The following articles below were published during the month of September 2012 (times are based on UTC):
Remark: This post doesn't contravene with Roland's post about Ubuntu 12.10 since Ubuntu GNOME Remix is not an official Ubuntu flavor. So, along with the release of Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 there it comes Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 Beta. In case you are wondering what it is, it is a pure GNOME Ubuntu distro developed by Jeremy Bicha, an Ubuntu Desktop Developer. It includes GNOME Shell 3.6 and GDM 3.6, along with all the GNOME games you like ;). You can find more information about Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 Beta in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/ReleaseNotes/12.10Beta Anyway let me just provide the links here. x86: http://bicha.net/ubuntu-gnome-remix/quantal-ubuntu-gnome-i386-20120927.iso x64: http://bicha.net/ubuntu-gnome-remix/quantal-ubuntu-gnome-amd64-20120927.iso MD5SUMS: 6a39842c0f99d435f7e7b194848e5bfe quantal-ubuntu-gnome-amd64-20120927.iso e91051dc0143d3fe7b5360724dd7f85c quantal-ubuntu-gnome-i386-20120927.iso So in case you are interested in a pure GNOME distro, ...
Now unfortunately, (due to time constraints at the time of writing), I can't delve too in depth on this post, but the title says all :). Some highlights: All variants come with Linux kernel 3.5.4 Ubuntu comes with Unity 6.6. which brings numerous improvements to performance, the Dash, and more. Webapps integration is enabled Gnome 3.6 (to a large extent) has hit the repos :) Python 3.2 is included and taking a greater position, but Python 2 remains on board Jokey is no more KDE 4.9 is used in Kubuntu Xubuntu has completely rewritten offline docs Greybird has been updated (and you should try it, it looks sweet!!!!) (you can tell I like it :)) Lubuntu has a new icon ...
Features, features, features. This fresh new release brings new features and improvements to the fore. The Magic Wand tool now comes with 4 new modes (Union, Exclude, Xor, and Intersect). Layers can be blended, and the text tool supports copying and pasting. Check lower down the page for a full list of features and fixes. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Pinta's Magic Wand has 4 new modes.[/caption] Fixes and improvements abound. Memory If you're an avid Pinta user, you would have noticed in the past that memory usage over long periods of time tends to be a problem. No more. The history and Open Images lists took huge chunks of memory and didn't like to repay what they owed. Well, the ...
Correction - it's live!
Take off your tinfoil hat, the aliens are not going to harm you (well, we will, but not now). As announced yesterday through various channels including our friends at OMG! Ubuntu, there was aplanned privacy feature for 12.10 that would allow you to disable the Amazon Scope, or really, any default Lens/Scope, stop Lenses|Scopes from accessing the web for results altogether, and make tinfoil-hatters feel safe in their own homes again. Of course, not everyone is happy with the way this will be implemented, as some people are too lazy to open the control centre upon booting to disable an option that comes enabled by default (maybe the installer could come with the option to disable this in 13.04 - ...
*Rubs eyes* Already? Gnome 3.6 is out and about, live and kicking, hit the ground running, etc, etc... I know I'm a bit late to the party, but better late than never, right? So. What's new? Gnome Shell 3.6 Visually, the changes are minimal, but Gnome Shell 3.6 brings a reworked Activities Overlay, reworked notification tray, and more. It's also MUCH faster! Bye Nautilus, Meet Files Don't shoot! I'm just a reporter! For those of you who have been avidly following the development of Ubuntu 12.10, you probably already know that Nautilus 3.6, now known as Files, has been stripped of many of the useful features we once loved, and sadly, they won't return. All is not lost though, as ...
Now I don't know what have I got myself into. I only have a Compaq Presario CQ41-203TX notebook, in which I do all sorts of things, blogging, testing, documentation, coding...... (I think my i5 CPU is going to explode soon) The weird thing is that when I launch Checkbox (Find "System Testing" in the Dash) it gets me to the audio tests. I can hear the things in the audio tests, and strangely it says that the test has failed. I am going to report the bug soon but just a bit of ranting here. How could they make such things that passed NOT = passed?! That is the world's most weird thing... P.S. guys 12.10 Beta 2 is coming ...
Note, I didn't say Gnome 3.6, so don't go looking for a release announcement yet ;). However, Gnome Shell 3.6, the core experience, is ready to go. This release brings a number of fixes and improvements (and it might be enough to stop me from hating Gnome Shell.... as much as I do :)). The first thing I noticed when I used it, is that the notification tray at the bottom is gone. This at first seems a good move (and it is), but it does come with a short coming if you use appindicators. As for the Application Overlay - it's fast. Very fast. Even faster than Unity. So fast that... well, it's fast. Gnome Shell will be ...
Today saw the release of Wine 1.5.13, and boy I tell ya, it's got some good stuff. Client side windows, transparent windows... wow. Highlights: Client-side window rendering using the DIB engine. Raw input support for keyboard and mouse. Support for transparent window areas using color keying. Proper C++ RTTI support on 64-bit. Implementation of logical processor information. Support for fonts with localized names. Various bug fixes. This could mean that some applications that were previously troublesome will finally work on Wine much more smoothly. Of course this remains to be seen. We may still not be able to run applications like Photoshop CS5, of course, but there are still a number of minor-name applications out there that some Windows users ...
Gstreamer 1.0, the first 1.x release... ever, is out. I won't go into all the deep technical details (that's not my field really when it comes to gstreamer), so I suggest you look here: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ As for a summary of the highlights (stolen from the official announcement): more flexible memory handling extensible and negotiable metadata for buffers caps negotiation and renegotiation mechanisms, decoupled from buffer allocation improved caps renegotiation automatic re-sending of state for dynamic pipelines reworked and more fine-grained pad probing simpler and more descriptive audio and video caps more efficient allocation of buffers, events and other mini objects improved timestamp handling support for gobject-inspection-based language bindings countless other improvements Gstreamer 1.0 is already available in the Ubuntu 12.10 ...