The Last Maintenance Release For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx Is Here

Posted on February 17, 2012 by mhnassif

The Long Term Support release Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has reached its final stage of maintenance for this release with the Forth release Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. Now it’s available to download and the other flavor of Ubuntu with KDE desktop “Kubuntu” is available as well. The final release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin will take the place of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which suppose to be release in April 26th,2012. However, Ubuntu will keep providing support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx desktop till 2013 and till 2015 for server. Continue reading →

Blender 2.62 Has Been Released | Changelog | Download

Posted on February 17, 2012 by mhnassif

Blender is a free and open-source graphics applications allows you to create an advanced 3D animated content. It works on all major operating systems such as Linux, MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows. Today, blender developer community announced the last release of Bledner 2.6x series which is version 2.62. Continue reading →

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Updates: Adds Capability To Hide System Indicator Icons From Unity Panel

Posted on February 16, 2012 by mhnassif

Hiding some of the preloaded system indicator icons could become handy to give you more room in the top panel in case you need it for other indicators you have recently installed, specially for displays with small resolution. Now you will be able to control system indicator icons visibility on the top panel of Unity user interface for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Continue reading →

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Updates: Unity Greeter Improvements

Posted on February 15, 2012 by mhnassif

Unity Greeter is the login screen for LightDM desktop display manager. The latest Unity Greeter version 0.2.1 for the development release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin brings several improvements to the user interface and some new features. Continue reading →

LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC3 | Consider It as The Final Release

Posted on February 10, 2012 by mhnassif

LibreOffice 3.5.0 final release is not officially released yet, however the LibreOffice facebook page announced that, the final release is bit-by-bit identical to the release candidate 3. So, for who don’t want to wait to get the final release you can simply download the pre-release LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC3 and consider it as the final release. Continue reading →

A New Unity Mockup For Ubuntu 12.10 | Video Preview

Posted on February 6, 2012 by mhnassif

Since Unity user interface became the default desktop shell for Ubuntu releases, with each release of Ubuntu we see a new layout design for Unity dash, Unity lenses, and some new features comes on board, as we have seen on the last development release of Unity version 5.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Even though the final release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin is not released yet, here’s a creative mockup design of Unity user interface for Ubuntu 12.10 the upcoming release. Continue reading →

Firefox 11 Brings 3D Web Page Visualizer and CSS Style Editor

Posted on February 5, 2012 by mhnassif

Mozilla Firefox 11 web browser the latest development release brings several new features improves the web browsing experience for regular users and better developing environment for web developers. A couple of new developer features added lately to the Beta version of Mozilla Firefox 11 are a style editor for CSS editing web page elements and 3D web page visualizer tool allows you to easily check the web page structure in 3D. Continue reading →

LIVES 1.6.1 Video Editor Has Been Released | Changelog | Download

Posted on February 4, 2012 by mhnassif

LIVES is a free and open-source non-linear video editor. It has a simple user interface with many powerful features. it support a various types of audio/video formats and capable of rendering to advanced video coding “AVC”. The latest development release LIVES 1.6.1 brings OpenGL playback plugins, graphical user interface fixes and some bug fixes. Continue reading →

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Updates: Unity 5.2 Is Available to Update

Posted on February 3, 2012 by mhnassif

One day after the official release of Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 LTS Precise Pangolin, Unity 5.2 user interface is available to update from Precise repository. The last release brings several changes to Unity Dash and Compiz improvements to decrease Ubuntu Unity plugin crashes. Continue reading →

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Has Been Released | Download

Posted on February 3, 2012 by mhnassif

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 with codename “Precise Pangolin” has been released along with the second Alpha of other Ubuntu flavors such as “Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu”. Many of the recent changes to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin “development branch” we already have seen in the past few weeks in earlier posts at LinuxNov. However, let’s check what’s the release notes includes for Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 and Download options. Continue reading →

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Updates: The HUD will Replace Application Menus

Posted on February 2, 2012 by mhnassif

A few days ago, Mark Shuttleworth introduced the HUD in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. The HUD is a new way to search through application menus and run the required option directly using the HUD which stand for Head-Up Display. The HUD will replace menus for all applications supporting global menu. Continue reading →

Mozilla Firefox 10 Web Browser Has Been Released | What’s New | Download

Posted on February 1, 2012 by mhnassif

The latest stable release Mozilla Firefox 10 web browser for desktop and mobile users has been released. Firefox 10 for desktop users brings improvements to the user interface, better add-ons compatibility, CSS 3D-Transforms and several enhancements. Continue reading →