Ubuntu 11.04 will include a microphone volume slider in the unified sound menu along with the speaker volume slider in the unified volume menu.

Instead of paying Canonical the 75%, the Banshee team has decided to have the Ubuntu One Music Store activated by default.

Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, the second maintenance release of Ubuntu 10.04, is now available for download.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has released a list of over 1300 components which they have certified to work in Ubuntu. This is a great resource for anyone who is building a Linux machine.

Today Canonical has released the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed Natty Narhwal. Read on for the new features that has made it to this release.

Ubuntu Tips Applet is an application which regularly displays useful Ubuntu tips on your Ubuntu desktop. These tips are actually for Ubuntu server, but it can also be a great way for new Ubuntu users to discover new features and tips in Ubuntu.

The VideoLAN Project has released a new version of its very popular media player – VLC. The new release, VLC 1.1.6, is an incremental update from the previous version and has a few new features.

Today, Canonical has finally replaced OpenOffice with LibreOffice in the daily build of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narhwal”

The next release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 11.10, will have Qt applications and libraries as part of Ubuntu CDs and default installs

A PPA containing the packages for Unity 2D has been created for early adopters to test it. The package itself is called Unity-Qt and the PPA contains packages for both Maverick and Natty.

According to Shuttleworth, there will be a 2D version of Unity for those systems which are not capable of 3D acceleration. He also pointed to a blog post by Bill Filler, Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Canonical, for more details.

Canonical is building an Ubuntu Developer Portal. Can Canonical attract developers to develop apps for Ubuntu?

puddletag is an audio tag editor for Linux that has almost all the features found in MP3tag, the Windows application. It is perhaps the best audio tag editing tool available for Linux. Read on to find out how to install it in Ubuntu.

It seems like Ubuntu users may have reason to cheer as well as the popular game may be heading to the Ubuntu Software Center.

to make installation in Ubuntu and its derivatives easier, the LibreOffice developers has made a PPA. In addition to making it easier to install, this will ensure that users get the updates properly.