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How "Free" Is Your Install?

Want to find out what percentage of your Ubuntu system is made up of “free” software and packages? On my install, 1.0% of my total installed packages are not-free, meaning i’m 99% there! Install VRMS […]

10 September 2009
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The Best Image Viewers For Ubuntu

Below are a selection of Image Viewers that provide more features than the default application and how they compare against it. Eye Of Gnome ” The Default App Being the “Stock” image viewer in Ubuntu […]

2 September 2009
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Coming Soon: Ubuntu App Centre – Replacing Add/Remove, Synaptic, Gdebi, Update Manager…

Ubuntu is currently developing a centralised “App Store” to simplify the adding/removing/updating/configuring of software within Ubuntu. It’s already easy! Isn’t it…? Lets start off with a  quote: – If Linux has an Achilles heel, from […]

22 August 2009
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New In Karmic: Installation Changes

Our series on what new software users can expect to find in Karmic Koala come October continues. Today we take a sneak peak at the shiny new additions to Ubuntu’s installer ‘Ubiquity’. Canonical have been […]

22 August 2009
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Mark Shuttleworth Q+A Part 1: Gnome 3, New Themes, MONO & Peanut Butter On Toast…

Apple may have Steve Jobs, Microsoft their Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer but we Ubuntu lovers have our own awesome over-lord in the form of Canonical head and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. He even dubs […]

29 April 2009
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Gnome 3 – Designing A Desktop For Today

Gnome 3 will present a different UI to that we know as Gnome now. Partly this is a response to KDE 4 and the UI changes there, but mainly it’s about bringing the concept of […]

28 March 2009
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OS X: Camino 1.6.6

A new version of the OS X only browser ‘Camino’ was released a little while ago. This version includes, amongst other things: – Better tab support for when you have lots of tabs open. Toolbar […]

18 February 2009
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What is the Best Netbook Operating System?

Netbooks are twee little machines. Powerful enough to be awesome mobile devices for on-the-go computing, but underpowered and not suited to running most desktop operating systems fully. Windows Vista is an prime example of an […]

14 December 2008