Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 is expected late next week. To help temper your appetite for its release here are a couple of recent changes in Oneiric to look forward to next week.
LibreOffice 3.4.1 has been released for all platforms.
The third episode in Daniel Siegel‘s ‘GNOME Screencast’ series, which aims to introduce new developers to the GNOME platform, is now online and ready to view.
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.
Development tools for Ubuntu - there are a few of them, but which one is the best for C++ development? We dig around in and get our hands dirty with the first iteration of our new series, Ask OMG! where we try to answer reader questions. Read on for a full rundown on the most popular IDEs for Ubuntu!
We are one week away from Alpha 2, so right now you can see lots of developers trying to get as many things into Ubuntu Oneiric as possible: AirPrint, theme changes and loads of other stuff. After this milestone we will have only 4 weeks left until Feature Freeze at which stage most of the features should have have landed.
Yesterday, Google unveiled its new social network and competitor to Facebook, 'Google+.' The service aims to bring the search, phone, advertising, video chat (seriously, what doesn't Google compete in nowadays) giant into the realm of social networks, currently dominated by Mr Zuckerberg's Facebook. We don't usually cover social networks on OMG! Ubuntu!, but we figured that the introduction of Google+ means a lot to the future landscape of the Internet, and the fact that invites are scarce (luckily we were sent a couple) compelled me to write a run-down article covering some of the basic features.
This article will cover mostly bazaar as git is still complex for part II. Bazaar is mostly widely used along with Launchpad, so this article would also contain lots of launchpad and bazaar references. Before reading this, please read the previous post.
Google began rolling out a darker menu bar across its sites and services yesterday. This minor similarity has led one developer to create a userstyle that replaces Google's choice of menu bar with an Ubuntu Ambiance-themed 'Panel' style - even through to the highlight colour used in menus
If the default GTK themes supplied with Ubuntu 11.04 aren't to your taste 'Unity Impression', a new GTK theme designed specifically with Ubuntu's Unity interface in mind, is well worth a try out. Download link and choice-pictures inside.
It's the beginning of yet another cycle of bug fixing, squashing, smashing and thrashing! The One Hundred Papercuts Project is back for the Oneiric cycle, with lots of tiny and trivial bugs, a.k.a Papercuts, waiting to be fixed by everyday people like yourself. Make the jump to find out how you can help.
For the insanely organized amongst you there are times you may wish to run more than one instance of the same program - but on a separate workspace. If you open an application in workspace A, then move to workspace B and click that application's icon in the Unity launcher, you'll be jumped back to workspace A. Click through to find out how easy it is to create a new instance, instead of being pushed back to the current one.