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Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and MATE Releases Available for Download

Last updated: November 30, 2014

Linux Mint Team finally announced the release of 17.1 “Rebecca” Cinnamon and MATE editions, which is a long term support release based on Ubuntu 14.04 that will be supported until 2019.

According to the release note, the Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

Linux Mint 17.1 features:

Cinnamon 2.4 / MATE 1.8
MDM 1.8
Out of the box support for Compiz (MATE edition)
Linux kernel 3.13
Ubuntu 14.04 package base
Update Manager now groups packages together according to their source package.
Redesigned UI of Language Settings.
Redesigned Login Window Preferences.
System, Artwork, and Other Improvements.

Both the Linux Mint 17 and 17.1 RC can upgrade to the new release through Updater Manager. For the 17.1 RC release just install any level 1 update you haven’t installed already.

ISO download link: www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Release notes: blog.linuxmint.com/

In Linux Mint, News Linux Mint 17.1, Ubuntu 14.04

Midori Browser 0.5.9 Released With Important Bug Fixes

Last updated: February 16, 2018

The Midori Browser 0.5.9 “Ballet” was released recently with various important bug fixes. The developer announced in the blog post:

Seven months of sweat and tears… oh well, not quite so dramatic. In any event Midori 0.5.9 is out!

We’re already scheming… I mean planning for the next cycle. We want to go WebKit2 and GTK+3 only now and do away with the fourfold compatibility setup. Anyone who finds this thrilling is more than welcome to join in; the fun is going to start soon.

According to the changelog, the 0.5.9 release brings below changes:

Fix the problem that Downloads do not work with WebKit2
about:new in urlbar for new tabs has been fixed.
Fix visibility of SpeedDial, Toolbar, Bookmarkbar context menu items
Fix crash right-clicking forms on local pages
Fix crash when activating the edit menu
Fix “open all in tabs” for bookmarks
Fix crash when saving with associated resources
Fixes tab history undo
Fix a few simple leaks
Show search menu upon left icon click in location bar
Connect bookmarks-db singleton correctly to fix menus
Make middle clicking reload button duplicate the current tab, similar to other browsers

For the detailed changes, read the ChangeLog file from the Source Code page.

How to Install / Upgrade to Midori 0.5.9:

The 0.5.9 release is ~~not yet~~ now available in the official PPA. ~~If you really want to install or upgrade to the new release, use the Development PPA~~. Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 are supported so far.

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:midori/ppa && sudo apt-get update

2. After added the PPA, install the package via below command:

To install the GTK+2 version:

sudo apt-get install midori

~~To install the GTK+3 version:~~

sudo apt-get install midori-gtk3

3. (Optional) To remove the PPA as well as midori:

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:midori/ppa

sudo apt-get remove midori

In Howtos, News midori lightweight browser

Ubuntu 14.10 And Its Flavors Officially Released

Last updated: October 24, 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn and its flavors including the newest Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu Studio were officially released today.

According to the release note, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 3.16-based kernel, a new AppArmor with fine-grained socket control, and more.

Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and improvements to Unity, including improved High-DPI display support.

Ubuntu Server 14.10 includes the Juno release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications – whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86 or ARM servers, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to Ceph, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features.

Kubuntu 14.10:

Kubuntu 14.10 comes in two flavours, the stable Plasma 4 running the desktop we know from previous releases, and a tech preview of the next generation Plasma 5 for early adopters.

See: www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14.10.

Lubuntu 14.10:

Lubuntu 14.10 mainly features:

General bug fix release as we prepare for LXQt.
Many LXDE components have been updated with bug fix releases.
An update of the artwork (more icons, theme update, more compatibilities …).

See: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu

Xubuntu 14.10:

Xubuntu 14.10 features new Xfce Power Manager plugin in panel and ittems in the newly themed alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse.

See: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/Xubuntu.

Other Flavors:

Ubuntu Gnome 14.10: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME

UbuntuKylin 14.10: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylin

UbuntuStudio 14.10: wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio

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LXQt 0.8.0 Released with Full Qt 5 Compatibility

Last updated: October 20, 2014

LXQt, the next generation of LXDE, has just reached release 0.8.0, which brings full Qt 5 compatibility, two beautiful new themes, and a lot of new features.

LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects.

According to the release note, LXQt 0.8.0 brings below changes:

Full Qt 5 support. Run cmake with -DUSE_QT5 to enable it.
New component: lxqt-admin. This brings an optional set of basic admin tools such as configuration for date & time as well as users and groups.
New theme: Plasma Next. Based on KDE Plasma Next theme.
New theme: Dark Alpha, by Inti Alonso.
Much improved support for multiple displays.
Support for RGBA transparency if compositing is available.
lxqt-config-randr has been removed. It has been replaced by lxqt-config-monitor.
pcmanfm-qt: Support single-click to activate items
pcmanfm-qt: Support drag & drop on the desktop
pcmanfm-qt: Implement integration with the ark archive manager
pcmanfm-qt: Improve readability in icon view
lxqt-panel: Support reordering of taskbar buttons
lxqt-panel: Support “urgency” hint
lxqt-panel: Add support for OSS in volume control, if available
lxqt-powermanagement: Improved compatibility with systemd/logind
Integrate with compton if available (disabled by default)
Add support for setting a default UI font
Lots of performances improvements.
Lots and lots of bugfixes.

