Ubuntu 13.10 is going to be a tricky release with XMir and Intel not supporting XMir. However, It does come with some exciting new features: Smartscopes, which was unceremoniously dumped from Ubuntu 13.04, have now been included by default The Unity 7 Dash click behaviour for applications has been updated. A left click will launch […]
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As the release of Ubuntu Touch v 1.0 comes closer, on the same day as Ubuntu 13.10, new features and designs and updates to the core apps are starting to pour in. Judging by the quality of updates, looks like Ubuntu and Canonical are going for the kill; make a real good first impression. Most
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Ubuntu 12.10, the seventeenth release of Canonical sponsored Ubuntu operating system has been released today. This release includes a number of controversial changes, most notable of which is the dropping of the 2D version of Unity desktop environment. The controversial inclusion of Amazon search results in the dash and an Amazon webapp in the launcher has created
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Ubuntu’s most user friendly manual for its latest iteration 12.10, Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.10, has been released just in time for tomorrow’s official Ubuntu 12.10 release. The news of the release was made official today morning (GMT) in the Ubuntu Manual’s mailing list. At the moment, you can download the manual directly from the ubuntu
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Mark Shuttleworth presented some interesting new technology at OSCON today, both using Juju to redeploy between different clouds with just a few commands, and integration of Web Apps into the Ubuntu desktop. Below is a video showing the feature in action Read More:
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This week, LibreOffice has 3.5.5 RC3 and 3.6 Beta 3 available for testers to download and test. Bugs fixed against 3.5.5 RC2 are: [core] Cannot open xlsx file legacy reports: asks for parameters, then for empty parameters list then CRASH For, the LibreOffice 3.6 series, Beta 3 brings a long list of changes against the
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Popular free and open source mail client Thunderbird, developed by Mozilla will now only receive security and stability updates. There will be no further innovation, addition of new features from the next iteration of the software. Excerpts from an internal memo leaked online says: However, Thunderbird is one of the very few truly free and
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Canonical released the second Alpha of the upcoming release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 12.10, to be released in October of this year. The planned visual changes have not yet landed in the Alpha 2 release. However, Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 now has Linux kernel 3.5.0-2.2 packages and the latest development version of the upcoming GNOME 3.6 desktop
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LibreOffice 3.5.4 RC2 was released yesterday by The Document Foundation developers. This release, as usual, is a QA testing release and is not recommended for production systems. One important bug fixed in this RC release is the “No recent documents” bug, which was causing LibreOffice not to show any recently opened documents. Highlights of the
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The operating system claims 20 million people use it a day. Not an insignificant number, but still a drop in the ocean compared to Microsoft’s Windows or Apple’s OS X. Even so, lead designer and one-time astronaut Mark Shuttleworth hopes that last week’s major upgrade to the Linux-based project will produce an outsized splash and
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