On the Ubuntu homepage is a very interesting countdown timer. I wonder what this is actually counting down to? I suppose we will all find out tomorrow…. What could it be? Well, there are some clues within the picture. The countdown is using the orange “orbs” from the Ubuntu Phone OS, and the text obviously points towards an announcement related to a tablet. Could this be the offi... »
In a blog post yesterday, Canonical announced that official Ubuntu Phone OS images will be available for the Galaxy Nexus & Nexus 4 devices from the 21st February 2013. Now, before you all race of to go and download the image and start flashing your devices, you should take note that these images are development releases only, and what that means is that they are likely to be buggy, unstable... »
Many people who use Linux didn’t start that way. The norm for a lot of people is to get into technology, work their way up, get bored of Windows and look for something better. I’m really interested to hear how people started using Linux, what their distro of choice is and why. I was discussing why I prefer Ubuntu to anything else with a colleague a few weeks ago (he incidentally prefer... »
Creating screencasts is a favourite past time of many Linux enthusiasts so that they can show off what they have done with their distro. They’re also used a lot my bloggers like myself to give visitors a video demonstration of something on their machine. For those that don’t know, a screencast is a video of your desktop. Why Vokoscreen? Whilst there are many screencast tools that will ... »
Is Unity for your laptop not enough? Do you want classic GNOME 2 on your phone? Two launchers for Android currently working through beta phase are available in Google’s Play Store and both let you skin your device to look and feel like an Ubuntu desktop. Ubuntu Launcher is the simpler of the two and consists of a single home screen, complete with Ubuntu 12.04′s default purple ... »
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So who likes First Person Shooters (FPS)? I know I do! Call Of Duty, Battlefield and the classic Doom are regulars on my gaming list. So when I heard that the daddy’s of FPS in the forms of Half-Life & Counter-Strike were now available for Linux/Ubuntu through Steam I had to check it out! The original Half-Life and Counter-Strike 1.6 have just gone beta. So that means that whilst they ... »
From version 14.04 LTS onwards, Ubuntu may turn into a rolling release cycle rather than the current six monthly release schedule. On a Google+ Hangout, Leann Ogasawara, Canonical Kernel Team Manager mentioned that the option of moving to a rolling release system much like other OS’s like Arch and Windows had been “discussed”. During the hangout (shown below), Leann mentioned ... »
If you’re anything like me then keeping up with the latest technology news (or any news for that matter) is very important part of your life. Then a good RSS feed reader is very important, when I’m on my mobile devices Google Reader does the job just fine. But when on my laptop I don’t really want to be using the Google Reader web interface, as let’s face it, it’s pre... »
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