CrossOver Impersonator, a Windows emulator, promises high performance for Unix/Linux systems. With Wine 1.3.9 under the hood, it raises the question: what differentiates this Wine based program from any other? We ordered a copy to find out.
A new art installation featuring the Ubuntu font family opens at London's Design Museum.
I spotlight five pretty CoverGloobus themes (including one by me, but ssh) I recently came across, and present them for perusal in this blog post. Let's go.
The location for Linux.conf.au 2012 has been announced as Ballarat, Victoria. The conference will run early next year and have a similar format to the LCAs we have become used to over the past ten years - a week long Open Source conference boasting a variety of keynote speakers, talks, tutorials and sessions that makes LCA what it is.
Days three and four of LCA2011 have passed, and now we are almost halfway through the fifth day, Friday. The past couple of days have been quite interesting, with many very cool talks, two social events in the evenings and I got lucky enough to spend some time with Linus Torvalds!
It's all ago in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha land this week: from the Ubuntu One Control Panel to Unity's Dash - a lot of apps are receiving a lot of updates. Here we look over some of the more apparent changes changed by the, er, changes...
Not happy with the default size of the Compiz drop shadows under application windows? Here's how to make them larger.
Qt Twitter application 'Choqok' has announced the release of stable version 1.0.
Bye bye inelegant hacks to achieve 'Aero snap' style window management in Ubuntu, and hello Unity + Compiz with it's very own 'edge snap' plugin. Watch it in action inside.
Countdown widget for Ubuntu take #2 as the gorgeous Ubuntu countdown widget for Android we previewed last week is now made available for download on the Android Market.
A new testing PPA for MPlayer is now available for Ubuntu users wishing to test the latest features and fixes present in the robust media player for Linux.
This weeks Ubuntu Developer Day held in Bangalore, India, was home to a few juicy news highlights...