Having boldly gone where no-one had gone before, it was no surprise to learn that actor Wil Wheaton is concerned about the erosion of ’Net Neutrality‘ – the principle that all web traffic, users and means of access should be treated fairly and without favour. Illustrating this point in a post on his blog this weekend, the [...]
After six long years (i’m making that up, but it does feel like a horrendously long time) the Ubuntu Forums has added a new theme that matches the revamped Ubuntu branding introduced during the Ubuntu 10.04 development cycle. The theme is not enabled default, so you won’t see it when logging in. But it can [...]
A minor update to the Spotify Preview for Linux client is available to download. A handful of new features are present in the release, which was originally intended to appear at the same time as the Windows and Mac builds. Sadly, a last-minute build error pushed this back a few days – but kudos for the [...]
It lives! Skype have issued a small bugfix update to the static package of their Linux client. The hotfix patches a ‘serious vulnerability’ with the ‘libpng library’ present in the static package of the VoIP client. The issue does not affect any other versions of Skype 2.2 for Linux (i.e. the version available in the Ubuntu Software Center). What [...]
Annnnnnd the Ubuntu Developer Summit is over for another 6 months. Five days, 40 hours, lots of beer, frivolity and discussion have lead to a set of potential plans for the Ubuntu 12.10 release. Due to the nature of development not everything intended to happen will. But, pessimism aside, the following list of proposals do all on [...]
You’ve had several weeks to settle in to your Ubuntu installs so it’s time to ask those of you who performed a direct upgrade (either from Ubuntu 11.10 or Ubuntu 10.04): ‘How will did it go?’ My own experience of an LTS-to-LTS upgrade went incredibly well, but one users’ take on it does not a [...]
