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Ubuntu Global Jam: Call for Events!

A great method of building our community up is to get people together face-to-face to work together, develop social bonds, and have fun. We see this at every Ubuntu Developer Summit; when we get contributors together, it helps seal a sense of camaraderie as we work and play together. All of this helps unite us all as we work to bring Free Software to the masses with Ubuntu.

9 March 2011
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Chromify-OSD adds GMail support

Fans of Gmail and Google Chrome/ium are sure to be pleased at the latest update to Chrome notiofication extension 'Chromify-OSD': it's added GMail support.

8 March 2011
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Unity Bitesize Progress Report for 8 March

Another week and another round-up of the latest Unity fixes, patches and superstars.

8 March 2011
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Chromium browser gets new a logo. Ish.

As spotted over on the excellent Chrome-obsessed blog 'Chrome Story' the Chromium daily builds are sporting a redesigned logo

8 March 2011

Ubuntu 11.10 Named ‘Oneiric Ocelot’

Continuing the tradition of naming every Ubuntu release, Mark Shuttleworth has revealed the codename for Natty Narwhal’s successor to be ‘Oneiric Ocelot’

7 March 2011
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Natty sound menu adds microphone slider for Skype calls

Bid a fond farewell to faint false-starts in your Skype calls: Ubuntu 11.04 has added a microphone level slider to the Ubuntu Sound Menu.

6 March 2011
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Debian or Ubuntu, which is the best place to contribute?

As a user it’s relatively easy to choose between Debian and Ubuntu. Everybody has their own personal preference and it doesn’t take much time to try both. But when it comes to contributing, the time investment is bigger and you might want to think twice about it. Where is your time better spent?

4 March 2011
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Tell a joke, get OilRush!

One of the years big Linux game releases is coming, Unigine's realtime strategy game Oil Rush.

3 March 2011
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Making your own Unity place

This is a guest post from Jorge O. Castro, External Developer Relations Liaison, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks. Unity is made up of different parts. I’m not going to go […]

3 March 2011
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Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 released

It’s here! Rejoice! The 3rd – and final – alpha release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal has been released for your testing pleasure.

3 March 2011
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Ubuntu Unveils New Overlay Scrollbars for Natty

Ubuntu 11.04 continues with the surprises as Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu design team unveil ‘overlay scrollbar’s. When is a scrollbar not a scrollbar? When it’s in Ubuntu 11.04, it seems.

3 March 2011
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Follow this Customization Guide for a slick Ubuntu desktop

It was chosen as one of our top 5 readers desktops and  now it’s owner, Joakim Wahlgren, has put together a slick how-to letting you in on how to get the same slick look on […]

3 March 2011