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Play Angry Birds clone ‘Angry Animals’ on your Ubuntu desktop (including offline!)

Angry Birds may or may not be coming to Linux natively but in the mean time fans of propellant animal games (Yeah, I just coined that. Sue me) can get their fix with unabashed flash clone 'Angry Animals'. The following script downloads the game to your desktop, letting you play it offline.

5 April 2011

Project Bossanova announces playable demo, pledge campaign, open source client

At Project Bossanova we've announced a playable demo, a pledge campaign, the open sourcing of the client and also that the final game will eventually be cross platform.

5 April 2011
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Latest SuperTuxKart hits release candidate

The latest release candidate of popular Linux racing game 'SuperTuxKart' has been made available for download.

4 April 2011
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Five neat Unity Lenses in development

Following on from recent posts covering neat new 'Lenses' for Unity - visually slick ways to access information via the Ubuntu 11.04 desktop - I thought it time for a quick round-up of the most interesting lenses currently in development.

4 April 2011
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UDS-P, planning Ubuntu 12.04, to be held in Orlando (again)

UDS-O - scheduled to be held in Budapest next month to plan the Oneiric Ocelot (11.10) release - hasn't even happened yet, but the location and date for UDS-P has been booked for later this year.

4 April 2011
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Ubuntu 11.10 will not ship with ‘classic’ GNOME desktop

Mark Shuttleworth has revealed that the 'classic' Ubuntu desktop will be a thing of the past come the release of Oneiric Ocelot. This won't come as a great shock to many; it was previously announced that Ubuntu-2D would be shipping on the 11.10 disc for users unable to run the Compiz-based version.

3 April 2011
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KDE Twitter app Choqok 1.1 released; how to download

An update to Qt Twitter client 'Choqok' is now available for download. Now on version 1.1, the release contains a new translator plugin; a timeline filter to make reading tweets in your stream from a specific person or topic easier and a new option to hide the menu bar.

3 April 2011
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Open Morrowind 0.10.0 released, brings Elder Scrolls to Linux

The OpenMW project is creating a new open source engine for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind which will allow the game to run on Linux for the first time. And they've just announced their 010.0 release.

3 April 2011
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Gwibber lens for Ubuntu Unity available; adds social awesome to the 11.04 desktop

The following lens for Gwibber, Ubuntu's default 'social messaging application, weaves your social networking streams through the slick visuals of Unity and making them easily accessible from the Ubuntu desktop.

2 April 2011
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Five neat changes in today’s Unity update

Yesterday may have seen the first beta release of Ubuntu 11.04 but today saw something almost as exciting: the regular Thursday drop of Unity updates, bug fixes and minor changes. What landed? Here's out pick of five pretty neat changes and/or additions.

1 April 2011
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Elementary pre-order update & exclusive peek at disc artwork

Several months back the elementary team began taking pre-orders for a physical copy of their operating systems' first relase 'Jupiter'. If you, like myself and many others, slapped down some cash straight away to nab the OS on disc you might be wondering where the jolly-higgins it is following yesterdays online release of the very same OS. We has answers.

1 April 2011
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Ubuntu Tweak unveils new look, features for Ubuntu 11.04

With the advent of an entirely new desktop shell for Ubuntu 11.04 one could be forgiven for thinking that Ubuntu Tweak - the popular third-party interface and settings tweaking app - might be rendered obsolete. The truth is anything but.

1 April 2011