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Don’t Like a Default Ubuntu App? Swap It For One of These Alternatives

The default selection of applications in Ubuntu are great for most people but it would be foolish to think that one size fits all. To make it easier for you we’re going to show the […]

30 April 2010

Scrobble using the official Last.FM client with Rhythmbox

Although Rhythmbox, the default music player in Ubuntu, comes with a last.fm plug-in to scrobble your track plays to the Last.fm service, it does lack a few of the features found in the dedicated last.fm […]

30 April 2010
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Lucid Release In pictures: Ubuntu Cupcakes

These cupcakes, made in celebration of Ubuntu 10.04’s release, are enough get your mouth watering! Special points for them even being in the new Ubuntu brand colours! Sadly I know not the name of the […]

29 April 2010
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Buy music from the UbuntuOne Music store & Help save the Iberian Lynx

Canonical, the financial backers of Ubuntu, are donating 50% of profits made from the sale of music via the UbuntuOne Music Store to the Iberian Lynx conservation organization ‘SOS Lynx’. Only 150 individual Iberian Lynx […]

29 April 2010
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Want to use the Ubuntu Yahoo! Start Page? You still can!

Earlier on this year Ubuntu made a short-livedswitch to Yahoo! as the default search engine in Firefox. This was soon redressed based on‘user experience, user preferences, and costs and benefits for Ubuntu and the browsers […]

29 April 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ‘The Lucid Lynx’ Released!

After a hectic 6 month cycle complete with controversy, last minute bugs and exciting new features, the latest Ubuntu release, 10.04 Long Term Support “Lucid Lynx” has been unleashed into the wild. But what’s new? […]

29 April 2010
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Ubuntu fixes 102 papercuts for Lucid

The papercuts project has fixed 102 papercuts for Lucid which is, if you passed High School maths, 2 more than the target! Yay! For those who don’t know what the papercuts project is all about: […]

29 April 2010
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10 things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

If you’re going to be installing a freshly minted copy of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS later today or this weekend then the following list of 10 reader submitted post-install must-do’s will help ensure that you’re off […]

29 April 2010
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Ubuntu Manpages website first to reflect new branding

The Ubuntu manpages website appears to be the first “ubuntu.com” website to reveal the new branding which was announced a few weeks ago during the Lucid development cycle. You can see the rest of the […]

29 April 2010
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Fatal flaw connected to GRUB found at very late notice, never fear!

This bug report which was reported yesterday suggests that Lucid was about to ship with an issue that caused the secondary operating system to be missing from GRUB when installing in a dual boot setup; […]

29 April 2010
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Tyler on Ubuntu: Your Virtual desktops

Remember when I asked you about how you used your virtual workspaces? Well, ever since then (yes, ever since last Friday. It seems like a long time) I’ve been doing my darndest to collate the […]

29 April 2010
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Lubuntu tag added to the UbuntuForums

We love lightweight LXDE based Ubuntu spin Lubuntu around these parts so seeing a ‘Lubuntu’ forum prefix for it in the Ubuntu Forums really made me smile. You may not be “official” yet Lubuntu but […]

29 April 2010