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Following on from the unveiling last week of the new $265 Spark Linux Tablet. The developers Spark project has today revealed more details about their new tablet which is expected to start shipping in May, with pre-ordering starting this month. Spark project reveals that the new Spark Linux Tablet will be equipped with a 1 [...]

Four years ago a project was started to create Pandora, an open source Linux based handheld gaming console, powered by an ARM processor. Now after a long development process and funding to the tune of around half a million Euros from dedicated fans of the Pandora console, its now available to pre-order. The specifications of [...]

Ubuntu has unveiled a new innovative user interface system called Head-Up-Display (HUD) today which it has been testing, and has designed to replace the traditional menu system used by nearly every computer software application to date. The new user interface has been designed to provide a HUD that would search through all the possible commands [...]

This week the development team behind the popular Linux Mint operating system, have announced the arrival of their latest creation in the form of Linux Mint 12. Linux Mint has been chasing the Ubuntu Linux operating for sometime. But the development team behind Mint 12 have included a number of new features as well as new [...]

This week Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has unveiled that the company is currently working on a new versions of its Ubuntu operating system for smartphones, tablets and televisions However the launch of the new operating system is still a few years from being released and is expected to arrive sometime before the next LTS in [...]

After a few weeks delay due to a security breach at the kernel.org website, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 3.1 update which brings with it a range of new features. The new Linux version took around 3 months to develop and includes enhancements that improve the speed or expand the capabilities of both the KVM [...]

The latest version of Ubuntu 11.10 has now arrived and is ready to download in its final release version, and includes some great new features. Including the new Ubuntu Software Centre which gives you instant access to thousands of apps. Where you can compare and read reviews on each before you install them on your system. The [...]

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that a new release of Ubuntu code-named “Precise Pangolin” is set to arrive during April 2012. Shuttleworth has been looking forward on his recent blog post past the next highly anticipated release of Ubuntu 11.10, “Oneiric Ocelot.” which will be arriving on October 13th 2011.

This week Ubuntu has released a new version of its Ubuntu One storage application for Windows. A little strange you might think? Ubuntu explain the reason why they have created the new Windows client application is in response to user requests and their goal to make Ubuntu One a a multi-platform service. Based on all of this [...]

This Summer Linux turned 20 years old, growing from a hobby coding language into a Linux operating system we all rely on today. Thanks to Linus Torvalds, who made a bold decision to share his operating system with the world, and license it under the General Public License. As part of the Linux Foundation’s 20th anniversary [...]

This week Gigabyte have launched the new tiny external hard drive In Taiwan, in the form of the Gigabyte A2 which measures just 78 x 59 x 13mm and weighs in at just 80g. The new Gigabyte A2 160 GB capacity drives are equipped with a shock and vibration absorption technology to help protect your [...]

In celebration of reaching 1 million users Ubuntu One has this week announced it has increased the capacity of its free Ubuntu One online cloud storage from 2GB to 5GB. Ubuntu One Basic will become Ubuntu One Free and users will get 5GB of free storage when they set up an account, and existing users of Ubuntu One Basic will automatically [...]