If you're old enough (and might I say cool enough) to remember the original Commodore 64 home computer then prick your ears up: not only is it back, but it's back running Ubuntu.
Last week was Ubuntu Developer Week, one week full of tutorials, workshops and presentations with the intention of explaining better what's going on in the world of Ubuntu development, to ask, learn, get to know and enjoy. These weeks are always over much too quickly, but the good news is, 1) we have logs of all the sessions, their questions and answers (links below) and 2) there's going to be another one next cycle! This post got a bit longer, so grab a coffee, sit back and check out what happened last week. (Links go to the logs of the session in question.)
The 'Me Menu' will no longer be installed by default in Ubuntu 11.10. In its place comes a rejigged Messaging Menu.
It's not often that a laptop fills a particular purpose gracefully, and Samsung's first laptop running Google's new Chrome OS does a pretty good job. However before you read on, you should first set your expectations. Laptops running Chrome OS, or Chromebooks as they've come to be known, aren't designed to replace your main laptop or desktop computer. They're not targeted at people who want to do everything and anything with a personal computer. They're specifically designed for certain tasks, and they handle these very well, but sometimes you'll be left wondering why obvious features are missing.
Linux users can get their paws on physic-based platform game BEEP ahead of its launch in the Ubuntu Software Centre through Gameolith.com - a new online store for games on Linux.
A new episode of Daniel Siegel's awesome 'new developer friendly' series 'GNOME Screencasts' is available to watch online.
Novacut have shown off two new UI prototypes for their real-time collaborative video editor.
This is a guest post from Daniel Holbach, who will be posting updates about Ubuntu Development. (Original Post). Ubuntu Development Update With Alpha 2 out of the way, loads of new things are getting into […]
A new beta release of Adobe Flash Player has been released for both 32 bit and 64 bit users.
This is a guest post from Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks (Original Post) Welcome to another installment of the Unity progress report. Many Unity […]
Dudu M. mailed in to share a time-lapse video he created on Ubuntu using nothing but free open-source tools and a camera.
Gwibber - it's Ubuntu's default social client, but do you use it? Chances are you don't. Despite have a great feature set and support for almost every major social networking sites Gwibber is tarnished with a reputation for being slow, laggy, resource hungry and a notification-nuisance. But come Ubuntu 11.10 in October Gwibber will be a very different beast. Gwibber just got sexy.