Bliss, A New Alternative Application Lens for Unity

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen, who maintains the Application Lens in Unity have developed an alternative lens that allows you to browse applications by category folders, very similar to the main menu in Classic Gnome.

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Linux Mint 12 'Lisa' to Come with a Customized Gnome 3 Desktop

Linux Mint 12 'Lisa' will come with its own customized desktop and it will be based on Gnome 3. The core desktop will be based on a series of Gnome Shell extensions called “MGSE” (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions) that will provide a layer on top of Gnome 3.

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Install Ask Ubuntu, Reddit Lens in Ubuntu 11.10 from PPA

Unity Lens API in Ubuntu 11.10 have been improved greatly with better filters and data sources. Both Ask Ubuntu and Reddit Lenses have been updated to match with the new API and now they are better equipped.

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Deb and RPM Packages Finally Released for Burster [Play 3D Blender Games in Web Browser]

Some of you may remember that about a year back we first broke the news that Blender project, in collaboration with iTechnologie is developing a web browser plugin, Burster which will allow playing games made in Blender in a web browser. However, at that time the project was in very early stages and it was very difficult to install the actual plugin.

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[Updated] Elementary Borderless GTK3 Theme for Unity and Gnome Shell

Elementary Borderless is a GTK3 theme by tista, inspired by the original elementary GTK2 and the new GTK3 theme in upcoming Elementary Luna OS. The theme also supports GTK2 borderless version, metacity, and xfwm4.

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SuperTuxKart 0.7.3 RC1 Out : New Tracks, Karts, Weapons and More

SuperTuxKart developers are hard at work, bringing new features and fixes in upcoming 0.7.3 release. After teasing us about new stuff in last two posts, they have finally released first Release Candidate, showing us all new karts, tracks, weapons and many other improvements.

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New Halloween Trailer and Livestream Footage of 'Salem' [Upcoming MMO for Linux]

Salem is an upcoming crafting MMO for Linux which was recently previewed at Gamescom 2011. The game is highly inspired by H.P. Lovecraft style Gothic themes and features witchcraft and permadeath. We did a small write up about the game few months back which you can read from here.

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Awesome Gameplay Footage and Hands on Impressions : Ignite [Racing Game for Linux]

Its not a secret anymore that Nemesys Games will bring their racing game Ignite to Linux users. Windows version has already been released on Steam last week and soon the game will be released for other platforms.

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Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' Daily Builds Now Available

Daily build iso images are now available for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 'Precise Pangolin'. Not many changes have landed yet in 12.04 but those who want to test new stuff can give these builds a try.

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Tank Fighting Game 'Digitanks' Released for Linux [64bit only]

Remember few months back we reported that tank fighting game Digitanks will have a Linux version. The devs have kept their promise and a Linux version have been released. However, thats not all. All the code have also been opensourced for the bravehearts to get their hands on.

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