Mark Shuttleworth has apologised “unreservedly to all offended” for his “poor choice of language” during LinuxCon 2009 during which a comment made by the Ubuntu founder was deemed to be sexist by many members of […]
We love the Amarok 1.4 inspired music player Clementine here at OMG! towers so we’re stoked to learn of a newly created dev-build PPA for the bold and the beautiful to make use of. Dev […]
There are plenty of great icon themes available for GNOME users to brighten their desktops up with but how many of those are truly awesome? Faenza, by ~tiheum – best known for his Equinox themes […]
Elementary users longing for some true Elementary-inspired Dropbox icons to use with the upcoming 0.8 release of the file-syncing application may wish to try the following icons, created by rugby471.Whilst we’ve featured many replacement icon […]
During the Lucid cycle default Ubuntu file-manager Nautilus added a thick white border around the display of file thumbnails. At the time this was considered an improvement by most. Several months on and, well, many […]
A few notable updates landed in the latest update of Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha today. Meerkat’s new Sound Menu – seemingly more divisive than Jedward – received some attention. The seeker/scrubber now works (pretty much) as it should and […]
Dave Neary has posted the results of the GNOME census which has been looking at contributions to GNOME, who develops what, where it's coming from and who's been doing it over the last two years. The report has revealed that most of the upstream commits to GNOME are from people in their spare time with over 70% of respondents listing themselves as volunteers.
Another week and another media player. Say hello to Xnoise – a self-described ‘lightweight’ music and video player that has been making a lot of noise of late. Written in vala – and therefore more […]
The official website of Kubuntu has gone live with a new design, making use of the retooled design introduced by Ubuntu prior to April’s launch of Ubuntu 10.04. The new look is a massive improvement […]
Notebook and netbook users the world over can now flash their OS cred to the world with some ace new Ubuntu stickers added to the Ubuntu Store. Two different packs are available – 3 sheets […]
Whether you’re hosting a party with Rhythmbox providing the boom box duties or sat on your bed reading the latest Farscape comic and wanting to chill out with some ambiance the following fullscreen addon for […]
In Benjamin’s earlier post previewing the new GNOME Shell mock-up displayed at GUADEC, Canonicals very ace David Siegel posted this beautiful ‘as-of-now’ screenshot of Ubuntu Unity in a comment. Now, because the screenshot is so […]