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Ubuntu Manual, Time for Testing

By • Mar 22nd, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Manual, a manual for beginners that comes together with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx now needs testers as writing freeze is on March 31st. Testers simply need to read the manual, find errors and give feedback on the manual, easy as that.

Easy Testing of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 with TestDrive

By • Mar 19th, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Ubuntu ‘Lucid Lynx’ 10.04 has just been released, if you want to give it a quick try, with little or no hassle, then do it the TestDrive way. It simply downloads the latest working ISO and turns it into a virtual machine. So if you’ve got VirtualBox installed on your current working Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, […]

GnoMenu 2.5 Improves GTK theming and adds new iTheme

By • Mar 16th, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Eye-candy, theme-driven Applications Menu, GnoMenu updates to version 2.5 with lots of bugs fixes and a new theme called iTheme, see screenshot above. GnoMenu 2.5 also improves gtk theming, its now smoothly continuous than ever before, those who have used previous version will certainly notice that. You’ll also get a notification bubble when you add […]

Canonical replaces Open Source Launchpad login service with Closed Source ‘Ubuntu Single Sign on Service’

By • Feb 16th, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Canonical has just launched a closed source service, built on OpenID called ‘Ubuntu Single Sign on Service’ that has the goal to provide a single and central log-in service for all Ubuntu related websites. This new service will replace the open source Launchpad log-in service that currently offers a central login place for many Ubuntu […]

Ubuntu 10.04 to Switch the Default Search Provider in Firefox to Yahoo!

By • Jan 27th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid’ will soon undergo two important changes; The default search provider for new installations of Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid’ and upgrades will no longer be Google but Yahoo!. Yahoo! and Canonical have reached a “revenue sharing deal” that will generate revenue for the latter – revenue that will help “Canonical to provide […]