Just when you thought the roller-coaster had stopped the daily builds of Ubuntu 12.10 (Pre-alpha) go live. If you're thinking of downloading and installing Qunatal do be aware that there's very little to see in terms of changes yet - much of the detail is still being hammered out at this weeks Ubuntu Developer Summit.
Richard Hilleman of Electronic Arts delivered a short address to the attendees of the Ubuntu Developer Summit this evening, a day after the company released its first two games on the Ubuntu platform.
How often does your desktop get covered in all manner of - to be blunt - crap? Icons, images, links, launcher, folders, stuff you don't even recall ever download... It all gets dumped on the desktop. And a cluttered desktop hampers workflow and distracts. Enter DayFolder - a small utility that can organize your desktop for you.
EA have deposited two games in the Ubuntu Software Center for users to download easily – and for free. The titles, ‘Lords of Ultima‘ and ‘Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances‘, run in your default browser. […]
Although LibreOffice may have forked off from it and picked up developers and innovation by the bucket load, the faithful old brand, now under the direction of Apache Software Foundation, has seen its first release since January 2011. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 doesn't do anything drastic, but does iterate nicely upon that which was there before.
Kubuntu is likely to retain its name, the lead developer Jonathan Riddell has said at UDS. It had been rumoured that legal issues with ownership of the trademark would force Kubuntu and its new financial […]
Ubuntu is on course to ship on 5% of the worlds PCs next year, Canonical's Chris Kenton has revealed. Between 8 and 10 million Ubuntu units shipped 'last year' - a figure is expected to double to 18 million during 'next year'. Which equates to some 5% of the world-wide PC market.
Mark Shuttleworth has delivered the keynote address to attendes of this weeks Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS-Q) being held at the City Center Marriott in Oakland, California. We blogged the keynote live, as it happened. 9:00 […]
A lot of avid Android tinkerers use Ubuntu, and if you're one of them you may have spent time compiling the popular firmware replacement CyanogenMod from source. If so then the following tool may be of interest...
Ubuntu 12.10’s new logo has been put on show at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Although the summit itself doesn’t kick off until Monday 7th the branding for it is all around the hotel where developers […]
I never tire of seeing Ubuntu for Android demoed in videos. Largely because it's as close as close as I'm going to get to experiencing one (though Mark Shuttleworth says we can expect the first devices to ship later this year).
Would you pay upwards of €2000 for a designer PC running Ubuntu? That’s the price German tech company Convar are asking for their latest ‘furniture meets electronics’ design ‘ByteBench‘. For a €2,250 computer you might […]