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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
