Last night I arrived in Ballarat after catching a train from the bustling city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Ballarat is the small town venue for Linux.conf.au 2012, the largest annual Linux conference in the southern hemisphere.
KDE's very own font is coming along nicely, with its developer releasing an updated preview version for download.
The expression ‘Have your cake and eat it‘ springs to mind when looking at the following GNOME-Shell tweak put together by Tobias Mann. ‘Unitary GNOME’ lets you run a modified version of the Unity 2D […]
The hands behind everyone’s favourite lightweight Linux distro ‘Lubuntu’ are hard at work crafting the next major release. Lubuntu 12.04 won’t have LTS (Long Term Support) status like its siblings Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edbuntu […]
I've created a monster! Actually I created a pair of wallpapers. But since I began using them in screenshots and videos here on the site I've been inundated with requests from readers wanting to know where they can get hold of them. So here's how.
Unity 5.0 hit Ubuntu 12.04 last night, but Ubuntu 11.10 users don't need to miss out: Unity 5.0 is also available to install in Oneiric.
Smuxi, my personal favourite IRC client, has a new release available. It adds a number of new features that make it capable of pleasing the most ardent of IRC users.
Ubuntu 12.04 has added the option to disable the "Apps available for Download" pane shown in Unity's Applications Lens
Fears that Microsoft would abuse the Windows 8 UEFI feature are coming true. Advice from Microsoft to makers of ARM hardware says that allowing the disabling of the contentious UEFI Secure Boot feature required for Windows 8 must NOT be possible.
KDE. Some think of it as the desktop environment that doesn't get the attention it deserves. What I like most about KDE is that there is Plasmoid (a form of widget for KDE) for almost everything - Facebook, clocks, weather, tweeting, start menus, Dash, calculator, system monitors etc... you name it.
If you're easily excited you might want to sit down. The latest version of Ubuntu's Unity Interface - version 5.0 - has landed in Ubuntu 12.04 - and it comes with a number of nifty new features.
The news that Sun Java 6 will be removed from Ubuntu caused some users to panic. But as great a move as this turned out to be for open-source, OpenJDK is by no means perfect. Many applications, particularly those used in enterprise, don't play nicely with it, or refuse to run at all. Thankfully there is a solution.