Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 1 Released

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Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1

What's New:

• Ubuntu Software Centre adds support for multiple screenshots
• New Linux Kernel version 3.2.0-2
• Rythmbox as Default Music App
• Tomboy, Banshee has been removed

Note: Installing the Alpha release is not recommended due to its early yet rapid developmental stage.

Ubuntu 12.04 : IRC Workshops

All the IRC Workshops for Ubuntu 12.04 has been planned already, along with spiffy ads to spread around.

After much discussion,it has been decided to “focus” the IRC workshops. Instead of one long week it will be clubbed to just three days for each “week” but make the days longer to hit more time zones. So they will be from Tuesday to Thursday.

Open Week will be likely going to move to 30 minute sessions by default (though it can be adjusted), which will mean instructors will have to be more prepared ahead of time. So, less typing wasting time, more time pasting in prepared material and answering user questions.

 No change for the Global Jam

Schedule:
Ubuntu 12.04 : Developer Week                     31Jan - 2 Feb

Ubuntu 12.04 : Global Jam                               2 - 4 Mar
Ubuntu 12.04 : App Developer Week             17- 19 April
Ubuntu 12.04 : Open Week                             1-3 May

Ubuntu 12.04 : Developer Week

Ubuntu 12.04 : Global Jam

Ubuntu 12.04 : App Developer Week

Ubuntu 12.04 : Open Week

Ubuntu One dropping CouchDB sync

Today it was announced that Ubuntu One will be dropping support for CouchDB sync.

John Rowland Lenton in mailing list said

"From the first days of Ubuntu One, before we were even in Ubuntu, we'vehad a structured data storage sync service based around CouchDB.

 For the last three years we have worked with the company behind CouchDB to make it scale in the particular ways we need it to scale in our server environment. Our situation is rather unique, and we were unable to resolve some of the issues we came across. We were thus unable to make CouchDB scale up to the millions of users and databases we have in our datacentres, and furthermore we were unable to make it scale down to be a reasonable load on small client machines.

 Because of this, we are turning off most of our CouchDB-related efforts. The contacts, notes and playlists databases will continue to exist on our servers to support the related services, but direct external access to the underlying databases will be shut off. Any other databases will be deleted from our servers entirely. 

For these same three years we have created and maintained desktopcouch, which is a desktop service (and related library) to access CouchDB more conveniently. Because we are no longer going to pursue CouchDB, we will no longer be developing desktopcouch; in fact, if anybody wants to take over, we'll be happy to work with you to make that official. For the upcoming 12.04 the Ubuntu One packages will not depend on desktopcouch nor couchdb in any way, and we'd recommend the distribution seriously consider whether they want to continue having the package in main, especially if no maintainer shows up.

 Because we still believe there is a lot of value to our users in the service we wanted to offer based on CouchDB, we're building something new, based on what we've learned. It's very small, merely a layer of abstraction and the definition of an API that will allow us and others to build what is needed ontop of existing tools. We're calling it U1DB for now, until it comes of age. If you're interested and techincally inclined you can follow our progress on lp:u1db; unfortunately our timing and resources are such that we can only promise the reference python implementation will be ready in time for 12.04, and thus 12.04 will ship without Ubuntu One having a solid story around synchronizing arbitrary structured data."

Release Schedule Draft Of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Draft: Release Schedule Of Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

Know More About Time based Release : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases

Five-year Long Term Support (LTS) for Ubuntu 12.04

Canonical today announced it would be extending the support and maintenance period for its upcoming Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu for desktop users from three years to five years. The move comes in response to increasing demand for Ubuntu desktops in corporate environments where longer maintenance periods are the norm. It brings the desktop product into line with Ubuntu Server which continues with five years of support for LTS releases.

The first two years of the LTS period will benefit businesses by including hardware updates (through regular point releases) allowing them to keep up to date with the latest hardware upgrades. Maintenance updates will continue for a further three years. Businesses can now rely on always running an LTS version regardless of their hardware refresh rate.

Ubuntu's fourth LTS release comes at a time when the product has seen unprecedented uptake at a large scale in a variety of businesses. Qualcomm, the City of Munich, LVM have all spoken recently of their use of Ubuntu at large scale.

Upcoming Ubuntu Desktop Release's Team Support Period

Upcoming Ubuntu Desktop Release's Team Support Period

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 ScreenShots

Ubuntu 11.10 : Dashboard - Transparent Control with Bigger Icons

Ubuntu 11.10 : Dashboard  - Search Files & Folders

Ubuntu 11.10 : Dashboard - Search Applications

Ubuntu 11.10 : Workspace Switcher

Ubuntu 11.10 : Nautilus File Manager

Ubuntu 11.10 : Software Center

Ubuntu 11.10 : Progress Bar Of Update Manger 

Ubuntu 11.10 : Alt Tab window with Shelf Like Icons at Corner

Ubuntu 11.10 : Preview of Original Window (in Alt Tab window)while holding Alt For long time

UBuntu 11.10 : Colourful Message Notifier

Ubuntu 11.10 : Update Manger, System Setting , Startup Application & Display Setting option 

UBUNTU 11.10( ONEIRIC OCELOT) BETA 2 has been Released

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot beta 2 is available for download after 1 day delay.

Download Link:


https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Beta2#Download_the_Beta_2 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ 

 Those who have been using Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 are not required to download the new BETA but can get updated to BETA 2 using normal updates.

No Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu 11.10

 ‘Synaptic Package Manager’ tool has been dropped from the latest builds of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

The removal of Synaptic Package Manager have been planned since the inception of the Ubuntu Software Centre. Many of the advanced features Synaptic currently provides are ear-marked for inclusion in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Well, I really don't like SOFTWARE CENTER as it takes forever to start up and it doesn't list all packages. I mostly use Synaptic and apt-get for installing packages.

So I have installed Synaptic package from the repository.

sudo apt-get install synaptic

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) Release Schedule