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pThe Xubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer. This is their latest result: Xubuntu 8.10, which brings a host of excellent improvements built on the rock solid Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment./ppFor Ubuntu see a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-desktop" title="http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-desktop"http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-desktop/abr /For Kubuntu see a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/IntrepidIbex/Kubuntu" title="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/IntrepidIbex/Kubuntu"https://wiki.kubuntu.org/IntrepidIbex/Kubuntu/a/ph3Download/h3pGet it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:/pullia href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.10/" title="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.10/"http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.10//a (Xubuntu)/lilia href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10" title="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10"http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10/a (Ubuntu)/lilia href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/8.10" title="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/8.10"http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/8.10/a (Edubuntu add-on)/lilia href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.10" title="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.10"http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.10/a (Kubuntu)/lilia href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.10/" title="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.10/"http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.10//a (UbuntuStudio)/lilia href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/8.10/" title="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/8.10/"http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/8.10//a (Mythbuntu) /li/ulpMore instructions are available on a href="/get"the download page/a./ph3Upgrading from Xubuntu 8.04/h3pTo upgrade from Xubuntu 8.04, open the Update Manager from the Applications menu under System. It will tell you: qNew distribution release '8.10' is available/q. Click strongUpgrade/strong and follow the on-screen instructions. /ph3New Features since Xubuntu 8.04/h3h4Abiword 2.6/h4pXubuntu brings you the newest Abiword 2.6.4 word processor with tons of bug-fixes and new features, some of which include:/pulliThe ability to embed gnumeric charts into your documents/liliA new collaboration plugin allowing users to collaboratively work on the same document in real-time/liliImproved support for Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents/liliYou can now drag and drop images in and out of AbiWord documents/lilithe ability to open files on remote shares, ie. samba, ftp or ssh shares/lilimuch more!/li/ulh4Improved Multimedia Experience/h4pXubuntu 8.10 provides an improved multimedia experience by including the Listen Multimedia Player. With Listen, you can:/pulliOrganize your music collection/liliBrowse Shoucast Webradio and Podcats/liliRead lyrics and have access Wikipedia information about artists or albums at your fingertips/liliBroadcast by interfacing with your icecast server/liliRecord streaming media/liliVisualize good times with the built-in graphical visualizer. /li/ulh4Find what you're looking for with Catfish/h4pWith Xubuntu 8.10, you'll find an option to "Search for Files" in the Places menu. Clicking this will present you with the widely popular, light-weight search front-end called Catfish. Catfish enables you to quickly and easily search for your documents, music, pictures, videos, and more./ppFor the technically inclined, Catfish is a frontend for different search engines (daemons)./ppYou can employ find, slocate, locate, doodle, tracker, beagle, strigi and pinot - what ever tickles your fancy! /ph4Easily manage your secrets/h4pXubuntu 8.10 includes the well known secret keeper Seahorse. Seahorse is a GTK front end for GnuPG - the Gnu Privacy Guard program. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface./ph4X.Org 7.4/h4pa href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.4"X.Org 7.4/a, the latest stable version of a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/"X.Org/a, is available in this version. This release brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, and mice. At the same time this will allow the great majority of users to run without a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. A new failsafe X is introduced, to give better tools for troubleshooting X startup failures./ppTwo of the older nvidia binary drivers are not available for X.Org 7.4 yet, so users of these drivers will be automatically switched to the corresponding open source drivers. /ph4Linux kernel 2.6.27/h4pXubuntu 8.10 includes Linux kernel 2.6.27, a significant release with better hardware support and numerous bug-fixes. /ph4Encrypted private directory/h4pThe ecryptfs-utils package was recently promoted to Ubuntu main, with support for a a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EncryptedPrivateDirectory"secret encrypted folder/a in your Home Folder (by Michael Halcrow, Dustin Kirkland, and Daniel Baumann). /ph4Network Manager 0.7/h4pXubuntu 8.10 ships Network Manager 0.7 (by Dan Williams and others), which comes with long-expected features, such as:/pp * system wide settings (i.e., no need to log in in order to get a connection)br / * management of 3G connections (GSM/CDMA)br / * management of multiple active devices at oncebr / * management of PPP and PPPOE connectionsbr / * management of devices with static IP configurationsbr / * route management for devices /ppMore information can be found on the a href="http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager"Network Manager wiki/a. /ph4DKMS/h4pa href="http://linux.dell.com/dkms"DKMS/a (by Dell) is included in Xubuntu 8.10, allowing kernel drivers to be automatically rebuilt when new kernels are released. This makes it possible for kernel package updates to be made available immediately without waiting for rebuilds of driver packages, and without third-party driver packages becoming out of date when installing these kernel updates./ph4Samba 3.2/h4pA lot of new features have been added in Samba 3.2 amongst them:/pulliclustered file server support/liliencrypted network transport/liliipv6 support/lilibetter integration with the latest version of Microsoft Windows™ clients and servers./li/ulh4PAM authentication framework/h4pXubuntu 8.10 features a new pam-auth-update tool, which allows simple management of PAM authentication configuration for both desktops and servers (by Steve Langasek). Packages providing PAM modules will be configured automatically, and users can adjust their authentication preferences by running sudo pam-auth-update./ppMore information can be found in the a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PAMConfigFrameworkSpec"Ubuntu wiki/a. /ph4Totem BBC plugin/h4pXubuntu 8.10 features a new plugin for the Totem movie player that fetches free digital content from the BBC. To enable it, start Totem (Applications - Multimedia - Movie Player), enable the plugin (Edit - Plugins - BBC content viewer) and select "BBC" from the drop-down labelled "Playlist"./ppThanks to the a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/"BBC/a and a href="http://www.collabora.co.uk/"Collabora/a for their work developing this feature. /ph3Participate in Xubuntu/h3pIf you would like to help shape Xubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/" title="http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate/"http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate//a and a href="http://xubuntu.org/devel" title="http://xubuntu.org/devel"http://xubuntu.org/devel/a/ph3Help Spread the Word About Xubuntu 8.10/h3pA new banner to help spread the word about Xubuntu 8.10. You can add the banner to your website or blog to help others find the wonders of Xubuntu 8.10./ppa href="http://xubuntu.org" title="Learn more about Xubuntu..."img src="http://xubuntu.org/xubuntu-static/intrepid-countdown/index.php" alt="Countdown to Xubuntu (xubuntu.org) 8.10, by Pasi Lallinaho" //a/ppa href="http://xubuntu.org/promote/intrepid/countdown" title="http://xubuntu.org/promote/intrepid/countdown"http://xubuntu.org/promote/intrepid/countdown/a /ph3More Information/h3pYou can find out more about Xubuntu on a href="http://www.xubuntu.org/"our website/a and a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu"wiki/a./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Xubuntu/~4/437084764" height="1" width="1"/

