Five Years of Desktop Support for Ubuntu 12.04

Published in October 22nd, 2011

Posted by Tom in precisepangolin, ubuntunews

Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin” will be supported on the desktop for five years, which is longer than a normal long term support release. LTS releases normally receive security and bug fix updates for three years on desktops, and five years on servers. Canonical cites business deployments of Ubuntu desktops as [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” Announced

Published in October 9th, 2011

Posted by Tom in precisepangolin, ubuntunews

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Mark Shuttleworth has announced that “Precise Pangolin” will be the alliterative animal codename for the next release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 will be a long term support (LTS) release, and the first LTS to include the Unity desktop. We can expect to see more bug fixes and reliability improvements rather than radical changes this time. [...]

First Look at Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2

Published in September 24th, 2011

Posted by Tom in oneiric, ubuntunews

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Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” Beta 2 has been released. I installed it in VirtualBox (with 3D support) to see what’s new since 11.04. The first thing I noticed is the new login screen. GDM has been replaced by LightDM, a display manager with a lighter-weight codebase than GDM that uses WebKit to draw an HTML-based [...]

Ubuntu 11.04 Released

Published in April 29th, 2011

Posted by Tom in nattynarwhal, ubuntunews

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Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” has been released. The introduction of the Unity desktop environment is a huge change in this release. Other changes include Firefox being updated to version 4, the Banshee media player replacing Rhythmbox, and improvements to the Software Center. Check out the release notes for more details. More about Unity The what’s [...]

Ubuntu 10.10 Released

Published in October 10th, 2010

Posted by Tom in maverickmeerkat, ubuntunews

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It’s 10/10/10 and Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” has been released. This release includes the new photo-management software Shotwell (replacing F-Spot), a tweaked default theme with the new Ubuntu font, an improved Software Center, and the new Unity desktop environment for netbooks. Read Canonical’s press release for more, and start your downloads. I installed 10.10 Beta [...]

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