A new logo, a new identity. The upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu is set to receive a major identity upgrade, from it’s logo through to its design. “We’re drawn to Light because it denotes both warmth and clarity, and intrigued by the idea that “light” is a good value in software. Good software is “light” in the sense that it uses your resources efficiently, runs quickly, and can easily be reshaped as needed.” explains Mark Shuttle worth who along with a small team of designers who are behind the recent Ubuntu re branding. read more… »
Moovida – A Polished Media Centre
Moovida, a polished media centre application for the Windows or Linux desktop. Formally known as Elisa, Moovida is a powerful and user friendly Media Centre, which includes many useful features such as internet streaming videos, music and movie libraries and automatic media tagging, thus keeping your collection sorted and correctly labelled. Further more Moovida has been optimized for HDTV formats enabling the playback of movies and other media in HD quality. read more… »
How Fanatics See Thier Operating Systems
Just a browse through popular community, tech related websites will reveal clans of fanatic follows, armed to the teeth with opposition shredding ideals. Bellow is an interesting and probably amusing infographic on how these fanboys see different operating systems. read more… »
PiTiVi To Be Included In Ubuntu 10.04
Speculations were recently confirmed that the open source video editing package PiTiVi will be included in the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 as a default application.
Ubuntu 10.04 will bring many changes, including quite a shake up in the selection of default applications.
How To Install Global Menu on Ubuntu
Global Menu is an application for linux that emulates the Mac OSX menu in the top panel. A global menu is handy in saving horizontal screen space and utilizaing otherwise wasted space on the top Gnome panel.This works with all GTK application, therefore it won’t work with KDE based applications, Firefox, and Open Office. read more… »
Creating A seperate Home Partition In Ubuntu
Running your Ubuntu installation with a separate home partition has many benefits, mainly being easier distribution upgrade (which is every six months) which enables you to upgrade the operating system in isolation, leaving your home folder along with all your documents untouched. The process of creating a separate home partition is slightly tricky but not at all impossible
Exciting Times For 2010
2010 sure seems to be an exciting year in terms of technology. With an array of predicted and planned new technology releases amidst an economic upturn this year will surely set the stage for brilliant innovation and development. According to leading news sources 2010 is expected to dramatically influence the way we use the internet along with how our devices will interconnect, merge and improve.
A look at the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx
Merely 2 months after Ubuntu’s recent Karmic release, developers have already started focusing their efforts on the next release of the this popular Linux distribution. The next version of Ubuntu is planned to be LTE (long term release), meaning that support for it is 5 years as apposed to the standard 3 year support cycle. Having that in mind the release will probably focus more on stability than the introduction of bleeding edge features.
The Karmic Koala Bible
Although Linux is the cheapest, safest and most stable platform for operating systems out there, its adoption isn’t nearly that of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows, Partially because there is an almost non existent commercial marketing budget for it and also the transition from another operating system to a Linux based system seems a task that’s daunting for most mainstream users.
A Look At Docky (post “do” divorce)
It was recently announced by developers that the popular Gnome-Do and Docky would be divorcing. I for one loved the integration of the Dock and the Do, however the divorce was said not to be a complete separation as the two separate apps with be able to inter operate. read more… »
Ubuntu 9.10 beta – First Look
Ubuntu 9.10, scheduled to be released later this month will have a few new features included, such as a new software center which is to replace the add/remove application menu, a new version of the GRUB boot loader and the ext4 file system by default.
10 Beautiful GDM Login Themes
GDM is the login facility of many Linux based operating systems. Like all other parts of Linux, it’s a wonderfully customizable aspect of the Gnome interface. Here is a list of some incredibly aesthetic GDM themes. Designed by the community for the community.
Kongoni – A South African Flavoured Linux Distribution
It seems as if Africa has become the default womb of inspiration for GNU based operating systems. There has been Ubuntu, Impi, and now Kongoni. Kongoni is Shona word for GNU, as Kongoni’s official websites states. Kongoni will ship with exclusively free and non propriety software as the operating system aims to abide strictly to the principles of the GNU and the GPL.
