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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]