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A lot of people have said that the Ubuntu Software Center will fail because it's offering something that is not usual on Linux, more precisely applications and games that cost money.
The Ubuntu Software Center store can be consulted online and not only from inside the operating system, so anyone can check what... |
10 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Following our previous articles, Tomboy Lens, Ask Ubuntu Lens, Ubuntu Flickr/Shotwell Photos Lens, Ubuntu Spotify Scope, Ubuntu DeviantArt Scope, Ubuntu SSH Lens, Ubuntu Binary Clock Lens, Ubuntu YouTube Lens and Scope, Ubuntu Calendar Lens, Ubuntu Web Sources Lens, Ubuntu Gwibber Lens, Ubunt... |
7 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Jonathan Riddell sadly announced a few hours ago that Canonical will no longer support his work on the famous Kubuntu operating system, starting with Kubuntu 12.10. Canonical intends to treat Kubuntu like any other Ubuntu derivative, such as Xubuntu, Lubuntu or Edubuntu, supporting them with infrastructure."This is a... |
7 February 2012
01:15 GMT |
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The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to jailbreak their Apple iPhone 4S and Apple iPad 2 devices. As you all know, the Chronic Dev Team finally released the highly anticipated version of Absinthe jailbreak tool for the Linux platform. With Absinthe users can easily untether jailbreak iPhone 4S and ... |
4 February 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Maureen Jett, a product Director from VanDyke Software, has announced that SecureCRT 6.7.4 is now available for Linux, for both Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. SecureCRT 6.7.4 provides terminal emulation for computing professionals, raising productivity with advanced session management and a host of ways to save... |
3 February 2012
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Following our previous articles, Ask Ubuntu Lens, Ubuntu Flickr/Shotwell Photos Lens, Ubuntu Spotify Scope, Ubuntu DeviantArt Scope, Ubuntu SSH Lens, Ubuntu Binary Clock Lens, Ubuntu YouTube Lens and Scope, Ubuntu Calendar Lens, Ubuntu Web Sources Lens, Ubuntu Gwibber Lens, Ubuntu Books Lens,... |
2 February 2012
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Canonical announced a couple of days ago, January 27th, that the sponsorship for the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit 2012 event is now open for submissions. Ubuntu Developer Summit 2012 for the Ubuntu 12.10 operating system will take place in Oakland, California, USA, at the The Oakland Marriott City Center, from 7t... |
30 January 2012
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Asus may ship the Transformer Prime with a locked bootloader, but this hasn’t stopped hackers from running Ubuntu Linux on the 10.1-inch tablet.
As always, this Android hack came our way via the XDA Forums, where a user going by the name of Zedomax created a video demoing Ubuntu running on the Prime, together ... |
27 January 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Ubuntu Developer Week, a gathering of talented people that come from all over the world to talk about the future of Ubuntu, is taking place from Tuesday, 31st January 2012 to Thursday, 2nd February 2012. People who attend Ubuntu Developer Week will learn how software is put into Ubuntu and how it’s mainta... |
25 January 2012
10:52 GMT |
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Canonical is promoting these days their new product, Ubuntu Cloud Jumpstart, a service that promises to deploy a private cloud infrastructure on the client's hardware. How it works? Simple! During five days, a Canonical services engineer and a Canonical engagement manager will build your private cloud on your ow... |
18 January 2012
12:21 GMT |
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As announced last month, Canonical is preparing to remove the Sun JDK (Java Development Kit) packages from the software repositories, starting with February 16th, 2012, affecting Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.04. Users should not be worried, as Canonical will NOT remove the Java packages from their sys... |
18 January 2012
07:00 GMT |
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m23, a free Linux distribution that installs and administrates clients with Debian, (XK)Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora and Linux Mint, is now at version 12.1. The most important improvement in m23 12.1 is the introduction of the m23 remote administration service, which will provide support for user's servers from goos... |
18 January 2012
03:24 GMT |
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Zorin OS Lite, an Ubuntu-based operating system aimed at Windows users that are switching over to Linux, has now reached version 5.2. Zorin OS Lite 5.2 is built on the Linux architecture so it is completely open source and it's based on Ubuntu, one of the most used Linux operating system in the world.Zorin OS Li... |
11 January 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Andrew Wyatt proudly announced a few minutes ago, January 10th, the immediate availability for download of the Fuduntu 2012.1 Linux operating system. Fuduntu 2012.1 is a maintenance release, featuring small improvements and fixing existing bugs. It is powered by Linux kernel 3.1.6, and has Chromium 16 web browser, ... |
10 January 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Asturix, an light and inovative Asturian GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu directed to any kind of user, is now at version 4. The new Asturix 4 has a few interesting features. Foremost, it presents itself with a new desktop, centered on productivity and usability and has the largest color palette, with more than... |
10 January 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Softpedia is proud to introduce LibreCAD 1.0, a new and free open source personal CAD application designed to run on multiple platforms, such as Linux, Mac OS and Windows. Initially named CADuntu, it rapidly changed its name to LibreCAD, the first one being based on QCad CE, which in turn was based on the Qt3 library... |
6 January 2012
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Canonical updated the AFPL Ghostscript packages, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, for the Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS OSes. It was discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle memory allocation when parsing certain malformed JPEG-2000 images, did not correctly ha... |
