Ever wanted to play with ChromeOS? A new unofficial 'hack' for Ubuntu lets you do just that - and with a minimum of fuss. The lightdm-chromeos-login project installs the ChromiumOS desktop, compete with the Aura window manager, within Ubuntu. It even lets you login it to a full-blown Chrome desktop straight from the login screen.
The latest NVidia GeForce driver, released yesterday, gives Linux users 'double the performance' and 'dramatically reduces game loading times', according to the company's press release. Having been in development for almost a year, the GeForce R310 driver has been designed to 'showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system'.
An updated version of Ubuntu for testing on the Nexus7 tablet has been released.
Kevin Carillo a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington's School of Information Management is producing a PhD Thesis Project that hopes to identify the experiences of newcomers to open source projects and the behaviors of established contributors.
It's that time of the seemingly-every-other-month again - yes, it's Humble Bundle time! The Humble Indie Bundle for Android 4 has been launched today with 5 games, plus an extra one for those paying more than 'the average' price.
The Humble Bundle team have hired a 'prolific Linux games developer' to join their team full time. Edward Rudd, known to many under the nickname of 'urkle', has already been responsible for the porting of 17 games to Mac and Linux for the Bundle.
Daily builds of Ubuntu 13.04 - due for release in April 2013 - have today gone live for download.
OMG! Ubuntu! have learned from a reader that Reddit users on /r/linux_gaming have already figured out a way to bypass Valve's Beta Invitation - which allow users to start exploring Steam on Linux much earlier than the folks at Valve had likely planned for.
The limited-access beta of Steam for Linux has gone live. Over 60,000 people responded to the call for beta applicants made last month. From this pool an initial subset have been chosen to test the client and report their feedback.
'Ubuntu Made Easy', a book published earlier this year by No Starch Press makes a bold claim with its title - but does it deliver on it?
As avid couch-potatoes, channel-surfers and TV junkies will know: Ubuntu is no stranger to the small screen. We like to track its appearances here on OMG! via our 'ubuntu on tv' tag. But there was one relatively recent appearance that passed us by until reader Sebastián Gómez dropped a link off in out inbox...
Ubuntu 12.10 debuted a new 'Shopping Lens' feature - but not everyone found it useful. mongst those who liked the idea of the Shopping Lens, but not the way it works by default, was developer Mark Tully. But rather than gripe, uninstall, or miss out - he made his own dedicated Shopping Lens...