How to install LXQt in Ubuntu:

A daily build PPA is available in ppa:lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily, so far it supports Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivatives.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run below commands one by one to add the PPA and install LXQt session:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install lxqt-metapackage lxqt-session lxsession

Once installed, log out or restart. When you’re at the Unity Greeter choose log in with a LXQt session.

(Optional) To remove this Desktop Environment, run below command in terminal:

sudo apt-get remove lxqt-metapackage lxqt-session && sudo apt-get autoremove

In Howtos, News LXDE, LXQt

Final Beta of Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Available for Download

Last updated: September 29, 2017

Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 2 and its official flavors are now available for download.

This Beta features images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Cloud.

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 14.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.

Codenamed “Utopic Unicorn”, 14.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

This beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu flavours.

The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 14.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 23rd, 2014.

see the official release note.

According to Ubuntu 14.10’s release schedule, there will be:

Kernel Freeze on October 9th
Final Freeze and Release Candidate on October 16th
Final Release of Ubuntu 14.10 (Stable) on October 23rd

What to expect in the Ubuntu 14.10 Final:

Both Unity 8 (Mir) and Unity 7 (X.org) available.
Ubuntu 14.10 will bring better 3G mobile modems.
Kubuntu 14.10 will be using KDE Plasma 5.

Download Ubuntu 14.10 Beta 2:

For Unity: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/14.10/
For Kubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/14.10/
For Lubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/14.10/
For Ubuntu Gnome: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/14.10/
For UbuntuKylin: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/14.10/
For UbuntuStudio: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/14.10/
For Xubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/14.10/
For Ubuntu Cloud: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/utopic/

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Ubuntu MATE 14.10 Beta 2 Available for Download

Last updated: September 25, 2014

Ubuntu MATE 14.10, an unofficial Ubuntu flavor maintained by Ubuntu community, has just reached its second beta release.

What’s Ubuntu MATE?

Ubuntu MATE is a new Ubuntu flavor started a few months ago. The first release will be Ubuntu MATE 14.10, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic integrated with MATE Desktop Environment.

Ubuntu MATE is a Ubuntu community project developed by the core MATE Desktop development team, and maintained by the heroes from the Debian packaging team.

At the moment, Ubuntu MATE is not an official Ubuntu “flavor”. The team are working towards that.

MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of classic GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

Ubuntu MATE

The Beta2 release has been focused on fixing broken things and improving what was already present in Beta1. See the official release note for details.

Download Ubuntu MATE at: https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/

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PlayOnLinux 4.2.5 Adds Compatibility with Debian 8 & Mac OS 10.10

Last updated: September 8, 2014

PlayOnLinux, Wine GUI for installing Windows applications and games in Linux, has just released version 4.2.5 which added compatibility with Debian 8 & Mac OS 10.10.

PlayOnLinux is a graphical front-end for the Wine software compatibility layer which allows Linux users to install Windows-based video games, as well as many other applications such as Apple iTunes, Safari, Microsoft Office (2000 to 2010), Microsoft Internet Explorer. See a list of supported software.

The latest PlayOnLinux 4.2.5 was released with below changes:

Fix reading/writing values containing ‘=’ symbol in configuration files
Make POL_Wine_InstallFonts preserve current directory (regression since 4.2.3)
Disable “Install” component button until a component is selected
Compatibility with wxpython 3.0, Debian 8, Mac OS 10.10
Mention URL in POL_Download and POL_Download_Resource error messages
Add POL_Config_Win16 to check if the host can run win16 programs.

How to install PlayOnLinux:

For Ubuntu, you can install always install the latest PlayOnLinux via its official repository:

1. First of first install wine. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the commands below and run one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7:i386

2. Then install PlayOnLinux from its repository. For Ubuntu 12.04, replace trusty with precise in the code.

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_trusty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

For Debian, Fedora and other Linux Distributions see the official download page.

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Open Source Racing Game ‘Stunt Rally’ Gets A New Release

Last updated: August 10, 2014

Open source racing game Stunt Rally just reached 2.4 release with lots of updates.

According to the changelog, the new release comes with all 147 tracks (6 new, 12 old deleted, some renewed), 2 new sceneries (Crystals, GreeceWhite), 3 new cars (4 renewed, 2 old deleted). Also there are a few improvements on UI and game experiences.

For detailed changes, refer to the project page.

Install Stunt Rally in Ubuntu:

For 64-bit Linux so far (as well as Windows .exe) download the latest release from the link below and run the executable from its bin folder.

Download Stunt Rally

For Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17, you can also get it from Playdeb repository. To do so, do below steps:

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the command below and hit enter. Type in your password when prompt.

