 | When LibreOffice was announced, Canonical was one of the first companies to support it. Mark Shuttleworth said that Canonical will look at LibreOffice to replace OpenOffice in upcoming releases of Ubuntu. In a message to the ubuntu-devel mailing list, Matthias Klose, wrote that they are replacing OpenOffice with LibreOffice for Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2, which is scheduled… |
 | Aside from Unity, the Software Center is one of the main areas of development in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narhwal. It is getting a lot of new features like support for user ratings, reviews etc. Another feature – search suggestion – has quietly landed in trunks. The search suggestion suggests the correct package name in case… |
 | Canonical has a new Ubuntu branded keyboard for sale on their website. The keyboard is made from silicon which makes it moisture resistant, easy to clean and it is flexible – you can just roll it up and take it with you. It even has a screaming huge Ubuntu logo on the left. |
 | A Chinese manufacturer TENQ has launched an Ubuntu OS powered tablet called P07. The device is said to be running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and the boot time reported to be almost instant. |
 | XBMC is a cross platform media center designed for HTPCs. It is completely open-source and runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Two days back, XBMC 10.0, codenamed “Dharma” was released. The main improvements in Dharma is the support for add-ons. In the earlier releases installing new skins, plugins etc. was a real bother…. |
 | Recently I wrote about Synapse, a replacement for GNOME Do. It was excellent. However, it had a weak point – it did not remember my preferred applications. For example, I have both Chromium and Chrome installed. Typing “chrom” always brings up Chromium first instead of Chrome although I always ended up typing an extra “e” and picking… |
