The first drop of the newly redesigned Ubiquity installer for Ubuntu 10.10 has landed in Maverick. We have previously blogged about the changes proposed for the Maverick installer but this is the first time that the new […]
Stat junkies & Ubuntu addicts who need to know exactly how many days remain until everyones favourite Meerkat scuttles into release-land may wish to consider the following small notification script, created by ironic-gnome. The countdown […]
The third alpha release of the Ubuntu 10.10 development cycle has been made available to download. As this is a testing release is is not recommended for casual users but for development purposes only. Whilst […]
Ubuntu’s new netbook interface ‘Unity’ received a batch of big updates 2 days ago but, due to wrestling with the beasts known as Ralink chipsets, i’ve only just managed to update. What was added, what’s new […]
Mark Shuttleworth has just posted some focused discussion and mock-ups over on his blog, highlighting the artists name in the new Maverick Sound Menu – like so: I for one think that the sound menu is looking […]
The first inisital release of super-settings sync tool ‘OneConf’ has landed in the Ubuntu Meerkat repos. OneConf has the noble aim of making users lives easy by saving and syncing various data between your Ubuntu […]
The Ubuntu desktop team have decided to stick with Firefox as default web browser in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10. During the Ubuntu Developer Summit earlier this year moves were made on staging Chromium as default […]
Goce Mitevski submitted the following promotional Ubuntu video to the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase group on Vimeo – and boy does it rock! “Free Culture what?” The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase provides users with an […]
A few notable updates landed in the latest update of Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha today. Meerkat’s new Sound Menu – seemingly more divisive than Jedward – received some attention. The seeker/scrubber now works (pretty much) as it should and […]
In Benjamin’s earlier post previewing the new GNOME Shell mock-up displayed at GUADEC, Canonicals very ace David Siegel posted this beautiful ‘as-of-now’ screenshot of Ubuntu Unity in a comment. Now, because the screenshot is so […]
The Ubuntu Software Centre store front in Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha has really started to flesh out, with an update today adding in a roster of application to the ‘New apps’ section. The apps listed within […]
Early testers, adopters or unaware-upgraders of Ubuntu 10.10 missing their Nautilus-Elementary fix will be pleased to hear that a testing PPA is ready – already! Shouts out, as ever, to the ace ammonkey and, for […]