The latest beta version of .deb creation assistant Ubucompilator is available for testing. The past 12 months have seen the tool mature considerably, with the 1.0 beta boasting many new additions: – A new style […]
I interrupt normal proceedings to bring you a shameless plug for one of my favourite magazines – Linux Format – and one of my favourite people – Seif Lotfy – both of whom, for this […]
The popular Faenza icon set has been ported to KDE. Whilst the KDE version still requires a bit of polishing, lacking many application and action icons, it is complete enough for daily usage and makes […]
Ubuntu design team member Otto Greenslade blogged about a set of new Ubuntu-style emoticons for use on the Canonical design blog at the weekend – and you can now use them in Pidgin.
A temporary repository for LibreOffice – the newly-announced fork of OpenOffice – has been set up for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-based distributions to use.
Two new T Shirts for the Maverick Meerkat release of Ubuntu that comes out in just over a week have appeared in the Canonical Store.
No not that sort of galaxy but the immersive Google Earth set-up called ‘Liquid Galaxy’ which displays Google Earth in a surround view around you using eight 55-inch LCD screens. And now it’s open-source. From […]
Early Ubuntu 10.10 adopters left curious/frustrated by the inability to easily install Java package from the Software Centre in 10.10 can breathe a sigh of relief: Java has finally been uploaded to 'Canonical Partner Repository' for 10.10.
Excuse the dodgy pun but Ubuntu 10.10 is going to be a fantastic release for many reasons, not least of which is improved ARM architecture support. Amongst the many improvements the Ubuntu ARM team have […]
Find Docky looking drab? Try this ‘dark glass’ theme by artist ~half-left.
The latest beta release of LXDE-based Ubuntu spin ‘Lubuntu’ has been made available for testing.
A new mobile music streaming Android app from Ubuntu One has entered public beta testing. The app allows you to listen to music stored/synchronized in your Ubuntu One account ‘in the cloud’ directly on your […]
The Banshee project is proud to announce the release of 1.8.0, which includes a whopping 230 bugfixes as well as a sleeve of new features to users including integration with Ubuntu's SoundMenu, Amazon MP3 store integration, completely new and improved hardware support and other goodies.
Google today launched a developer preview of their new image format WebP which, they claim, can ‘reduce the byte size of photos on the web, allowing web sites to load faster than before.’
The founders of bookmark syncing service Xmarks are attempting to keep the service alive by introducing a $10/y subscription model.
Ubuntu’s newly designed font, the work of typographers Dalton Maag, will indeed be used as the default desktop font in Ubuntu 10.10.
Animated short fantasy film SINTEL, created entirely in open-source 3D graphics suite Blender, sees its online release today after more than a year in the making.
Users of the visually impressive Twitter application 'Hotot' may wish to add the projects' daily-build PPA to automatically gain the latest features and fixes as the app strides towards a stable release.