Ubuntu Look

I make some CrunchBang Linux screenshots. I think, the default OpenBox theme is to dark, but its good to see, how is bundled OpenBox and Ubuntu. I used the VMware server for taking screenshots.

envy 0.9.10-0ubuntu2 adds the support for the latest Nvidia driver and fixes a bug:
* Fixed: Envy stopped after the process in the virtual terminal ended.
* Added: Nvidia driver 169.09
* Removed: Nvidia driver 169.07

Here are the release highlights from Nvidia’s website:
* Fixed a problem causing the fan on some GPUs to always run at full speed.

Read more at Alberto Milone’s Blog

Today we unleashed Launchpad 1.2.1, our first release of 2008!

Highlights include:

• Delete PPA packages in the web UI: no more sysadmin requests to delete a package from your PPA. To delete packages from your PPA visit: https://launchpad.net/+people/+me/+archive/+delete-packages
• Branch feeds: get the latest commits associated with a person, team, project or individual branch in your feed reader. Take a look at the Bitlbee project’s branch feed
• Code hosting project overviews: quick-glance overview of branches and revisions made to projects with code hosted on Launchpad. See Bazaar’s overview page.

Don’t forget our logo competition! Send us your design for the chance to win an Ubuntu messenger bag.

Read the full Launchpad 1.2.1 release notes!

Full Circle Magazine - Issue 9 is out!

This month, we have:

• OpenGEU - A step-by-step install from OpenGEU creator Luca De Marini.
• How-tos: Directory Server, Ubuntu on an iBook, Installing OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe), and part one of the new “Create Your Own Server” series.
• Review of the KDE 4.0 release
• Letters, the Q&A, My Desktop, the Ubuntu Women column, the Top 5, and much, much more!

Get it while it’s hot!

http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-9/

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Since we’ve began offering Ubuntu on some consumer systems, two clear areas of feedback from the IdeaStorm community and Direct2Dell readers have been:  offer Ubuntu on more hardware, and offer it worldwide.This Ubuntu-related post is still the third most commented post in Direct2Dell’s history-many  of the 654 comments are asking for it in more countries.

Now Ubuntu 7.10 is making it’s way to our XPS 1330 laptop and Dell will begin offering Ubuntu in Spain.

Starting today, customers in Germany, United Kingdom, France and now Spain can purchaseUbuntu Linux 7.10 with built-in DVD playback on the XPS 1330n (in addition to the previously-released Inspiron 530n desktop system.  For U.S. customers, you’ll have to hold on a week or so.

Read more at direct2dell.com

Is Linux on the enterprise desktop finally ready for prime time? IBM apparently thinks so as it prepares to deliver its next versions of Lotus Notes enterprise collaboration software and Lotus Symphony office productivity applications for the first time with full support for Ubuntu Linux 7.10 sometime in the second half of this year.

In an announcement this week at the Lotusphere 2008 conference in Orlando, IBM said that it will provide full support for Ubuntu Linux with Lotus Notes 8.5 and Lotus Symphony using its Open Collaboration Client software, which is based on open standards.

Read more at Computerworld