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KDE hits turbo button with 4.5

This is a cross-post from our sister site OMG! Suse! written by rTyler.   Hold onto your hats! The KDE team just announced the release of KDE 4.5.0, the most recent release of the already […]

10 August 2010
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P-Launcher – handy little package utility

P-Launcher is a simple utility providing simple package-overview, saving and ‘mini’ management. Whilst not intended as a replacement for Synaptic it is portable, requires no dependencies & allows a user to: – Save packages – creates a list of […]

10 August 2010
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Revving up the Ubuntu Manual Project for Maverick

Things have been a bit quiet in manual-land for the last couple of months. We managed to get a couple of translated copies released, but apart from that, the IRC channel and mailing list has resembled […]

10 August 2010
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I said a few things wrong, let’s move on

A couple of days ago I posted an article which, believe it or not, had a fundamental message buried somewhere amongst the stereotyping, name-calling trollop. It was a mistake on my behalf to use such […]

10 August 2010
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DreamScene for Ubuntu? Ta very much.

Ever wanted to set video as your desktop wallpaper a la the quickly-ditched Windows DreamScene? With 'Video Wallpaper' it's easy.

9 August 2010
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For what it’s worth: Rhythmbox gets a pause button, fixes bug from 2006

A small update to Ubuntu 10.10 a few days back brought something rather special to the table…. Nope, not a new icon set, PiTiVi with effects or even the stacks feature in Docky but a […]

9 August 2010
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Confirmed: that was, indeed, the new Ubuntu Light theme

Canonical design team member Otto Greenslade has confirmed that the new Ubuntu Light theme we showed you yesterday is indeed the real deal. Speaking on the Canonical design blog he details some of the more […]

9 August 2010
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Play games and help Science at the same time with ‘Foldit’

Kill some free time and help out science at the same time with Foldit – an experimental puzzle game that, simply by playing, helps computers to deal with bioinformatics and protein folding. Premise The basic […]

9 August 2010
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Ubuntu have “no plans to fork GNOME”

Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon, in an interview with Austrian newsite derStandard.at, has reiterated that a fork of GNOME is not on the cards. Asked whether Ubuntu’s continuing additions, removals and tweaks to the stock GNOME environment could […]

9 August 2010
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Lightspark Release Candidate brings faster rendering, better memory consumption

The first release candidate of open-source flash alternative LightSpark 0.4.3 has been released. Faster rendering, reduced memory consumption and smoother video playback are some of the notable changes present in this release. Installation Ubuntu users will […]

9 August 2010
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Doing the LoCo-Motion with OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu is all about community. A community that is distributed all around the world. If anyone should be given credit for spreading Ubuntu (Canonical Marketing Teams and the general media excluded) then it should be […]

9 August 2010
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Ubuntu Tweak adding ‘reset’ button – will make tweakers’ lives everywhere calmer

Ubuntu Tweak will be adding a ‘reset’ button after features and options which can be readily reset.. This latest feature once again makes Ubuntu Tweak a must-have application – never again will daring to customize […]

8 August 2010