Linux Mint 15 `Olivia` Available For Download [Screenshots Tour]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 "Olivia", based on <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/ubuntu-1304-available-for-download.html">Ubuntu 13.04</a>, has been <a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366">released</a> today and is available, as usual, in two editions: MATE and Cinnamon. Let's take a look at what's new!</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ChBvNHvKijw/UaTTLHfTsrI/AAAAAAAAPW0/b7VzNSWlGsY/s1600/linux-mint-15-welcome.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15" border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ChBvNHvKijw/UaTTLHfTsrI/AAAAAAAAPW0/b7VzNSWlGsY/s320/linux-mint-15-welcome.png" title="Linux Mint 15" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 "Olivia"</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The features below are shared between the two main Linux Mint editions: Cinnamon and MATE.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Linux Mint 15 ships with a <b>new tool that allows you to manage the software sources, called MintSources</b> (shows up as "<b>Software Sources</b>" in the menu), replacing the old Software Sources (software-propreties-gtk) that was shared with Ubuntu:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MintSouces allows you to select the mirrors used for the software sources, with an included speed-test tool that lets you select the fastest mirror, easily enable optional components such as backports or unstable packages, enable source code repositories, <b>there's a PPAs tab</b> that lets you add, edit or remove PPAs, add additional repositories, manage authentication keys and so on. On the "Maintenance" tab you'll find a button to fix common APT problems like MergeList issue or purge residual configuration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Another new tool that's available in Linux Mint 15 is "MintDrivers"</b>, a driver manager (shows up as "<b>Driver Manager</b>" in the menu) that uses the same backend as the Ubuntu Software Sources (which integrates the driver manager now):</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mintdrivers.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mintdrivers_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Linux Mint 15, <b>MDM supports three types of greeters</b>: <b>a GTK greeter, a GDM greeter which supports the old GDM 2.20 themes and a new HTML (supports HTML5, CSS, Javascript and WebGL) greeter</b> which supports theming but since it's new, there are no themes available to download yet on websites such as Gnome-Look, though I'm sure many will be available soon. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-preferences.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-preferences_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Linux Mint 15 ships with some GDM as well as some HTML themes for MDM - here's the default MDM theme and some other MDM HTML themes included by default with Linux Mint 15:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The default Linux Mint 15 MDM greeter (HTML)<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_4.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_4_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the default MDM HTML themes there's a really nice animated WebGL theme which unfortunately I can't show you here since it would have required a video (and the theme is really slow in VirtualBox).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides these new features, MDM has also received many bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements.</div><br /><br /><b>Other changes shared between the two Linux Mint 15 editions:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>artwork improvements, including 12 new wallpapers, improved Mint-X theme to make GTK2 and GTK3 applications look more similar, updated Plymouth theme and more;</li><li>MintNanny has been ported to GTK+;</li><li>the Update Manager is now able to refresh the APT cache in user mode;</li><li>the Software Manager now uses automated pagination, supports searching in a certain category, etc.</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Software Manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Software Manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-update-manager.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-update-manager_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Update Manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Both Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" editions share most of the default applications (basically all except for the file manager and other desktop-especific components): Firefox 20.0 (but Firefox 21 is available as an update already), Thunderbird 17.0.6, LibreOffice 4.0.2, GIMP 2.8.4, gThumb 3.0.2, Transmission 2.77, Pidgin 2.10.7, VLC 2.0.6, Totem 3.6.3, Banshee 2.6.0, Tomboy 1.12.0, Brasero 3.6.1, Synaptic 0.80, Mint Backup 2.0.9, Xchat 2.8.8 and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, <b>since Linux Mint 15 is based on <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/ubuntu-1304-available-for-download.html">Ubuntu 13.04</a></b>, it uses the same kernel: 3.8 - based on the upstream Linux Kernel 3.8.8, Xorg server 1.13.3 and Mesa 9.1.1.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon edition</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon edition</b> comes with the latest <b>Cinnamon 1.8</b>, released recently, which introduces some important changes, such as:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a <b>new Control Center</b>, especially created for Cinnamon;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a <b>new screensaver</b> created for Cinnamon which is very simplistic and has basically the same features as Gnome Screensaver, from which it was forked, except for an away message feature (display an away message on the lock screen);</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>desktop widgets</b> ("Desklets") support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>install or update "spices"</b> (applets, desklets, themes or extensions) directly <b>from the desktop</b>, via Cinnamon Control Center;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nemo</b>, the default Cinnamon file manager has received <b>a lot of improvements</b>, including: better Cinnamon integration, buttons in the statusbar to easily hide the sidebar, switch to treeview, etc., option to hide the menu, collapsable sidebar categories, breadcrumbs, sidebar disk space indicators and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon now automatically falls back to Software Rendering</b> (previously known as Cinnamon 2D) <b>when the full Cinnamon is not supported</b> - a critical notification is displayed on startup when running Software Rendering - this usually happens because of a problem with the drivers or if the graphics card doesn't support any acceleration;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">horizontal / vertical maximizing of windows;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more!