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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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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Phew, time flies and we’re already at the end of the first week of the Ubuntu App Showdown! There’s been lots of stuff going on, and it’s been really nice to see all the excitement and traffic around developing apps for Ubuntu. Here is a quick summary of what’s happened this week. Read More
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Task management application, Nitro, which can be synced with Ubuntu One or Dropbox, now has a new version with a few improvements and new features. List of improvements and features available in Nitro 1.4 : Customisable background/headings A new theme named Linux which integrates well with the current GTK+ desktop theme The sidebar can now
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Oracle released its 18th maintenance update for the 4.1 series of its popular free virtualisation software, Virtualbox a couple of days back. The current release version stands at 4.1.18. The list of bugs fixed or added in Virutalbox 4.1.18 are as follows (list as available on release note): VMM: fixed VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR under rare conditions after
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The development of LibreOffice, the default office suite for almost all Linux distributions , is moving at a frantic pace. This week, LibreOffice has 3.5.5 RC1 and 3.6 Beta 1 available for testers to download and test. LibreOffice 3.5.5 is the bugfix release for the current 3.5 series. There are a huge list of bugs
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After three years of being in development and amid fears that Skype’s support for Linux will be dropped by Microsoft after the recent acquisition of Skype, the Redmond company released an updated version of Skype for Linux yesterday leaving all the rumors and fears to rest. The latest version has been bumped up from version
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If you are installing MS Office 2007 or 2010 using PlayOnLinux, chances are that the file associations will not work properly. In order to set the file associations for .docx and .pptx to MS Office you can follow the procedure below. Enable hidden files by pressing Ctrl+H at the home folder. Leave the window open. Open
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Like Ubuntu’s Unity, Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell has its haters and own stories of controversies. A recent post reveals that Gnome 3 is heading for a new controversy! Reason? Some Gnome 3 developers have uploaded a new mockup which suggests the removal of Application Categories from Gnome Shell dash. This means, when you click
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