A GNOME panel applet to search the internet and local files, that sits in your panel like the one in Unity would be awesome, but I can’t find one for the life of me. I’ve […]
We’ve featured a lot of wallpapers recently — but they’ve all been quite striking, colourful or, in the words of my mother ‘”fancy”. http://www.minimalwall.com features backgrounds that are far removed from that and, as such, […]
I’m interested to see what you guys think the biggest selling points, and the biggest issues are in Ubuntu right now. I use Ubuntu because it’s fast, reliable, secure, pretty and safe. It lets me […]
The first Alpha of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been made available for download. This is the first of four Alpha releases before the 10.10 beta in September. As to be expected so close after […]
Confirming the long-rumoured general release date, Google has announced that its new Chrome OS will be released in the Autumn (or fall, to American readers). For those of you unfamiliar with Chrome OS, it is […]
Boxee was demoed at UDS with the hopes of getting it into the main Ubuntu repositories, and I say rock on! It’s an amazingly polished home media center running Linux that allows you to stream media […]
Seif Lotfy is a fun-loving Zeitgeist and Elementary hacker at large who is a bit low on funds, like most people. Unfortunately he’s *so* poor that he can’t even afford a laptop to work on […]
Between the 10th and the 14th May, 2010, I hit up the lovely country of Belgium to attend the Ubuntu Developers Summit for the Maverick Meerkat release. I was one of 60 lucky people from […]
In an effort to produce a 100% error-free manual for Lucid 2nd edition and beyond, we want to run a bug-squashing competition called “Show us ya bugs!” It’s really simple and goes a little something […]
Heads up everyone, those obsolete, dusty things you never look at are coming back into fashion in the Ubuntu world! Manual fever is gripping Ubuntu community teams all over the world as everyone starts to […]
Users of the Chromium browser daily builds for Ubuntu may be surprised to find their window controls ‘doing a Lucid‘ and switching from the right to the left. Chromium now adheres to the window button placement specified […]
In case you’ve not heard, (probably due to rather extensive confusion about what and which is what) Compiz, Beryl and Compiz-Fusion have gone through a number of changes and splits and merges and has finally […]