Unity 5.8 landed in Ubuntu 12.04 this weekend - but what's new and what's improved? Let's take a quick gander...
Development Update We are only five weeks away from the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Next week we expect the Beta 2 release to go out and afterwards only important fixes will go in. 26th […]
From a poll of thousands, 13 photographic wallpapers have been chosen for inclusion in Ubuntu 12.04. As with previous releases, the submissions were picked through an open contest run on social networking site Flickr.
The second alpha release of Firefox 13 (no, we can barely keep up either) is now available for download. The release doesn’t see too much in the way of ‘stuff to shout about’, with its […]
Many first time users of Ubuntu’s Unity interface become slightly confusing by one aspect of the Launcher’s behaviour: minimising app windows. Coming from Windows, KDE, or other similar desktop environment, the first expectation of the […]
A beta demo release of old-skool text based adventure game Incursion has been made available to download.
The latest stable version of desktop music player Banshee has been released. Now on version 2.4, the popular media app adds support for DVD playback, ‘genre’ and ‘years’ filtering of music, and UPnP music and […]
Come April 26th and the release of Ubuntu 12.04 a vast number of Ubuntu users will be getting their first taste of the Unity desktop since its basic beginnings as the Ubuntu Netbook Remix in the last LTS. But for all of the innovation, aesthetics and features that the unity desktop offers there is a chance that, for many, the change will be too much. But Unity is only one desktop environment available to install in Ubuntu.
Could you imagine a world without Linux? Such a thought could have been stark reality had Apple managed to successfully recruit Linus Torvalds back in 2000.
Unity 2D has never been quite as customisable as its older, resoruce-hungry relative. And although this ‘gulf’ will be reduced slightly in the forthcoming release of Ubuntu 12.04, there still won’t be options for the […]
There are many ways to install Ubuntu on a computer, some of which are simpler and easier than others. WUBI (Windows Ubuntu Installer) is an example of the easy approach. It offers the Ubuntu curious a relatively safe way to install Ubuntu on their PC from within Windows - negating the need for disk partitioning and adding an easy way to 'uninstall it' through Windows 'Add or Remove' feature. But changes to way the way the tool is provided in Ubuntu 12.04 are now being discussed.
We recently ran a poll in conjunction with the Ubuntu Design Team to seek out your preferred option for the default Unity launcher behaviour for multi-monitor usage in Ubuntu 12.04. Almost 13,000 of you voted in that poll, and, based on those results, a decision on the default behaviour has been decided by the Ubuntu Design Team.