Ubuntu community always come up with some creative ideas as they are already having an awesome platform to implement them. Thru Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase, users of Ubuntu Community can submit videos, photos etc to showcase their work to the whole community. Goce Mitevski submitted an awesome video showing Ubuntu 10.04 boot time less than 10 seconds.
Sun Java packages have been dropped from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS from the Multiverse section of Ubuntu archive. Ubuntu team is encouraging users to use OpenJDK instead of Sun JDK/JRE but still if you want to install Sun JDK on your Ubuntu then here is the solution for the same.
Ubuntu is having Totem movie player installed as the media player of this OS. On this media player, there is an option to browse YouTube videos. Actually Totem comes with couple of plugins out of which one is for playing YouTube videos on the player. Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 comes with Totem Movie Player 2.30.1 where YouTube plug-in is already enabled by default. Watching YouTube videos on media player is a nice experience.
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid has been released and the first experience verdict is awesome. Here we are sharing a collection of 22 cool wallpapers to download for Ubuntu. There are lot many people using Ubuntu Lucid on their desktop and the very first thing which you notice while starting Ubuntu 10.04 is the design changes. If you want to add more wallpapers in your Ubuntu system or even in your Windows then here is a collection of 22 cool wallpapers.
Recently I installed Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 on my virtual machine VMware player and finally started the OS. As per the data provided at the time of installation, it asked for the login password. When I went ahead to enter the password, I realized that my keyboard stopped working. If you are facing the same problem with your Ubuntu Installation on VMware, then you can feel my situation at that time. Here is the quick solution for the same.
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS is released and lot many Ubuntu fans has already started using the same. This time Ubuntu team has also released the much awaited manual with introduction and usage section details. There are lot many new features in 10.04, you can go thru them on this page. Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 is LTS (Long Term Release) which means the mother company Canonical will provide support for next 3 years for this version of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 had released in last month and now Ubuntu team has released the Alpha 2 of Lucid Lynx. You can download and test the Alpha 2 version on your computer or server. Read the post to know what’s new in Lucid Lynx Alpha 2.
Ubuntu Team is working on a formal manual for Ubuntu System. Ubuntu Manual is expected to come with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx in April 2010. Lot many people are working on this manual which is still in development phase as a “Ubuntu Manual Project”. You can take a look at the initial preview of Ubuntu Manual by downloading the attached PDF or read that thru embedded Gogle Docs PDF.
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx stable version is schedule to release in April 2010 and if you are interested in knowing the schedule time for other versions of Ubuntu then here is a compiled video with release schedule till Ubuntu 11.04. This video has also detailed the LTS (Long Term Support) time range for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It also provide some information about the origin of different names of Ubuntu i.e. Karmic Koala, Lucid Lynx etc.
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