Frugalware Linux 1.6 RC2 has been released

Frugalware announced the availability of the second release candidate [RC2] for the upcoming Frugalware 1.6 stable release. Frugalware is the general desktop Linux operating system from Hungary. It design looks like Slackware and it uses the Pacman package management from Arch Linux. It available on many desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, BlackBox, FluxBox, OpenBox, WMaker and IceWM.

Here is the one screenshot of its GNOME desktop environment.

In this version they upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.1.10 and LibreOffice 3.4.5. They also update about 100 packages and include 27 new packages. They introduce many new features and try to fix the errors. Tha main advantage is that you if you have your old machines like 256 MB RAM you can install LXDE or Xfce version on it.

New attraction in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : HUD [Head-Up Display]

Mark Shuttleworth announced on his blog that Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" comes with the idea of VUI [vocabulary user interface]. The user click on particular application or just told to open the application, the key different between them is the efficiency in user speech and the invocation of the application.

The name of this feature is HUD [Head-Up Display]. And it takes less time then mouse-click and the ease of it is that you don't have to remember hot-keys just type what you want and it'll give it to you.

Here is the stunning video of it in which you can see how much HUD can help you.

The HUD is very smart VUI. It uses many calculation and algorithms for results. It displays your prioritize result first and then the others. And it gives you more better experience than Unity dash.

And at the end, Mark said that their next step is to integrate the HUD with the voice recognition system. So you can talk with your software and instruct it.

Release schedule of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin"

Here is the release schedule of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin".

Alpha 1	1st Dec,2011
Alpha 2	2nd Feb,2012
Feature Freeze	16th Feb,2012
User Interface Freeze	23rd Feb,2012
Beta 1	1st Mar,2012
Beta 2	29th Mar,2012
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Final Release	26th Apr,2012

Here is the all key dates of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This time Canonical goes to support this LTS [long term support] version for 5 years. So this time they try to make a better version in their history.

After Feature Freeze no more features and packages will be added and after User Interface Freeze no drastic modification in UI will be done. But any exception make the little change.

Microsoft ready to war with Linux : Banned booting of Linux on ARM based Windows 8 Devices

From recent news, it seems that Microsoft banned booting of Linux or any other operating system on ARM based Windows 8 devices. From this decision of Microsoft, it seems that they are ready to war with GNU/Linux operating system. Due to the UEFI secure boot protocol, any other OS rather than Windows 8 can not run on ARM based devices.

If you buy any hardware, it will be yours and you can run any operating system of your choice. Now a days ARM is used not only in mobile device but also in tablets and notebooks. Microsoft attempting to kill GNU/Linux from ARM based devices. It sounds very pathetic and insane. So they should back off their decision otherwise it seems that there are starting of war between Windows and GNU/Linux.