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Ubuntu Weekly Report: 20th - 26th January

Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS, Photoshop CS2, Dell XPS M1330 and more...

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

28th of January 2008, 07:22 GMT

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On Wednesday, Dell released the sleek and sexy XPS M1330 laptop for its European customers, which comes pre-installed with Ubuntu 7.10 operating system. Customers from Spain, Germany, France and United Kingdom can purchase this superb laptop with Ubuntu OS (with built-in DVD playback) today from Dell!

On January 25th, Wine released a new version of its popular software, which now supports Photoshop CS2 installations on Linux operating systems. Read our step-by-step tutorial on how to install Photoshop on Ubuntu 7.10.

Moreover, Launchpad 1.2.1 was released a few days ago. Its highlights include:

￭ Delete PPA packages in the web UI: no more sysadmin requests to delete a package from your PPA.
￭ Branch feeds: get the latest commits associated with a person, team, project or individual branch in your feed reader.
￭ Code hosting project overviews: quick-glance overview of branches and revisions made to projects with code hosted on Launchpad.

Last but not least,

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Alpha 4 is expected this Thursday and the developers are urged not to upload any packages between Tuesday and Thursday! We will talk more about this Alpha version of Ubuntu 8.04 next week.

Now, let's move on to the security updates and fixes for all the Ubuntu releases. First, the updates for Ubuntu 6.10:

￭ apt 0.6.45ubuntu14.3

Next are the updates for Ubuntu 7.04:

￭ drupal_5.1-0ubuntu2.3

And finally, the updates for Ubuntu 7.10 are:

￭ drupal5_5.2-2ubuntu2.2

As you can see, there aren't many updates this week. See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report!

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Comment #1 by: alcolea on 28 Jan 2008, 23:19 GMT	reply to this comment
only one question... what theme are you using with that test... i like it.. can u tell us?

Comment #1.1 by: marius.nestor on 28 Jan 2008, 23:26 GMT

The one you see in this article is a mockup (it doesn't exist). However, someone tried to create an identical one... Here's the download link:

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Themes/Hardy-Theme-34507.shtml

You can also try the Moomex theme:

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Themes/Moomex-Theme-31855.shtml

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