We love keeping an eye on Ubuntu in public – especially when n when it’s not an intentional nod. Oodle, an online listings site for ‘buying, selling, and lending among one’s community’, powers the ‘Facebook […]
A new experimental version of Spotify for Linux Preview is available to download. This minor update brings the client upto parity with the Windows and Mac clients, as well as fixing a number of bugs and crashes.
With the release date of Ubuntu 12.04 looming ever closer it’s becoming clear not everything wished for inclusion will make it into the final release. One such feature is a simple and easily accessible switch […]
Users of Unity 2D might not be able to tweak as much of their desktop as those running the resource-requiring 3D version, but options are available - and third party tweak too 2D Desktop Settings lets you adjust many parts of the Unity 2D desktop.
Assumptions about Ubuntu users and their preferences are made on a daily basis. From “They hate Unity” to “No-one wants to use Ubuntu TV.” But with the launch of the Ubuntu User survey you can […]
A new release of lightweight webkit browser Midori is now available to download.
With only a handful of days left to submit entries to the Ubuntu 12.04 Countdown Banner contest I couldn’t resist trawling through the 20 entries so far. It’s fair to say the standard and response to […]
The Ubuntu 12.04 will remain small enough to burn to a regular blank CD. Discussions early on in the development of Precise had seen talk of the Ubuntu image size being raised from the sub-700MB size of previous releases to as much as 750MB.
You can help the Ubuntu design team decide on multi-monitor launcher usage by voting on the poll inside.
Development Update Only seven weeks until release. If you are excited, you’re not the only one. We still have two weeks until Beta 2 Freeze and three weeks until Beta 2 Release and if you […]
The Ubuntu One Control Panel in Ubuntu 12.04 has been remade in Qt - a move that hasn't found favour with everyone. But, development being development, the UI to the app has been tweaked again, adding graphics and colour to the previously pale set-up window.
KDE Tablet ‘Spark’ has been forced to change its name due to trademark issues. The €200 tablet, which saw pre-ordering closed due to ‘phenomenal demand’, has been renamed ‘Vivaldi’. Project lead Aaron Seigo explains that […]