 | Amarok 2.2.2 Beta 1, nicknamed “Tattoo” was released about a week ago. Now, it is available for (K)Ubuntu 9.10 users in the Kubuntu Beta PPA. Amarok 2.2.2 Beta 1 “Tattoo” brings many new changes. Most notable changes are two features from Amarok 1.4 series that has made a comeback: |
| KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Beta 2 was released a few days back. Now it is available for installation in your Kubuntu Karmic system as well. This article will tell you how to do it. WARNING: THIS IS A BETA RELEASE. SO, PLEASE TREAT IT AS SUCH AND REFRAIN FROM INSTALLATION IN A PRODUCTION MACHINE. Now,… |
| KDE SC 4.4 was released few days back and it came with lots of improvement and some interesting new features including the much talked about and much anticipated – introduction of ‘Tabs’ (similiar to what we have on every modern day browsers) in to mainstream desktop window manager. Recently, the Kubuntu guys added this smoking hot KDE SC release into their Beta PPA…. |
 | In a very surprise announcement, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, announced today that he will be stepping down as the CEO of Canonical Ltd. by March 2010. The position of CEO will be handed over to Jane Silber, who is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Canonical Ltd. Shuttleworth… |
| The GNOME community is considering a split from the GNU Project. The proposal for the split came from senior GNOME developer Philip Van Hoof who proposed a voting in this matter. For the voting to take place, the proposal need to first get support from 10% of the members. The whole issue started after a… |
 | The first alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is now available for testing. This will will be followed by two more alphas, two betas and an RC before the final release in April 2010. You can see the complete released schedule here. This release is meant purely for testing and not for production use. |
 | Usplash which was used in Ubuntu 9.04 was replaced by Xsplash in Ubuntu 9.10 to provide a faster boot. Now, the Ubuntu team is replacing Xsplash with Plymouth. Plymouth is already in use Fedora. The reason for switching to plymouth is because xsplash was not able to provide a flicker free experience as expected. |
| Update: It seems like another malware was found in a theme called “Ninja Black”. A malware has been found in a .deb file claiming to be a screensaver from Gnome-Look. The malware appears to be an agent for a DDoS attack. This affects Ubuntu and other Debian based OS as well. The .deb file in… |
