Dual-booting on a PC is easy: you stick in your disk and the installer takes care of everything else. But just how does one dual-boot Ubuntu on a Mac? There are various guides and how-to's on the internet, but I thought I would share the method I use here on OMG!
One week left! Are you excited already? The release candidate is going to get out soon and we will have days full of testing the installation on all architectures, in all kinds of installations scenarios. If you want to help out with the testing, it will be much appreciated. So what's still happening? It's interesting to note that still quite a number of fixes is going in. Also has the planning for the 12.04 ("Precise Pangolin") cycle been started. Matthias Klose sent out an email about the preparation of the P-cycle archive: the wiki page lists a number of significant changes for 'precise', like updates to gcc, binutils, swig and other core components and dropping python2.6.
That's the question that the latest video "ad" uploaded to the official Ubuntu YouTube promo channel video asks, and then answers it by showing off a slick overview of some of Ubuntu 11.10's key features.
As an avid user of both Google Music and Last.FM, enabling scrobbling in Google Music Frame - the integrated desktop web app for Google Music - was a must do. Annoyingly the instructions on the Google Music Frame website refused to work for me on any of my devices, but with a quick poke around I found a solution.
Over the last few weeks I have been working on some nifty Zeitgeist extensions for GNOME Shell. I finally managed to finish all of these Zeitgeist extensions, and figured I'd share them with the OMG! Ubuntu! audience. Here's a brief rundown and instructions on how to install.
Regardless of your opinion on Apple's products, services and business approach, the impact Apple has had on technology under Steve's vision will be felt for a long time to come.
The winner of the 'Ubuntu 11.10 Countdown Banner' contest has been revealed.
It may have only just got a name, but work on April's release of Ubuntu 12.04 is already underway. Posting a video detailing some improvements to Ubuntu's Overlay Scrollbar is Canonical's Andrea Cimitan.
Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the codename for Ubuntu 12.04 will be 'Precise Pangolin'.
I love, love, love seeing Ubuntu crop up in unexpected places - and if I still lived in Lincoln I would certainly find the following unexpected...
Hurry folks - if you're reading this before 10pm UK time (UTC+1 to other folk) you still have chance to blag a free copy of 'arcade-style dungeon-crawler' 'Cardinal Quest' from the awesome folks at Gameolith.
Since the announce of the fundraising for The Debian Administrator's Handbook, many people commented on the project's approach. Just because it's a free software related project, there should be only one way to do it... let me debunk those claims!