So you've downloaded or upgraded to the latest release of Ubuntu - the nominal Natty Narwhal - but what now? As great as Ubuntu is out of the box here are 10 things that can make your experience more of a swim in the ocean than a splash...
It's finally here: Ubuntu 11.04 is available for download. Sporting the brand new Unity desktop environment, it's all too easy to feel scared or uneasy about switching to Ubuntu 11.04. But don't.
Come Ubuntu release day, there's so much stuff happening it's often hard to keep track. There are new articles popping up on OMG! Ubuntu! throughout the day, reactions on Twitter and Identica, chat in the #ubuntu-release-party IRC channel and constant refreshes of www.ubuntu.com to see if the release is, in fact, released.
Mauricio Suescon was taking a cruise along the101, San Francisco Bay Area, when something familiar looking caught his eye Breaking all kinds of highway safety laws, he whipped out his camera to catch the ad for posterity/proof. […]
With the fantastic 2.0 release behind it, the Banshee project announces changes for the future. Banshee Core developer Gabriel Burt announced the much anticipated dependency decision for the upcoming Banshee 2.1. For every release so far the policy for Banshee has been to support distributions going back roughly 1½ years: this is all about to change.
OMG! Ubuntu! reader Cyrill sent us through a little mockup of what Ubuntu would look like with tabs inside the panel. He says "On my netbook's 10 inch screen, every single pixel is important. And as there is barely no global menu for Chromium (this changed apparently in Natty), i was wondering how it would look if tabs were using that free space."
Changing the size of the icons in Ubuntu Natty's new launcher is actually pretty easy, but rather than explain it through text, we thought we'd make this short video. Video after the jump.
AMD have released a new version of their graphics driver Catalyst for Linux. The new version, 11.4, contains back-ported X.Org Server 1.10 support in order to function with Ubuntu 11.04, Fedora 15, Arch Linux, etc.
To help tide us all over until the Ubuntu 11.04 discs go on sale in the Canonical Store we thought we'd share with you the new artwork the 11.04 disc will be using. Make the jump to see...
Over the last couple of weeks we've been quietly working on a new release feature that we'd like to do for every Ubuntu release. A full on guide to new features in Ubuntu, focusing on the Unity desktop environment. And it's just for you.
With so many great new features present, Kdenlive 0.8 usurps the mantle as the most featured yet user-friendly video editor available for Linux.
An employee at Adobe has stated that "the request [for Adobe Creative Suite] is now most definitely on the radar of our engineering teams, so it can be considered for future development" in reference to the staggering demand for Photoshop on Linux.