Ubuntu's Jorge O. Castro drops by with some slick new shots of Ubuntu 11.04's Alpha 3's improved Dash as well as a round-up of bite-sized bitesize bug news.
If you thought Ubuntu moving window controls to the left hand side was an issue you might need to sit down on learning of Gnome 3's latest change. Window controls in Gnome 3 now consists of one button and one button alone: close. 'Maximize' and 'Minimize' have been removed from window borders.
Driving across Brazil with Ubuntu hooked up to a solid 3G connection may sound like my own take on an ace road trip but, according to one former Google Streetview driver it's exactly how the Google Streetview cars travel around Brazil.
Project Bossanova yesterday unveiled a new website, along with more information about the project and a poll where users can vote on the genre of game they'd like to see the project focus on.
Ubuntu 11.04's panel clock Indicator - Indicator Datetime - has received a handful of new features.
The next five days play home to the popular and informative 'Ubuntu Developer Week'. The week-long fact-packed workshops run from February 28th through to March 4th are designed to help get orientated in the ways of Ubuntu development.
Starry Hope Uploader makes uploading photos to your Facebook profile easy. Once open, just drag and drop your images onto the uploader, choose or create an album for them to be part of and hit upload. Further info, download instructions and more are inside.
Gnome's Help Documentation browser has finally received some long-overdue love and attention, the results of which will be appearing in Ubuntu 11.04.
Reader Christian S. sends word of an automated wallpaper script he's written that helps alleviate boring background blues (with some help from NASA).
As the fresh air of Spring approaches my hemisphere it seems many Linux distros are keen to keep in sync with the fauna and flora around me by birthing themselves some new releases. As I'm a busy chap with unnatural quantities of coffee to brew here is a quick pow-pow over-view of what's blooming in Distro land....
Apt-Linker for Google Chrome automatically turns "apt-get install" commands in online guides and tutorials into clickable apturl links for easy installation of apps in Ubuntu.
Further to our post calling for help in creating an Ambiance theme for Gedit in Ubuntu 11.04, developer Shnatsel has packaged Badschemer - a GtkSourceViewer 'style' editor - into a .deb installer for easy-as-pie installation in Ubuntu.