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Ubuntu 10.04.1 Released

The first major ‘maintenance’ update to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has been released. Ubuntu 10.04, being a ‘long term support’ release, will receive performance, bug & security fixes until April 2013. 10.04.1 is the first of these, […]

18 August 2010

Ubuntu 11.04 named ‘Natty Narwhal’, aims to impress

The name of Mavericks successor in the alliterative naming stakes has been revealed by Mark Shuttleworth to be ‘Natty Narwhal’. No, really it is. Our self-appointed benevolent dictator for life has posted a fluid reasoning […]

17 August 2010
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Fortune BURG theme adds Faenza style to boot time (Updated)

Fans of the great looking graphical GRUB boot loader replacement ‘BURG‘ will no doubt be pleased to see yet another sterling theme is now available to use, install and gush over at every single boot. Called […]

17 August 2010
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Want your Photo in Ubuntu 10.10? Deadline is this Friday!

Users wishing to submit photographs for potential inclusion in Ubuntu 10.10 have just a few more days left to do so. The contest, which takes place bi-annually via the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr group, will be closing […]

17 August 2010
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Midori 0.2.7 Benchmarked

Earlier today we reported on the release of Midori 0.2.7 but aside from new features and extensions has the lightweight browser gotten any faster? Sunspider It should be noted that the SunSpider benchmarks only measure […]

17 August 2010
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MIdori web browser 0.2.7 released – new features, new extensions, better speed

The latest version of GTK webkit based web browser Midori has clawed its way out of the barn and into release land. New Features In keeping with other popular browsers Midori now has support for […]

17 August 2010
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uTorrent Destined to Land on Linux Shores Soon

uTorrent, everyone’s favourite torrent client for Windows is apparently coming to Linux – and therefore Ubuntu! The following was stated on the uTorrent idea which received a large number of votes: “We’re making good progress on the […]

17 August 2010
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Seif Speaks: Interviewing Mr. Gwibber (Ryan Paul)

I met Ryan Paul at UDS last may and I must say I was star struck (I am star struck most of the time at UDS anyhow). As a badass editor at arstechnica and the man who started gwibber I thought it would be nice to interview for OMG! Ubuntu!

17 August 2010
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Remove thumbs.db files from folders automatically

Windows thumbnail cache files (thumbs.db) are useful for speeding up file browsing on Windows-based operating systems but are largely useless in Ubuntu. Granted, they aren’t a massive space-hogger nor are they any sort of threat, […]

16 August 2010
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Call for Mock-ups: OMG! User Awarding System needs a Trophy Viewer

OMG! OMG! OMG! We are close to releasing…. a beta. After porting the daemon to Mono with Chris Szikszoy (Docky fame) and with the support of David Siegel and Alex Launi (both from Do Fame […]

16 August 2010
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Ding, ding – Sound Applet mock-ups round II

Wyatt Kirby, whose sound applet mock-ups found favourable fandom both here and on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog, has put pixel to, er, palette and come up with a newly revised design. For those new to the whole ‘Sound […]

16 August 2010
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Worry ye not: Banshee for Windows is coming

A great many of us have to keep Windows knocking around for gaming, work or through the ball and chain of some proprietary software we were learned in. A media player doesn’t exactly fit this […]

16 August 2010