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Develop Your Apps for Ubuntu 11.10

30 Sep

In the Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, a lot of work has been done to ease how users can create apps for Ubuntu and how they can get their own apps in the Ubuntu Software Center and available to millions of Ubuntu users. Part of delivering this vision is to provide a wide variety and selection of apps; people love and need apps to do their work. Fortunately this a stunning developer platform to harness, there is a need to improve the awareness, accessibility, usability, and delivery of this platform.

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Posted in Applications, News, PPA, Programming

 

Gnome 3.2 – Desktop Redefined

29 Sep

GNOME 3.2 has been released and is the first follow-up release to its ground-breaking GNOME 3.0. It has undergone a major redesign and now has the user interface for the next generation of the desktop. From 3.2, GNOME is refining the project and starting to introduce new, modern GNOME applications that will deeply integrate with the GNOME 3 experience and which are designed for modern users.

Get Gnome 3.2 Here

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Posted in Applications, Eyecandy, Install, News, Review

 

Cairo Dock 2.4.0 Released

28 Sep

Cairo-Dock is a unified dock-like interface for your desktop. Besides a cool dock, it provides a taskbar, and many applets that can be placed either inside the dock or on your desktop, at your convenience ! It is highly customizable and comes with a lot of ready-to-use themes.

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This PPA will install cairo dock in your Ubuntu desktops (yes ! 11.10 also).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cairo-dock

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The ‘Ubuntu Software Center’ Guide

28 Sep

The Vancouver Ubuntu-loco team has announced the release of a PDF guide to using the Ubuntu Software Center. The guide has of screenshots to illustrate instructions and ideas, and by using accessible language ensures that even linoobs can understand the points being made.

Although the guide  is “…written primarily for the benefit of those coming from the world of proprietary, community-less software where random apps are downloaded from random web sites”, it can still prove useful to existing Ubuntu users.

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Firefox 7.0 Released

28 Sep

Mozilla Firefox 7 final version has been released and has reportedly improved the memory handling problems, has fixed many stability as well as security issues. We recommend all users to upgrade to the latest version for a better web experience. It will arrive in the updates soon but we have also provided PPA for instant-upgrades below.

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Posted in Applications, Internet, News

 

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta Testing

23 Sep

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta is finally out after a long wait. We wish you all the very best to Tualatrix Chou from the entire open-source community as despite of the hardships he faced in the previous weeks, he is still on the way to get UT 0.6 working. Thank-you very much !

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Posted in Administration, Applications, Basics, Install, PPA, Preferences, System, System Tools

 

Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 Released

23 Sep

Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 just released has the latest KDE software including KDE 4.7.1 Plasma Workspaces and Applications. This release has undergone many changes regarding the latest updates, DE improvements and application updates. A few of them are listed below. This release is stable than the previous one but yet again we recommend you either use LiveCD or use Virtual machine for the testing purpose and wait till October for its  final release.

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Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 Released

23 Sep

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 has been released and is ready for downloads. This release has Unity based upon the Gnome 3 desktop, Ubuntu Software Center has been redesigned and many applications have been upgraded to their latest stable versions. Curious fanatics of Ubuntu may run upgrades to get their beta 2 right away but we still recommend to wait for the stable release for production machines and test this one in VMs.

Download Beta 2

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