14 DAY TRIAL // Welcome to the 138th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: OpenSuSE 11.4 RC2 and Toorox 02.2011 KDE Edition. In other news: Clement Lefebvre announced that Linux Mint 11 will be based on the Ubuntu 11.04 operating system; The Document Foundation proudly presented the first maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.3 open source office suite; The Document Foundation announced that LibreOffice is now integrated in Unity for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). For this week we've prepared a nice tutorial about how to customize your Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) desktop. The weekly ends with the video clip of the week, the new and updated Linux distributions, and the development releases.
Summary:
On February 26th, Helen South announced the release of openSUSE 11.4 RC2, the last build before the final and stable release. As you can expect at this point, the release is pretty polished, though there are still some lingering bugs. Many though have been fixed in a recent Bug Squashing day.
The new openSUSE 11.4 RC2 comes with some fixes for WiFi drivers and supplicant. The announcement also touts other stability fixes throughout the distribution's infrastructure. openSUSE 11.4 RC2 mostly completes the transition from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice. While the actual software should work properly most of the times, there are still some issues being reported. The documentation still hasn't been fully updated as well.
Download openSUSE 11.4 RC2 now from Softpedia. Remember that this is an development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.
On February 28th, Jörn Lindau proudly announced the immediate availability for download of the KDE edition of Toorox 02.2011. The KDE edition of the Gentoo-based live Linux distro comes with the latest KDE SC release, a recent kernel and up-to-date packages. Toorox has been a KDE-based distro traditionally, but a GNOME edition started being published last year.
As its creator explained, Toorox 02.2011 KDE is based on the previous release, which landed earlier this month, Toorox 01.2011 GNOME. It's based on the latest KDE SC 4.6 and provides QT-based alternatives to the popular GNOME packages.
Download Toorox 02.2011 now from Softpedia.
· Clement Lefebvre announced on February 22nd the name for the next version of the popular Linux Mint operating system, which will be released on May 2011. Dubbed Katya, Linux Mint 11 will be based on the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system from Canonical. Linux Mint 11 will include all of the nice features from the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 release, such as Linux kernel 2.6.38, X.Org 7.6 and GNOME 3. Read more about it here.
· On February 23rd, The Document Foundation company launched the first maintenance release of the LibreOfficeb 3.3 open source office suite for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms. LibreOffice 3.3.1 updates several language versions, it is much stable than the previous release, and it brings new colorful and beautiful icons based on company's branding guidelines. Read more about it here.
· Bjoern Michaelsen managed to integrate Ubuntu's 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) default office suite, LibreOffice 3.3, with Unity's global menubar. The Document Foundation write a post on their blog on February 22nd, welcoming Canonical‘s contributions to the LibreOffice development. In particular they are welcoming Bjoern Michaelsen's LibreOffice improvements. As you know, the next version of the Ubuntu operating system, Ubuntu 11.04, will have a completely revamped desktop, powered by Unity, which has a global menubar for all the applications installed in Ubuntu. Thanks to Bjoern Michaelsen we now have LibreOffice's menus shown on the global menubar. Read more about it here.
Tutorial of the Week: Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Customization Guide
· At the request of our readers we have decided to revive our old desktop customization tutorial for the Ubuntu OS (and other major Linux distributions powered by the GNOME desktop environment).
This step-by-step tutorial was created for the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system and it will teach you how to change the looks of your Linux desktop into an eye-candy, practical, simple and modern one.
Read the entire tutorial here.
Video Clip of the Week: openSUSE 11.4 RC2
· For this week we've posted an 1080p high-definition video clip that showcases a German version of the newly released openSUSE 11.4 RC2 operating system. The video has 8 minutes and 31 seconds, and it was posted by jesse84843093. Enjoy!
· LibreWRT · Groovy Arcade Linux 1.483 · HPC-Europa2 Milestone 3 · DoudouLinux 2010-11
Distributions Updated Last Week:
· 4MLinux 2.1 · Jolicloud 1.1.1 · Clonezilla LiveCD 1.2.8-6 · Linux Mint 10 KDE Edition · AUSTRUMI 2.2.9 · Puppy Linux "Wary" 5.1.1 · Ikki Boot 4.0 · ttylinux 12.5 · GParted LiveCD 0.8.0-2 · StressLinux 0.6.108 · PING 3.01 2011-02-23
· ArchServer redgum RC3 · Zentyal 2.1 Beta · Scientific Linux 6 RC2
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