […]

19 December 2016

Bundle Stars Winter Sale Offers Big Discounts on Top Linux Games

It’s December, which means the Steam Holiday sale is now only a few days away. But y’know what? Forget about that! Thanks to Bundle Stars you can snag some seriously festive Steam deals on some […]

19 December 2016

12 Months, 12 Images: This Was Ubuntu in 2016

There were a number of big Ubuntu news stories in 2016, as you’re already aware. But a number of  smaller events and milestones throughout the year help to put the Linux distribution’s year into a broader context. […]

19 December 2016
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GNOME Recipes Serves Up Some Tasty New Designs

GNOME developer Matthias Clasen is back to share another slice of news on his GNOME Recipes application — and it’s starting to look really delicious! Since our last look at the open-source recipe app for Linux, […]

19 December 2016
Spotify Notify-OSD

Never Miss a Desktop Notification Again With This Indicator

Hate missing desktop notifications on Ubuntu? Well, with the Recent Notifications indicator you don’t need to. This handy tool collects and collates all desktop notifications you receive, regardless of whether you see them or not. Then, with […]

18 December 2016
plasma 5.8 desktop screenshot

[How To] Install KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS on Ubuntu

KDE Plasma desktop 5.8 LTS was released back in October, but only landed in the Kubuntu backports PPA this weekend, thus making it available to those of you running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. We’ll skip on to the installation instructions in just […]

18 December 2016
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These Unity 8 Desktop Designs Show a Striking New Feature (Updated)

New Unity 8 desktop mock-ups shared by the Canonical design team show an interesting new approach to presenting Scopes to desktop users.

18 December 2016
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Ubuntu 17.04 Swaps Swap Partitions for Swap Files

Do you like, use or see the need for Swap partitions on your Ubuntu system? If not, Ubuntu 17.04 ships one change that’ll be of interest. Canonical’s Dimitri John Ledkov announced today that Ubuntu 17.04 will use Swap files by default on […]

16 December 2016
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Linux Mint 18.1 Released

Linux Mint 18.1 has been released and is now available to download.  A long term support release, Linux Mint 18.1 is supported until 2021 and is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The release features updates to […]

16 December 2016
libreoffice 5.3 notebookbar screenshot

Microsoft Office Ribbon UI Is Coming to LibreOffice

Been hoping for LibreOffice Ribbon style interface? Well, it's getting one. The latest dev builds have a hidden 'notebookbar' interface, and here's how to enable it.

15 December 2016