The following small but noteworthy changes landed in yesterdays update to Unity in Ubuntu 11.04. You won't see anything too startling but where you will find is solid, dependable progress in evidence.
Calling designers and/or those with minute attention to detail: want to play your part in shaping Ubuntu 11.04? Of course you do, and here's how.
For as long as I am able to remember the Battery indicator in Ubuntu has, for me, been just shy of useless. Whilst it pictorially displays my battery charge it hasn't been able to provide me with anything more: all I get for enquiring further is a never-changing 'estimating...' menu entry. Thankfully an alternative indicator-shaped solution is available...
An actual 64bit .deb installer for Adobe Air? Yes. Sadly it's not from Adobe themselves, but it does cut out the chore of manually hacking the 32bit binary to install in Ubuntu 64bit.
OpenGL based display management system 'Wayland' - the X Window System replacement proposed for future versions of Ubuntu - has been made available in the Ubuntu 11.04 Repositories.
In an update to previously announced proceedings Banshee's Gabriel Burt has shared news that the media player will come with two music stores enable by default in Ubuntu 11.04.
I'm a few hours late on this one folks but LibreOffice 3.3.1 has, regardless of my attention, been released.
Some wallpapers from Android Honeycomb. Many of which look lovely on Ubuntu.
Unity 2D - the Qt implementation of Ubuntu's Unity interface that doesn't require 3D graphic drivers, etc. - is advancing apace. In this video you can see just how slick Unity's little sibling is looking...
The first alpha of Banshee 1.9.4 for Windows has been officially released for testing.
Ubuntu's Jorge O. Castro drops by with another weekly bite-sized bug report on Unity in Ubuntu 11.04.
Work on integration between Mozilla's e-mail client Thunderbird and the Ubuntu Messaging Menu is made available for public testing.
The latest nightly build of Mozilla Firefox 4 is looking rather dapper in Ubuntu of late, reader Sjoerd mailed us to say. And, indeed, it is!
Photostory is a small application for taking a daily snapshot of yourself using your webcam. It's recently added some great new features. Read on for more.
The latest development release of Midori follows the recent trend of web browsers downsizing their menu cruft in favour of 'Google Chrome' style single-button menus.
The much anticipated alpha release of Banshee for Windows is coming next week. The Windows port is attracting a lot of new contributors, bringing our new Windows effort up to 5 people actively working on […]
This guide will walk owners of HP Mini 110 series and Compaq Mini CQ10-500 series netbook owners - along with any one else owning a device using a Realtek rts5159 card reader - through downloading and installing the required driver.
Being an avid user of Android I'm always on the hunt for Ubuntu related apps on the Market place. A few days ago I came across 'Ubuntu pocket reference' - a free application for Android that claims to list 'the most popular and most useful Ubuntu/Linux commands.'