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Review : xPUD 0.9.2 Review light distribution

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xPUD 0.9.2 Review

xPUD distribution light wight distribution using simple web interface called plate user interface. this is a really good choice distribution to use if you want to get a quick access to internet or directories, multimedia files, document files, …..

You can install it in your USB, laptop, Notebook, Desktop, …  the good thing is the boot time really good booting time even in this review i was using it in my virtual machine “sun virtualbox”.

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main installed application mozilla firefox, mplayer, document reader, also you can get extra application using opt-get software center, it’s like synaptic package manager we using on ubuntu or mint distributions. you can find openoffice, skype, extra codecs for playing multimedia files, ….  all this application located on opt-get software center.

  • System requirement for this distribution

256MB RAM and 64MB free disk required.

also check the full video review “screencast” play in HD for better quality

To download xPUD 0.9.2 here

enjoy it, Thumb up if you like it  :)

Applications : 5 webcam applications for capture photos, videos, multiple photos, and security cameras

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webcam applications for capture photos, videos, multiple photos, and security cameras

1. Cheese

One of the most common application located on gnome project, first it was written by google summer code project. really liked effects you can add using cheese ” noir, edge,warp,dice,hulk,….

also you can use this applications for talking multiple photos or videos, customize to specific resolution you want, working in many different distributions you can find many download options for debian based distributions, fedora, ubuntu, mint, …..

More information and download

2. Camera Monitor

simple tool notify you if your camera is on or off. designed to work on gnome desktop work as well on KDE and Xfce

simply you can install it by terminal

sudo apt-get install cameramonitor

More information and download options for other distributions

3. Camorama

camorama is a program i wrote to learn gtk and v4l. as you can see, i am still learning ;) . it is pretty simple at the moment, and i hope to make it much more complete. i also plan to make it more generic, as i initially wrote it with only my own creative webcam 3 in mind. hopefully it will work with other cameras. i will test on anything i can get my hands on, but that might take a while.
right now you can change the video settings using the gui and apply some crappy filters i wrote to mess around with. it runs at a reasonable speed, but i would like to get the fps up as high as possible. still figuring that out.
as for requirements, you will need at least gnome 2 and v4l. i haven’t used anything else crazy, and that should do it.

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4. Gnome Security Camera “Gspy”

Gspy retrieves images from a video4linux device and processes these into a daily mpeg movie on the disk drive. Each image is recorded with a time stamp to insure accurate real world correlation. Special motion detection algorithms are used to reduce the size of the daily movies by eliminating pictures with similar content as well as the normal compression obtained via the mpeg process. The result is a time lapse video per day with nonlinear time compression using only the images of interest. This program will only run on Linux machines which support a video4linux-device in 640×480 capture size. This software has been tested with the 2.4.0-test1 kernel, 2.4.0-test4 and the 2.2.16 kernel with the usb backport patch. You should have the Berkeley MPEG Tools installed if you wish to generate the MPEG files. Gspy can be used without the MPEG tools, as it will fill a directory with jpg images that can be processed or viewed at a later time. Versions from 0.1.6 include a user defined command that is executed on each alarm. This command string can include a token(s) “%f%” that will get replaced with the alarm picture filename. Typical uses would be to copy the alarm picture to a remote site using ftp or scp, email the picture to someone, play a sound annoucement… “Step away from the keyboard!”, turn on lights using a parallel port or X10 interface, or ???. Have FUN

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5. Kamoso

My favorite webcam application for KDE, support many webcams, able to capture photos, videos, multiple photos. you can easily share your photos and videos directly from the application to facebook and twitter.

More informations and Download

that’s it for now.

Mobile : HTC EVO 4G

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Sprint announced the release of HTC EVO 4G this summer 2010, a lot of new features with this device will make it the best device so far. say hello for the first WiMAX device with android operating system with sprint contract. I believe it won’t take long time to be unlocked or released by another carrier.

so HTC EVO 4G with 4.3 inches TFT capacitive touch screen 480 x 800 pixels, 1 GHz snapdragon processor but with different model installed on HTC HD2 I believe it just improvement to processor structure to be able to do other features specially this device comes with 4G technology or WiMAX.

8 Mega pixel camera able to 720p video and 1.3 mega pixel camera in front for video calling and application required in front webcam. Built in 1 GB of memory and 512 MB of RAM and customizable microSD card slot but not sure if it will be upgradeable to 32 GB like HTC HD2 or maybe more.

