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Humble indie bundle hits a million dollars; 4 games open-sourced

Great news for gamers everywhere — the Humble Indie Bundle (where you could pay whatever you liked for 5 6 great Linux-supported games) was a roaring success earning the assorted parties involved a massive $1,025,219 […]

11 May 2010
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UDS-M: Sound menu Changes coming In Ubuntu Maverick

Ubuntu 10.10 will see the introduction of a ‘unified sound menu‘, designed to allow users to easily control music playback and control over-all sound volume; staking itself on more than just managing volume, but managing […]

11 May 2010
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UDS-M: Me Menu getting improvements for Maverick

The Me Menu in Ubuntu 10.04 is getting much needed improvements for Ubuntu 10.10 based on user feedback and research conducted recently. Some new features and bug fixes planned from the UDS session: Notifications to […]

11 May 2010
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Philippines use Ubuntu-based voting machines in recent election

Yesterdays election in the Philippines was notable for several reasons — not least of which was the introduction of a new electronic voting system in which Ubuntu has played a vital — but invisible — […]

10 May 2010
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Change The search provider in Ubuntu Unity Search Bar

Like the Ubuntu Firefox start page the Unity search bar (what’s Unity? where have you been?!) uses a custom Google search results page free of, well, everything useful and loaded down with ads. Whilst this […]

10 May 2010
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Tyler on Ubuntu: Why Netbooks are bringing the future

In case you’ve  been hiding under a rock, or hang around people who exclusively use Mac hardware, then you’ve witnessed the explosion of the Netbook. Small, light, less then 10 inches, and with impressive levels […]

10 May 2010
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UDS-M: Design, design, design!

Design. The word on everyones lips after the release of Lucid Lynx, at least around these parts! The Canonical design team has only been around for one year, that is, two releases. They’re a very […]

10 May 2010
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Install the new Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook interface ‘Unity’ [screenshots]

Fellow OMG! writer Benjamin’s over at UDS and one of the key announcements during Mark’s plenary speech was the immediate availability of ‘Unity’: the new Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook interface. The interface is in the very early stages of development so […]

10 May 2010
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Ubuntu Developer Summit Maverick plenary and keynote: New Ubuntu "instant on", netbook shell, more

Well, here I am at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, Belgium. Yesterday I got to head into Brussels and have a look around with a couple of Italian friends from the Italy LoCo team. […]

10 May 2010
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OpenShot survey results show users want dvd creation feature; 88% use ubuntu

The results of the OpenShot survey that was conducted over the last few weeks has ended and the results have been made available on OpenShot developer Cenwen’s blog [French]. They show many interesting things, a brief […]

9 May 2010
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Boot race video: Ubuntu 10.04 Vs Windows 7

sentvid passed me a linkto his admittedly “not very Scientific but end user perspective” boot race video that sees him pit clean installs of Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 against one another. It’s frivolous stuff […]

9 May 2010
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6 Replacement dropbox icon sets

Further to our post on the forthcoming release of Dropbox 0.8.x using an application indicator and allowing the panel icons to be customized many readers have been hard at work creating new icon sets. Below […]

9 May 2010