A bevvy of photographic wallpapers from the Ubuntu Photo Wallpaper Shortlist arrived with this morning’s Alpha 6 updates. They range from the "I would never use that": – To the visually impressive: – The rest […]
The login window that will be greeting all users of Karmic Koala has finally been revealed! The GDM design as a whole, like with the XSplash, sticks very closely to the mock-ups the Ubuntu Design […]
Karmic Koala’s visual refresh to Ubuntu’s ‘Network Manager’ was this afternoon pushed out on the the update wagon. As i told you about a month or so ago in my post on “Ten Things You […]
Today saw the final artwork drop for the Karmic Koala – and what an update it’s been! What’s new? Take a look below! Updated Human-theme The default theme for Ubuntu has changed! Finally! Gone are […]
Google this week released Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac. Sadly no Linux version was offered, a fact Google blamed on the lowly adoption figures they have for Picasa on Linux. I think that’s a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]