Matias Vangsnes

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Posts Tagged with "stable release"

Canonical Ubuntu Web Apps: Linux Innovation With 12.10?

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Over the last couple years, Canonical has helped rewrite the face of desktop Linux through Unity and other projects. Now, the company behind Ubuntu wants to rethink the way users interact with the web via a new feature called Ubuntu Web Apps. But is this true innovation or simply a rehashing of an idea that [...]

Canonical Introduces Ubuntu Web Apps

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Over the last couple years, Canonical has helped rewrite the face of desktop Linux through Unity and other projects. Now, the company behind Ubuntu wants to rethink the way users interact with the web via a new feature called Ubuntu Web Apps. But is this true innovation or simply a rehashing of an idea that [...]

Opera’s ‘SPDY’ Sense Tingling in Labs Release

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

Photo: dark_ghetto28/Flickr The latest Labs release of Opera’s flagship desktop web browser adds support for the nascent SPDY protocol. You can download the latest Opera Labs build for Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Mac and Linux from Opera. SPDY, pronounced “speedy,” is a replacement for the HTTP protocol — the language currently used when your browser [...]

Opera’s ‘SPDY’ Sense Tingling in Labs Release

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

Photo: dark_ghetto28/Flickr The latest Labs release of Opera’s flagship desktop web browser adds support for the nascent SPDY protocol. You can download the latest Opera Labs build for Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Mac and Linux from Opera. SPDY, pronounced “speedy,” is a replacement for the HTTP protocol — the language currently used when your browser [...]

Opera's 'SPDY' Sense Tingling in Labs Release

Friday, July 6th, 2012

Photo: dark_ghetto28/Flickr The latest Labs release of Opera’s flagship desktop web browser adds support for the nascent SPDY protocol. You can download the latest Opera Labs build for Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Mac and Linux from Opera. SPDY, pronounced “speedy,” is a replacement for the HTTP protocol — the language currently used when your browser [...]

Bodhi Linux 2.0 alpha arrives for testing

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

The Bodhi development team has published the first pre-release build of Bodhi Linux 2.0, the project’s next major update. According to project lead developer Jeff Hoogland, the goal of the new version “is not to introduce ground breaking new features”, but rather to “allow our distro to transition to the next major Ubuntu LTS as a [...]

Canonical releases Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

No one can accuse Canonical of sitting around during the first quarter of 2012. With no less than six different release announcements since January, it seems that everything that Mark Shuttleworth’s company has been working on for the past few years is crystallizing all at once. With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS today, Canonical [...]

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat reaches end of life

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Ubuntu Release Manager Kate Stewart has announced that version 10.10 of Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution known as “Maverick Meerkat” has reached its end of life. This means that, from 10 April 2012 (yesterday), no new updates, including security updates and critical fixes, will be made available. The default Ubuntu 10.10 desktop with Firefox 3.6 Released [...]

Second beta release for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

Friday, March 30th, 2012

The second and final beta of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has been announced and made available to interested users for testing. This second beta release will be followed, if all goes according to plan, by the final version of “Precise Pangolin” scheduled to be shipped on 26 April. Most of the major changes in Ubuntu 12.04 [...]

XBMC 11.0 released

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

XBMC, one of the most widely adopted HTPC applications, has just been updated to 11.0. This version has been in development for over a year and boasts a number of new features as well as improvements over the previous version. Among the new features and improvements are Addon Rollbacks, which allows users to revert to previous [...]

XBMC 11.0 released, includes new Ubuntu-based live CD

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

The development team behind the hugely popular open source media player and entertainment hub, XBMC, has announced immediate availability of the newest XBMC 11.0 “Eden” release as well as XBMCbuntu, a new Ubuntu-based live CD. There have been a number of changes since the previous version was announced over a year ago. The default skin, Confluence, has [...]

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