</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots (note: there are no window shadows because the screenshots were taken in VirtualBox and Cinnamon used the software renderer):</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-applets-online.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-applets-online_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Online Cinnamon applets</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-desklets.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-desklets_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Desklets</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-nemo.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-nemo_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nemo file manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-screensaver.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-screensaver_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Screensaver</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Control Center</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings-advanced.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings-advanced_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Control Center (advanced)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>For more about Cinnamon 1.8, including a video and Ubuntu installation instructions, see our article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/cinnamon-18-gets-its-own-control-center.html">Cinnamon 1.8 Gets Its Own Control Center And Screensaver, Easier Spices Installation</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 MATE edition</h2><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint 15 MATE edition with mintMenu</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 MATE edition ships with MATE 1.6</b>, released a couple of months ago, which doesn't come with a lot of visible features but there are many under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes. Here are the Linux Mint 15 MATE highlights:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>some of the old technologies used by MATE have been replaced with newer ones</b>: mateconf has been replaced with gsettings, matecorba and matecomponent has been replaced with dbus, matevfs has been replaced with gio/gvfs and matenotify has been replaced with libnotify;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Caja</b>, the default file manager, has received support for new thumbnailers, a new connect server dialog backported from Nautilus 3, improved sidebar and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">MPRIS v2 support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in case of a crash, mate-settings-daemon is now able to recover and it is automatically restarted by mate-session;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the MATE panel Window List now supports middle click to close windows and the Workspace Switcher has option to wrap around between workspaces with the mouse wheel;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>new options in MATE Control Center to enable Macro compositing manager</b>, fast alt-tab and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the <b>Notification Daemon</b> now supports notifications that "never" expire" and there's a new <b>option to allow users to specify on which screen the notifications should be displayed</b>;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>mintDesktop and mintMenu have been migrated to the latest MATE 1.6</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.<b> </b></li></ul><br />Linux Mint 15 MATE edition screenshots:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_4.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_4_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-caja.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-caja_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caja, the default MATE file manager<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-compositing-manager.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-compositing-manager_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MATE Control Center<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center-notifications.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center-notifications_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New MATE notification options<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-desktop-settings.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-desktop-settings_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mintDesktop</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Read more about MATE 1.6 (and Ubuntu installation instructions) in the following article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/mate-16-released-install-it-in-ubuntu.html">MATE 1.6 Released, Install It In Ubuntu [GNOME 2 Fork]</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Linux Mint 15</h2><br />Before downloading Linux Mint 15, make sure you read the <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia.php">known issues</a>!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php">Download Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon or MATE editions</a></b></div><br />

Linux Mint 15 `Olivia` Available For Download [Screenshots Tour]

Linux Mint 15 "Olivia", based on Ubuntu 13.04 , has been released today and is available, as usual, in two editions: MATE and Cin...

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Pinguy OS 13.04 (Final, Yet Beta) Released With GNOME 3.8

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://pinguyos.com/">Pinguy OS</a> 13.04 (based on Ubuntu 13.04) beta has been released recently, this being basically the final 13.04 version because Pinguy has decided to keep the 6 month releases as betas and only the LTS will be considered stable.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GgcsA6IpTiA/UZ9MhauCo3I/AAAAAAAAPVU/NagrcBXgApc/s1600/pinguy-os-13.04.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="220" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GgcsA6IpTiA/UZ9MhauCo3I/AAAAAAAAPVU/NagrcBXgApc/s320/pinguy-os-13.04.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The non-LTS releases will be using bleeding edge software, like XBMC 13.0 alpha or GNOME 3.8 / GNOME Shell 3.8 that's included in Pinguy OS 13.04, which isn't included by default in Ubuntu 13.04 and so, it isn't considered fully stable in Ubuntu. According to a recent Pinguy OS blog <a href="http://pinguyos.com/2013/05/pinguy-os-new-releases/">post</a>, the 6 month releases are usable, but they might not include features that will be available in the LTS:</div><br /><blockquote>"The 6 month Pinguy OS releases will be missing features that will be in the final LTS, but the release will be very usable. It just won’t be at a stage where I am happy to call it stable due to missing features or things not quite working as they should. The goal of the 6 month releases is to help give users insight and influence on where Pinguy OS is heading and help shape the LTS release"</blockquote><br /><br /><h2>Pinguy OS</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with Pinguy OS, this is an Ubuntu remaster with lots of applications installed by default as well as tweaks that you won't find in any other distro, at least by default.