Also you will be able to watch high definition movies with HDMI output. 1500 mAh Bigger battery life than HTC HD2 .

Android operating system installed version 2.1 with new sense UI version installed.

Sprint didn’t announce any details about pricing or when exactly it will be released this summer. rumor said it will be released this month April 2010 with 3G working only.

Thanks engadget for HTC evo 4G Hands on, and comparison HTC evo 4G vs Iphone 3gs vs nexus one :)

Also check engadget hands-on for HTC EVO 4G

Review : Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 released, before we begin this review check the release announcement and “release notes, Downloaad“.

we already reviewed ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 3 and Beta 1 , check the release notes for both older versions to know the improvement accomplished on last release.

so here we go,

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 review

Installed on virtual machine “sun virtualbox” application with this Hardware specifications:

  • single core processor 2.1 GHz
  • 512 MB of ram
  • 12 MB of video memory

# Installation Process

boot it first time as live session it was working good, after the installation it was working super fast really good.

after the installation it boot super fast, really impressed with booting time about 9 second booting time at first time booting, usually any operating system after the installation it boot really quick but after the installing any extra application you their will be some lagging time to boot up.

Their is not a big difference between Beta 1 and Beta 2 themes, both of them looks the same but at bug report their a lot of reported bugs on radiance theme fixed on ubuntu 10.04 beta2

same main installed packages for applications.

Yahoo still the default search engine on firefox instead of Google search engine. with firefox version 3.6.3, it’s up to you can change the search engine later firefox options.

using last version of Gnome so far ” Gnome 2.30″ , Linux kernel v 2.6.32

security issues fixed, improvement on ubuntu one, ubuntu enterprise cloud, new default open source driver for nvidia hardware

I really like the new version of nautilus comes with Gnome 2.30 if you are not familiar with nautilus and gnome 2.30 visit this link

really like the splitting view on windows, split view come really handy on to open to directory side by side with difference icon view really good.

To activate split mode on opened windows press F3 or go to view menu and select it.

also you can drag and drop folders and files split view.

same new features included with ubuntu 10.04 beta 2 with menus and right click menu for copying files to and moving to.

Pros :

Awesome booting time

Gnome 2.30 desktop really good with a lot of new features.

Ambiance and Radiance looks really good themes

Cons :

none, with me so far working really good I don’t have any problems, also thinking to install it as default distribution.

and we waiting for ubuntu 10.04 LTS final version April 29th 2010  :)

Give it a try, as usual please report any bugs you got,

here to know how to report any bugs you got to ubuntu community and Bugsquad

peace out  :)

Mobile : 10 free Android Applications

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Android operating system become really popular, a lot of new applications released everyday, android market place contain many free applications, and other paid applications.

Many applications will list it here  will help you a lot with multimedia files, system files, internet, Browser, phone book, PDF reader, Ringtones, Twitter app, IM messenger,……..

10 free android applications

so here we go,

1. Documents To Go

really good applications to open document files, excel files, PDF, and a lot of other formats (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx & pdf)

also you easily edit files formated for microsoft office 2007

really easy to access this application don’t take a lot of time, also really easy to use for regular day use.

More information and Download options

2. mVideoPlayer v1.6.2

This is really good application for playing multimedia files and the good thing multimedia files support mp4, m4v and 3gp

The good part about this application it’s support subtitles .srt extension.

other features with version 1.6.2

- Playlist
- Full screen
- Auto rotate

- IMDb info scraper to view movie information from Imdb.com

-On screen information: Time, Battery Status, Elapsed Time

More information and Download options

3. ASTRO File Manager 2.3.1


simple applications to access your files with really good interface, can read zip, tgz files.also backup, restore files, searching inside for specific file or folder

More information and download options

4. Steel version 0.1.9

Simple web browser application, light and quick access, work really good if you are on the run and you want a quick access for website

More information and download options

5. Phonebook 2.0


Inspired by instant messaging, social networks and life streaming applications, Voxmobili combined them into an all-in-one, easy to use application, Phonebook 2.0. It secures contacts, notifies end-users when they are online, displays birthday reminders and helps centralize all communications.
Phonebook 2.0 is a white label product for mobile operators. They can customize it, brand it as they wish and create a mobile social network from their subscriber base. This application is ideally suited to teenagers who always want to be in touch with their friends and businesses to help their employees keep valuable contacts secure and up-to-date.

