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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Ubuntu AIO DVD Has All Ubuntu 14 04 LTS Flavors on One Disk

Ubuntu AIO DVD (all-in-one), a collection of the most important Ubuntu 14.04 LTS flavors made available on April 17, 2014, is now ready for download.

Canonical released its latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS distribution back in April, and along with it all the other famous flavors were also offered. There is a single problem with this launch, namely that the distros come as separate operating systems and you will have to download five ISOs, including the original, if you want to have all of them.

The Ubuntu AIO DVD was put together by Milan Raj?i? and helps users have all the major Ubuntu spins on a single DVD: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu GNOME 14.04, Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Lubuntu 14.04 LTS.

There are some caveats to this collection. For example, not all the official flavors that are based on Ubuntu have been integrated, which means that Ubuntu Server, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Studio are not present. Also, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Ubuntu GNOME feature only the 64-bit version, and Xubuntu and Lubuntu are only present in the 32-bit release.

As you can imagine, this is a very large compilation and it holds the official images that you can also download from the Canonical servers. The difference is that users have a single image that holds them all.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) was deemed a success by its developers and the adoption rate for the new system has been high. Given the fact that Ubuntu 13.04 has just reached end of life and Ubuntu 13.10 only has a couple more months to live, its likely that more users will flock to the new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

If you are not familiar with the official Ubuntu flavors, here is a rundown: Ubuntu is the base operating system developed by Canonical and comes with the Unity desktop environment, a piece of software made by the same developers.

Kubuntu is built by the community and is based on KDE SC, another type of desktop environment. In the case of Kubuntu 14.04 LTS the latest KDE available is 4.12.3.

Ubuntu GNOME is a newer member of the Ubuntu family, developed by the user base as well. As the name implies, this is a distro built with GNOME, in this case 3.10.

Xubuntu is also developed by the community and comes with the Xfce desktop environment, which is a lighter solution for people who want a more conservative desktop, although it can be greatly customized.

Lubuntu is probably the lightest official flavor of Ubuntu and its based on LXDE. Its been around for quite some time, and it is recommended for older systems.

You can download the Ubuntu AIO DVD right now from Softpedia.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-AIO-DVD-Has-All-Ubuntu-14-04-LTS-Flavors-on-One-Disk-441202.shtml

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Ubuntu 15 04 Vivid Vervet Flavors Ready For Download

The official Ubuntu 15.04 flavors are available for download. Lets take a quick look at whats new in the latest 15.04 release of Xubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Kubuntu and Lubuntu.

For Ubuntu MATE 15.04, a new MATE-based Ubuntu flavor, theres a separate article HERE. You may also want to see whats new in Ubuntu (with Unity) 15.04.

Xubuntu 15.04

Xubuntu is an Ubuntu flavor which uses Xfce, a fast, light desktop environment.

The latest Xubuntu 15.04 ships with Xfce 4.12, the first stable Xfce release in almost three years. Since previous Xubuntu versions were already using various Xfce 4.12 development builds, some of the new features and improvements in Xfce 4.12 were present in Xubuntu for a while.

For whats new in Xfce 4.12, see THIS article.

Changes in Xubuntu 15.04 include:

Xfce Window manager now supports window previews and comes with corner-tiling and better support for client-side decoration apps;
LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings, a tool which allows changing various login screen settings, is now installed by default;
Xfce Power Manager now handles light-locker�s settings in its �Security� tab;
the panel now has an intelligent hiding mode;
the display dialog comes with improved support for multiple monitors;
the appearance dialog shows previews for theme styles and icons;
improved Qt apps appearance (the GTK theme is used now) however, Qt apps continue ignore the currently set icon theme;
Xfce apps:
- Mousepad text editor was rewritten, getting support for GTK3 along with a settings dialog;
- new/updated Xubuntu light and dark color schemes in Mousepad and Terminal;
- The Xfce Task Manager has received a new user interface with GTK3 support along with a process filter;
- improved keyboard navigation for Thunar.

Below youll find screenshots with some of these changes:

Download Xubuntu 15.04 | Official release notes

Ubuntu GNOME 15.04

Ubuntu GNOME tries to bring a pure GNOME experience in the Ubuntu "family". It uses GNOME Shell by default and this release ships with GNOME 3.14 for the most part - this includes GTK 3.14.12, GNOME Shell 3.14.4, GNOME Control Center / Settings Daemon 3.14.2, GDM 3.14.1 as well as version 3.14.x for most GNOME apps, both those available by default and those available for installation from the repositories.

