Seeking out a new laptop or notebook but dreading the all-too-frequent compatibility issue with function keys, blue tooth, wifi, webcam etc? Don't.
Well, for some of you readers, it's already the 2nd of September, and the Beta release of 10.10 is out today. Originally, this was scheduled to be Alpha 4, but the Maverick Release schedule was slightly altered a few weeks ago to give a bit more time to "Release Quality" (read:bug hunting and rough edges). Click through to read more and learn how to upgrade from Lucid if you're keen.
Grab your portable gadgets, even your iPhone. Banshee 1.7.5 is here with new hardware support and we need YOU to break it (and file bugs if you succeed naturally). With 1.7.5 you will not just get all new and improved hardware support but also 47 bug fixes. Most notable of these writing metadata to video files is now supported.
No doubt you'll notice something different round these parts. That's right, after two months of design and development, we have unleashed the new face of OMG! Ubuntu! So what's new? Make the jump to find out.
Applications running in Wine more often than not look like second-class citizens. That's no way to experience your OS - we're put together five tips for getting Wine applications looking, feeling & behaving like everything else on your desktop. In this OMG! 5! we take a look at five ways to improve the look and feel of Wine in Ubuntu.
Scalable Vector Graphic fans of the world rejoice - Open Source’s premier vector drawing application Inkscape has been bumped up to 0.48, adding lots of fixes and features for artists to get excited about in the process.
Elementary fans longing for a Firefox theme to match do not have much long to wait. The skin is the work of a Thomas 'Seahorse Pip' and looks every bit as sumptuous as you'd expect.
KDE twitter client Choqok has rolled out a new beta release with timely OAuth support to ensure Choqok users are able to continue using Twitter - which switches off API requests for non-OAuth applications today. Feature list after the jump.
Firefox - why won't you adhere to my icon theme!? Small issues sometime grate the most and the following bug falls squarely into that category... Click through for the rest of the rant.
We've mentioned Kyle Baker's superb Opera themes before so, and in light of sad news yesterday that PPC support for Opera will be discontinued, it's nice to see said skins have been updated for the new & improved default themes in Ubuntu 10.10.
Ubuntu 10.10's Unity interface has gained some new icons in an update tonight. Three new launcher icons - for applications, places and trash respectively - are joined by category icons in the dash over-view. Hit up the break to see screenshots in all their glory.
Support for basic user authentication in many desktop Twitter applications will end at 8AM Pacific time this Tuesday morning, according to Twitter.
Errata: This an updated version of our previous post on the Android Application which wasn’t entirely clear about what was on offer. The Android application for Contact Sync is free – and always will be […]
Often it’s newer Linux users missing the familiarity of Windows that skin their OS to mimic that of another but here the tables are turned; fed up of booting into Windows and everything looking so […]
I don’t know what is left to say about the Ubuntu 10.10 Sound Menu that hasn’t already been said so far – it’s a menu, it’s new, most of you love it! This mockup by […]
The release of KDE ‘Software Compilation’ 4.5.1 has been announced by the KDE team. The release comes less than a month after the release of the last iteration – KDE 4.5.0 What’s new? Nothing jaw-dropping. […]
The ‘next-gen’ BTRFS file stystem will not be supported in Ubuntu 10.10. The work needed to provide its inclusion will not be completed in time and, as such, has been deferred to Ubuntu 11.04. It […]
If you’re an avid Exaile user but find the default tray icon a bit too colourful for your other-wise monochromatic panel then replace them with these mono versions created by ~Jaapz. Install In his mail to us […]