More information and download options

6. Ringdroid 2.2


Awesome applications for modifying media files for making quick ringtones.

Features:

  • Open an existing audio file
  • View a scrollable waveform representation of the audio file at 5 zoom levels
  • Set starting and ending points for a clip within the audio file, using an optional touch interface
  • Play the selected portion of the audio, including an indicator cursor and autoscrolling of the waveform
  • Play anywhere else by tapping the screen
  • Save the clipped audio as a new audio file and mark it as Music, Ringtone, Alarm, or Notification.
  • Record a new audio clip to edit
  • Delete audio (with confirmation alert)
  • Launches automatically in response to the GET_CONTENT intent with a mime type of audio/ if any other application wants to pick an audio file – for example the “Rings Extended”application.
  • Assign a ringtone directly to a contact.

    • Supported file formats:

    • MP3
    • AAC/MP4 (including unprotected iTunes music)
    • WAV
    • 3GPP/AMR (this is the format used when you record sounds directly on the handset)

    More information and download options

    7. Opera mini 5

    Popular applications for internet web browser, really quick access for websites, working in full screen browsing.

    great access for bookmark, zooming features,  manage download for files through opera mini

    More information and download options

    8.  twidroid

    Awesome Twitter client, easy to access your last twittes, your followers twittes, posting photos to twittes, access lists maded by you or or other friends.

    video posting inside twittes, this applications comes with two version free version and other one paid with extra features

    More information and download options

    9. meebo

    one of the most popular IM messenger applications , really good interface, and awesome way to chat with your friends all the time.

    Log into all your IM accounts and send messages for free! With Meebo for Android, you’ll never miss a message. Available now from the Android Market for all Android devices.

    More information and download options

    10. Quick Settings v1.8.5

    Really handy applications to get a quick access to many settings and easily to change this options such as Brightness, Ringer type, Volume control, WiFi, Network data (on/off & 2G/3G setting shortcut), Bluetooth, GPS (shortcut), Screen Timeout, Airplane mode, Auto-sync, Auto rotation, and Lock pattern

    More information and download options

    will post more soon

    That’s it for now.

    How to add repositories on Ubuntu 9.10

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    Common applications installed using synaptic package manager already installed by referring from default repositories added on ubuntu 9.10 or any other version it’s the same way to add extra repositories for other distributions such as ubuntu 10.04 LTS beta 1

    Default repositories on ubuntu monitored by ubuntu community, so in this post i will show you how to add extra repositories for ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 LTS beta 1 as well.

    1. Adding repositories

    you can get access to it using:

    a.  synaptic package manger

    System menu  —> Administration —> Synaptic —> Settings —> Repositories

    b.  System menu —> Administration —> Software Sources

    Common repositories already added on software sources by ubuntu and kubuntu. some application need to add extra repositories to be able to install it in your machine, will use this as example

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/moovida-packagers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

    access the software sources, will ask you for root password then go to other software and press add button and paste the apt line like this one up there

    If you want to backup all repositories you already have type this command on terminal

    sudo cp -i /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup

    This will copy you repositories list to this folder “./etc/apt/ ” with name called sources.list_backup

    2. adding repositories key

    some application need repositories key to get rid of so warning massages during the installations

    so you will find more instructions on the website for installing this package and it will mention repositories key you can add it directly from the terminal.

    That’s it for now. :)

    Cleaning Ubuntu : 8 apps to clean Ubuntu from orphan packages and unnecessary files

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    Many Ubuntu  new users complain about uncompleted removed software , as many of them are looking for softwares which can make this job easily as they are not fans of the old classic command-line way .

    Cleaning up Ubuntu , is necessary to remove the orphan packages which are result of incomplete removal of the package , configurations ,  Cache .

    There are some very helpful applications which can help you keeping your Ubuntu installation clean .

    1 – UbuntuTweak http://ubuntu-tweak.com/ :
    My favorite application for tweaking Ubuntu it also provide cleaning tool for removing orphan packages , clearing cache , configurations , and most importantly cleaning Kernel .

    2 – GtkOrphan http://www.marzocca.net/linux/gtkorphan.html :
    Small but effective graphical tool to use  remove orphaned libraries . It also provide control for Non-orphaned packages .

    3 – Computer Janitor :
    Small lightweight app to  find and remove unused software packages , as it provide selection of recommended list of packages and configuration tips .

