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Canonical informed users on March 1st that the first Beta release of the upcoming Xubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) operating system is available for download. Softpedia is once again the first to announce today, March 1st, that the first Beta release 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. [...] 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 [...] Development Update Today marks the transition of Ubuntu 12.04 from Alpha Testing into the first phase of Beta Testing as Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 is released. Nicholas Skaggs has a number of items you can help out with by simply doing a bit of testing. We still have eight weeks until release, so let’s take [...] Bug #1 – Microsoft has a majority market share.” – Ubuntu bug tracker. Much has changed since Canonical started on its quirky quest to “fix bug #1.” Seven years ago Microsoft was seen as stagnant, ripe for plucking. Longhorn was still MIA, and Microsoft users were busy patching XP against the latest threats. Apple? Apple [...] 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! [...] Canonical expects to start rolling out the first phase of Ubuntu’s new heads-up display in the April release of Ubuntu 12.04. But HUD will supplement Unity, Ubuntu’s default desktop interface, rather than fully replace it. The move to radically change the desktop’s default interface is being made out of necessity, according to Canonical’s founder and [...] Wesnoth 1.10.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable 1.10 series. For information about further changes in this release, please visit this forum thread. We offer two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog that only includes changes every player will probably notice (and often feels empty because [...] Softpedia has been informed this morning, February 27th, by Fabio Colinelli that the fabulous MyUnity Unity configuration utility for the Ubuntu platform reached version 3.0, supporting desktop themes and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin). Looks like the Italian developer worked very hard on the new version of MyUnity, completely redesigned its interface and brining built-in [...] Ubuntu 12.04 is all about pixel perfecting everything and focusing on the quality of the overall release. This is important since it is a LTS release which would be used by companies and users all over the world for a long time. From the view point of a user and sys-admins, it is important to [...] Very few in Linuxland haven’t heard of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, one of the scariest video games every built. It scored high on many lists of favorite games in large part because this independent gaming house chose to release their high quality games for Linux as well as the more lucrative Windows market. Well, these [...] This month: * Command and Conquer. * How-To : Beginning Python – Part 30, LibreOffice – Part 12, Backup Strategy – Part 6, Screencast Your Desktop, and The Paperless Office. * Linux Lab – Useful Investigative Tools. * Review – Linux Mint 12 * I Think – Which Mobile OS. * Closing Windows – Formatting [...] I’d like to thank all the people who contributed feedback on our 1.3 release. Version 1.3.1 is a maintenance release which adds polish and tackles important issues from the previous release. It’s now easier to drag and drop applets: Panel zones highlight in different colors when dragged over and now use the entire width of [...] I’d like to thank all the people who contributed feedback on our 1.3 release. Version 1.3.1 is a maintenance release which adds polish and tackles important issues from the previous release. It’s now easier to drag and drop applets: Panel zones highlight in different colors when dragged over and now use the entire width of [...] Softpedia is once again proud to introduce a new Linux distribution based on the popular Ubuntu OS from Canonical, this time with a modernized GNOME 2 desktop environment. Like its developers say on the official website or the project, Descent|OS is an operating system created and designed with simplicity in mind, for people new to [...] Following Nick Rutledge‘s divine Ubuntu Laptop Concept comes this Ubuntu Mini PC idea by Lucas Romero Di Benedetto. This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint’s new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface. This document comes [...] Cinnamon 1.3 is out! This is another major update for Cinnamon. Read below for a brief overview of the new features and major improvements. Applets improvements In Cinnamon 1.3, every panel component is an applet. This means you can remove the default menu or window list and replace them with 3rd party applets. Another important [...] 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 [...] After almost a year of work a new version of Dwarf Fortress has been released. Changes include tombs, dungeons, vampires and werewolves for adventure mode and many bugfixes and improvements for fortress mode. |
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