Thu, 30 Oct 2008

pThe Release Candidate of Xubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" has arrived. This is a testing build designed for developers and is strongnot suggested for anyone looking for a stable system/strong. If you would like to see what is new in the beta release, please see the a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidIbex/RC/Xubuntu"Release Notes/a./ppa href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.10/rc/"Visit the download page/a to give it a try. Be sure to report your testing results to help the Xubuntu developers - see a href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/xubuntu/all"the ISO testing tracker/a, a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/"Bugs can be reported in Launchpad/a./ppBefore testing, be sure to take note of the a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidIbex/RC/Xubuntu#Known%20Issues"Known Issues/a./ppIf you are looking for a href="http://xubuntu.org/help"support/a, please see the #ubuntu+1 or #xubuntu IRC channels on irc.freenode.net./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Xubuntu/~4/437084765" height="1" width="1"/

Fri, 24 Oct 2008

pIn preparation for the release of Xubuntu 8.10 (code name "Intrepid Ibex"), the Xubuntu Team would like to get the word out that this release is coming./ppIf you manage a website, blog or any other place of your own on the internet, you can help! Just copy the HTML code below to your website to include a countdown graphic./ppcodelt;a href="http://xubuntu.org" title="Learn more about Xubuntu..."gt;lt;img src="http://xubuntu.org/xubuntu-static/intrepid-countdown/index.php" alt="Countdown to Xubuntu (xubuntu.org) 8.10, by Pasi Lallinaho"gt;lt;/agt;/code/pdiv style="margin: 0pt auto; width: 500px;"a href="http://xubuntu.org" title="Learn more about Xubuntu..."img src="http://xubuntu.org/xubuntu-static/intrepid-countdown/index.php" alt="Countdown to Xubuntu (xubuntu.org) 8.10, by Pasi Lallinaho" //a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Xubuntu/~4/437084766" height="1" width="1"/

Sun, 5 Oct 2008