Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' alpha 1 has been released

Ubuntu 12.04 named 'Precise Pangolin' has been released on 1st Dec,2011. This time Ubuntu 12.04 is based on Linux Kernel 3.2.0 relaese candidate 3. There are many more changes are done in the Ubuntu 12.04. It also support for APLS touchpads.

 Now next step is to see weather the unity interface take Ubuntu 12.04 upside or downside? In this alpha version many bug fixes are done and hence they try to make 'Precise Pangolin' more precise and flawless.The next version Ubuntu 12.04 alpha 2 will be release on 2^nd Feb,2011.

How to install Bodhi Linux [snapshots toor]

Bodhi Linux comes with Enlightenment desktop manager. It is originally based on Ubuntu so it can be installed once in two year. It is lightweight operating system soyou can also run it on 128 MB RAM and 300 MHZ processor. Here the method is shown how to install Bodhi Linux into virtuabox step by step.

1.    First you have to select profile and theme.

2.    Now the desktop is appeared then click on "Install Bodhi" at bottom of your screen. Then enter the required information like language, partition table, location, keyboard layout, username and password and wait for complete the installation.

 

3.    Now restart the virtualbox ane enjoy Bodhi Linux.

The Chakra Project - A Linux Distribution

The Chakra project linux distribution is originally forked from Arch linux. And The Chakra linux is based on K-I-S-S [keep it simple, stupid!] principle. This comes with the KDE desktop environment with better PLASMA desktop. It also available for 32-bit and 64-bit architecture.


Some of the screenshots are displayed here with PLASMA desktop of the Chakra Linux.

Wine 1.3.28 released

Wine is the utility that use to run your Windows applications in your Linux Distro. If you faced that some application you doesn't find in your Linux Distro, you can install Wine and run your Windows application  on it. Wine runs the files having '.exe' extension. In this version 1.3.28 some new features are introduced which are listed below.

It is available for many Linux distro. Here in this image you can see that if it is available for you Linux Dostro or not.

The new features of this release:

• Automatic audio driver selection.
• Device configuration dialog in DirectInput.
• Initial version of the VBScript parser.
• Support for volume information on UDF file systems.
• The OpenGL renderer is now the default for DirectDraw
• SetDIBitsToDevice support in the DIB engine.
• Various Bug fixes.