Since the announcement last week that Ubuntu 11.04 will be shipping with a desktop-orientated version of the Unity interface as default the OMG! Inbox! has been inundated by anxious readers. Here we list some answers to reader most queried questions.
Minitube developer Flavio Tordini is searching for a new icon for his desktop Flash-free YouTube player.
A new version of lightweight webkit-based web-browser Midori has been released, adding support for private browsing, privacy improvements and fixes galore.
If you're on Maverick (or even if you're not) chances are you're in love with the Ubuntu font and as such want to use it everywhere you possibly can. Gwibber, when using the 'Ubuntu' theme, sadly has ideas of its own but enabling Ubuntu-font usage is no more than a minor-hack away.
We love the idea of Generative Wallpapers - self-updating ever-changing backgrounds - here on OMG! Ubuntu! and, seemingly, so do you! Reader Aziz got in touch with a fantastic regenerative wallpaper of his own, inspired by an earlier article of ours on intelligent boot-splashes. Read on for more.
Last week while Amber and Pete Graner were attending the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida, they received some very bad news. Lightning had struck their home and it had caught fire, burning to the ground.
LCA 2011 has announced that Google Vice President and chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf will be a Keynote Speaker for the conference to be held in Brisbane, in January next year.
Ubuntu Forums administrator and long time contributor Mike Basinger (Technoviking) posted a sneaky preview of the upcoming Ubuntu Forums redesign on Twitter yesterday.
Mark Shuttleworth recently responded to a Unity workspace mock-up the Ayatana Mailing List and revealed some interesting features of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty...
Charbax over at ArmDevices.net poked us with news of a new video interview he conducted with Frederic Baille, the founder of the Ubuntu-based Linutop OS.
Enable Push Notification support in Evolution and never have to hit the refresh button again.
Reader Cullum Saunders pinged us with an interesting concept for an intelligent, friendly ambient boot screen, which he demoes in the video below. “It’s based on two ideas. The design teams idea for a wallpaper […]
As if it were a Christmas gift to all Ubuntu users, it has been announced at UDS that a development version of the Ubuntu Software Center with a 'Ratings and Reviews' feature will arrive before December 25th.
Fed up of the old-look Ubuntu Wiki? Enable the re-branded new style version.
Natty's default application line-up will see not any major deviation from that included in Maverick.
Banshee is to be the default music player in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - providing issues with disc space can be overcome.
Widgets on the desktop; some people can be quite snooty about them but there is a reason they are available by default on two of the most popular Operating Systems. ~Musl1m on DevinatArt thinks Unity has an opportunity there and has mocked up the following example of what Widgets on Unity could look like.
A new variant of Social Network worm Koobface has been discovered that affects Linux and Mac OS X via outdated version of Java.