Plans for improving the performance and start-up time for Ubuntu's Software Centre in 12.04 have been discussed at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
The bi-annual Ubuntu Developer Summit has kicked off in Florida with a key-note address from Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth.
The first stable version of the elementary project's text editor 'Scratch' has been released - and you don't need to be running elementary OS to use it. Scratch, written in Vala and Gtk+3, is similar to other text editors such as Gedit, but adds in additional user-friendly features that elementary project's apps are known for.
In an interview with ZDNets Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has spoken of plans to bring Ubuntu to mobile devices, tablets and TVs. In his pre-UDS chat with ZDNet, Shuttleworth said called the move ‘a […]
A new version of flash-free desktop YouTube app ‘Minitube’ has been released. The bulk of the changes concern Mac OS X Lion users (as the app is cross-platform) but there are few goodies that Ubuntu […]
Calling the bold, the brave and the nosey: the developers of photo-management application Shotwell have launched a daily builds PPA for Ubuntu 11.10. The PPA provides bug hunters and those keen to try pre-release builds with […]
Want Skype in the Ubuntu Messaging Menu? Here's how...
Canonical, along with Red Hat, have today published a white paper on the potential implications, and benefits, of "Secure boot" for Linux.
Kettle's on! Pizza's in the oven! Only 23 minutes until a new episode of Inspector Spacetime - all are situations where keeping an eye on the time is important. Now hopefully you're not like me (i.e. useless at doing so) but, should you be, then TeaTime is a neat Unity-launcher based alarm applet that works wonders.
Canonical are putting a lot of effort into Ubuntu on ARM, and based on the small glimpses seen at this years ARM TechCon in California, the effort is paying off.
I am working on a dashboard (start page) for Gedit to make it easier for users to see their most commonly used files. We are not sure that for Gedit that "Frequent" is of interest for us, however before we take any decisions we decided to appeal to all gedit users who have been using Zeitgeist for over a month to use run the following script in a terminal via
(This is a guest post from Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Daniel Holbach, which was originally posted here.) Ubuntu Development Update Wow, one week into the release cycle and already and by the time of […]