Ubuntu users envious of Chinese Linux distro’s slickly-styled ‘Software Centre’ won’t nee to be green-eyed for too long: it’s coming to Ubuntu. Aenon Sun, an employee of the company who support the Ubuntu-based distro, left […]
The latest Humble Indie Bundle is already on course to shatter previous sales totals - and its seems that the generosity of Linux users is, like bundles previous, playing a part in that. Almost one week after the launch of the gaming pack, which plays stage to the Linux debut of 7 titles, the average payment from Linux users sitd at double that offered up by users of the Windows platform.
A two-day bug hunting session for LibreOffice 3.5 has been announced by The Document Foundation. Developers and eagle-eyed users will come together on the 28th and 29th of December to test the upcoming major release […]
If you find yourself gifted with a Nook Tablet this Xmas you may soon be able to run Ubuntu on it. XDA developer loglud has been hard at work getting Ubuntu (with the lightweight LXDE […]
The march of mini ARM-powered PCs continues with the release of the 'CuBox' developer platform by tech company Solid Run. This £99 media centre can run full 1080p and can run Android or Ubuntu.
Barely day after GNOME devs added it to Empathy, working MSN XMPP support has landed in Ubuntu 12.04. The feature allows stable connection to the MSN Network using the open standard XMPP service. The use of such a well supported standard should give Linux users a stable and consistent connection to what is one of the worlds largest IM networks. If you're already using Ubuntu 12.04 you'll find this update sliding down the update pipes very shortly.
We take a look at the Linux Deepin Software Centre - an application that is as user-friendly as it is beautiful.
Firefox 9 is now ready for download. The latest update to the flagship open-source browser from Mozilla adds: – Improved JavaScript performance Support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript Support for font-stretch and text-overflow Improved standards support […]
Accessing your virtual Windows desktop has just gotten easier in Ubuntu with the launch of VMWare View Client for Linux. The application allows easy connection to remotely-hosted servers running Windows. Although it's unlikely that Joe User will have much need for the tool its availability on Linux is nevertheless a welcome one.
A new development release of music player ‘Nightingale’ has been made available for download. Songbird fork Nightingale was born after the former dropped official support for the Linux platform – a move that, it’s fair […]
Empathy users can look forward to native MSN XMPP in the version 3.3.2 of the popular chat app. The feature comes days after Microsoft announced connection to their millions-strong MSN messaging service via the popular open XMPP standard.
The Ubuntu 12.04 Software Centre has added a new category – ‘Books and Magazines’. Although a variety of e-books are already available to purchase in Ubuntu 11.10 there is no distinct ‘filter’ available for their […]