Ubuntu 10.04, which will appear next April 2010 as Canonical's long-anticipated third LTS (Long Term Support) release, will feature substantial changes in the lineup of applications installed by default. Here's a look at the biggest ones, with some thoughts.
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Network Manager Docklet Coming To AWN
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Avant Window Navigator, a popular dock for Linux, is going to be getting a shiny new network manager docklet.
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After 3.5 year hiatus, VLOS returns with 2.0 Alpha release
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After a 3.5 year hiatus, VLOS (Vida Linux) has a new release available of their upcoming 2.0 release. The 2.0 release is currently slotted for a final release in February of 2010.
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Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) Alpha 1 is coming on 10th December 2009
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Next Thursday, December 10th, Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 is going to be released.
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KDE Power: Video Demo (64-Bit)
Track Your Missing Notebook with Pombo
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To recover a lost or stolen notebook, you need all the help you can get -- and this is where Pombo can come in rather handy.
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A close look at the Android OS
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Android OS is about to make the migration from mobile phone to netbook PC (most likely thanks to Asus). If you’ve not seen an Android-based phone, you most likely are not aware just what the possibilities are
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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. The best Ubuntu ever. Period.
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Having tried the Alpha 5 in September and finding it stable and fast in my laptop, I was very eager to try the official release. The verdict in 2 words is: It rocks!! And yes, the brown-orange theme has finally gone away!!
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Sun's VirtualBox Revs, Perhaps for the Last Time
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For years it seems Sun Microsystems seems to be one of those companies ahead of the curve yet missing the boat. This week's release of VirtualBox 3.1 is no exception to that
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HOWTO Install Multiple Wine Versions on One System
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Wine Technology advances at a rapid rate, in the last month we have seen two updates to Wine 1.1.33 and 1.1.34. Many of us like to stay using the latest and greatest Wine software with good reason each new version typically fixes issues and improves performance however on occasion a new Wine release will suffer from some regressions...
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Custom Toolbar Buttons for Thunderbird
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If you watched the video and wondered what the JavaScript code was for my "Move Junk" button in Thunderbird, then read on. If you haven't watched the video, this article describes how to add custom toolbar buttons to Thunderbird using the Custom Buttons addon.
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Performous brings Karaoke to Linux
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Performous is a karaoke game for Linux that brings the popular past time to the operating system in a unique and entertaining way. Performous has recently seen an update with the release of version 0.4.0.
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Wine 1.1.34 Released
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The Wine development release 1.1.34 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
What's new in this release:
- Many fixes for crypto certificates support.
- A lot of MSHTML improvements.
- Various fixes to support the Left 4 Dead 2 DRM.
- A number of OLE marshalling fixes.
- More Listview improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
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Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package
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Google is forking existing FOSS code bits for Chromium like a rabbit makes babies: frequently, and usually, without much thought. Rather than leverage the existing APIs from upstream projects like icu, libjingle, and sqlite (just to name a few), they simply fork a point in time of that code and hack their API to shreds for chromium to use.
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Acetone: Mount and manage your CD/DVD ISOs
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I have been working with the Acetone ISO manager and have been in awe at how much this tool can do. The creators of Acetone call it a CD/DVD image manager, but from my perspective it is much more than that.
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