The goal of the Ubuntu Tour Project? To "provide an interactive tour for users who are new to Ubuntu."
Will the new Ubuntu font be landing in Maverick or is it too late? A bug report opened up by Alan Bell lends some discussion to whether we'll see the font commissioned by Dalton Maag grace Ubuntu 10.10 with its presence or not.
Well, for some of you readers, it's already the 2nd of September, and the Beta release of 10.10 is out today. Originally, this was scheduled to be Alpha 4, but the Maverick Release schedule was slightly altered a few weeks ago to give a bit more time to "Release Quality" (read:bug hunting and rough edges). Click through to read more and learn how to upgrade from Lucid if you're keen.
Just a quick heads up, we released the Second Edition of the Ubuntu Manual for Lucid yesterday to coincide with the point release for 10.04 LTS. Not much has changed from the first edition, apart […]
The first major ‘maintenance’ update to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has been released. Ubuntu 10.04, being a ‘long term support’ release, will receive performance, bug & security fixes until April 2013. 10.04.1 is the first of these, […]
The name of Mavericks successor in the alliterative naming stakes has been revealed by Mark Shuttleworth to be ‘Natty Narwhal’. No, really it is. Our self-appointed benevolent dictator for life has posted a fluid reasoning […]
Canonical have just announced the release of uTouch 1.0 – a new multi-touch and gesture ‘stack’ to ship with Ubuntu 10.10 From the official press release: – “Our multi-touch team has worked closely with the […]
Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon, in an interview with Austrian newsite derStandard.at, has reiterated that a fork of GNOME is not on the cards. Asked whether Ubuntu’s continuing additions, removals and tweaks to the stock GNOME environment could […]
A new Ubuntu-orientated help platmform based on StackOverflow is now in public beta. “Stack… what?” Wikipedia sums it up neatly: – “Stack Overflow is a website featuring questions and answers on a wide range of […]
Michael Forrest has posted details of an exciting new contest for Ubuntu users to take part in. Building upon the enormous success that the bi-annual wallpaper submission competition has garnered, attention has now turned to […]
Dave Neary has posted the results of the GNOME census which has been looking at contributions to GNOME, who develops what, where it's coming from and who's been doing it over the last two years. The report has revealed that most of the upstream commits to GNOME are from people in their spare time with over 70% of respondents listing themselves as volunteers.
Notebook and netbook users the world over can now flash their OS cred to the world with some ace new Ubuntu stickers added to the Ubuntu Store. Two different packs are available – 3 sheets […]