OMG! Ubuntu!

OMG! Ubuntu!

OMG! Ubuntu! is a popular blog that focuses on the Ubuntu Linux distribution and is published in English. It was launched in August 2009. Initially, the blog was hosted on Blogger.com, but during a redesign, it transitioned to the WordPress content management system.

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  • 2 days ago | omgubuntu.co.uk | Joey Sneddon

    To old-timers like me Launchpad, the Canonical-run development hub, is synonymous with Bazaar (bzr), the open-source distribution version control system (VCS) Canonical helped develop. Like GitHub, Launchpad lets anyone sign up and create a repo, then connect from the command-line to push code to it, handle merges, branch, fork, etc. Using ‘recipes’, code in bzr repos can be turned into DEBs, PPAs and Snaps. But the future of Bzr is at crossroads.

  • 2 days ago | omgubuntu.co.uk | Joey Sneddon

    A new version of the Raspberry Pi Imager, a free, open source and cross-platform image writing utility (think Etcher, but much redder) is out with an array of modest improvements. Serving as the first release since last September, Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 adds to the big UI changes the previous version brought with some quality-of-life adjustments. For instance, in the OS customisation settings there’s an Enable SSH tab.

  • 3 days ago | omgubuntu.co.uk | Joey Sneddon

    Ubuntu 25.04 with GNOME 48 introduced new Wellbeing controls which, once enabled, remind you to take a break, look away from the screen, go check OMG! Ubuntu—wait, I made the last one up. But you can get similar wellbeing prompts on earlier versions of Ubuntu, where such features aren’t provided built-in, using apps. A new one (with companion GNOME Shell extension) called Stretch Break hit Flathub this week. Its sole purpose?

  • 4 days ago | omgubuntu.co.uk | Joey Sneddon

    The team behind elementary OS recently detailed a number of improvements to recently roll out to users of the distro. Gala, the default window manager used by the Pantheon desktop environment, is described as seeing an “absolutely massive release” fixing scores of issues and plumbing in a new Gesture Controller offering tangible improvements to the way gestures work. Precisely how?

  • 5 days ago | omgubuntu.co.uk | Joey Sneddon

    The first beta of Audacious 4.5, the next major update to this longstanding open-source media player, is available for testing — and based on the changelog there’s plenty worth testing!For those unfamiliar with it, Audacious is a lightweight, opens-source and cross-platform audio player written in C++. It was first released in 2005 as a fork of Beep Media Player, itself a fork of the legendary WinAMP-inspired Linux audio app XMMS.

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