The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of Ubuntu.
Read more »Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Alpha 3 Screenshots Gallery (Updated with new wallpaper,theme)
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Debian live CD distro rev'd
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The Elive team has released a long-awaited upgrade to its Debian-based, live CD-ready distro. The New Stable version of Elive 2.0, code-named Topaz, is equipped with the Enlightenment E17 desktop environment, but now offers an alternative Compaz desktop, plus new autolaunchers, system-recovery tools, and "configurators."
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Ubuntu Artwork Gaining Momentum - 5 Cool Community Themes from Ubuntu Artwork Pool
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The trend had already started with the release of Ubuntu Karmic. A number of community contributed themes started pouring in and some of them even got into the list of default themes for Ubuntu.
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6 Desktop Fonts to try in Ubuntu
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A fresh install of Ubuntu yields one annoyance that seems to irritate most people: the default ‘Sans’ font is set at a gigantic 10px.
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Hands-on: a close look at Ubuntu's new non-brown theme
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Canonical is updating Ubuntu's look and feel with a new style that departs from the popular Linux distribution's traditional brown theming. The new theme, which was announced yesterday as part of an initiative to overhaul Ubuntu's branding and visual identity, will be used in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release, codenamed Lucid Lynx.
Read more »Shotwell 0.5 To Bring PicasaWeb Publishing, Tags, Printing, More
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Shotwell is (well almost) a relatively new open source photo organizer for the Gnome desktop which we were telling you about some time ago. Since then, Shotwell progressed a lot and the latest version 0.5 (not yet released) brings a lot of cool new features:
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Best Twitter and Facebook apps
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One of the nice, but somewhat hidden, features of the upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 release is that you can access chatting, tweeting, and social network all from a simple panel applet. Now I will warn you, this feature is not production-worthy. In other words, it will crash on you. But to see what is in store is certainly worth the effort of working with the tools.
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wicd is good stuff
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The other thing I wanted to mention about my brief interlude with Arch a day ago, was my surprise at using wicd. I have frustrations with Windows 7 and something like this is just the ticket.
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Rename Them All - A simple and easy to use batch renaming utility
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A Picture-Happy Overview of Ubuntu 10.04
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The recently announced visual rebranding of the world's numero uno Linux distribution caused quite a bit of stir. Here's a short visual tour with some of the new things that are coming straight to your Ubuntu machines at the end of April.
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Saving PCs from viruses - the Linux way
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This past week we were inundated by PCs with viruses. Either people were bringing their infected machines to the office or calling us to come and get them. It was a madhouse. It wasn’t until I pulled out all the stops, with the help of my good old friend Linux, that I was able to finally say goodbye to those infections. But how?
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Swiftfox: a fast Firefox alternative for Linux users only
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Well, today, I'm here to report that this situation might well have changed, due to something called Swiftfox.
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Elive 2.0 'Topaz': The Gem That Comes At A Price
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DIFFERENT is good. Different is refreshing, interesting, challenging. Elive 2.0 is different, but that does not necessarily mean that you are going to be happy with it.
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Steam Client and Source Games Porting to OSX
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So the devil called me this afternoon and said they where having a snowstorm in hell.
In other news Valve announced that their revolutionary "content delivery service" known as "Steam" is being ported to OSX and will be available as early as April 2010. No really its true, straight from the horse's mouth. In addition the actual client and "Steam-works" being brought to Apple's operating system Valve also plans to port all of the Source Engine games.
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OpenShot Linux video editor updated
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Two months after the release of OpenShot 1.0, the OpenShot developers have released version 1.10 of their open source video editor for Linux. The 1.10 release of OpenShot will be included in the Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" software center
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