It’s everybody’s second-most favourite time of the release again. No, not the actual release, but it’s Ubuntu Developer Week! Join us from Tuesday, 31st January 2012 to Thursday, 2nd February 2012 for three action-packed days full of tutorial and hands-on session all around Ubuntu development. We spared no efforts to bring you a very diverse [...]
In the week following the release of ‘a new Ubuntu’ comes Ubuntu Open Week: a series of IRC-based ‘workshops’ aimed at introducing Ubuntu new users. Open Week is being held from Monday 17th October through to Friday 21st. To access classes you’ll need to install an IRC client (many are available in the Ubuntu Software Centre, just [...]
I’ve refrained from featuring non-free/paid apps/games for a bit now, but feel this one deserves its place as Download of the Week: Oil Rush From Unigine, the company that develops the cross-platform 3D engine for Linux, Mac, Windows, and PS3, comes a new RTS game called Oil Rush. Battle in the City In this fast-paced, [...]
To mix things up, this episode of Download of the Week will not feature an application or a game, but rather a plugin: rhythmbox-plugin-coherence. After many years of being a member of the bandwagon to unseat Rhythmbox in favor of Banshee as the default, I end up getting a PS3 and regretting my choice in media [...]
Novacut, the open source project aiming be the world’s first collaborative video editor has reached its last week on crowd funding site Kickstarter – but they’re still a long way off their goal of ,000 in funding. As OMG! Ubuntu! editor Akshat Jain wrote earlier this month, “OS X and Windows users always had no [...]
Half the battle of wanting to contribute to open source is knowing where to start. I remember when I first started contributing to Ubuntu I found it difficult to discover a project to contribute to, especially since I’m not a developer. The Ubuntu community are aware of this, and as such, they’ve brainstormed a new [...]
