Linux Game ‘Nikki and the Robots’ Launches With ‘Pay What You Want’ Offer

If paying a pittance for the latest Humbe Indie Bundle wasn't tempting enough, indie platformer 'Nikki and the Robots' is also available to buy for whatever price you deem its worth. The cute retro-styled game packs in a lot of fun, an amazing soundtrack, and plenty of challenge.

19 September 2012
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Messaging Menu Update Adds “Remove” Option, New Status Icons

Ubuntu's Messaging Menu has been updated with a couple of new features in the development builds fo 12.10 - the most notable of which is the ability to hide.

19 September 2012

Humble Indie Bundle 6 Arrives with 6 Linux Games in Tow

We've barely had chance to digest the last Humble event, but there's already another: the 6th Humble Indie Bundle. But the good news for gamers this time around is that, unlike recent collections, this latest bundle is packed full of six new-to-Linux titles.

18 September 2012
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Netflix: ‘No Change in our plans for Linux’

Movie streaming company Netflix have once again reiterated that have no plans to support Linux anytime soon. The news won't surprise many: the company announced that Linxu support won't be happening earlier this year.

17 September 2012
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Chip in to Jono Bacon’s Birthday Fundraiser

Jono is one of the most 'well known' faces in the Ubuntu and wider free-software/open-source community. But rather than receive the usual glut of inflatable guitars, novelty underwear, and PS3 games, Bacon has opted for something more in keeping with the ethos of Ubuntu and Open-Source: charity.

17 September 2012

‘Skype Wrapper’ for Ubuntu Gets Updated

The best (and easiest) way to integrate popular chat app Skype with Ubuntu is to use Skype-Wrapper. And as it's just been updated there's no better time to try it out.

17 September 2012
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Use Evernote In Ubuntu With Everpad

Use Evernote on your mobile devices? Now you can use it on Ubuntu, too...

16 September 2012

[Reader Help] Take This Short Ubuntu Beta Survey

Are you using Ubuntu 12.10 Beta? Whether you answered yes or no your input is wanted by one of our readers, Nathan H., who is gathering some stats on who does and doesn't use Ubuntu's beta releases.

14 September 2012
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Is The NexPhone Concept Worth Donating To?

The NexPhone wants $950,000 of your money to build a prototype. But is it worth chucking coin at? We take a look...

14 September 2012
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MMORPG ‘Ryzom’ Gears Up for Player Reset, Server Wipe

Later this month the bods behind the 500,000 player strong MMORPG Ryzom will be making a drastic change that will impact much of their user base: a character reset.

14 September 2012

Oscar-Winning Video Editor ‘Lightworks’ Landing on Linux in October

A release date for the Linux version of Editshare's professional-grade video editor Lightworks has been set. October 30th will see an alpha release of the editor available for download on Linux.

14 September 2012
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How to Enable Cuttlefish’s Ubuntu-Themed App Indicator Icon

Cuttlefish, my aquatically-designed chum: there's a time and place for garish purple-y pink tentacles and the Ubuntu indicator area isn't it.

13 September 2012