4 January 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Mozilla unleashed a few days ago the first Beta release of the upcoming Thunderbird 10.0 email client for all supported platforms. Thunderbird 10.0 will include nice features, such as the ability to search the Web, better email searching, drafting email fixes, and the ability to create a new email account, in associa... |
27 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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An Ubuntu-based operating system aimed at Windows users that are switching over to Linux, Zorin OS Educational, has now reached version 5.2. This is the second update in the Zorin OS 5 Educational series. Therefore, the Zorin developers have chosen to go back to the GNOME 2.x desktop environment and drop the Ubuntu&r... |
22 December 2011
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Canonical announced a few hours ago, December 15th, that it will remove all Sun JDK (Java Development Kit) packages from the Canonical Partner repository.Because Oracle retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java", Canonical no longer has permission to redistribute new Java packages.Therefore, in the n... |
16 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Softpedia is the first to inform that Google unleashed a few minutes ago, December 13th, the stable and final release of the Google Chrome 16 web browser for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms. Like all stable releases, Google Chrome 16 brings lots of improvements, like Sync improvements and the ability to add n... |
13 December 2011
12:40 GMT |
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Ubuntu Hardware Summit took place on December 8th, at the Grand Victoria Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan. There, Canonical took the time to launch a new website and to speak about what's to come in the Ubuntu future, over the next two years. The new website promoted by Canonical, odm.ubuntu.com, is designed to help devi... |
13 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Following our previous article, Ubuntu Cities Scope for Unity, today we are introducing the Ubuntu Torrents Lens and Pirate Bay Scope for Unity, two Unity Dash plugins that will allow users to quickly search and access torrents on the Pirate Bay website.The Ubuntu Torrents Lens will provide search filters that will a... |
9 December 2011
19:11 GMT |
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Several security updates for Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS have been released by Canonical. The first fix relates to Dovecot which could have been made to expose sensitive information over the network because it incorrectly validated certificate hostnames when being used as a IM... |
9 December 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Stuart Metcalfe proudly announced a few hours ago, December 8th, on the Canonical blog that the popular PayPal payment method will be available in Ubuntu Software Center by Christmas."It’s been a long time in development, but we’re finally drawing close to releasing Paypal support in Ubuntu Pay, the payme... |
9 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Sonia Ouarti from Canonical announced a couple of days ago, December 2nd, that the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and devops expert Clint Byrum will hold a webinar about Juju, this Thursday, December 8th at 3pm GMT."Cloud deployment is different. Juju enables tighter dev/ops handovers, the ability to scale services... |
5 December 2011
02:23 GMT |
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After yesterday's announcement that the final bits of the Mozilla Firefox 8.0 web browser reached the default software repositories of Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), we are now announcing its availability on the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) release.All Ubuntu 11.04 users can now officially install the new Mozill... |
24 November 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Maureen Jett, a product Director from VanDyke Software, has just announced that SecureCRT6.7.3 is now available for Linux, for both Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. SecureCRT 6.7.3 provides terminal emulation for computing professionals, raising productivity with advanced session management and a host of wa... |
9 November 2011
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As of yesterday, November 7th, Ubuntu has a Google+ Page for its fans around the world, where they can find interesting information, video interviews, and news about Ubuntu.It appears that Ubuntu tries to become more and more popular each day, creating pages on popular social networks and gathering lots of users from... |
8 November 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Fuduntu 14.12 has been released. The Fedora-based distro is becoming more independent with this latest release, but it also packs new packages and updates, along with the 'ideological' changes.The big news is that Fuduntu is no longer dependent on Fedora, it has its own repositories and all of the packages ... |
8 November 2011
06:15 GMT |
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Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, proudly announced on his blog that the upcoming Linux Mint 12 operating system will feature a new desktop interface built on top of the GNOME 3 desktop environment.Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) will be the first Linux Mint distribution with the GNOME 3 desktop environment. B... |
7 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Dear readers, a few minutes ago Mozilla unleashed the stable version of the highly anticipated Mozilla Firefox 8.0 web browser for Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems.Yes, we're talking about the final version of Firefox 8, which is aready available for download on the official FTP site of t... |
6 November 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is taking place these days (October 31st - November 4th) in Orlando, Florida, USA.After Mark Shuttleworth's keynote at UDS-P, were he says that Ubuntu will come to the mobile world, Canonical decided to laid out the initial plans. Click here to watc... |
3 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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After yesterday's announcement of HP's Project Moonshot, a programme that will accelerate the use of ARM low-power CPUs in data centers, Canonical also announced today that it will be involved in the Moonshot project.HP's announcement includes the launch of the Redstone development platform which harne... |