    4 – KleanSweep :
    Very useful and helpful application provides many features to clean up   Ubuntu installation and the hard disk from empty files , empty files , backup files , broken symbolic links , broken executables , dead menu entries , duplicate files , orphan packages , and obsolete thumbnails .

    5 – Sweeper :
    Cleans the system from unwanted files as web browsing cache , saved clipboard contents , recent documents , Thumbnails cache .

    6 – FSlint (FileSystem Lint)  http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ :
    it is a tool for removing duplicates from Ubuntu , it looks for duplicate files , installed packages ,  bad name clashes , temporary files , broken symbolic links , empty directories .

    7 -  BleachBit http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/ :
    Is a small very useful system tool to clean up the system from unnecessary files .  The most important feature is cleaning the system from software temporary and cache files such as adobe reader , Firefox , Java , OpenOffice , Opera , and many other application .

    8- Debian Package Search http://packagesearch.sourceforge.net/ :

    It searches the installed debian packages and provides information about the packages as well as it look-up for the orphan packages .

    Element 1.1 Review

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    Element 1.1 just released today march 28, 2010

    Element is an Ubuntu-based distribution for home theatre or media-centre personal computers featuring a ten-foot user interface and designed to be connected to a HDTV for a digital media and Internet experience within the comforts of a living room or entertainment area. Element comes pre-loaded with dozens of applications that will allow listening to, viewing, and managing music, videos, photos, and Internet media.

    Check the release notes and announcement

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    LinuxNov Review for Element 1.1

    Used it on virtual machine “virtual box” as a live session with this hardware specifications

    • single core processor  2.1 Ghz
    • 1 GB of Ram
    • 12 MB of video memory
    • with extended hard driver space in case installed it

    Booting time was really good, I didn’t expect a quick booting time for live session, I believe it will be much better if you installed on machine not on virtual machine.

    A lot of people are really big fans with media centers applications, this one it awesome it’s using xbmc my favorite media center application, it’s really customizable with a lot of themes and extra plugin follow these links for plugins and scripts for xbmc 1 2 .

    xbmc website Follow this link

    xbmc skins Follow this link

    Versions of most important packages:

    linux 2.6.31, glibc 2.10.1, gcc 4.4.1, python 2.6.4, pidgin 2.6.5, gtk+ 2.18.3,  xfce 4.6.1, xbmc 9.11, firefox 3.5.8, transmission 1.83, decibel-audio-player 1.01, vlc 1.0.2, brasero 2.28.2, element-app-finder 1.0

    Using Desktop environment Xfce 4.6.1  awesome modifications for the desktop. for easy access for main applications on the distribution itself such as ” firefox, Home directory, VLC, Xbmc, …”

    Pros :

    It’s Awesome distributions specially for multimedia files, watching many movies with different extensions using xbmc and vlc, and for sure it’s customizable to download extra packages or multimedia applications, “maybe you will need to install extra codecs”

    Really liked the Xfce desktop environment with this customizations “ middle dock for main applications”

    Awesome booting Time

    Cons :

    Many windows don’t fit on the screen, maybe cause I am using it on virtual machine with 800X600 resolution

    Not all applications are up to date.

    Screenshots time :

    Please leave your feedback, and enjoy it.

    6 Google Chrome extensions every web developer must use

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    Hello guys,

    When google released version 4 with extensions compatibility Google chrome extensions comes really handy.

    I like how google chrome separate tabs and extensions with each process for task manager, to get access to it press ” Shift + Escape “.

    so, here are 6 google chrome extensions for web developer, Development, SEO, quick customization, CSS, HTML, validations, page ranking, …


    1. iPageRank | SEO Tool

    Unlike all the other PageRank checkers, this one will tell you, how much PR will be transfered to your site with a dofollow link on that page.
    It is handy to see if a site would be worth your time of commenting or requesting a backlink.
    As well as that, it tells you, how many links, follow links, follow external links and follow internal links there are on that page.
    It also uses a random Google server to fetch the PageRank value to stop you being throttled by Google

    More information and installation

    2. CSSViewer

    

    

    CSSViewer shows the css parameters of any element in a web page, to enable/disable it simply click the toolbar icon.
    

    
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    3.  Chrome SEO
    

    

    The Google Chrome SEO Extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks, PageRank Checks and other daily SEO tasks.
    

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    4. Web Developer
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with
    

    various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.

