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VirtualBox 4.0.6 for Ubuntu 11.04

23 Apr

A nice maintenance Update from Oracle for the thier hypervisor yesterday. VirtualBox got updated to version 4.0.6 and now Virtual box packages are available for Ubuntu 11.04 as well. It is a very useful application for testing different distros while keeping the mainstream OS intact. All you need is good hardware. This release has gone through a lot of updates and bugfixes including support for X.Org Server 1.10 final, Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes, improved auto-run support, fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests, allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory and much more.

Virtualbox 4.0.6

Download Virtual Box 4.0.6

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Ubuntu Control Center: One-Stop-Shop for Everything

06 Apr

Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by Mandriva Control Center and aims to centralize and organize in a simple and intuitive form the main configuration tools for Ubuntu distribution. UCC uses all the native applications already bundled with Ubuntu, but it also utilizes some third-party apps. In all, it serves like a Control Panel to your Ubuntu desktop giving your enough power to control each and every part of your system whether it be installed Software, Hard Disks, User accounts, Network, and also allows you to upgrade to the latest development release to take part in Ubuntu testing. So, we can conclude that this application is worth installing.

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Jstest-gtk-0.1

Ubuntu Control Center 0.5.1

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ns2 Simulator On Ubuntu

04 Apr

‘ns‘ is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. Ns provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and satellite) networks. ns-2 is a packet-level simulator and essentially a centric discrete event scheduler to schedule the events such as packet and timer expiration. Centric event scheduler cannot accurately emulate “events handled at the same time” in real world, that is, events are handled one by one. However, this is not a serious problem in most network simulations, because the events here are often transitory. Beyond the event scheduler, ns-2 implements a variety of network components and protocols.

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Shotwell 0.9 Released for Ubuntu

23 Mar

Shotwell is the Ubuntu’s default photo manager. It lets you import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and export them to share with others. It can also publish photos on various websites such as PicasaWeb, Flickr, Facebook and more. The newest version is now Shotwell 0.9 which is available for upgrade via PPA.

Installation

Use this PPA to install Shotwell. The default Shotwell installed in Ubuntu 10.10 is 0.7.2. This PPA will also help you get 0.9 version instantly.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotwell

When done with it acess Shotwell from Graphics>Shotwell Photo Manager.

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GnoMenu for Ubuntu 10.10

11 Mar

GnoMenu is a consolidated menu for gnome that brings eye candy to the world of the Gnome menu’s in Ubuntu. Fully functional menu , supports themes , for a composited or non composited Ubuntu desktop. It can emulate the look and feel of the most beautiful menus of most modern desktops, and it can also use custom menus, due to its powerful theme XML engine making it a essential requirement for Ubuntu lovers.

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Posted in Applications, Eyecandy

 

Ultimate Edition 2.8

03 Mar

Ultimate Edition, an unofficial derivative of Ubuntu as we have already discussed is a full fledged customized version of Ubuntu with all the updates and a big list of programs, plugins etc. which are lacking in Ubuntu due to Copyright laws and other reasons. The latest version of Ultimate Edition is 2.8 and it is (obviously) based on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

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1) Ultimate Edition 2.8
32-Bit – Direct Link ( Torrent )
64-Bit – Direct Link ( Torrent )

2) Ultimate Edition 2.8 “Gamers”
32-Bit – Direct Link ( Torrent )
64-Bit – Direct Link ( Torrent )

3) Ultimate Edition 2.8 “Lite”
32 Bit – Direct download

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Ultimate Docks for Ubuntu

17 Jan
To customize the Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop and making it further more good looking and easy to use, we have Docks for you. A dock is a rectangular bar that has launchers and applets on it that can replace the Gnome panel and act as an eye candy as well. The main aim behind these docks is to improve the usability of Gnome and add cool looks to the desktop. We have 3 best Docks for your Ubuntu system viz. Avant Windows Navigator, Docky and Cairo Dock.

Avant Window Navigator

Avant Window Navigator (AWN) is a dock-like navigation bar for the gnome desktop. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list. So it can add to functionality, simplicity and usability of your Ubuntu & can work to replace your existing Gnome Panels and help add Eyecandy to your Ubuntu Desktop.

Install :- Open the Terminal and type in this :-

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk avant-window-navigator-data-trunk python-awn-trunk awn-settings-trunk awn-applets-c-core-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-core-trunk python-awn-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk

Make sure you donot have any previous version installed from the Ubuntu repository. If yes, then remove it via Synaptic.

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VirtualBox 4.0 for Ubuntu 10.10

23 Dec

VirtualBox is a powerful,free and easy-to-use x86 and AMD64/Intel64 Hypervisor/Virtualization solution. It is an extremely feature rich, high performance product for Enterprise, it is also the only Professional software that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). We are glad to announce that VirtualBox 4.0 final has been released for Ubuntu and is available in the repository as well.

Download :-

Ubuntu 10.10 32 Bit / 64 Bit.

Ubuntu 10.04 32 Bit / 64 Bit.

Ubuntu 9.10 32 Bit /64 Bit.

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