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The GNOME Project announced a few minuntes ago, January 26th, the immediate availability for testing of the fourth development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings various fixes and improvements. With a delay of one week, the GNOME 3.3.4 desktop environment is ready for testing and it brings updates to main components, such as GNOME Bluetooth, GNOME Contacts, GNOME Desktop, GNOME Control Center, GNOME Disk Utiliy, GNOME Icon Theme Symbolic, GNOME Themes Standard, GNOME Keyring, GNOME System Monitor, GNOME Shell, GNOME Settings Daemon, GTK+, Mutter, Vala, Yelp, and Nautilus. Copyleft licenses have been the most popular choice for new open source projects. Recently, however, developers and companies seem to be moving from the GPL in favor of less restrictive permissive licenses for open source projects. What’s behind the trend and how does it impact your business? The Linux Foundation has published a paper titled “Upstreaming: Strengthening Open Source Development “. In the ten-page PDF document, the two authors explain, among other things, why it is in the best interest of everyone involved that in-house improvements to open source software be submitted back to the original authors of that software (upstream) for inclusion in the next version. The document, which can be accessed after registering, also touches on how best to go about this process. This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux. Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys. 1 Preliminary Note The image created with Relinux can under no circumstances be greater than 4 GB, which is why you will need to exclude the home folder as well as possible other folders too big to include. Furthermore, at the time of this article’s writing Relinux is only compatible with GRUB2, needs an X11 display and installs metacity. I have tested Relinux on Linux Mint 11 and it works properly on my machine. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux. Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys. 1 Preliminary Note The image created with Relinux can under no circumstances be greater than 4 GB, which is why you will need to exclude the home folder as well as possible other folders too big to include. Furthermore, at the time of this article’s writing Relinux is only compatible with GRUB2, needs an X11 display and installs metacity. I have tested Relinux on Linux Mint 11 and it works properly on my machine. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! A discussion for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has been ignited about bringing back an “Ubuntu Classic” option that would attempt to mimic the old GNOME 2.x experience. Meanwhile in the Fedora camp there is a discussion about a Unity desktop port to their distribution. While Ubuntu’s Unity interface has come a long way since it made its full-on debut a year ago, it’s still not desirable to everyone. Likewise, GNOME 3.x is maturing, but not everyone is happy there with the radical changes from the GNOME 2.x desktop that many have become to know and love. A discussion for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has been ignited about bringing back an “Ubuntu Classic” option that would attempt to mimic the old GNOME 2.x experience. Meanwhile in the Fedora camp there is a discussion about a Unity desktop port to their distribution. While Ubuntu’s Unity interface has come a long way since it made its full-on debut a year ago, it’s still not desirable to everyone. Likewise, GNOME 3.x is maturing, but not everyone is happy there with the radical changes from the GNOME 2.x desktop that many have become to know and love. The latest set of KDE releases has been announced. It includes major updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, as well as improved stability and performance. Check out the highlights below and read the full announcement.  Dolphin gets a new display engine (click for larger) Adaptive Power Management in Plasma WorkspacesPlasma Workspaces highlights include KWin optimizations, power management redesign, and integration with Activities. Read more… Faster, More Scalable File ManagementKDE applications released today include Dolphin with its new display engine and semantic goodies, new Kate features and improvements, and Gwenview enhancements. Enjoy new Marble features such as interactive Elevation Profile, satellite tracking and Krunner integration. Read more… More Stability, Performance, Features in the KDE PlatformKDE Platform provides the foundation for KDE software. Platform 4.8 brings easier user interface development and substantial improvement in password management. KDE Telepathy framework reaches its first beta milestone. Resolution of numerous bugs means that stability and performance continue to improve. Read more… Spread the Word and See What’s Happening: Tag as “KDE”Even though the KDE team has plenty of developers, non-technical users are also critical to success. Report bugs. Encourage others to join the KDE Community. Please spread the word on the Social Web. Submit stories to news sites, use channels like delicious, digg, reddit, twitter, identi.ca. Upload screenshots to services like Facebook, Flickr, ipernity and Picasa, and post them to appropriate groups. Create screencasts and upload them to YouTube, Blip.tv, Vimeo and others. Please tag uploaded materials with “KDE” to make them easy to find, and so that the KDE promo team can analyze coverage for the 4.8 releases. You can follow what is happening on the social web on the KDE live feed. This site aggregates real-time activity on identi.ca, twitter, youtube, flickr, picasaweb, blogs and other social networking sites. The live feed can be found on buzz.kde.org. Comments are moderated based on the KDE Code of Conduct. There will be a delay before they are published. =================================================================== Laurence J. Peter Release Announcements This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.6. Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.2 include: o Make Winbind receive user/group information (bug #8371). Changes since 3.6.1: o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> In our TeamViewer download area you will now find TeamViewer 7 for Linux. The final version includes a selection of new features for Linux, e. g. an integrated screenshot feature and the possibility of saving individual connection settings per computer. We wish you best continued success with TeamViewer! The 2.6.32.55, 3.0.18, and 3.2.2 stable updates have been released; each contains the usual long list of important fixes HP announced a roadmap for its Linux-based WebOS operating system, which will be released under an open source Apache 2.0 license in September. HP also released an Apache-licensed version 2.0 of its Enyo Javascript development framework for WebOS, adding cross-platform app development across Android, iOS, and desktop browsers. HP announced in early December that it would be spinning off its proprietary Linux-based WebOS mobile operating system as an open source project. Now it has followed up with a detailed roadmap of WebOS-related code releases over the coming months — culminating with a WebOS open source beta release in August and a final due in September. Sure, Linux is great for big organizations like Google, Facebook, and others, but what about small business? Take a look at PrintedArt. Founded in 2010, PrintedArt is an online shop that sells limited-editions of fine art photography. It now has three full-time and three part-time employees and eight sales representatives. According to President and CEO Klaus Sonnenleiter, Linux and open source play a number of roles in the company’s success. Last week I wrote about spinoffs of Ubuntu, noting that some of the once popular ones have now gone dormant. But later, I realized something else interesting: No Ubuntu variant — not a single one — uses Unity as its default desktop interface. Keep reading for some thoughts on why this might be, and what it says about Ubuntu and Canonical. Admittedly, I have to give most of the credit for noticing the lack of Unity-based spinoffs of Ubuntu to an attentive reader of my earlier post named Jake, who pointed out in the comments that most Ubuntu remixes predate the adoption of Unity. Indeed: According to DistroWatch, there are exactly two Linux distributions that ship with Unity as their default interface: Ubuntu and Leenux, a relatively obscure spinoff that on its webpage actually appears to use the old Netbook Remix interface that Unity replaced. Orion is a new, clear GTK3 theme created by Satya, who’s also behind other beautiful GTK and GNOME Shell / Cinnamon themes like Evolve, Shine, Minty, Ambiance Blue and others. The GTK3 theme is powered by the Unico GTK3 engine, comes with a modified Boomerang Metacity theme and is compatible with GTK 3.2 (both GNOME Shell and Unity). Orion also includes a GTK2 theme, for compatibility with GTK2 applications. 3079 is a futuristic and open-world first-person role playing game for Linux. The game is a mix of Minecraft and Fallout style gameplay. Minecraft because of its blocky graphics and art and Fallout because of its open ended sandbox style exlporation based gameplay. All areas, buildings, items, quests and characters are randomly generated. This game is still under active development, so lots of new features and improvements will land overtime. The Ubuntu operating system is to replace its application menus with a “head-up display” (HUD) box. Users control the HUD interface by typing in the command they want carried out. Developers of the Linux-based software say they will initially offer the HUD as an option, allowing users to “hide” their menu bars. They say that using the HUD is faster than “mousing through a menu” and makes applications feel more powerful. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth is getting a lot of notice for a blog post he has up, that defends the Heads-Up Display (HUD) interface that the upcoming version 12.04 LTS version of Ubuntu will feature. Shuttleworth’s post characterizes the interface as a big new step for Ubuntu, and he offers a screenshot and a video illustrating it. Some users are guaranteed to balk at it, though, as it veers away from the menu-driven desktop computing interface that graphical operating systems have used for so many years. Unigine Corp met their latest deadline and will officially be shipping the gold version of their Unigine OilRush real-time strategy game today for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows gamers. Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 249 for the week == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue249 == In This Issue == * Vacant Developer Membership Board seat: Call for nominations | |||||
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