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The jury may still be out on what exactly cloud computing even means, but that isn’t stopping most IT movers and shakers from churning out incessant reminders of how important the cloud is. Canonical, which this week released a new publication highlighting the way Ubuntu fits into the cloud, is no exception. Here’s a look [...] In case there was any doubt that the long-term success of Canonical is tied in large part to Ubuntu’s viability as a desktop solution for businesses, Canonical CEO Jane Silber recently announced a new official spin of Ubuntu tailored at just that market. Will Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix soon find its way to an office [...] - 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 [...] “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 [...] Comice OS 4.0-b Beta 1 is available to download. This version fixes several bugs discovered in the first version. CHANGELOG – Fixed a bug on boot (GRUB) – Fixed a bug with the driver manager – Fixed a bug during the end of installtion – Fixed some configurations files – Fixed sources.list and lsb-release [...] 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 [...] As we reported late last year, Canonical is very interested in taking Ubuntu to tablets, TVs and other new devices. And recently, the Spark tablet has been drawing a lot of interest as a Linux-based, open platform device that can compete with Apple’s iPad. Now, the rugged Yuma tablet (shown here) is drawing some buzz. [...] When Linux Mint fans trumpeted that it was the most downloaded Linux distro in recent years, the distro was throwing itself open to debate on the ways and mechanisms by which it became the most downloaded or most viewed distro on opensource platform watchdog-Distrowatch. Linux Mint 11 and now Linux Mint 12 are great versions [...] The 3.1 series is the first based on the new netcode, with new terrain renderer and many other changes. The main target are systems capable of OpenGL 2.0 (with shaders), but at least the important things like team colours should work with OpenGL 1.4+ (some things might look strange though). Configuration uses a new directory, [...] The 10.8 version of Simutrans Experimental has been recently released. This is a bug fix release, with some small feature changes to assist in balancing games, especially online games. Xonotic, the open-source multi-platform game that succeeded Nexuiz, is finally moving closer to its 1.0 release. Xonotic 1.0 was talked about at FOSDEM 2012 this weekend in Belgium within the open-source game developers’ meeting room. Nexuiz was forked as Xonotic by the community in early 2010 following and their first development preview came more than [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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