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Jonathan Riddel recently announced that Canonical is stopping the funding of Kubuntu project. Jonathan wrote, “Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and [...] We’re publishing an initial version of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix today, based on Ubuntu 11.10. Deployment teams have long been modifying their Ubuntu installs to remove features like music players or games and add components that are a standard part of their business workflow. This remix takes the most common changes we’ve observed among [...] Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and [...] Softpedia is proud to introduce today, February 7th, a new Linux distribution, called Comice OS, which is actually a redesigned version of the Pear OS Linux. Remember Pear OS? It’s that Mac OS looking (see screenshots below) Ubuntu-based operating system introduced last year on our Linux section. Well, it looks like David Tavares, the developer [...] KDE is fast becoming the favorite of GNU/Linux users. At least that’s what I have been witnessing in my circle. I can’t say about others but I am currently running Gnome Shell 3 and KDE on my main machines. Gnome Shell 3 and KDE While Gnome Shell is on a development highway and we can [...] Accompanying the release of Netrunner 64bit version, we released the 4.1 version for 32bit with the following changes compared to 4.0: – switched to Hybrid ISO – Kernel 3.0.0.15 – KDE 4.7.4 (latest stable) – Muon 1.2.95 – kde-gtk-config module for easy gtk2+gtk3 configuration under KDE – several bugfixes, including system freezes during automatic update [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 251 for the week January 30 – February 5, 2012. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251 == In This Issue == * Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released! * Developer Week: Summaries Days 1-3 * The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You! * Ubuntu 12.04 Development update [...] The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE. Linux Mint 12 KDE New features at a glance: KDE 4.7.4 Hybrid ISO images Search engines Upstream components For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 12 KDE“. Release notes: Moonlight Upstream [...] Softpedia is the first to announce today, February 2nd, that the second and last Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is now available for download. As usual, we’ve grabbed a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS development. [...] Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 12.04. Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and [...] Canonical announced a few minutes ago, February 1st, that the Unity 5.2 interface is ready for testing on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) platform. Unity 5.2 brings multi-monitor support (Unity launchers appear on each monitor, and when scrolling across a monitor, you should feel some resistance in order to allow for you to use [...] The first question you will ask yourself (probably) is “why on earth would I need a firewall? Linux is secure, right?” Right, and I know lots of desktop Linux users that never had to touch the subject or don’t know what iptables or Netfilter is. Which is probably just fine, but that doesn’t mean Linux [...] The first question you will ask yourself (probably) is “why on earth would I need a firewall? Linux is secure, right?” Right, and I know lots of desktop Linux users that never had to touch the subject or don’t know what iptables or Netfilter is. Which is probably just fine, but that doesn’t mean Linux [...] The recently released Linux Mint 12 offers a two pronged approach to supporting those who prefer the traditional Gnome desktop. Firstly, the Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE) transform Gnome 3 into something resembling Gnome 2. Secondly it ships with Mate, the Gnome 2.0 fork project. The latest version of Mint channels Gnome 2.0 goodness via [...] Hi people! The “DEFT team” (formed by me, Massimiliano Dal Cero, Sandro Rossetti, Paolo Dal Checco, Davide “Rebus” Gabrini, Emanuele Gentili, Meo Bogliolo, Marco Giorgi and Valerio Leomporra) is pleased to announce the release of the stable version of DEFT 7, the first toolkit able to perform Computer Forensics, Mobile Forensics, Network Forensics, Incident Response [...] Hi guys, Two good news: Zentyal 3.0 is cooking already, and your help is needed to make the best release ever! As you know, the single most important change in Zentyal 3.0 is the upgrade from Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (Lucid) to Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (Precise) and to make this change as smooth as [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 250 for the week January 23 – 29, 2012. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue250 == In This Issue == * Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu. * Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February * Planet Ubuntu Update * Ubuntu [...] After delivering benchmarks last week that were comparing the Intel Sandy Bridge performance of Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” vs. Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” when it came to the Sandy Bridge OpenGL graphics performance, here’s a comparative look at the performance of Ubuntu 11.10 against Mac OS X 10.7.2 from the Intel Sandy Bridge-based Mac. [...] I have been a long time Ubuntu user, been using it since 2006. I loved it and have been installing it on user’s PC’s until version 11.04 came out with Unity. Before you get a wrong impression let me make it clear that I love to try new things as long as they don’t come [...] I will tell you from the very start. This is neither my idea, nor my realisation. But I like it so much that I decided to share it with the wider public. Have you ever installed any GNU/Linux distribution? Have you ever installed Windows? 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