A new open-source digital writing and publishing platform has been launched by non-profit group Sourcefabric. Booktype allows for collaborative editing and writing of books that can be easily outputted to on-demand print services and eReaders […]
The latest Indie Royale Bundle has been running for a few days and whilst 4/5's of the game on offer aren't available for Linux one is - and it's one that's worth mentioning.
As we mentioned last week, German magazine 'Der Spiegel' has been running a series of 'Getting started with Linux' articles on their website. Following on from the first article, which talked about the security benefits of Linux over Windows, come the final two parts.
The Bisigi themes project has been revived. The project created some of the most comprehensively designed GTK2 themes during its three active years but following the move by most major distributions to GTK3, the project wound down in November of last year.
Is Precise gearing up for another change to App Menu behaviour? Sort of. New code aimed at ‘the implementation of locally integrated menubars‘ has been proposed for ‘merging’ into Metacity, Unity, Light Themes and Compiz. […]
Valorie has been a valuable contributor to the Kubuntu community and overall Free Open Source Software community for quite awhile and I had the privilege of meeting her last year at Community Leadership Summit and […]
The tentative design proposal for the new GNOME lock screen has been published online. The designs, created by Novell's Jakub Steiner and published on the GNOME Design Wiki, take cues from the lock-screens of smartphones by remaining semi-useful when locked (displays big clock, message notifications, music controller).
It's been a long time coming but Mozilla are prepping the release of 'new tab speed-dial' to ship in Firefox 13. The feature has been in nightly builds of the browser for a few weeks but has just been pushed to the 'Aurora channel' builds so that wider feedback can be sought.
The pace of development on Ubuntu’s Unity interface sees ever-more options added to it, much to the delight of tweakers everywhere. But for Unity-2D, the lighter and less resource intensive version of Unity, customisation options […]
Back in July of last year after wrapping up at OSCON I shared a bit of information that brought some hope to the Linux community. While at the event I got a chance to speak with two engineers from Netflix […]
As exciting as reading about the forthcoming KDE 'Spark' tablet is nothing beats seeing it in action - and thanks to the project lead Aaron Seigos we can now do just that.
Adorable chicken-themed platform game Toki Tori has hatched on Linux for the first time thanks to the Humble Bundle for Android. The aim of the game sounds simple - assuming the role of a Chicken you work you way through 80 levels spread over 4 mysterious worlds collecting eggs - but things are a lot more challenging than they sound.