The second point release of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS (Long-Term Support) is out today with security fixes, newer kernel (3.16) and X support.
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS includes Linux Kernel 3.16 and an updated version of the Xorg display server from the Utopic 14.10 release. These newer enablement stacks are meant for desktop and server use only, and not recommended for cloud or virtual images.
Linux Kernel 3.16 was released in August 2014. It features 64-bit ARM EFI stub support, new Synaptics input driver, initial GK20A support, and more. See this article for details.
Download:
To download the .iso files of Ubuntu 14.04.2 and its flavors, go to:
For Ubuntu 14.04 and/or 14.04.1 users, just install all the system updates via Software Updater or run below commands one by one in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
For the Kernel 3.16 and updated X stack, you have to install below packages manually by running command:
Paper project is a GTK3 and icon theme suite inspired by Google’s material design guidelines. They are developed by Sam Hewitt, the man behind the Moka icons project.
Paper started as a single GTK3 theme. It’s developed primarily for GNOME 3 and other GTK3 desktops. Its design is mostly flat with a minimal use of shadows for depth and looks really beautiful in desktops that make use of the GTK3 headerbars/client-side decorations (e.g. Gnome Shell).
Paper icon theme is under serious development. The GNOME icon theme is the fallback set for missing icons.
How to Install Paper GTK3 & Icon themes:
The developer has created a daily build PPA, available for Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and derivatives.
To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:
Bomi, formerly known as CMPlayer, is a graphical user interface (GUI) player based on mpv for Linux. It aims to be easy to use and also provides various powerful features and convenience functions.
By taking the advantage of mpv and GUI, bomi provides various features:
User-friendly interface: all features are available in context menu
Unlimited playback history
Automatic playlist generation and restoration
render styled subtitles such as SAMI and ASS format, bomi can render multiple subtitle files at the same time.
bomi supports hardware-accelerated decoding by GPU. bomi will utilize available native API for the system between VA-API and VDPAU.
dvd playback, image slide show, and other more basical player features.
Install Bomi player from PPA:
1. If you have CMPlayer installed on your system, you have to remove it first since it conflicts with bomi.
To do so, open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run below command:
sudo apt-get remove cmplayer
2. Bomi has an official PPA that contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Linux Mint 17.1.
To add the PPA, run below command in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:darklin20/bomi
3. Finally search for and install bomi via Synaptic Package Manager, or by running below commands one by one:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bomi
For those who don’t want to add PPA, grab the .deb installer directly from the PPA packages page.
Nuvola Player 3, a cloud music integration for your Linux desktop, now is at beta build and is recommended for general usage.
Nuvola Player is an open-source music player that integrates cloud music services like Google Music, Rdio, Spotify, Grooveshark, Jango, etc with your desktop.
Nuvola Player 3 has been rewritten from scratch and contains plenty of improvements over Nuvola Player 2. Now it provides an official Linux repository currently supports Ubuntu 14.04 (Linux Mint 17.1), Ubuntu 14.10, Fedora 20-21 and Debian Jessie and Sid.
Supported Music Services:
Nuvola Player 3 currently ships with five music streamimg services:
Deezer 2.2 – Jiří Janoušek
Google Play Music 5.0 – Jiří Janoušek
Grooveshark 4.0 – Jiří Janoušek
Jango 2.0 – Stefano Bagnatica
This is My Jam 2.0 – Jan Vlnas
Five more services are in preparation and will be added to the repository when finished:
Rdio (Aaron Cripps)
Bandcamp (Jiří Janoušek)
Spotify (Michael Nye)
KEXP Live Stream (Michael Nye)
Synology Audio Station (Daniel Schep).
8tracks (Jiří Janoušek)
How to Install Nuvola 3 in Ubuntu:
NOTE: Nuvola Player 3 won’t replace Nuvola Player 2 in you system. You can keep using Nuvola Player 2 until Nuvola Player 3 is stable enough for you.
1. Add Nuvola Player stable repository.
Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to create and edit a repository file:
When the file opens, paste below into it (For Ubuntu 14.10, replace trusty with utopic) and save the file:
deb https://tiliado.eu/nuvolaplayer/repository/deb/ trusty stable
2. The official website does not mention the repository gpg key. But sudo apt-get update command outputs below error:
W: GPG error: https://tiliado.eu trusty InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40554B8FA5FE6F6A
This can be easily fixed by running below command to receive the key:
ScudCloud is an unofficial, open-source Ubuntu Linux desktop client for Slack team communication tool.
