Ubuntu Gets a New BitTorrent Client

Published in February 5th, 2008

Have you ever used the BitTorrent client that’s been included in Ubuntu? It’s almost useless. The BitTorrent situation is being fixed with the inclusion of Transmission in Ubuntu 8.04. Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with [...]

New Theme for Ubuntu 8.04 Deferred

Published in February 4th, 2008

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, ubuntunews

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Update: It’s not the major update, but two new themes have been included in Ubuntu 8.04. The completely new theme for Ubuntu 8.04 has been deferred to the following release. The original plan was to have a fresh theme for every long-term-support release, starting with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Now it has been decided to [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 3

Published in January 11th, 2008

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, ubuntunews

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I only had a little time today to play with Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 3, so here are a few of the new features and some thoughts: The PulseAudio sound server is enabled by default. PolicyKit is beginning to be integrated into the administrative tools. This allows programs such as Sevices settings to be run as [...]

Stop Wine From Beating Your Windows Apps With The Ugly Stick

Published in January 4th, 2008

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, tips

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Applications running with Wine don’t have to look so appalling! Ubuntu 8.04 is planned to have usability improvements for Wine, among these improvements is a theme for Wine applications that matches the GTK theme. Can’t wait until April? The simplest way to theme Wine is to use the registry to change the colour scheme. Observe [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 1

Published in November 30th, 2007

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, ubuntunews

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Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Alpha 1 has been delayed one day to November 30. Later today I will update this post after I have the alpha running in VirtualBox. Hardy Release Schedule [update] The alpha has been officially released. It is available for download from Ubuntu. Not much has changed yet. The only difference that [...]

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