A new theme for graphical GRUB replacement BURG by ~SWOriginal (increasingly one of our favourite designers) has been released. Called ‘Lightness’ the theme was designed to feel ‘calm, clean & modern’ according to its designer, and certainly gives a beautifully minimalistic introduction to your boot time.
A reader by the name of montini stopped by the OMG! Mailbox to point out something rather neat – if, to many, perfunctory. If you’re in a country where the new week starts on a […]
One of the things I love about Banshee is how easy it is for people to fix their own issues without requiring extensive knowledge. Recently our community have be joined by two new developers who both started working on their own sexy features. Read on...
The latest beta version of .deb creation assistant Ubucompilator is available for testing. The past 12 months have seen the tool mature considerably, with the 1.0 beta boasting many new additions: – A new style […]
I interrupt normal proceedings to bring you a shameless plug for one of my favourite magazines – Linux Format – and one of my favourite people – Seif Lotfy – both of whom, for this […]
The popular Faenza icon set has been ported to KDE. Whilst the KDE version still requires a bit of polishing, lacking many application and action icons, it is complete enough for daily usage and makes […]
Ubuntu design team member Otto Greenslade blogged about a set of new Ubuntu-style emoticons for use on the Canonical design blog at the weekend – and you can now use them in Pidgin.
A temporary repository for LibreOffice – the newly-announced fork of OpenOffice – has been set up for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-based distributions to use.
Two new T Shirts for the Maverick Meerkat release of Ubuntu that comes out in just over a week have appeared in the Canonical Store.
No not that sort of galaxy but the immersive Google Earth set-up called ‘Liquid Galaxy’ which displays Google Earth in a surround view around you using eight 55-inch LCD screens. And now it’s open-source. From […]
Early Ubuntu 10.10 adopters left curious/frustrated by the inability to easily install Java package from the Software Centre in 10.10 can breathe a sigh of relief: Java has finally been uploaded to 'Canonical Partner Repository' for 10.10.
Excuse the dodgy pun but Ubuntu 10.10 is going to be a fantastic release for many reasons, not least of which is improved ARM architecture support. Amongst the many improvements the Ubuntu ARM team have […]