Of the certainties in life, such as life, death and taxes, is the fact that LibreOffice needs a new interface. And that's not me be being picky, but supportive of open-source's premier office suite. The 'good news' is that LibreOffice developers know this and discussion towards overhauling the tired look of the application set have been ongoing for a while. Amongst the interface proposal currently being discussed on the LibreOffice mailing list is the modern-looking 'Citrus'.
The writing is, seemingly, on the wall for note-taking application Tomboy with plans to be drop it from the default install of Ubuntu 12.04. The application will remain readily available in the Ubuntu Software Centre, where it will sit alongside competing note-taking applications. Amongst them is lightweight Tomboy 'GNote' - but is it really a match for the king of Linux note-taking apps?
Development Update Isn’t a new development release always exciting? We are six weeks into the cycle and things are ticking on quite nicely. Today we will reach Feature Definition Freeze, so all the feature specifications […]
Linux screen capture application 'Shutter' has been updated to support more online image sharing services.
When GNOME transitioned to its shiny new GNOME 3 desktop the 'GNOME Applets' of previous releases were lost - including user-favourite 'Wanda the fish.' But now the animated fish is back in Indicator-Applet form. Read on for details on how to 'net' her.
Lightworks - the Oscar winning video editing software that is in the process of being open-sourced - has had its Linux beta release pushed back.
Recently, the fine folk here at OMG! Ubuntu! shared the news that Desura had been released for Linux. The gamer in me squeed with joy at the news. The adult in me bemoaned the lack of […]
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth holds a 1 hour Q&A session following each release of Ubuntu. And today was the first chance many have had to ask Mark questions about upcoming changes, plans and more following the release of Ubuntu 11.10. The most interesting questions asked during the session are presented inside...
An upgrade to Firefox 8 is finally available to Ubuntu 11.10 users through Ubuntu’s Update Manager – no PPA or additional downloads required. The upgrade comes 2 weeks after Firefox 8 was officially released. So […]
The seminal survival horror game Doom 3 has been open sourced.
A new pay-you-what-want 'humble bundle' of games, this time featuring titles from indie developer Introversion, is on offer for the next 2 weeks.
The Ubuntu Developer Summit held earlier this month in California, US, was home to a wealth of discussion, demo and debate on all manners Ubuntu. Part of that extended to Linaro - the ARM-orientated software engineering company of which Canonical are a driving member - who showed off a port of Unity 3D running on an ARM Cortex-A9 Pandaboard using OpenGL ES - a "..subset of the OpenGL 3D graphics API designed for embedded systems such as mobile phones, PDAs, and video game consoles." And its potential is massive.