Welcome to the first news-dump – a brief look at some Linux stories and announcements that don’t quite fit in, or warrant, a full low-down post here on OMG! Ubuntu! Eyes down, look in: – […]
It seems the Naismith’s work on the Immortality gate in Doctor Who’s 2009/2010 festive finale The End Of Time was done using computers running none-other than our very own awesome OS Ubuntu! Take a closer […]
How many of you once came across a cool sounding application and eagerly downloaded it only to find it was an alien sounding “.tar.gz” which, upon instinctively double clicking, did not do what you expected […]
Bing.com (Microsoft’s Search engine) has various little features that users like. One of those being the daily ‘background of the day’. With a simple script by OMG! Ubuntu! reader “YoungJesus” you can automatically sync your […]
Rhythmbox is sometimes over-looked when the virtues of Ubuntu music players are discussed. Perhaps people assume that because it is the default that it only provides “the basics”. As we’ve shown you here on Omg!Ubuntu! […]
With 2009 drawing to a close we’re getting all retrospectical* here at OMG!Ubuntu! (*That’s not a real word, but it sounds good.) Today we present our second favourite application of 2009 – Gloobus Preview. For […]
Although we here at OMG! Ubuntu! are Ubuntu fans (shock, right?) it’s always interesting (and a bit exciting) to take a look at what else exists out there, in the wild waters of alternative operating […]
We’re massive fans of Dock application ‘Docky’ here at OMG! Ubuntu! and one of the principle designers working on it is a young man with a wonderfully conceptual imagination by the name of ‘Dan Rabbit’. […]
We exclusively told you last week that a "refresh" (I.E. a new alpha version) of Adobe’s Flash Plugin for 64bit Linux was going to be released on the 8th of December and lo and behold […]
No major tech site is currently reporting on this, but (Edit: 45 minutes later the rest of the big tech sites catch up! yet another OMG!Ubuntu! first…) The Google Chrome Beta for Linux is now […]
Avant Window Navigator, a popular dock for Linux, is going to be getting a shiny new network manager docklet. One of AWN’s developers, “moonbeam”, posted the following teaser on his blog. In it you can […]
The artwork proposals for Lucid have begun getting underway this last week or two and the most interesting submission so far is UbuntuSun. Available in three variants: Dawn, Day & Dusk, the metacity theme is […]