If you’re a fan of light themes then the following slice of gtk pie by Zac Barton will surely impress. Taking a popular never-made theme mock-up adding a sprinkling of elementary metacity and then a […]
Hello, I know some of you are fearing that the launch of our new IRC channel has been the cause in a slowdown of new posts over the last few days but let me assure you that […]
The first beta of the Ubuntu 10.04 development cycle has been postponed until tomorrow. In a message to the dev mailing list earlier this evening Steve Langasek states this the reason as: – Owing to […]
The first of two beta releases in the Ubuntu 10.04 development cycle is due to be released later today. Unlike previous Alpha releases no major new features or changes will be introduced at this stage […]
When heading for the ‘Suspend’ in 10.04 you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find that it’s been renamed to sleep. A little change but in the past even I have had to think about whether ‘Suspend’ […]
A change in the unit reading policy of file sizes in Ubuntu 10.04 is causing some confusion amongst early adopters. Previously Ubuntu showed 1MB as 1024 (1 MiB). Now it displays 1MB to be 1000kB. […]
Ubuntu 10.04 will ship with a new open-source Nvidia driver called Nouveau. Whilst only providing 2D support the driver allows Nvidia users to take advantage of several new features within Ubuntu 10.04 such as the […]
With the release of Lucid Lynx not that far away, over here at OMG! Headquarters we’ve been planning our release party. We were just going to have an old fashioned booze up but luckily we’ve […]
Panflute is a GNOME panel applet for controlling music playback and displaying playback information. The successor to the popular GNOME Music Applet, Panflute boasts many features its predecessor doesn’t including a seek bar and support […]
Shotwell is a photo management and editing application that is fast gaining popularity. Today Yorba, the team behind Shotwell, announced the release of version 0.5.0 which sees the application gain many new features including photo […]
Thanks to an aptly titled reader called SuperMatt we now have an IRC channel. Feel free to chime in whenever — can’t promise I’ll always be on there (i have posts to, well, post) but I’ll try. […]