2 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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CAELinux 2011 has been released bringing with it new versions of its main packages, the computer-aided engineering software it's built for. There aren't that many new features from the previous release, if any, but it does bring newer packages all around, thanks to the updated Ubuntu underneath."Today we ar... |
28 October 2011
08:11 GMT |
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This Wednesday, October 26th, Canonical and Dell proudly announced their brand-new retail program designed to sell Dell laptops and desktops pre-loaded with Ubuntu.Canonical and Dell will sell Ubuntu powered computers on over 220 retail stores in China, in cities such Xu Zhou, Su Qian, Lian Yun Gang, Lianyungang or Y... |
28 October 2011
06:40 GMT |
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The developers behind the Helena The 3rd project announced today the immediate availability for download and purchase of this highly anticipated game.Helena The 3rd, an action platformer game inspired by old school gameplay, is now available for purchase from the Ubuntu Software Center for $2.99 USD (2.1 EUR).Helena ... |
27 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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We're announcing today the immediate availability for download of the Beta version of the Google Music Manager application.Even if Google Music is still in Beta stage and many users are not able to experience this new cloud technology from Google, we've made the Google Music Manager desktop application avai... |
26 October 2011
15:31 GMT |
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m23 rock 11.4 has been released. The latest update comes with some expanded features as well as updates for Debian in particular. One big addition is that m23 rock 11.4 now supports TDE, the Trinity Desktop Environment. The new version also adds support for Debian Squeeze.m23 is a Linux distro designed to make it eas... |
26 October 2011
10:51 GMT |
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The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last night, October 25th, the immediate availability for download of the stable and final release of the Google Chrome 15 web browser for Linux platforms. As usual, a stable release brings lots of improvements, therefore Google Chrome 15 comes with a brand-new... |
26 October 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth has spoken on his blog about the decline of mainframes and the rise of cloud computing, in light of the newly launched Ubuntu Cloud 11.10. The founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, said that although the mainframes (or big iron) is about to get a run for its money with the increasing importance o... |
25 October 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Dear Ubuntu fans, it's time to celebrate, as today, October 20th, Ubuntu turns 7 years since its first release, back in 2004.Seven years ago, on the 20th of October, 2004, Mark Shuttleworth announced the first official Ubuntu release, version 4.10, dubbed "Warty Warthog."Since then, Canonical released fifthteen ... |
20 October 2011
13:01 GMT |
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blackPanther OS, a Hungarian Linux operating system which borrows features from other major OSes, has just reached version 11.1.The blackPanther OS distribution is designed for use at school, home and work as it contains applications for all activities.blackPanther OS 11.1 utilizes graphical configuration tools from ... |
20 October 2011
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The developers of Shotwell have released a new version of their image editor and organizer app and recommends that everyone upgrade to Shotwell 0.11.4. The previous version of Shotwell came with two important fixes, one related to the image import function (Shotwell uses it's own image database when editing imag... |
17 October 2011
09:32 GMT |
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If you're a Linux fan, you probably know that Ubuntu 11.10 has just been released. Even if you're not a Linux fan, maybe you're curious what Ubuntu looks and feels like. Since it comes on a Live CD, it was always easy to download Ubuntu, burn a CD and run it without affecting your system. But Ubuntu ... |
15 October 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Lubuntu is the new kid on the block and Canonical has just announced that it has reached version 11.10, along with its older brothers, Ubuntu 11.10, Xubuntu 11.10 and Kubuntu 11.10.Lubuntu is based on the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) and its goal is to provide a lightweight distribution, (with all the a... |
13 October 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Canonical unleash the highly anticipated Ubuntu 11.10 operating system Thursday, at 10:00 AM (GTM), October 13th, 2011. With this blog article we just wanted to inform our readers about some of the new features implemented by Canonical in the new Ubuntu release. Ubuntu 11.10 will still feature the Unity in... |
12 October 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Shotwell is the default image editor in Ubuntu and one of the most simple and straightforward image editor and organizer app that can be found on the Linux platform.The developers have announced that a new version of Shotwell is now awailable, 0.11.3, which fixes two critical bugs. It is recommended that all users up... |
12 October 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Bodhi is a minimalistic Linux operating system based on Ubuntu, that has really small requirements and now it has reached version 1.2.1.Jeff Hoogland and the Bodhi team have discovered that the version of GCC used to compile the kernel on the previous release, 1.2.0, causes a problem for users when compiling and inse... |
11 October 2011
11:32 GMT |
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Canonical's CEO, Jane Silber, proudly announced last evening (October 6th) at the OpenStack Conference in Boston, USA, that HP has chosen the popular Ubuntu operating system to power their Public Cloud.In order to provide a scalable, secure, business-class cloud to companies around the world, HP and Canonical ar... |
7 October 2011
04:15 GMT |
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