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‘CCleaner for Linux’ BleachBit hits 0.8.1

Free disk space, improve system performance and maintain your privacy using the latest version of system cleaning tool BleachBit. BleachBit 0.8.1 adds support for deleting HTML 5 and stubborn ‘evercookie’ tracking cookies, removing MB’s worth […]

10 October 2010
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Taking a look at Canonical’s Ubuntu system management service, Landscape

Canonical Landscape is a service designed to simplify management of many Ubuntu installations, be they physical computers (usually servers) or cloud based. It's aimed at commercial deployment where system administrators need to keep an eye on dozens, if not hundreds of installations - keeping them all running smoothly, bug free, cool and up to date.

10 October 2010
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“Ask Ubuntu” Stack Exchange site out of beta, new awesome domain

The Ubuntu Stack Exchange site which we previously covered is now out of beta in time for the release of Ubuntu 10.10.

10 October 2010
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Firefox elementary theme hits version 3.0, adds Personas support

The popular elementary-style Firefox theme ‘Firefox Elementary’ has received an update  adding full support for Firefox Personas and theme enhancements amongst various others.

9 October 2010
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Google Earth plays nice with Compiz and Ubuntu 10.10

The last time I tried Google Earth on Ubuntu was late last year and I remember I couldn't get it working with Compiz enabled - OpenGL was slow and flickered so much it was unusable when effects were enabled. When they were disabled, it wasn't much better. I installed Google Earth on Maverick and I was blown away by how awesome it was. Click through for videos and install instructions.

9 October 2010
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More Zeitgeist integration in Software Center shows recommended apps based on usage

As some of you may know, Seif has been working closely with the Software Center developers to integrate Zeitgeist into the Software Center. We blogged about the Software Center using Zeitgeist to display app usage a couple of weeks ago, and naturally the next step would be for that information to be translated into recommendations, which is very, very cool.

9 October 2010
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Zotero reference software heading to the desktop, more browsers

The open source reference management software Zotero is to see a standalone desktop application for Linux, Mac and Windows and support for more browsers.

8 October 2010
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‘Linspotting’ – Linux ad spoofs Trainspotting

Parodying the 1996 cult film Trainspotting, Caroline Pimenta's Linspotting advert is a well made and incredibly funny short that will have you laughing throughout.

8 October 2010
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UbuntuOne-Indicator puts sync status back into view

Roman Yepishev, routinely annoyed by the lack of clear, accessible visual UbuntuOne sync notification, has started work on an indicator-applet for displaying the sync-status of your UbuntuOne account.

8 October 2010
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Ubuntu have no plans to complain about Microsoft

Canonical have no plans to complain about anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft to the European Union, the vice president of business development at Canonical has told PC Pro.

8 October 2010
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Banshee now corrects your metadata automatically

We first reported on Oliver Dufoli's Last.fm audio fingerprinting extension for Banshee back in mid-September. Now less than a month later I am happy to report that the extension has been merged into the Banshee Community Extensions and is functional.

7 October 2010
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Lubuntu 10.10 CD cover

The new Ubuntu 10.10 CD cases we revealed with you a few days back are certainly worthy of praise but lets not forget ‘the spin that’s never in’ Lubuntu 10.10 and it’s own CD wallet […]

7 October 2010