The second beta release of Ubuntu 12.04 is now available to download.
Chances are if you're using Ubuntu you're a 25-35 year old male living in either the USA or Mexico. At least, those are the findings from the recently-conducted 'Ubuntu User Survey 2012'. With a response rate of over 17,000, the survey will help Ubuntu developers better understand their user base. But what else has the survey revealed?
The latest version of the GNOME desktop has been released today. But what’s new, what’s improved? Dynamic Wallpaper “He’s starting by telling us about the wallpaper? Geesh!” I know it’s an odd place to start […]
We have a lot of ‘L’ (Love) for the other ‘L’ in the Ubuntu family (Lubuntu) here on OMG! Ubuntu!. And its forthcoming 12.04 release is shaping up to be the best yet, boasting a […]
The Unity Launcher and Panel can't be themed directly - not without recreating and then replacing each of the tiny .png files it uses - but the illusion of a themed top-panel and Unity launcher can be created quickly and easily by way of special custom wallpapers. Click on in to learn more.
Ubuntu's default photo manager 'Shotwell' has put out a new release. A new image straightening tool and improved Flickr login are amongst the changes to be found in Shotwell 0.12.
The next version of elementary's Ubuntu-based operating system, code-named Luna, is likely to see release in the coming months. With work under the hood of the lightweight-Linux OS well underway, the team are starting to turn thoughts to some of the more visual aspects. This includes assembling a set of wallpapers to ship with the release. And to do so they need your help.
Another title has been added to sweeten the deal of the latest Humble Bundle promotion. 'Snuggle Truck', a watered down version of the politically controversial game 'Smuggle Truck', sits alongside four other titles as part of the 'Pay What You want' offer.
Little has been heard of Ubuntu's multi-touch framework 'uTouch' of late - but it seems for good reason. The uTouch team have today demoed 'pixel perfect scrolling' in the open-source web-browser Chromium in Ubuntu, a feat made possible by taking advantage of Ubuntu's touch-friendly technology stack. The effort is part of the teams goal of 'adding multitouch and gesture support to major browsers on the Linux desktop.'
The €200 KDE tablet might have been given a new name but it still has the same lure on the surface: a low price, stylish design, and awesome open source software. But what about inside? Is there anything to tempt potential buyers under the hood?
Unity 5.8 landed in Ubuntu 12.04 this weekend - but what's new and what's improved? Let's take a quick gander...
Development Update We are only five weeks away from the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Next week we expect the Beta 2 release to go out and afterwards only important fixes will go in. 26th […]
From a poll of thousands, 13 photographic wallpapers have been chosen for inclusion in Ubuntu 12.04. As with previous releases, the submissions were picked through an open contest run on social networking site Flickr.
The second alpha release of Firefox 13 (no, we can barely keep up either) is now available for download. The release doesn’t see too much in the way of ‘stuff to shout about’, with its […]
Many first time users of Ubuntu’s Unity interface become slightly confusing by one aspect of the Launcher’s behaviour: minimising app windows. Coming from Windows, KDE, or other similar desktop environment, the first expectation of the […]
A beta demo release of old-skool text based adventure game Incursion has been made available to download.
The latest stable version of desktop music player Banshee has been released. Now on version 2.4, the popular media app adds support for DVD playback, ‘genre’ and ‘years’ filtering of music, and UPnP music and […]
Come April 26th and the release of Ubuntu 12.04 a vast number of Ubuntu users will be getting their first taste of the Unity desktop since its basic beginnings as the Ubuntu Netbook Remix in the last LTS. But for all of the innovation, aesthetics and features that the unity desktop offers there is a chance that, for many, the change will be too much. But Unity is only one desktop environment available to install in Ubuntu.