Free and fully Open Source Flash implementation ‘LightSpark’ sees the release of a second release candidate today. Lightspark 0.4.2 sees the following additions and improvements, as listed on the official announcement: – YouTube support for […]
Following on from the second development release of Ubuntu 10.10 a few days back comes the latest testing iteration of LXDE-based Ubuntu spin ‘Lubuntu’. Lubuntu developer Julien Lavergne, on announcing the availablity of the new […]
The Google Chrome dev channel (as well as the Chromium daily builds) recently gained preliminary support for storing user passwords in the native system keyring rather than, as currently, the built-in unencrypted password store. Whilst […]
Last week Weather-Indicator project member Cullen shared his favourite five images from the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr Pool (where users can submit photos, a dozen or so of which will make it into the default installation […]
Windows converts will find that many of their favourite applications are already available on Linux; Skype, Firefox, Google Chrome, VLC, etc but there are many Windows staples that don’t have Linux ports. The applications listed below make perfect drop-in replacements.
There are a lot of things that make people switch to Ubuntu. Perhaps it’s older hardware that needs a refresh, or a complete loathing of all things Apple and Microsoft, or maybe a desire to run all […]
Alex Chiang is an American software developer who works for Canonical's OEM department - satisfying the needs of customers all around the world and helping bring Ubuntu into the mainstream! I had the opportunity to meet Alex at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, and it was the first UDS for both of us. Alex worked for HP for a number of years before joining Canonical earlier this year and joining the large OEM team where he develops drivers, works on packages and the kernel for various OEMs.
Multimedia application software company Yorba have announced the release of a new version of soon-to-be-default Ubuntu photo manager app Shotwell. This release sees Shotwell gain long-requested support for working with both RAW & PNG images, […]
Why do you get when you cross Firefox and Pidgin? InstantBird. No, That wasn’t a joke without a punchline but an introduction to one of the more interesting applications I’ve tried in a while […]
The second Alpha of the Ubuntu 10.10 development cycle has been made available for download today. The changes it contains are not considered stable and as such this Alpha is not recommended for installation on […]
Popular Firefox extension ‘Firefox-Notify’ – which uses native Ubuntu notifications in place of the default Firefox ones – no longer works with Firefox 3.6.6 in Ubuntu. Thankfully users needn’t forgo native notifications for long… It’s […]
The first stable release of an Opera browser since November 2009 has finally been announced today. The last stable release of an Opera browser on Linux was the 10.10 branch back in November last year […]