As far as Im aware, the only app that wasnt updated to version 3.14 (its still at version 3.10.x) is Gedit.

GNOME 3.14 brings quite a few changes, including:

multi-touch gestures for both the system and applications (for touchscreen devices only);
improved support for Wi-Fi hotspots;
network-based sharing (WebDAV, DLNA and VNC will now remember which network you want them to be active on);
enhanced geolocation framwork with the use of Mozillas Location Service for 3G and network-based positioning;
new animations for the Activities Overview;
new interactive inspector which allows live examination of running GTK+ applications (can be activated via Ctrl+Shift+I);
Evince was updated with a new design with header bars, support for removing annotations, recent documents overview and more;
Weather has a new layout and it makes use of GNOMEs geolocation framework to automatically show the weather for your current location (the Location Services feature is turned off by default - enable it via System Settings > Privacy);
Maps was updated with a route planning feature which allows you to plan journeys by foot, bicycle or car.

For a more in depth look at the changes introduced with GNOME 3.14, see THIS article.

Also, with Ubuntu GNOME 15.04, Maps and Weather are installed by default and so is Numix, a popular GTK theme (though its not used by default).

Another change in Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 is the addition of an experimental Wayland session. This is not installed by default and to try it out, youll have to install "gnome-session-wayland" and then select "GNOME on Wayland" from the login screen. Its important to mention that this session only works with open source GPU drivers.

Here are a few Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 screenshots:

Download Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 | Official release notes

Ubuntu Kylin 15.04

Ubuntu Kylin is an Ubuntu variant for Chinese users which uses Unity. The project provides apps commonly used by Chinese users as well as customized existing components, like a custom Online Music Search Dash plugin and better Chinese localisation.

With this release, Ubuntu Kylin has switched to LIM (locally integrated menus) by default, a feature that was also present in Ubuntu 15.04 but was reverted a few days before the release. This feature is used in conjunction with a new Unity feature which allows disabling the menu autohide.

Another feature thats enabled by default with this release is "click to minimize" for the Unity Launcher, a feature thats also available for Ubuntu (w/ Unity) users, but its not enabled by default.

According to the release notes, these changes should make it easier for Windows users to adapt to the Unity user interface.

Other changes in Ubuntu Kylin 15.04 include fixes for the Kylin-specific applications: Ubuntu Kylin Software Center, Youker Assistant, Chinese Calendar and Unity China Music Scope as well as a refreshed default theme.

Below youll find a few Ubuntu Kylin 15.04 screenshots:

(I installed it in English, thats why parts of the desktop are in English and not in Chinese)

Download Ubuntu Kylin 15.04 | Official release notes

Kubuntu 15.04

Kubuntu is an Ubuntu flavor which uses the KDE Plasma Desktop as the desktop environment. Even though its now sponsored by Blue Systems and not by Canonical, Kubuntu is still an official Ubuntu derivative.

For the previous Kubuntu version, 14.10, the distro provided two ISOs: a stable Plasma 4 ISO and a testing Plasma 5 ISO. For Kubuntu 15.04, the developers have decided to complete the transition and only provide one ISO which uses Plasma 5 by default (along with KDE Applications 14.12.2).

Plasma 5 is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5 and it provides improved HiDPI support, an updated, modern and cleaner user interface with a new theme, rendered on top of OpenGL, offloading many intensive rendering tasks.

Compared to Plasma 5.0 (tech preview) used in the Plasma5 Kubuntu 14.10 ISO, Plasma 5.2 used in this release includes the following improvements:

new / re-added components for Plasma 5: Icons-only Task Manager, Notes widget, System Load Viewer, BlueDevil (a set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices), KSSHAskPass (a GUI for entering SSH passwords), Muon, KScreen (Multi-monitor system settings module), KDecoration and GTK Application Style;
added option to undo Plasma desktop layout changes;
smarter results and audio player controls in KRunner;
improved themes;
Baloo should consume 2-3x less CPU on startup;
KDE Frameworks 5-based versions of Kate, KWrite, Konsole, Gwenview, KAlgebra, Kanagram, KHangman, Kig, Parley, KApptemplate and Okteta;
the default Plasma 5 login screen manager is SDDM and this is what Kubuntu 15.04 uses by default;
numerous bug fixes;
more.

