Ubuntu 13.04 has been given its codename by Ubuntu found mark Shuttleworth. And despite many excellent community guesses - thought most we saw seemed to involve the words 'rabid' and 'rabbit' (!) - 13.04 is nicknamed the 'Raring Ringtail'.
Canonical's Bryce Harrington has spoken about efforts Canonical are making to provide Ubuntu users with a first-class gaming experience. As an Ubuntu Desktop team member, as well as the maintainer of X.org, Harrington has played a key role in prepping Ubuntu for the arrival of games distribution service Steam and its troop of freshly ported Linux gaming titles, as well as enhancing the experience of existing games from the links of Unity3D and The Humble Indie Bundle.
StormCloud is a new weather app for Linux - although soon to arrive on Chrome and Android - created by Lightread's Jono Cooper who was fed up of seeing 'so many beautiful apps on Dribbble that didn't get made'.
An unfortunate "side effect" of Ubuntu's new 'shopping suggestions' feature is that, regardless of what you're looking for, be it local or online, you're going to be met with a barrage of results. This filterless 'show whatever from where-ever' approach has raised the eyebrows of some early testers...
A new release of graphics app Pinta has been made available for download. Version 1.4 of the simple drawing tool sees a number of new features and improvements made, along with fixes for various bug and performance issues.
A new 'Sync Menu' is one of several new features available to those testing Ubuntu 12.10 Beta.
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, has taken to his blog to add context to the latest controversial change in Ubuntu: shopping results.
Movie streaming company Netflix have once again reiterated that have no plans to support Linux anytime soon. The news won't surprise many: the company announced that Linxu support won't be happening earlier this year.
Jono is one of the most 'well known' faces in the Ubuntu and wider free-software/open-source community. But rather than receive the usual glut of inflatable guitars, novelty underwear, and PS3 games, Bacon has opted for something more in keeping with the ethos of Ubuntu and Open-Source: charity.
Use Evernote on your mobile devices? Now you can use it on Ubuntu, too...
Later this month the bods behind the 500,000 player strong MMORPG Ryzom will be making a drastic change that will impact much of their user base: a character reset.
Want to display album cover-art and control options on your desktop in Ubuntu? Coverbox, a fork of the once-popular Covergloobus, lets you do just that.