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb games"

2. Also run command to get the key:

wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

3. Finally install the game from Synaptic Package Manager (available in Software Center) after clicking reload button to update package lists:

In News open source racing game, stunt rally

Native Music Player DeaDBeeF Updates With Lots of Fixes and Improvements

Last updated: August 9, 2014

The lightweight Linux native music player DeaDBeeF has been updated to v0.6.2 with lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

DeadBeef is a fully-featured music player takes use of very few RAM. Since v0.6, it has a design mode (view -> design mode) that allows you to customize the UI the way you like.

The latest 0.6.2 release was released days ago on August 5th with lots of changes:

added “Stop playback after current album finished” (Aleksejs Popovs)
added ALAC, OPUS, OggFlac encoder presets (Ian Nartowicz)
added configure option to build artwork plugin without network support
added new widget for muting chiptune voices
added support for SHIFT-JIS charset detection/recoding (off by default)
fixed “stop after current” bug, which required player restart on every change
fixed –gui command line option
fixed GUI seeking accuracy bug
fixed bug in extended frame flags conversion between ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tag formats
fixed crash when loading playlist from command line
fixed loading album art (APIC frame) from ID3v2.4 with data length indicator
fixed non-utf8 locale support in console
fixed support for vorbis files with more than 6 channels
fixed playlist count limit bug
fixed preserving file permissions after editing ogg files
fixed several bugs in PLS playlist format support
improved FreeBSD and OSX support
improved charset detection in CUE and ID3v1
improved album art column rendering/resizing (Christian Boxdörfer)
improved the build system and the output build quality
improved detection of config changes, to avoid unnecessary config writing
improved support for reading APEv2 and ID3v1 tags from large files (>2Gb)
updated licensing information in all plugins, to include information about all used libraries
aac: added workaround for 7 channel sound playback bug
ape: play files with format >= 4.11, improved error handling
artwork: many fixes and improvements, including support for non-tagged files
dumb: added option to configure internal volume
ffmpeg: fixed bitrate calculation
ffmpeg: fixed replaygain support
flac: fixed/improved many things in tag reading and writing code
gme: added support for loading gzipped modules from supported archives (e.g. from zips)
gtkui, pltbrowser: better accessibility
gtkui: added option to disable seekbar overlay
gtkui: added option to display playback state as unicode characters, instead of bitmaps (works better on HDPI screens)
gtkui: added support for design mode to more widgets (seekbak, volumebar, playback toolbar)
gtkui: fixed bug in gtk_drag_check_threshold handler
gtkui: numerous fixes in widget layout code
gtkui: single/double clicking on album art column will select/play the album/group (Christian Boxdörfer)
lastfm: added support for scrobbling radio streams (off by default)
lastfm: added support for scrobbling tracks shorter than 30 sec (off by default)
lastfm: improved support for musicbrainz track id
mms: fixed few buffer overflow bugs, improved responsiveness
mp3: optimized scanner: less backward seeks during frame syncing
shellexec: fixed escaping of single quotes, prevent opening copies of shxui dialogs
vfs_zip: huge speed improvements
vorbis, oggflac: new tagging code (Ian Nartowicz)
improved plugin duplicate checking
fixed RIFF WAVE header writing in converter
fixed 8bit png crash in album art plugin (Ian Nartowicz)
static builds now use -O3 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 compiler flags
fixed few issues with implementation of the Play button
improved tag writing in converter
fixed issues with “background jobs are running” warning
changed all wiki links to point to the new wiki on github
improved streamer event handling, to make the GUI more responsive and stable
fixed cleaning up downloaded temporary playlist files
Fixed skipping bad FLAC__METADATA_TYPE_CUESHEET blocks in FLAC
added support for uppercase .CUE extension
added “mpga” extension support (mp3)
fixed seeking backwards using hotkeys when in the beginning of a track

Install DeaDBeeF in Ubuntu:

Download the .deb package that matches your OS type – 32-bit (i386) or 64-bit (amd64) – from the link below:

Download DeaDBeeF .deb

Then double click the package to open it with Ubuntu Software Center and click install.

In News deadbeef music player

Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Is Available For Download

Last updated: July 25, 2014

The first point release, Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (Long-Term-Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavors, has been announced just a few hours ago.

José Antonio Rey said in the release note:

As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Download Ubuntu 14.04.1 and its flavors:

Ubuntu 14.04.1: http://releases.ubuntu.com/trusty/

Edubuntu 14.04.1: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/trusty/release/

Kubuntu 14.04.1: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/trusty/release/

Lubuntu 14.04.1: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/trusty/release/

Mythbuntu 14.04.1: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/trusty/release/

Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.1: cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/release/

Ubuntu Kylin 14.04.1: cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/trusty/release/

UbuntuStudio 14.04.01: cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/trusty/release/

Xubuntu 14.04: cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/trusty/release/

Users of Ubuntu 12.04 will soon be offered an automatic upgrade to 14.04.1 via Update Manager. If you’re running on Ubuntu 14.04, regular update via Software Updater will bring you to this point release.

via: fridge.ubuntu.com

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