Elegant Gnome Theme Pack 0.7 Released With Automatic Firefox Theme Installation, Lots More

Elegant Gnome Theme Pack, one of the best dark themes was updated today and it now automatically installs a Firefox theme to match Elegant Gnome. But that’s not all, there are a lot of changes in the latest Elegant Gnome Pack 0.7: * New GTK+ theme version * A Google Chrome Theme and Google Chrome [...]

2 New Themes Released In The Equinox PPA: Equinox Evolution And Equinox Evolution Light

Equinox is a new GTK2 engine already used by themes such as Elementary. The relatively new GTK2 engine has been recently added to the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat official repositories and has it’s own Ubuntu PPA which, besides the Equinox GTK engine also holds a few great themes (click for screenshots). Yesterday, a new version [...]

New Ubuntu Lucid Proposed Kernel

The Ubuntu kernel team has prepared a new proposed kernel for Lucid (2.6.32-25.43), containing a large number of fixes. This is a larger number of updates than we would usually push at one time, but processing of the upstream stable updates was delayed by a couple of security updates. This kernel should fix a lot [...]

Ubuntu 10.10 Software Center – Application That Received Maximum Attention Perhaps

Ubuntu Software Center is something we all overlooked for long. Even while writing tutorials about installing different applications in this blog, I prefer to provide command line instructions only. But a lot of Ubuntu users are new comers and Software Center means a lot to them. Ubuntu is gradually waking up to this fact and [...]

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.6 final released with Desktop Recovery and installation instructions included

Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.With its help, you will enjoy with the experience of Ubuntu! What is new in ubuntu tweak 0.5.6 As a Ubuntu user, you always get excited when you see something new [...]

Create A Full System Backup Or Custom Live Ubuntu / Debian CD With Remastersys

I realize many of you probably already know Remastersys, but we decided to make a post on it anyway because it’s an amazing tool and maybe some of you never heard of it. This was a tip sent by WebUpd8 reader Saurabhneo23: It’s one of the best tools out there to make a disaster recovery [...]

New Ubuntu Unity video trailer released

Canonical have just released a video trailer of the forthcoming Ubuntu Unity interface for netbook computers. Impressive stuff…

Reach out and touch your netbook with Ubuntu multitouch

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced Monday that multitouch support and gesture-based interaction will arrive in Ubuntu 10.10, the next major version of the popular Linux distribution. The feature will be tightly integrated in Unity, Ubuntu’s new lightweight netbook environment. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has developed a software framework called uTouch that is intended to [...]

Massive Changes Coming to Ubuntu 10.10 ‘Maverick Meerkat’ Installer

Microsoft Windows comes pre installed with hardware in most of the cases and hence a vast majority of Windows users probably have’t ever seen Windows installer. But that is not the case with Ubuntu. Only a handful of manufacturers sell pre installed Ubuntu hardware and hence the need for down to earth simple and eyecandy [...]

DreamScene for Ubuntu? Ta very much.

Ever wanted to set video as your desktop wallpaper a la the quickly-ditched Windows DreamScene? With ‘Video Wallpaper’ it’s easy. It actually moves. Honest. By using Video Wallpaper you will be forfeiting the ability to use the ‘desktop’ as normal – no icons, files etc will show. Any drop shadows present on panels will also [...]