Changelogs: Plasma 5.2 | Plasma 5.1 | KDE Applications 14.12

Here are a few Kubuntu 15.04 screenshots:

Download Kubuntu 15.04 | Official release notes

Lubuntu 15.04

Lubuntu is a lightweight Ubuntu flavor which uses the LXDE desktop environment, useful for old computers.

The latest Lubuntu 15.04 only includes general bug fixes and updated artwork, as the developers prepare for the switch to LXQt.

Download Lubuntu 15.04 | Official release notes

Ubuntu Studio & Ubuntu MATE 15.04

The latest Ubuntu Studio shares most of its changes with Xubuntu 15.04, so check out the changes above, for Xubuntu. Download / release notes for Ubuntu Studio 15.04.

For Ubuntu MATE 15.04, Ive posted a separate article: Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Available For Download.

All the Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) flavors include the Ubuntu Linux Kernel 3.19.0 based on the upstream 3.19.3 Linux Kernel, Mesa 10.5.2, Xorg server 1.17.1, PulseAudio 6.0 and systemd 219 (and they use systemd as the default init system, replacing upstart - except on Touch). Also, like all non-LTS releases, the Ubuntu 15.04 flavors are supported for 9 months!

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Ubuntu Flavors 14 10 Officially Released WebUpd8 org

Author: Andrew | Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014

All the Ubuntu flavors reached version 14.10 today. Lets take a quick look at whats new in Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME and Kubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn).

Xubuntu 14.10

Xubuntu is an Ubuntu flavor which uses Xfce, a fast, light desktop environment.

Changes in Xubuntu 14.10:

the display dialog has been updated and it now allows arranging multiple displays by drag and drop;
the Xfce power manager can now control the keyboard-backlight and features a new panel plugin, which shows the battery status, other connected devices with batteries and controls the display backlight brightness;
Setting-related menu items earlier available only under Settings manager are now shown and searchable in Whisker Menu;
the alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse to select a window;
updated GTK themes with various changes, including GTK 3.12 support;
changed desktop icon size to 48px, desktop tooltip size to 64px;
the number of desktops was reduced to 1 by default, but this can easily be changed (Settings > Workspaces);
saner defaults for DPMS timeouts;
enabled lock-screen on suspend and hibernate;
Light Locker is enabled and will lock on suspend, but not auto-locking after being idle;
to allow users to use pkexec instead of gksu(do), appropriate profiles are now included for Thunar and Mousepad;
enabled clutter as default videosink in Parole;
updated panel layout for login screen;
enabled minimize and maximize on GtkHeaderbars;
XChat is no longer included by default;
Inxi, a tool to gather system information, is now included by default.

Here are screenshots with some of these changes:

Added minimize and maximize buttons for apps using header bars

Inxi, a system info tool

Xfce4 Power Manager

New Xfce4 Power Manager panel plugin

Xubuntu 14.10 login screen (LightDM GTK greeter)

Display settings

Running Thunar via pkexec

Also, Xubuntu 14.10 uses magenta highlights:

According to the release notes, this change (which they refer to as pink but it looks closer to magenta to me) was made to celebrate the 14.10 codename "Utopic Unicorn" and to demonstrate the easy customizability of Xubuntu.

Thats because this change wasnt made to the theme - the pink/magenta highlights are applied via Theme Configuration (gtk-theme-config) and is used no matter what theme youre using. You can easily change this and other theme colors from Settings > Theme Configuration (simply turn "Highlight Colors" off to turn this off):

Download Xubuntu 14.10 | official release notes

Ubuntu GNOME 14.10

Ubuntu GNOME tries to bring a pure GNOME experience in the Ubuntu "family". It uses GNOME Shell by default and this release ships with a combination of GNOME 3.10 and 3.12.

Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 includes GNOME System Settings / Settings Daemon 3.12

Changes in Ubuntu GNOME 14.10:

many GNOME components, like GNOME Shell, GTK+, GNOME Control Center, etc. have been updated to version 3.12 which brings improvements (compared to 3.10, available in Ubuntu 14.04) such as:

proper HiDPI support;
improved network menus;
Jumplists (also known as Quicklists in Unity) support;
a geolocation indicator was added to the status menu
refined animations;
window previews are now keyboard navigable;
allow specifying monitor for OSD;
GNOME Online accounts has better Facebook and Google support and also, it now supports Pocket (a web service that lets you save videos, articles and pretty much anything from the browser for later use)
Google Cloud print support;
updated Adwaita GTK theme: new style for tabs and buttons, etc.;
GTK 3.12 introduces restyled tabs and "popovers", an overlayed bubble interface element;
for more information, see our GNOME 3.12 article (but keep in mind that some apps, like Nautilus, Totem or Gedit are still at version 3.10.x).

GNOME Maps (3.12.2) and GNOME Weather (3.12.1) are now installed by default.

Here are a few Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 screenshots:

Download Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 | official release notes

Lubuntu 14.10

Lubuntu is a lightweight Ubuntu flavor which uses the LXDE desktop environment, useful for old computers.

For Lubuntu 14.10, theres basically no changelog available - besides updated artwork, the wiki page mentions that many LXDE components have been updated with bug fix releases and that Lubuntu 14.10 is a "general bug fix release as we prepare for LXQt".

Download Lubuntu 14.10 | official release notes

Kubuntu 14.10

Kubuntu is an Ubuntu flavor which uses the KDE Plasma Desktop as the graphical environment. Even though its now sponsored by Blue Systems and not by Canonical, Kubuntu is still an official Ubuntu derivative.

For 14.10, there are two Kubuntu ISOs available for download: Plasma 4 Stable and Plasma 5 tech Preview.

The Stable Plasma 4 ISO includes KDE Applications and Platform 4.14.1 - check out the changes here: 4.14.0 | 4.14.1.

Here are a few Kubuntu 14.10 screenshots (mostly with the Plasma 5 ISO since the default Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 4 looks pretty much the same):

Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 5

Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 5 (with Breeze window decorations - Oxygen is still default though)

Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 4

Download Kubuntu 14.10 (includes the official release notes)

For changes shared between all the Ubuntu flavors (Linux kernel changes, etc.), see our Ubuntu 14.10 article.

Source: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/ubuntu-flavors-1410-officially-released.html

Ubuntu 14.10 is now available for download. This release doesnt ship with any new Unity features and it includes mostly bug fixes. Still, there are some under the hood changes and of course, updated applications.

Unity 7

As you probably already know if youve been following WebUpd8 or basically any Ubuntu-related blogs, Ubuntu 14.10 ships with almost no noticeable visual changes: there are no new Unity (Unity 7) features, the default applications, even though some were updated, look the same and so on. Theres not even a new default wallpaper.

Even though there are no new Unity features, the default Ubuntu desktop shell did receive various improvements, especially on the HiDPI front: the lockscreen, Dash filters and previews and other bits were updated with proper UI scaling based on current monitor scaling:

Also, Unity can now suspend, shutdown, hibernate or start the screensaver when the screen is locked, using the Suspend, Sleep, Hibernate and PowerOff hardware keys.

And of course, Unity also received quite a few bug fixes - see THIS page for a complete changelog.

systemd status in Ubuntu 14.10

Back in February, Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu will be switching to systemd (a system management daemon for Linux). Marks blog article on Ubuntu switching to systemd, called "losing graciously", denotes that he wasnt very happy with this, and systemd will made it in Ubuntu mostly because Debian switched to it.

With this release, systemd is available in the repositories and Ubuntu can boot with systemd. However, systemd is not used by default in Ubuntu 14.10 because the transition from upstart is a pretty tedious task: many packages only have upstart jobs and they need to be updated to provide corresponding systemd units. Thats why its not yet known when Ubuntu will switch to systemd by default.

Linux Kernel changes

Ubuntu 14.10 uses the Ubuntu Kernel 3.16.0-23, based on the upstream 3.16.4 Linux Kernel. Here are the major changes since Linux Kernel 3.13, which is used in the previous Ubuntu release (14.04):

zram is considered stable with Linux 3.14; zram received LZ4 compression support;
stable support for Intel Broadwell CPU graphics (3.14);
the SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling class was added to the Linux scheduler in version 3.14 of the Linux kernel mainline;
faster resume from suspend;
EFI mixed mode support: 64-bit kernels can be booted from 32-bit firmware (with Linux 3.15);
various Nouveau improvements, including initial NVIDIA Maxwell GPU support, initial GK20A and GK110B GPU support as well as support for allowing to change the frequency of the GPU from the BIOS predefined values for nv40, nvaa, and nve0 clock types;
Radeon performance improvements through improved APU power management have been enabled in some APUs;
Intel Cherryview graphics support;
NVIDIA Tegra PRIME support;
Broadwell support for the Intel P-State driver (3.16);
various other improvements to audio and sound, btrfs and ext4 improvements, better support for newer laptops and much more.

