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Help Test Shotwell 0.9.0 Before Release

We love Yorba here at OMG! Ubuntu! and no-doubt many of you do to. Share some of that love by getting your coding digits dirty and compiling the latest Shotwell from trunk to hunt down bugs ahead of Shotwell's next release...

15 March 2011

Project Bossanova announces contest, partnership with Desura

Another fortnight, another exciting update from the folks running Project Bossanova. Project Bossanova have just now announced the results of the poll in an email to the mailing list, along with a partnership with game distributing company Desura, and also possibly most excitingly, a contest for indie developers to submit their games for potential sponsorship.

14 March 2011
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Making your own Unity place

This is a guest post from Jorge O. Castro, External Developer Relations Liaison, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks. Unity is made up of different parts. I’m not going to go […]

3 March 2011

Project Bossanova unveils new website, FAQ and poll

Project Bossanova yesterday unveiled a new website, along with more information about the project and a poll where users can vote on the genre of game they'd like to see the project focus on.

28 February 2011
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15 sleek Gnome panel backgrounds (and how to fix non-transparent applet issues)

GNOME Panel looking dull? Try one of these 15 slick backgrounds - plus how to fix annoying panel applet background issues.

26 February 2011
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Debian is dying, oh my word!

Ever since the release of Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, there's an ongoing debate whether Debian is still relevant and whether the project is going to die.

25 February 2011
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Banshee in Ubuntu 11.04 to ship with two music stores

In an update to previously announced proceedings Banshee's Gabriel Burt has shared news that the media player will come with two music stores enable by default in Ubuntu 11.04.

24 February 2011
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Unity Bitesize Bugs Update: 15th Feb 2011

This is the first guest post from Jorge O. Castro, External Developer Relations Liaison, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks Welcome to the Unity bitesize extravaganza. First off, if you're interested in past progress reports I have them on my blog. However the guys decided that it might be "ace" for me to just tell you guys directly, so here we go.

15 February 2011
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US Readers: last chance to voice against ACTA

Tuesday 15 February 2011 17:00 US/Eastern is the deadline for American citizens to register voice against ACTA - the proposed international 'counterfeiting agreement' that seeks to extend the sucker tentacles of copyright criminalisation into as many nooks and crannies in every day life as possible.

15 February 2011
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Putting Your Brick In The Natty Wall – Jono Bacon

In this article, Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, guest posts and discusses a rallying call for delivering Unity in Natty. Wow, what a cycle Natty has been already. Back in Orlando, when Mark proposed Unity for inclusion in Ubuntu 11.04, we knew this cycle was going to be a busy one, and the Design, Desktop Experience, Ubuntu Platform, and community teams have been working at full steam to make Natty a rocking release.

14 February 2011
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Create desktop launchers for Wine apps easily with WLCreator

Zarko Zivanov dropped by the OMG! Ubuntu! inbox to spread word of a new tool he's made for easily creating launchers for WINE apps in Ubuntu.

13 February 2011
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We asked our Facebook fans what they’re doing to share Ubuntu, turns out quite a bit

Last weekend I posted a status update on our OMG! Ubuntu! Facebook page asking our fans to leave a comment with their Ubuntu success stories. A few dozen comments later and we had a nice collection of some stories, everything from people converting their parents to also people replacing Windows XP with Ubuntu on aging school computers in their local community.

10 February 2011