Ubuntu’s Jorge Castro has just tweeted that the Unity/Compiz pre-alpha is now available for early Natty users to test via PPA. More information can be found @ http://bit.ly/donNSi and the PPA ityself – whic is […]
Ubuntu-dedicated hardware company System76 have announced plans to begin shipping internationally. The announcement, which will see orders sent to the UK from the end of this month onwards, is fantastic news to everybody everywhere. The […]
Since the launch of Microsoft’s Kinect gaming hardware there have been repeated open-source initiatives, hacks and projects aiming to utilise the hardware in an open-source environment. Matt Cutts – a Google employee, although this is […]
The following idea on creating an by Daniel Planas was posted to the Ayatana mailing list. I think it’s quite a novel idea so thought I’d share it here. Calling for ‘intelligent indicators’ Daniel’s idea […]
With photo manager Shotwell 0.8 adding video downloading/reading support many of us are going to find our lives made that little bit easier. Yorba‘s Adam Dingle posted the following call for testing on the Shotwell […]
The striking 'elementary firefox' theme updates. Download links and more information tucked inside.
And so it begins! The Compiz-based version of Unity - due to land as the default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 - opens up for development. A PPA for Ubuntu 10.10 users to install and test from is due to follow tomorrow.
Easily configure the GDM - 'login manager' to the rest of us - with this a simple tool.
Jolicloud's Jolibook to be released next month may just count as the first true Linux netbook and here's why.
Everyone's favourite lightweight Ubuntu-based derivative inks out its course of action for the next 6 months...
If you ever wanted to test GNOME 3 there was ricotz's PPA but Maverick users don't get love since it is now only available for Natty. But fear not, since the Ubuntu Desktop team have have set up another PPA to give Maverick users some upstreamy love.
Ubuntu's new default media player Banshee has seen its first active development release leading towards the new media experience in Natty, 1.9.0.