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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
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DigiKam 1.6 released with new features, fixes

Open source image viewer-manager-editor app DigiKam has updated to version 1.6.

23 November 2010

StackApplet 1.4 released – great indicator-applet for askUbuntu

Track your StackExchange reputation, get notified of new comments and answers with StackApplet. Works brilliantly with Ask Ubuntu (dot com).

23 November 2010
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Opera 11 Beta released with ‘tab stacking’ feature & more

The first beta of Opera 11 has been made available for download.

23 November 2010
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2 CoverGloobus themes with seekbar support

CoverGlooubs 1.7 brought with it the much longed for 'Seekbar' feature. Whilst one of the default themes takes advantage of it the rest don't - so here's a couple that do.

23 November 2010
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Darktable ‘Lightroom for Linux’ 0.7 released with new plugins, features

A new release of virtual light-table and darkroom application Darktable is available for download. New features, new plugins and even a user manual. Read on for more.

22 November 2010
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Kinect + Ubuntu = Jedi. Obviously.

The '101 things you hack with a Kinect and Ubuntu' train rolls on - this time towards Coruscant. YouTuber yankeyan shows off real-time lightsaber (Yes, lightsaber) tracking and rendering using nothing more than Kinect and Ubuntu.

22 November 2010
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‘Orta’ theme guide – Firefox, Docky, AWN, Chrome

'Orta' is the 'theme' of the moment; a light, milky white theme that has been carefully designed to make every part of your desktop feel 'just right'.

22 November 2010