One of the great ‘new’ traditions during an Ubuntu development cycle is the open submission of photos competing to win a place in the next default install of Ubuntu. The competition has a few more months left to go but Weather-Indicator projects’ Cullen has picked out his five favourite photos so far - and you don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes in order to spot a few recurring themes…
Users of menu-applet replacement Cardapio will need to need to update their sources with a new PPA address in-order to continue receiving updates. The change over announcement, made on the projects’ launchpad page, states that […]
A new version of cross-platform Amarok 1.4 inspired music player ‘Clementine‘ was released earlier today, adding a veritable crate-load of new features to already popular player. Additions amongst them include Magnatune integration, tabbed playlists, audio […]
The Ubuntu Software Centre developments for Ubuntu 10.10 are continuing and those users currently testing out Maverick will likely have spotted a more dramatic visual over-haul of the Software Centre of late: – To break […]
One thing I love particularly about the Open Source community is the desire to continually improve ever aspect of the desktop – from icons to apps. This isn’t driven by the desire to increase profits (an incentive […]
Photo connoisseurs seeking a simple yet featured photo editor for Linux will find plenty to get excited about in professional image editing software ‘LightZone’. LightZone, a commercial proprietary cross platform application, delivers a vast array […]
Just a short sharp shot: The daily builds of Banshee (in the Banshee Daily PPA, no less) finally rock out with a ‘fixed’ tray icon – news which will be like fresh morning dew to […]
OpenShot development has been a wee quiet of late – bar the OpenShot survey conducted a few months back. That silence is over with today’s announcement by lead OpenShot developer Jonathan Thomas that OpenShot will […]
One for the Maverick users amongst you – Ammonkey, Nautilus-Elementary’s hard-working and talented developer, has made available for testing the latest work on the refined browser for the early adopters. The new testing branch, based on nautilus 2.31.3+, not […]
Popular OS X disc burning utility ‘Burn‘ could find its way on to Linux – with a bit of help. The developer of Burn is eager to port the application over to Linux, having already […]
The company behind Ubuntu 10.10’s default photo management application ‘Shotwell’ have today announced the immediate availability of two new multimedia applications: a video editor and an audio editor. From Yorba themselves: – Fillmore is an […]
I love how fast the Open Source community works. I really do. Earlier today I posted an article titled “IF WINE INSTALLERS CAN LOOK FANCY, WHY NOT .DEBS?” which asked the question ‘Why do .debs […]