Slack is a team communication tool founded by Stewart Butterfield, it offers one-on-one messaging, private groups, persistent chat rooms, direct messaging as well as group chats. All content inside Slack is searchable from one search box. Slack integrates with a number of third-party services, including Google Docs, Dropbox, Heroku, Crashlytics, GitHub and Zendesk.
So far, slack provides Mac, iOS, and Android apps, as well as Web versions. ScudCloud is an non official Linux client that uses the QT library + Webkit to render the web version of Slack, but using the QWebkit-Native bridge to improve desktop integration with:
native system notifications,
count of unread notifications at launcher icon,
launcher icon wobbling on new messages,
and channels quicklist at launcher icon.
Ubuntu users can easily install the client from the developer’s PPA. So far, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and derivatives are supported.
Just open up terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run 3 commands one by one to add PPA, update system cache and install the app:
Oracle has released a new maintenance release for VirtualBox 4.3 series. For Linux Guests, X.Org server 1.17 now is supported, guest additions do not build with 3.19 kernel issue is fixed.
Full changes in VirtualBox 4.3.22:
VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves timekeeping for guests
VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the virtual APIC
VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)
GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content
GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update check on Windows hosts
GUI: never send the “ACPI power” keyboard scancode to the guest, we have the ACPI power button for that
GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances
VBoxHeadless: don’t crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings
ATA: fixed several passthrough issues
Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio input device
SB16: fixed compatibility issue
Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the IDE controller
NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts
NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to guest with TCP RST or ICMP
NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP and VBoxNetNAT
Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an “Unidentified network”
Bridged Networking: don’t leak host-to-guest traffic to the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface
Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading to a deadlock under rare conditions
VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed
API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling
API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads, sporadically resulting in a deadlock
SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox webservice API binding
Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later)
X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens on multi-monitor guests
X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus is available but dbus-daemon isn’t running
Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over Remote Desktop connection.
Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews
Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernels
Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading the VBoxGuest module
Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes
Download / Install VirtualBox in Ubuntu:
For Linux, you can either download the .deb installer (click install .deb package via Software Center) from:
Quick tutorial shows how to upgrade to the latest gThumb image viewer and organizer in Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon.
gThumb is a free and open-source image viewer, browser, and editor for Gnome Desktop. While Linux Mint 17.1 still provides gThumb 3.27, the latest version has reached the 3.3.3 release with new image tools, bug fixes and translations updates.
New features and user visible changes:
Allow to apply the embedded color profile for jpeg images.
New image tools: special effects; curves.
Unified ‘equalize histogram’ and ‘adjust contrast’: show a preview of the various contrast filters.
Grayscale tool: show a preview of the different filters.
Fixed the interface style when used with gtk+ 3.14
File propery view: use a switcher; added a details page that show all the metadata, show only the important exif fields in the properties page.
UI changes to the preferences dialog: use a sidebar instead of a notebook to avoid a large dialog with some translations; better spacing; removed the Ok button.
Video player: save the screenshot without showing the dialog. Allow to set the screenshots location in the extension preferences dialog. Show a message in the statusbar after saving.
Gear menu: use the new icon if using gtk+ 3.13 or newer
Bugs fixed:
video player: do not hide the mediabar when using the volume control
Forbidden when trying to upload to Flickr (#732557)
Build against either webkit2gtk-3.0 or webkit2gtk-4.0 (Dominique Leuenberger)
How to install / upgrade gThumb in Mint Cinnamon:
1. Open terminal and run below command to add the Webupd8 PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/gthumb
2. Open Update Manager from menu, click “Refresh” button and then you should see the gThumb 3.3.3 available for upgrade (make sure you have upgrade to mintupdate 4.8.1).
HomeBank, a free personal finance software, was finally ported to GTK+3 by releasing version 5.0. Here’s how to install or upgrade it in Ubuntu.
Besides being migrated to GTK+ 3, HomeBank 5.0 also brings new reworked icon set, new stack chart for budget report, added a file statistics dialog, reworked and refactored import process to ease import, and some bug-fixes. For the details, see the changlog.
How to install / upgrade to HomeBank 5 in Ubuntu:
While Ubuntu repositories provide an old version of this money management software, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Ubuntu 15.04 users can install/upgrade to the latest version via official HomeBank PPA.
Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mdoyen/homebank
Then upgrade HomeBank through ‘Software Updater’, or install it by running below commands one by one:
