A new theme “Dark Room” has been added to Ubuntu 8.10. Human Theme is still the default so you need a few more clicks to get it. As the name implies, the theme is dark and looks better than the default. Have a look:

Mozilla just released Beta1 of Firefox 3.1 browser. They haven’t yet made the official announcement though.
The noticeable features include Ctrl+Tab 3D browser, faster JavaScript performance, and Open a new tab button just like Internet Explorer 7. If you want to give a try, here is how to install it:

If you regularly run a couple of OS from your VirtualBox and want to login to those OS directly from GDM session, here is a quick way to do it. For this to work you should have already set up your VirtualBox. Here we won’t be talking about how to setup VirtualBox but only how to login to a virtual OS from GDM session.

As expected, Open Office 3.0 has been officially released today and due to heavy demand for the new release, only a couple of links are available for downloading the packages. The official site is down (literally) and only a plain page appears with a couple of links for downloading the packages.

There are many reasons to switch to Linux, but this is one of them - to get rid of BSOD!

Download it, print it and paste it on your college flier board if you ever need to show your Linux love, Windows hatred, and bsod anger.

OpenOffice 3.0 Final is to be officially released on Monday, October 13 it has already been uploaded in many servers. If you can’t wait a couple of more days to get it installed in your Ubuntu box, here is a quick way to install it.

In response to an idea of a Ubuntu user, who thinks that the developers should also pay an equal attention towards ideas, a developer asks the user to dump Ubuntu

No more discussion on the new wallpaper that is probably going to be ported with the next version of our favorite OS that is going to be released on 30th October, 2008. Everyone agrees that the default wallpaper sucks! Ubuntu fans were asking for a better theme and a default wallpaper but it seems that the developers worked hard on how to make its apperance even worse. Here are some Intrepid Ibex wallpapers floating around the internet and honestly each of them deserves to be a default wallpaper for the upcoming Ubuntu.

This script, tapt, tweets whatever you install, remove or perform other operations with ‘apt-get’ in Ubuntu to your Tweeter account.

Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid Ibex hit the market today but its appearance ONCE AGAIN came as a great disappointment. Since this is a beta version, we can’t expect any change in the features now. All the works, which will be done until the final version hits the market on 30th October, will be only to fix the bugs. So, just keep your finger corssed until Jaunty Jackalope is released. If you are disappointed with the current appearance of your favorite Linux distro, here are some ways to give it a new fancy life again.