Every six months without fail, a new release of Ubuntu arrives, carrying a number of new features. At the moment, this is great. Ubuntu improves at an extremely impressive speed and, each time, the release is a little better.

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free turn-based strategy game licensed under the GPL. After over one year of constant development, a new stable version, 1.6, was released on March 22, 2009, featuring many graphics and gameplay improvements.

Sometimes you might run into an internet radio station or stream that you like, but which keeps dropping out because of too many people listening. So what can you do about it? This tutorial shows you how to use Icecast2 to set up a simple stream mirror on GNU/Linux.

PC World’s Keir Thomas recently caved in and bought a Dell Mini 9 netbook, which sells for just $249 with Ubuntu Linux.

My problem is how he is lumping MP3 encoding and decoding into the closed-source pile and this is something that frustrates me terribly.

To Linux newbies who have seen that geeky looking desktop system monitor but don't know what it is or how to get and install it, well it's called Conky and you too can easily have it, and you don't have to be a computer hacker to set it up.Here is a step-by-step guide on installing and configuring Conky on Ubuntu

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #133 for the week March 8th - March 14th, 2009.

Before installing Ubuntu, almost everyone has seen the spinning cube or the classy MacOSX-like dock bar and many other effects (4 desktops with 2 caps) in some videos, but some didn't figure out how to enable/install/use them.

To understand better, this is the dock (look at the bottom of the image):