Unity 5.8 Released With New Features And Performance Improvements

Unity 5.8 has landed into Ubuntu 12.04 with new features and fixes. It seems lots of work has gone under the hood as I have never seen Unity interface so fast. Its just flying and for a moment I really thought that its Unity 2D as after Unity 5.8 update, the dash menu got lots [...]

Ubuntu Continues With Upstart, Releases v1.5

With Ubuntu remaining uninterested in systemd, the Upstart init system continues to be developed. Released today was Upstart 1.5 with a few new features… Read more at Phoronix

Thunderbird 11 Officially Lands in Ubuntu 11.10

One week after Firefox 11 officially landed in Ubuntu 11.10 last week, a few hours ago (March 21st) Canonical announced that the Mozilla Thunderbird 11.0 email client is now available on the official software repositories of the Oneiric Ocelot operating system. Read more ….

Zentyal 3.0 Beta | First version of Thin Clients module available!

Dear Zentyal users, We’ve just released the new zentyal-ltsp module which provides Thin and Fat client functionality integrated with the DHCP module. The current features allow the users to: – Build and update Thin and Fat client images – Install local applications – Limit one session per user – Create profiles to apply different configuration [...]

Cinnamon 1.4 improves workspace management

The Linux Mint team has released the latest version of its desktop environment forked from GNOME Shell. The release comes with better workspace management and many other improvements and tweaks Read more at H-online

Zentyal 2.2 Stable | Updated Virtual Machine images available!

Dear all, We’re glad to let you know that updated VM images, based on the recently released Zentyal 2.2-2 installer, are now available! These include all the latest Zentyal 2.2 packages as well as system updates and some minor fixes. You can download disk images for VirtualBox, VMware and KVM (qcow2 format) as usual. We [...]

Zentyal 3.0 Beta | New master-slave architecture available for testing

Dear Zentyal users, We’ve just released the new core (2.3.5) and users (2.3.3) packages: these implement the first version of the LDAP synchronization between Zentyal servers and make the new master-slave architecture available for testing! We would like to highlight the following changes (compared to the master-slave functionality in Zentyal 2.2): – LDAP-dependant modules allowed [...]

Ubuntu One Gets Redesigned in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

With today’s updates, Canonical updated the Ubuntu One user interface in the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. The Qt version of the Ubuntu One control panel was updated a few weeks back, but today Canonical also changed the GTK interface with the same beautiful design used in the Qt one. Read more [...]

First Zentyal 2.3 installer available (featuring Samba4)!

Hi Zentyal community, We’re glad to announce the availability of the first Zentyal 2.3 installer, featuring Samba4! You can download the new installer for 32- and 64-bit architectures from our Beta Downloads page [0]. You can also install the 2.3 packages on an existing Ubuntu Server 12.04 following the instructions on our Installation Guide [1]. [...]

New Zentyal 2.2-2 installer available!

Hi Zentyal users, We have now published a new compilation of packages including all the bugfixes and system updates from Ubuntu since the release of the previous 2.2-1 installer. Also, this new installer is based on the new Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, which was recently released (Feb 16), and will be the final revision of 10.04 [...]