Sabayon 8 has been released

Sabayon 8 has been released on 8^th Feb, 2011 which originally based on Gentoo Linux operating system. Sabayon believes in outof box experience so they try to give most of basic packages in-built. Its tagline is "Open your source, Open your mind". Apart from that it has dashing look and available in many flavors like GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Openbox.

In Sabayon 8, there are Linux Kernel 3.2, GNOME 3.2.2, KDE 4.7.4, Xfce 4.8, LibreOffice3.4.4 and many other Updated packages. Using Entropy Matter ebuild tracker, it became first Extreme-Rolling release with automated repository package version bumping.

Linux Mint 12 KDE has been released

Clement Lefebvre announced the availability of Linux Mint 12 KDE version. It uses KDE 4.7.4 version. And it contain features of Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux Kernel 3.0. A new feature is added named Hybrid ISO image which create LIve USB for installtion. Duck Duck Go is the by default search engine. Here is the look at its desktop.

Linux Mint 12 KDE

The Linux Mint is originally based on Ubuntu and include the concept of complete out-of-box experience by providing media and browser plug-ins, drivers, media codecs, Java and many other tools in-built.

PCLinuxOS 2012.2 has been released

Bill Reynolds announced the availabilty of PCLinuxOS 2012.2 with Linux Kernel 2.6.38.8 and desktop environment KDE 4.6.5. It is available in 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. PCLinuxOS is mainly forked from Mandriva and very easy to use operating system.

Addlocale package allow you to support 60 language on PCLinuxOS. PCLinuxOS uses Synaptix package manager for package management system which contain 13,500 packages. Minimum requirement of RAM is 512 MB and recommended is 1 GB.

Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" alpha 2 has been released

Canonical announced release of alpha 2 of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" on 2^nd feb, 2012. It contains Unity 5.0 interface which is more better than in Ubuntu 11.10. The alpha 2 version includes Linux Kernel 3.2.2, Upstart 1.4, LibreOffice 3.5 beta 2.

In this version they made a slight modification in Unity 5.0 interface like lenses and scrol-bar design and some others. Here HUD [head-up display] is not included nut you can add them using its testing PPA by entering following command in terminal or you can add this PPA to your USC [Ubuntu Software Center] [how to add PPA to your USC].

       sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity-team/hud

       sudo apt-get update 

       sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

There are some minor changes has been made like Rhythmbox is became default media player. Ubuntu One Music Store plug-in is not included by default. Tomboy and gBrainy are not installed in-built. "Apport" is by default crash reporter.