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ByteBench Ubuntu PC

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 […]

6 May 2012
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[How To] Add Unity Progress Bars to Firefox

Firefox may be Ubuntu's default browser but it doesn't take full advantage of Ubuntu's Unity desktop features by default. And whilst it does come pre-packed with App Menu, HUD, and Quicklist support, it doesn't support Unity's 'on launcher' progress bars and counter badges for downloads. But by installing just one extension - 'Unityfox' - you can add these features.

6 May 2012

New E-Mail Client ‘Geary’ Launches on Linux

The makers of Shotwell have launched the first release of a new e-mail client for Linux. Geary 0.1 is described by Yorba as 'a lightweight email reader for the GNOME desktop'. It supports basic viewing and composing of e-mail, keyboard shortcuts and displays multi-threaded mails in a 'conversation' view.

5 May 2012

Ubuntu Featured on BBC News Website

It's always a peculiar feeling to wake up and see Ubuntu splashed over the front page of a leading mainstream news site. But that was what greeted me this morning as Ubuntu grabbed some prime-time eyeballs via the BBC News website.

4 May 2012
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Eucalyptus 3.1 Alpha Available for Ubuntu 12.04 [Cloud]

Back in November of last year, after over four enjoyable years at Canonical, I was approached by Eucalyptus and joined their team shortly thereafter. And, as the Debian/Ubuntu Release Engineer for Eucalyptus, I am happy and proud to announce our first Alpha packages for our 3.1 release.

4 May 2012

Beatbox Music Player Sees New Release on Ubuntu

Beatbox music player has been updated and made available for Ubuntu 12.04. The former-elementary application, which hits version 0.4 with this release, gains stability, performance and bug fixes in addition to a number of significant new features.

3 May 2012
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Electronic Arts Attending Ubuntu Developer Summit

One of the worlds largest games publishers - Electronic Arts - are to deliver a short presentation at next weeks Ubuntu Developer Summit. EA has published some of the worlds most successful gaming franchises, including The Sims, Harry Potter and Battlefield.

3 May 2012
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GIMP 2.8 Released

Good news for GIMP fans: after 3 long years in development a new stable version of GIMP has been released. Announcing the release on the official GIMP website, the developers also state that the update […]

3 May 2012
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Amazon Launch Desktop Cloud Drive Apps – But Not for Linux

Despite powering much of the cloud infrastructure that keeps millions of users files and folder online, Linux desktop users don’t seem to be having much luck when it comes to benefitting from the services themselves. […]

2 May 2012
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GoLauncher Ex Ubuntu Theme [Android]

Short of having an actual Ubuntu smartphone OS (although that is in the works) many of us like to theme our Android phones with the same icon sets and wallpapers we use in Ubuntu. But […]

2 May 2012
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Blue Systems: ‘No Plans’ to Change Kubuntu

Kubuntu's new financial backers - Blue Systems - have 'no plans' to change the way Kubuntu is run or built. The Kubuntu Community will continue to decide and manage the direction of the KDE-based distro as they have done in the past.

1 May 2012

Ubuntu One Files App Comes to the Nokia N9 (Unofficially)

Ubuntu One users who also happen to own a Nokia N9 don’t need to go without on-the-go access to their files for much longer. Ubuntu One developer Stuart Langridge has published initial work on an unofficial […]

1 May 2012