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While the $25 Raspberry Pi is turning a million eyeballs, Canonical’s incessant attempts at conquering non-Ubuntuers don’t seem to be working out as hoped or planned. Even though Shuttleworth, Canonical’s benevolent dictator, has decided to go all out in order to reach his 200-million mark as early as possible, the efforts are still visibly falling [...] Even the most hardcore Linux fan would admit that their favorite OS has not captured more than a very small market share on personal computers. And that would include us here at Pingdom: all of our engineers and 50% of or our developers are, in fact, running Linux.Ubuntu has enjoyed great success, and more recently [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #254 for the week February 20 – 26, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Sound theme results Ubuntu in your pocket Ubuntu 12.04 Countdown banner competition Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update Awesome Unity Contributions We had a great Fix-It Friday! [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #254 for the week February 20 – 26, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Sound theme results Ubuntu in your pocket Ubuntu 12.04 Countdown banner competition Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update Awesome Unity Contributions We had a great Fix-It Friday! [...] This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: A look at SalineOS 1.6 News: Ubuntu on mobile phones and business desktops, Unity 5.4, interviews with Fedora’s Robyn Bergeron and Mint’s Clement Lefebvre Questions and answers: Handling magnet links in Linux Released last week: PCLinuxOS 2012-02 “Phoenix Xfce”, DragonFly BSD 3.0.1,…. Read more at DistroWatch The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: SystemRescueCd 2.5.0, Descent|OS 2.1 and Dream Studio 11.10. In other news: the final and stable version of Transmission 2.50 BitTorrent client has been released; the GNOME Project announced the first Beta of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about [...] Version 2.4.1 of the Apache HTTP server – the first release in the 2.4 series – is now available. There are plenty of new features, including runtime-loadable processing modules, better asynchronous I/O support, more logging configuration options, a new general-purpose expression parser, a dozen or so new modules, and more. Following Nick Rutledge‘s divine Ubuntu Laptop Concept comes this Ubuntu Mini PC idea by Lucas Romero Di Benedetto. According to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical is moving quickly ahead with its plans to bring Ubuntu to platforms going well beyond just desktop computers. In his latest blog post, Shuttleworth notes: “We’ll show Ubuntu neatly integrated into Android at Mobile World Congress next week. Carry just the phone, and connect it to any monitor to get [...] - Mac is back! – Two new single player campaign tiers – New maps: am_lavaarena am_lavactf am_lavactfxl am_mckinleyish2 am_spacecont am_thornish mlca1 mlctf1beta oa_bases3p3ta oasago1 oa_thor pul1duel-oa pxlfan – New player model: Neko. – Specular maps have been added to many player and weaponsmodels. These can be disabled by turning off detail textures. – Invulnerability powerup [...] TORCS version 1.3.3 is available for download. The most important changes are new content (two tracks, new car), a pure command line mode (for AI training and testing) and bug/security fixes, hit Read More below to review the full set of changes. The security fixes are relevant if you download and install content from the [...] The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Finnix 104, Scientific Linux 6.2 and Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. In other news: The Document Foundation released the LibreOffice 3.5 office suite; the VideoLAN organization announced the release of VLC 2.0 Media Player. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about Nvidia 295.20, Firefox 10.0.1, Ubuntu Server [...] This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at Asturix 4 and On desktop News: Debian’s position on software patents, Fedora 17 alpha testing, overview of Cinnamon, FreeBSD package management with pkgng Questions and answers: End of support for Kubuntu Released last week: Scientific Linux 6.2, Tiny Core…. Read more at DistroWatch “Dear Lucid, Our Time Is Right Now” – Evans Blue The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, the fourth maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 10.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, alternate installation CDs and DVDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures. The Kubuntu team is proud to [...] “Dear Lucid, Our Time Is Right Now” – Evans Blue The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, the fourth maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 10.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, alternate installation CDs and DVDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures. The Kubuntu team is proud to [...] The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Comice OS 4.0, Sabayon 8, CrunchBang 10 R20120207 and Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7r2. In other news: Google released the Google Chrome 17 web browser, bringing faster browsing and safer downloads. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about KDE Development book, Retroblazer FPS, Snowlinux 2 RC, Openshot [...] NVIDIA this morning formally released the 295.20 display drivers for Linux x86/x86_64. Among the highlights to the NVIDIA 295.20 update are Tesla X2090 support, color depth 30 (10 bits per component) support for the GeForce 8 series and newer, improved performance for interactive tools in Mudbox, and many bug-fixes. Details in full and download links [...] FreeCol 0.10.4 has been released. This is primarily a bug-fix release. Download FreeCol 0.10.4 Behold! What has been discussed and requested countless of times in the past, finally happens: Skulltag is open source now! And this not only covers the current version of the code, but includes the full history from our SVN repository. In particular, the full source of all public and all official beta builds made since [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 252 for the week February 6 – 12, 2011. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue252 == In This Issue == * Ubuntu Global Jam: Call For Events! * Ubuntu 12.04 Development update * Remixing Ubuntu for the Enterprise Desktop * Ubuntu Stats * LoCo News [...] |
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