You can read more about all the important Linux kernel changes here: Linux 3.14 | Linux 3.15 | Linux 3.16

Applications / packages

Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) ships with Firefox 33, Thunderbird 31.2.0, LibreOffice 4.3.2, Nautilus 3.10.1, Totem 3.10.1, Gedit 3.10.4, Brasero 3.10.0, Eye of GNOME 3.12.2, Empathy 3.8.6, Rhythmbox 3.0.3, Transmission 2.84 and Shotwell 0.20.1. Also, Ubuntu 14.10 includes Mesa 10.3.0 and Xorg server 1.16.0.

Also, since the final Ubuntu 14.10 beta, GTK was updated from version 3.10 to 3.12 (3.12.2).

Why GTK 3.12 and not the latest 3.14? Well, thats because GNOME 3.14 was released after Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn had its feature freeze. As for the GNOME applications like Nautilus, Totem and Gedit, they are still at version 3.10 because they need to be patched to properly support Unity and with the work required to get Ubuntu for Phones ready, the developers didnt have time to update them for this release.

Other changes

Other notable changes in Ubuntu 14.10 include:

Improved hybrid graphics support:

nvidia-prime and gpu-manager now support GDM (these changes were backported to older Ubuntu versions, but without the GDM patch that allows this);
added support for "gpumanager_uxa" and "gpumanager_modesetting" boot parameters, so that there is an option to force NVIDIA Optimus systems (that dont work well with Intel/SNA) to use either Intel/UXA or modesetting);
allow RandR offloading even without bbswitch;

Netflix now works without any extra plugins in Ubuntu 14.10 (the changes were backported to Ubuntu 14.04), the only requirement being Google Chrome;
Pidgin comes with Unity support thanks to a new Unity integration plugin (can be enabled from the Pidgin Plugins > Unity Integration) - this includes (both are optional) Messaging Menu integration and Unity Launcher unread messages/conversations
Applications using client side decorations (header bars) look better under Unity with Ubuntu 14.10, but they are still not fully supported: for instance, CSD applications have no shadow, but at least the header bar looks as it should now and the windows can be resized.

Client side decoration apps (not installed by default) under Unity in Ubuntu 14.10

Also, with Ubuntu 14.10, an Unity 8 ISO called Ubuntu Desktop Next is available a preview for "the adventurous and curious [who] want to get a preview of whats coming on their desktops soon". Unfortunately, I couldnt get Ubuntu Desktop Next 14.10 to work and Ive tried it on two different computers - theres a bug with the password but thats easily fixable as explained on the Ubuntu wiki however, upon logging in, the desktop didnt load in my test.

If you want to give Ubuntu Desktop Next a try, you can download it from HERE.

Download Ubuntu 14.10

Overall, Ubuntu 14.10 looks (and on a side note, its also basically just as stable) pretty much the same as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS so if you only care about that, theres no reason to upgrade.

Ubuntu 14.10 is for you only if you want to take advantage of the latest under-the-hood improvements and/or you cant live without the latest version of your favorite applications (non-GNOME core apps - because most of those are still not the latest version, though some were updated) and you dont want to use PPAs.

However, keep in mind that Ubuntu 14.10 is only supported for 9 months and after it reaches end of life, youll have to upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04.

Download Ubuntu 14.10 (includes the official release notes - make sure you read them before installing -, and download links for all Ubuntu flavors)

Are you using Ubuntu 14.10 already (whats your experience with it so far?) or do you plan to upgrade?

Download Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn final

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes

Source: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/ubuntu-1410-available-for-download.html

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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Ubuntu AIO DVD Has All Ubuntu 14 04 LTS Flavors on One Disk

Ubuntu AIO DVD Has All Ubuntu 14 04 LTS Flavors on One Disk

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Ubuntu 15 04 Vivid Vervet Flavors Ready For Download

Ubuntu 15 04 Vivid Vervet Flavors Ready For Download

Xubuntu 15.04

Ubuntu GNOME 15.04

Ubuntu Kylin 15.04

Kubuntu 15.04

Lubuntu 15.04

Ubuntu Studio & Ubuntu MATE 15.04

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Ubuntu Flavors 14 10 Officially Released WebUpd8 org

Ubuntu Flavors 14 10 Officially Released WebUpd8 org

Xubuntu 14.10

Ubuntu GNOME 14.10

Lubuntu 14.10

Kubuntu 14.10

Unity 7

systemd status in Ubuntu 14.10

Linux Kernel changes

Applications / packages

Other changes

Download Ubuntu 14.10

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