    


    

    

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    Resolution Test changes the size of the browser window for developers to preview their websites in different screen resolutions. It includes a list of commonly used resolutions as well as a custom option for you to input your own. It also gives users the option to turn on Google Browser Size, more info on that here - http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/
    

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    6. W3C (x)HTML Validator
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    
 
    

    

    

    

    Display one of 3 icons (valid, invalid, processing) in navigation bar related to validity of (x)HTML document currently shown.
    

    
NEW IN VERSION 0.2 (Let's call it Beta, after the comment from Jörn)

- If valid by clicking the icon, you get the doctype as found by the w3c.

- If invalid, number of errors/warnings is displayed directly on invalid icon.

- By clicking the icon of an invalid page, you get a summary of errors and warnings and can navigate through them, infos are : Line and column where error was found and the message explaining the issue.

- You can also click on the link at the bottom of the popup to get every details about issues encountered in the page.
    


    

    


    
					
    
		
		
	
    
				
					
	
    
		
    
						
    Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 with Radiance theme “Light theme”
    
			
						
    
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    Radiance theme ” light theme” for ubuntu 10.04 beta 1
    

     
    

     
    

    

    Looks really good, also, their some reported bugs about this theme. please if you got any problem or any kind of crashes report it so the ubuntu community able to fix it on next release. enjoy it.
    

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    Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 Review
    
			
						
    
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    Hello guys,
    

    Already reviewed ubuntu 10.04 alpha 3 here, as you will see in this post a big difference between ubuntu 10.04 alpha 3 and beta 1 version, New default theme that mentioned on ubuntu fresh look post ….
    

    Release notes & Download  Release announcement 
    

    Hardware specification:
    

    this is the hardware specification used to run this version of ubuntu 10.04
    

      

    • 1 core processor 2.1 Ghz 
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    • 1 GB of ram
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    • 12 Mb of video memory
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    with this hardware spec it was working great guys, so i believe if you have a decent machine it will work better.
    

    Installation process :
    

    Installed on Virtual machine “sun virtualbox”
    

    

    

    

    First Boot after completing the installation
    

    

    “Close, minimize, maximize” button in the left side of the title bar
    

    

    More option added to right click menu for sharing to ubuntu one, moving to and copy to even it’s  a file or folder
    

    

    

    Pitivi default video editor
    

    

    New look for Ubuntu software center
    

    

    Yahoo is the default search engine for firefox 3.6, but it’s up to you can change it later to any other search engine
    

    

    Terminal background color looks really good specially with this theme, also it’s up to you can change it later.
    

    New menu to control your chat account what ever it’s ” pidgin or empathy” , controlling Gwibber, and ubuntu one
    

    

    Gwibber works really good here , I faced many problem with using it on ubuntu 10.04 alpha 3 version. but it’s working great now even it’s a development version till now.
    

    

    Sound preference with better control access menu.
    

    

    Overall after the installation:
    

    It was working really good, much better than the older version “alpha 3″
    

    Ubuntu 10.04 beta 2 will release at 8th of April, and the final version will release 29th of  April.
    

    with first installation on virtualbox with 16 mb of video memory it was working a little bit slower.
    


    

    

    Please guys leave your feedback, try to install it in your machine and report any bugs you faced so the development community able to fix many bugs for next release.
    

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    Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 Released
    
			
						
    
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    According to ubuntu 10.04 schedule, it was released yesterday, but Steve Langasek  announced that it will be delayed one more day to Friday March 19 ,
    

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-March/000695.html
    

    

    Dear developers,

Owing to some late image rebuilds for a couple of critical issues that we
didn't want to leave our beta users subjected to, validation of 10.04 Beta 1
is still in progress.  This means that Beta 1 will not be released on
Thursday, March 18 as planned; it will be released tomorrow, March 19.

To help us release the beta with confidence tomorrow, please consider
participating in the ISO testing today, as described at
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO>.

Also, as you're going through ISO tests, please also help us fill in the
blanks on <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Plymouth> so we can complete our
understanding of the remaining boot-time issues affecting Beta 1 and make
Beta 2 truly spectacular!

Thanks,
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Steve Langasek
On behalf of the Ubuntu release team
    

    

    Fixed a lot of bugs since alpha 3 version, improved nvidia graphics driver, ubuntu one syncing, new themes, we reviewed in ubuntu fresh look.
    

    Will review it as soon I done download it.
    

    also you can Download ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 from here
    

    And more information, mirrors  Here