There used to be a popular tutorial for beginners about this titled How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!, however it has not been updated since 2006 and it is a bit outdated (some of it still applies though).

Desktop weather app Stormcloud was the Ubuntu Software Center’s biggest selling app in February. 

As a system administrator I’m always on the lookout for new systems and tools to make my life easier. As the saying goes, “a good admin is a lazy admin.” Any day I can find a new tool to improve the efficiency in which I’m able to manage my machines is a good day.

As a system administrator I’m always on the lookout for new systems and tools to make my life easier. As the saying goes, “a good admin is a lazy admin.” Any day I can find a new tool to improve the efficiency in which I’m able to manage my machines is a good day.

In addition to this, the final artwork for the upcoming release 7.0 codenamed ‘Wheezy’ has been published too, just a few days after the Debian Installer RC1 was released. The artwork is based on a light-blue theme.

In this article I will overview several add-ons for Firefox which I consider useful and are also popular among Firefox users. The article is divided into two parts, the first one containing add-ons for users which are not necessarily tech-savy, while in the second I will mention add-ons for advanced users or web developers.

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Lenovo T510 this evening after a very long hiatus. It’s only been a couple of hours but I am impressed with how polished everything seems to be. I have run into one little annoyance though, and that inspired the first post in quite a long time: How to enable two-finger scrolling on Ubuntu 12.10?

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Lenovo T510 this evening after a very long hiatus. It’s only been a couple of hours but I am impressed with how polished everything seems to be. I have run into one little annoyance though, and that inspired the first post in quite a long time: How to enable two-finger scrolling on Ubuntu 12.10?

Aliases are custom commands which can replace a longer command or a group of commands, thus making it faster and easier to execute particular tasks by only typing a few characters. For example, one can only type upgrade instead of typing sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get upgrade and upgrade his Debian-based system. Aliases are very useful time-savers.

SuperTuxKart developers have demoed support for Nintendo’s WiiMote.

In a video posted on YouTube, native support for the Wiimote is shown, both connecting to and then controlling the race on screen.

Want it? You’ll need to wait. WiiMote support is expected to land in the next update to SuperTuxKart, version 0.8.1..  No release date yet available.

Rolling Release Rumours Keep On Rolling

Canonical are opening a debate on whether or not Ubuntu should move away from its current release pattern in favour of a ‘rolling release’ model.

We’re back! That’s us: Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Laura Cowen, and (not forgetting) The Podcats. We’re here in Studio A for the first episode of Season (Series) Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

Ferret locates duplicate text or code in multiple text documents or source files. The program is designed to detect copying (collusion) within a given set of files. Ferret works equally well with documents in natural language (such as English, German, etc) and with source-code files in a wide range of programming languages.

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This release focused on getting rid all all the bugs and make NeonView stable, and in 0.8.1 most of the known bugs should be gone. The core code has been rewritten and the application’s design is quite robust now, working the way it should.

Two years after a successful Kickstarter campaign, indie developers Cardboard Computer offer a magical realist journey in Kentucky Route Zero.

A  Chinese Linux distribution is looking to become an official sibling of Ubuntu.

Starting today all the builds of the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview for phones and tablets will be available for daily consumption.

Everpad is a Linux client for Evernote, a popular note taking service. The application comes with a Unity lens that supports previews, Ubuntu AppIndicator for quickly accessing your notes, supports Evernote tags, notebooks, resources, places and more.