An updated Session Menu containing links for various system settings has landed in Ubuntu 11.10 this weekend.
Novacut, the open source project aiming be the world's first collaborative video editor has reached its last week on crowd funding site Kickstarter - but they're still a long way off their goal of $25,000 in funding. As OMG! Ubuntu! editor Akshat Jain wrote earlier this month, "OS X and Windows users always had no shortage of pro video editors but Linux never had such privilege. Novacut project aims to bring a pro video editor to Linux that is 100% free and open source right down to every single detail."
As you may know, some people find Linux to be really challenging when they first try it out. Because of this, I have launched a new segment called: "Ubuntu is Easy" and thought the OMG! Ubuntu! community - in the true nature of open source - could also assist Ubuntu newbies in finding their way around this great operating system.
Garron Haun wrote in to us yesterday to let us know about a project he founded called Linux 4 Hope which aims at rejuvenating donated computers by installing Ubuntu, and then giving them to people in need around his local community.
We all want the latest features and changes an app has to offer, and for many of us that means using unstable, beta or sometimes even alpha quality software. This 'bite of the beta pie' approach has drawbacks: application performance may not be ideal and you risk files being trashed by buggy new features.
The sixth instalment of wannabe-developer orientated web series 'Gnome Screencasts' is now online. And this time it's a web browser in the making...
Google have announced the release of Google Music Manager for Linux.
Ubuntu user and Python developer Jonas Frei sent us an email with a new project he's working on that's aimed at making Ubuntu updates easier to access, and consistinify (new word, do you like it?) Update Manager's presence in the panel.
The developers behind highly anticipated open source RTS game 0 A.D. have announced another update, Alpha 6 "Fortuna" which brings with it a bunch of bug fixes, new textures, map overhauls, sounds, new unit stances, and even a flight mode as a proof of concept for the versatility engine.
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 3.0 on his Google+ profile after a short delay earlier this week. So what's new? Well, not a lot really. The new release sees a few new patches and standard affair, as well as a bit of older cruft removed, but as Linus explains in his announcement to the Linux kernel mailing list in May, 3.0 won't feature a bunch of new stuff, rather it's simply a version bump to bring the kernel up to 3.0 after almost twenty years of existence. Make the jump for the full rundown.
The third maintenance update to Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS has been released.
So the long heralded 'flood' of ARM netbooks on to the shelves barely even materialised as a drop, with a drop in demand for netbooks and massive growth spurt in touch-screen Tablet devices seemingly diverting attention elsewhere. PC company Hercules are pinning their hopes on a 'better late than never' approach with the launch of a new ARM powered netbook series dubbed the 'eCafé'.