Today was a big day for Ubuntu, with Canonical announcing the Unity desktop environment, Ubuntu Light, and more details about Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat”. Unity is a new desktop environment designed for netbooks and touch-screen devices. It includes a new panel as well as a new vertical launcher. Unity is build using technologies from GNOME [...]

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During the controversy about moving the window controls in Ubuntu to the left, Mark Shuttleworth hinted that the newly available space on the right of the window title bar could be put to a new use: Moving everything to the left opens up the space on the right nicely, and I would like to experiment [...]

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” has been released, featuring faster boot performance, a complete new theme, integration with social networking sites and Ubuntu One, the Ubuntu One Music Store, an improved Software Center, and the PiTiVi video editor. Read the press release for more detail on what’s new, and read the release notes for known [...]

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During the development of Ubuntu 9.10 I got used to running the development version on my netbook. I like installing updates every few days to see new improvements be added (and don’t depend on my netbook to get work done), so I installed Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” Alpha 1. My netbook is an Eee PC [...]

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Tombuntu has been pretty quiet lately, but a new Ubuntu release definitely requires a post! Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” has been released. I haven’t had a chance to upgrade my main desktop system yet, but I have been running 9.10 on my netbook since the late alpha releases as well as in a virtual machine. [...]

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