Design Museum features Ubuntu fonts

The Design Museum at London SE1 is to mount an exhibit featuring the work of the typeface and logo design agency Dalton Maag – this includes the new Ubuntu fonts. The exhibit, entitled “Shape my language”, will consist of an installation, suspended within the museums stairwell, of some of the more unusual forms from a [...]

TurnKey Linux 11 released (part one)

Ladies and gentlemen, part 1 of the TurnKey Linux 11 release is now officially out, including 45 new images based on Ubuntu 10.04.1. We pushed out the 11.0 release candidates 3 months ago, and with the help of the community have tested the images and resolved the few remaining issues. Part 1 mostly refreshes the [...]

Ubuntu’s Warm and Fuzzy Qt Embrace

It seems fair to say that the Ubuntu community’s collective head is already spinning at the very thought of all the changes coming down the pike for its favorite Linux distribution. After all, there’s been Canonical’s decision to adopt Unity as the next desktop Ubuntu’s default interface, and there’s been the equally shocking plan to [...]

The New X Stack Is Going Into Ubuntu 11.04

For those following closely the development of Ubuntu 11.04, in the process of going into the Ubuntu Natty repository this week is its new X stack. This means the latest snapshot of the unreleased X Server 1.10 and Mesa 7.10 for the open-source DRI / Gallium3D drivers. Due to the usual API/ABI breaks, this also [...]

Ubuntu Unity Plays a Frustrating Shell Game

The upcoming new Unity shell design for the next release of Canonical’s Ubuntu 11.04 could change the face of the popular Linux desktop as we know it. Canonical creator Mark Shuttleworth is pushing the change to Unity while other Linux distros are rolling into GNOME 3. Linux Picks this week takes a look at this [...]

Natty Narwhal Ditches OpenOffice for LibreOffice

Canonical, which leads the Ubuntu project, has reportedly decided to switch from the OpenOffice productivity suite to LibreOffice in future versions of the popular Linux distribution. Version 11.04 of Ubuntu, also known as “Natty Narwhal,” is expected to be the first release to incorporate LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a fork in the OpenOffice suite that was [...]

Xubuntu 11.04 To Get A New Default Theme Called Greybird [Screenshots]

Starting with version 11.04 alpha 2 (to be released on February 3rd), Xubuntu will use a new theme called “Greybird” as the default theme. The GTK theme is inspired by Elementary but there are quite a few differences between Greybird and Elementary. Look more at WebUpd8

Top 5 Bit Torrent Clients for Ubuntu

Applications for Ubuntu/Linux are not at all in short supply. But picking the best from the rest is not an easy thing to do. There are a number of really good bit torrent clients for Ubuntu out there. Here we intend feature a collection of 5 really good bit torrent clients for Ubuntu which we [...]

Ubuntu Might Ship With Qt Libraries

In future iterations of Ubuntu (Natty and onwards), Ubuntu CD might ship with Qt libraries – Mark Shuttleworth noted in one of his blog post. The basic premise behind this announcement is that it is the quality and usability of the application (to be included) that is important; the choice of toolkit should be irrelevant. [...]

Greenie Linux 8.1M

Stanislav Hoferek has announced the release of Greenie Linux 8.1M, an easy-to-use Ubuntu-based distribution pre-configured for use by Slovak and Czech speakers: “Another version of Greenie Linux, an operating system prepared especially for Ubuntu lovers in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, is here. Among the new features, a few applications were added to the Linux [...]