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Faenza variants updates with clementine, boxee & dropbox icons

The Faenza train just keeps rollin' along with fussy Faenza fans favourite double-dip selection of alternative icons - 'Farnza Variants' - updating to add in... 4 new icons, a panel icon and support for yet more Faenza variants. (!)

25 November 2010
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Watch Unity People Place in action [Video]

Seif Lotfy is back hacking on the new Unity People Place. Updating his blog he shares news that Folks and Zeitgeist now ‘play along’ allowing for easy sorting of results using Zeitgeist (Favourites, Recent, etc.) […]

24 November 2010
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Ubuntu is ‘not changing to a rolling release’

Ubuntu's Rick Spencer has issued a statement refuting the earlier claims reported by The Register that Ubuntu was to switch to 'daily releases'.

24 November 2010
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Libre Office Beta 3 released

The third beta of the OpenOffice.org fork 'LibreOffice' saw release this week, bringing many bugfixes and a few new features.

24 November 2010
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7like GNoMenu theme: Ambiance meets windows

Whilst I'm not traditionally a GnoMenu fan even I can't help but drool over ~Blitz-Bomb's 7Like theme for it. Fusing elements of Ambiance with well-worn aspects of Windows 7's start menu the theme has a whole lot to like in it.

24 November 2010
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Wayland in action on Ubuntu [Video]

Check out this video of Wayland in action.

24 November 2010
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Ubuntu Advert Team launches

A new project tasked with creating mixed media adverts for Ubuntu has been launched on, no pun intended, Launchpad.

24 November 2010
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Ubuntu to become a rolling release distro?

The register are reporting that Mark Shuttleworth has hinted that the development cycle for Ubuntu releases could become a lot quicker than 6 months...

24 November 2010
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‘Ubuntu Invaders’ Wallpaper is Retro Win

This wallpaper is cool. You should download it.

23 November 2010
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Lucidity theme for GNOME adds pastel elegance to the desktop

A new release of everyone's favourite minimalist grey theme Lucidity brings some nice fixes and four different flavours.

23 November 2010
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Use Nautilus’ Emblems feature to keep your home folder organised

Nautilus has a little-known feature called emblems which goes underused on the whole. Find out how you can use emblems to enhance your file browsing experience and pretty up Ubuntu even more.

23 November 2010
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Enable Firefox menus in GlobalMenu applet

An addon that works with the gnome2-globalmenu project brings support for the global menu to Firefox.

23 November 2010