Many Ubuntu users have been experiencing a bizarre crash issues with VoIP service Skype today whereby the application crashes then fails to start again. Reader Dipish hunted down a fix and mailed it in to share with you folks.
The latest edition of Ubuntu-based Linux Mint been released, retaining the GNOME 2.32 desktop but adding in a few new touches elsewhere.
The key dates for the development of Lubuntu 11.10 - the official LXDE-based 'Ubuntu' spin - have been published to the Lubuntu mailing list.
Macbook users experiencing sound problems with heir speakers in Ubuntu 11.04 may benefit from the following 'fix'.
Clipboard manager 'Diodon' is to soon add a searchable Unity lens for clipboard entries to its default package.
Yesterday we shared word Joe Steiger's awesome Ubuntu Unity Android theme. Whilst the theme proved popular with a great many of you - becoming one of our most tweeted posts for May - a number of you wished there was something similar for non-Android devices.
Deviantart-ist ~half-left continues to churn out high-quality well designed GNOME-Shell themes at an alarmingly envious rate. And his latest creation - an Ubuntu Ambiance styled skin - shows no signs of his talent taking a break...
The first beta of KDE software-compilation 4.7 has been released.
The newly launched 'Super Boot Manager' application, created by the developers behind graphical boot menu BURG, aims to streamline and simplify the process of tweaking the GRUB, BURG and Plymouth boot screens.
Ubuntu users with laptops housing NVIDIA's "Optimus" technology, which allows Windows users to switch between Intel integrated graphics and NVIDIA's own graphics chips as and when needed, may be interested to learn of a new open-source tool which aims to enable the feature on Linux.
Self-described 'ubuntu YouYube and Android fanatic' Joe Steiger has finally published his long-in-development Ubuntu Unity themed Android skin.
When the Personal Package Archive (PPA) system was brought out of beta in November 2007, it was heralded as a game changer for Free Software developers within the Ubuntu community and beyond. The PPA system […]