Sabily 10.04 (Manarat) released

Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim, Assalamo alaykom, The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of new version of Sabily 10.04, codename Manarat. You can download it here: link What’s new: – New “Manarat” pictures and wallpapers – Zekr 0.7.6 – Thawab 3 – New offline recitation: Al-Muaiqly (48kbps) – New parental web control application: nanny [...]

Goodbye Ubuntu, it’s been fun — as part of my withdrawal, I’m running Xubuntu … for now anyway

Come and get me, fanboys. I’m a complainer and a whiner (and a joker, a smoker and a midnight toker), but not without reason. (OK, I’m neither smoker nor toker, but it just sounds so right.) Ubuntu, it’s been a nice ride, and I fully support what your doing in terms of spreading the full-custom [...]

Docky – Probably The Best Dock Application I have Ever Used in Ubuntu

Docky is an awesome dock application for Ubuntu/Linux. Docky started off as a simple theme for Gnome DO, another popular dock application, and later own became a dock application on its own. Docky is widely regarded as the most user friendly among the dock applications available in Linux. Read more at TechDriveIn

Canonical Becomes First Associate Member of the Open Invention Network

Canonical became the inaugural entrant in the Open Invention Network’s Associate Member program Tuesday. While the company that created Ubuntu Linux has been a Licensee for the OIN for sometime, the move to Associate Member is a logical one. The OIN’s site describes an Associate Member as such: “Associate Members are recruited from Linux-related companies, [...]

How To Install Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 (Final) In Ubuntu

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 was just released featuring faster search, quick filter toolbar, better migration assistant and many other improvements. A complete list of what’s new can be found @ Mozilla’s website. There is no PPA for Ubuntu providing the latest Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 for now and there are no plans to push an update in [...]

MoLinux 6.0

MoLinux 6.0 “Zoraida” is a new version of the Ubuntu-based distribution developed by the regional government of Castilla La Mancha in Spain and designed for use in public offices and schools around the region. The release comes with the following enhancements: new login, splash and start screens; new icon theme (GNOME-wise) as well as panel [...]

iso-localize: Produce official ISOs in your language

A new command line utility called “iso-localize” is now available. With this tool, users, magazines and communities from various parts of the World can now produce official Linux Mint ISO images in their language and distribute them as such. From a technical point of view, the utility reads from an existing ISO file, downloads the [...]

The Unbuntu SEO Experiment

The Unbuntu SEO Experiment: Since Ubuntu is without doubt the most popular Linux distribution at the moment, a lot of people are making search queries about it using keywords like ubuntu forums, install ubuntu, ubuntu howto, etc. However, there are also plenty of people who are making mistakes while searching for Ubuntu. –They sometimes misspelled [...]

New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

When a developer creates a new application, he must start writing it very early in the Ubuntu development stages to be able to get his application in the official Ubuntu repositories (Universe) or else the only way he can provide that application to the current Ubuntu release is through a PPA – which is not [...]

Canonical, OIN’s 1st Associate Member, Commits to Freedom of Action in Open Source

OIN has just announced a new associate membership program, and Canonical is the first associate member: OIN Associate Members, such as Canonical, demonstrate support and commitment to limiting the effects of patent disputes in Linux. Canonical’s activities and those of all companies seeking to adopt and use Linux will be facilitated as OIN works closely [...]