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Search ‘Google Play’ from the Unity Dash

A new lens for Ubuntu 12.04 lets you search through Google Play catalog of apps, books and movies straight from Unity Dash.

12 November 2012

New Animated ‘Ubuntu For Android’ Ad Hits the Web

A new 'Ubuntu for Android' commercial has appeared online. The 2 minute animated spot explains the key concepts behind the technology, which was first announced back in February, via irrelevant analogies.

12 November 2012
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Are Ubuntu’s Software Icons Confusing?

Are Ubuntu's icons for the Software Center, Update Manager and Software Sources inconsistent and confusing for new users? Some users think so, including Sam Hewitt who has posted a set of proposed replacement icons to the Unity Design Mailing List.

12 November 2012

‘UnSettings’ – A Comprehensive Tweaking Tool for Unity

The Unity desktop is more customizable than it's often given credit for, you just have to install an extra app to unlock its potential. We’re going to show you how to use a small app called ‘Unsettings’ to tweak Unity to suit your preferences.

12 November 2012

[How To] Run Chrome OS in Ubuntu

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.

11 November 2012

New NVIDIA Driver ‘Doubles Performance’ on Linux

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'.

9 November 2012

Ubuntu for Nexus 7 Gets Updated

An updated version of Ubuntu for testing on the Nexus7 tablet has been released.

9 November 2012
Victoria University of Wellington

Scholarly Open Source Research

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.

9 November 2012

Humble Bundle for Android 4 Launches with 5 Titles

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.

8 November 2012

Humble Bundle Hire Full Time Linux Dev

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.

7 November 2012

Ubuntu 13.04 Daily Builds Go Live

Daily builds of Ubuntu 13.04 - due for release in April 2013 - have today gone live for download.

7 November 2012
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Reddit Users Bypass Steam Linux Beta Invitations

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.

6 November 2012