Ubuntu’s Unity interface made a brief appearance in a popular Japanese ‘children’s’ show last weekend. ‘Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters‘ – the latest team in the 36-year strong Super Sentai franchise – can clearly be seen to be running a customised version of Ubuntu Unity desktop on their laptop. Open-source mail-client Evolution is also on show, as is the [...]
They’re best known for making Ubuntu laptops and PCs but ZaReason are about to dip their toes into fresh waters with the launch of a tablet. But, unlike the rest of their hardware line up, the ‘ZaTab’ doesn’t come with Ubuntu but the tried-and-tested tablet Android 4.0 operating system. ‘Guts’ The lower-end of the tablet [...]
This is a guest post by Tom Slominski, a 15 year old Ubuntu user who ‘loves Linux, open source and web development with a tad of alternative rock sprinkled on top.’ Here Tom runs through his top 5 app picks for Ubuntu. Polly Polly is a multi-column Twitter app for which OMG! readers chose a new [...]
A new stable release of Skype-Wrapper is available for download. Skype-Wrapper is a small third-party ‘plugin’ that integrates many of Skype’s features directly into the Ubuntu desktop. This includes support for Ubuntu’s Messaging Menu, notification system and Unity launcher. What’s New? With almost six-months between the last release and this, it’s no surprise to learn that amongst the [...]
If you use any web-apps or websites in Chrome that provide notification pop-ups on your desktop then you’ll know how out of place they look in Ubuntu. For although Chrome’s notification ‘toasts’ are consistent across all three major operating systems – that is they look and behave the same on Windows, Mac and Linux – they are, unlike, [...]
The question of how best to present and enable software and system updates to users of Linux has resulted in different distributions doing things their own way. The Ubuntu-based Chinese distro Linux Deepin, for example, integrates software updates directly into its Software Center. But Ubuntu uses a Update Manager – a tool that is fairly straightforward [...]
