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Dell To Sell Netbooks With Ubuntu Moblin Remix

Dell are to ship netbooks powered by Ubuntu Moblin Remix. This marks a change from current Dell netbooks which are available with Ubuntu Netbook Remix or, previously, Ubuntu 8.04 plus Dell’s own Netbook Interface (a […]

23 September 2009
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Will Ubuntu 9.10 Run On Your Computer?

Canonical – the financial backers of Ubuntu – have developed a diagnostics software kit, installable on a USB thumb drive, to help users identify what bits of their hardware will work with Ubuntu and what […]

23 September 2009
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5 Steps To Install Dropbox In Karmic Alpha

Anyone using the Karmic Alpha’s who has tried to install Dropbox will have noticed that the Jaunty .deb’s fail to work. Thankfully all you need to do is install it from source – which isn’t […]

23 September 2009
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A Quick Look At Gnome 3’s Desktop Sidebar

Continuing our look at Gnome 3’s Gnome-Shell, we land upon the oft unnoticed desktop sidebar! The sidebar can be enable/disabled from the user menu in the top right-hand corner and unless clicked or hovered over, […]

22 September 2009
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Karmic Alpha 6 Update Finally Replaces Add/Remove With Software Store

An update to Karmic Alpha 6 has finally replaced ‘Add/Remove’ with the ‘Ubuntu Software Store’. As you can see in the screenshot above, Ubuntu Software Store finally get’s it’s official icon. Bigger view: – The […]

22 September 2009
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[Solved!] Karmic’s UGLY Ethernet Icon – Vote To Change It!

Update An updated icon will be shipping in the next update to the human theme! Hurrah! ~thanks Yann Dìnenda for the tip-off! Karmic Koala’s icon for displaying a wired connection is, in all fairness, quite […]

22 September 2009
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How To Easily Install Gnome 3 Gnome-Shell In Karmic, Jaunty & Intrepid

Below are two quick methods of installation Gnome-Shell in Ubuntu. Please be aware that Gnome-Shell is still very much in development and should be treated as such. Karmic Koala If you want to try out […]

21 September 2009
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Evolution 2.28.0 Released

A new version of Linux Desktop mail application ‘Evolution’ has been released. Notable features and improvements bring: – • Google calendar will be available through Caldav interface by default • Configurable date formats • Selecting […]

21 September 2009
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Run OS X Dashboard Widgets In Ubuntu

Kuldgets is a small application that lets you run OS X Dashboard Widgets in Linux. Install Kludgets Grab the source: http://kludgets.googlecode.com/files/kludgets-0.9.1.linux.tar.gz Save it to your desktop and extract. (Right Click > Extract) Enter the extracted […]

21 September 2009
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Gnome 3 – A Quick Visual Tour

Gnome 3, which will be available to install in Ubuntu 10.04, will mark the first radical change to the Gnome Desktop since it’s inception, thanks to it’s “new” interface ‘Gnome-Shell’. Doing Things Better On first […]

20 September 2009
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Rhythmbox 0.12.5 Released

Rhythmbox has been updated to 0.12.5, bringing with it new bug fixes and a new music-cover fetching feature. Codenamed “Stop Beathin’”, this new version brings 3 notable improvements: – Cover Art Search now uses discogs.com […]

20 September 2009

Ubuntu 10.04 Named ‘Lucid Lynx’

The name of Ubuntu 10.04, the release due in April 2010, has been revealed as ‘Lucid Lynx’! Lynx’s Meat Lucid Lynx will be a LTS release (supported for 5 years) and will ship with Gnome […]

20 September 2009