Although Ubuntu continues to adapt itself towards being user-friendly, the needs of the "advanced" user are not being forgotten. Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon proposed a rather neat idea: the creation of an Ubuntu Power Users community. Here '...the needs of folks who love to tweak, tune, customize, hot-rod and otherwise amp up their desktops' would be catered for. And that idea has received a huge welcome.
So you're still on Ubuntu 10.10 but you don't want to miss out entirely on the "new" Unity experience. What's the best way to experience Unity in Maverick? During the early development of Unity 2D - the less hardware-hungry version of Unity that uses Qt - Ubuntu 10.10 users were able to install Unity 2D for development purposes via a PPA. Understandably, the back-porting stopped as Natty got nearer.
A recent proposal be PulseAudio and systemd lead developer Lennart ?Poettering to add systemd raised concerns that GNOME might drop support for non-Linux platforms. This isn't the aim; and here's why.
Several days back we featured a rather useful app called 'GUnity' that gave you an easy way to tweak the Unity desktop to your liking. 'Confity', pictured below, is a similar application that follows the same 'ethos' as GUnity, only this tool provides a lot more bang for your proverbial free buck.
The tentative release schedule for the Ubuntu 11.10 development cycle has been made available.
Lightweight webkit web browser Midori got a minor version bump yesterday - but what's new and what's improved?
Take this one with a pinch of hearty pinch of salt for now, but, in a post to the GNOME Developer Mailing List, Jon McCann - a tour de force in the GNOME world and pioneer of GNOME Shell itself - has urged that GNOME not only become an OS, but forgo keeping support for other non-Linux operating systems such as BSD, Solaris and Unix in the process.
The Unity Launcher in Ubuntu 11.04 provides has some great features for developers to take advantage of, resulting in nifty, neat and useful applications that are far more that 'just' an application launcher.
The current look of the Ubuntu Software Centre isn't as great as it could be. Department buttons are small, promoted items lack any information, and the general style of the centre just pales in comparison to other application stores.
Solving minor issues in Ubuntu just got easier with the launch of '?YeoWorks Ubuntu Solutions' - a small application that provides one-click 'solutions' for a raft of Ubuntu bugs, flaws and annoyances.
A new test release of Grand Theft Auto 2 inspired Greedy Car Thieves, which adds numerous improved features, is now available for download.
The first release of 'Activity Log Manager', a new tool for managing Zeitgeist-logged activities and blacklists, is now available for download.