The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu has just unveiled its new focus: A way to navigate the menu choices, without actually using any menus. The menus have simply been replaced by a so-called HUD (Heads Up Display), which allows you to search for what you are trying to find, without the ... Continue Reading

The web site DistroWatch.com ranks the most popular Linux distributions based on how many clicks each distribution get by visitors to the site. Ubuntu has been the most popular Linux version for the last several years, seemingly with no competition by the others. But now Linux Mint has sailed in as ... Continue Reading

To keep up with hundreds of different Linux distributions, each distro needs something to seperate them from the rest. Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions at the moment, and they will try to increase their popularity further by mimicking the gaming platform Steam. This has been confirmed from ... Continue Reading

Every April, Canonical releases a new version of the consumer-oriented and very popular Linux distro Ubuntu. The latest version is called Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, and the biggest change in ths version is a completely new user interface called Unity. Unity is an interface that that was previously reserved for ... Continue Reading

GNOME is a desktop environment which is used in Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora, because GNOME share the same vision as these distributions. And one of these goals are simplicity and ease of use. What differentiates GNOME 3 from other GNOME desktop environments, such as KDE and Xfce, is that ... Continue Reading

The Ubuntu release team has announced that there has been some minor changes in the release schedule for version 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). According to the original plan, the final release was supposed to be preceded by a Release Candidate on April 21. This is no longer the case. The Release Candidate ... Continue Reading

Unity is a desktop and netbook environment developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Unity will be the desktop environment you will use in Ubuntu 11.04 if you use the default installation. Fedora and openSUSE, two competing Linux distributions, has spent a lot of time and effort trying to get Unity ... Continue Reading

The Linux distributions Fedora Linux and Ubuntu has decided to skip Open Office and replace it wiyh the competaor LibreOffice in the upcoming spring versions. By the end of 2009 a group of developers broke away from OpenOffice and started LibreOffice. After beeing in beta for a while, LibreOffice has ... Continue Reading

Before a Linux distribution is released, the developers stops to include new software. This means that a Linux user may have to live with old software even though there are newer stable versions. Now, Novell developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has announced that the project Tumbleweed will ensure that openSUSE users will get ... Continue Reading

Last week The Register speculated that Ubuntu would go from being released every six months to a rolling release with daily updates. The reason would be to provide users with more relevant applications, allowing them to compete with other app markets, such as the ones for iPhone and Android. This is ... Continue Reading

Jolicloud is a Linux distribution, where most native and web applications are available for free. Jolicloud is based on Ubuntu, and the operating system is aimed at netbooks. The applications in Jolicloud is based on Chromium and HTML5, and also some other Gnome-based key components. Most applications are in fact ... Continue Reading

Version 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) of the Open-Source data recovery software toolkit based on Ubuntu is available now. Ubuntu Rescue Remix 10.10 is now available for download. The new version is based on Ubuntu 10.10. This is a command-based emergency toolkit that can be used to troubleshoot your computer. If you prefer to ... Continue Reading