This is a guest post by Tom Slominski, a 15 year old Ubuntu user who ‘loves Linux, open source and web development with a tad of alternative rock sprinkled on top.’

Here Tom runs through his top 5 app picks for Ubuntu.

A new stable release of Skype-Wrapper is available for download.

Wildfire Games has released the tenth alpha version of 0 A.D., an open source, historical real-time strategy game which features excellent graphics and sound. The new alpha brings Hellenic factions, basic technologies, civilization phases, click-and-drag wall building functionality, healing and more.

Its well known that Mozilla is working on a Web Application Store for Firefox. However, first implementation of Web Store have no proper support for Linux.

The question of how best to present and enable software and system updates to users of Linux has resulted in different distributions doing things their own way.

Having boldly gone where no-one had gone before, it was no surprise to learn that actor Wil Wheaton is concerned about the erosion of ’net neutrality’ – the principle that all web traffic, users and access should be treated the same.

As a company, Inktank, one of the open source ecosystem’s newest commercial enterprises, is only days old.

A minor update to the Spotify Preview for Linux client is available to download.

Ubuntu’s greatest success is arguably among home PC users and developers. But there can be little doubt that Canonical remains committed to making Ubuntu the open source desktop of choice for businesses as well.