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pinguy OS 13.04 beta uses GNOME Shell 3.8 by default and the first things you'll notice when you log in are a Docky instance displayed at the bottom, used as a taskbar / app launcher, and a simple but stylish Conky setup displayed at the top, under the GNOME Shell panel. There's another Docky instance on the left, used for quickly accessing various folders, but it uses autohide so you may not notice it at first.<br /><br />For the GTK theme, Pinguy OS uses a modified elementary theme and for the icons, it uses the beautiful Faience Azur icon theme, but more GTK / icon themes are available by default so you can easily change them if you don't like the defaults.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As usual, Pinguy OS comes with many little things that make your life easier as well as under-the-hood optimizations and tweaks such as ZRam and Preload installed by default, aimed at providing a better default experience. <u><br /></u></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.8</h2><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-gnome-control-center.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pinguy OS 13.04 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-gnome-control-center_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Control Center 3.8</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Even though Ubuntu 13.04 has GNOME 3.6, Pinguy OS uses GNOME 3.8 with GNOME Shell by default</b>, customized with quite a few extensions as usual. For 13.04, Pinguy uses<b> Gno-menu extension by default</b> instead of Cardapio (which is no longer being developed and is <a href="https://launchpad.net/cardapio/+announcement/11268">looking</a> for new maintainers), but you can also use Slingshot App Launcher or the GNOME appmenu extensions instead, both being installed (but not used) by default.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-menu.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pinguy OS 13.04 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-menu_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gno-menu extension</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-messaging-menu.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pinguy OS 13.04 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-messaging-menu.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Messaging Menu extension</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides Gno-menu, Pinguy OS 13.04 includes quite a few <b>GNOME Shell 3.8 extensions by default</b>, such as:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Activities Configurator: lets you configure the Activities button (text, padding, hide text or icon, hot corner sensivity, etc.);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Alternatetab: ALT-Tab replacement that allows you to cycle between windows and doesn't group by application;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Alternative status menu: replaces the GNOME Shell Status menu with one that displays Suspend / Hibernate and Power Off as separate items;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/appindicator-support-for-gnome-shell.html" title="GNOME Shell AppIndicator Support">AppIndicator Support</a>: the extension we wrote about a while back that adds Ubuntu AppIndicator support to GNOME Shell, though you need to set the indicators placement in panel from its settings (via GNOME Tweak Tool) for it to work;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Default minimize and maximize: displays minimize and maximize buttons on windows, which isn't available by default in GNOME Shell;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Frippery move clock: the clock is moved to the right;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Media player indicator: Ubuntu Unity-like sound indicator;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Messaging Menu: Unity-like messaging menu;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Move-free Message Tray: Returns the Message Tray to pre-3.6 behavior where your whole screen doesn't move;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Just like in the previous releases, because it uses a custom menu, the Activities button isn't available by default but you can enable it if you want, by using GNOME Tweak Tool, which is included by default in Pinguy OS (or simply use the Super key to access the Activities Overview).</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-activities.jpg" rel="image_group"><img alt="Pinguy OS 13.04 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-activities_thumb.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-apps.jpg" rel="image_group"><img alt="Pinguy OS 13.04 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-apps_thumb.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-someapps.jpg" rel="image_group"><img alt="Pinguy oS 13.04 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/pinguy-os-13.04-someapps_thumb.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides some new GNOME Shell extensions, Pinguy OS 13.04 beta comes with <b>Netflix Desktop by default</b>, along with its usual default packages such as XBMC, codecs, Adobe Flash, G-talk plugin and so on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, the <b>Spotify and Google Chrome repositories</b> are added by default so it's very simple to install either of these applications.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pinguy OS 13.04 beta ships with the following default packages: Firefox 21, Nautilus 3.8.1, LibreOffice 4.0.2, Empathy 3.8.2, GNOME Control Center 3.8.2, Deluge 3.6, Docky 2.2.1, Friends 0.1.3daily13.04.17.1, Skype 4.1.0 (but an update to 4.2 is already available through the Update Manager), TeamViewer 7, Thunderbird 17.0.6, Pinta 1.4, Shotwell 0.14.1, Rapid Photo Downloader 0.4.5, Xchat 2.8.8, Arista Transcoder 0.9.7, Cheese 3.8.1, Clementine 1.1.1, GNOME Mplayer 1.0.8, OpenShot Video Editor 1.4.3, DeVeDe 3.23, VLC 2.0.6, XBMC Media Center 2.13.0 alpha, Gloobus Preview 0.4.5, Boot Repair 3.199, Gedit 3.8.2, Gparted 0.16.1, Ubuntu One, GNOME Tweak Tool 3.8.0+git, Wine 1.5.30, PlayOnLinux 4.1.1, Synaptic 0.80, Y PPA Manager 0.0.9.8, Shutter 0.90, Ubuntu Software Center 5.6.0 and more, all on top of GNOME 3.8.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/ubuntu-1304-available-for-download.html">Ubuntu 13.04</a>, Pinguy OS 13.04 beta uses the 3.8.0 Ubuntu Linux kernel, based on the upstream 3.8.8 Linux kernel, comes with MTP support by default and so on. </div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Pinguy OS 13.04 beta</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pinguy-os/files/Pinguy_OS_13.04/">Download Pinguy OS 13.04 beta</a></b></div><br />For support, visit the <a href="http://forum.pinguyos.com/index.php">Pinguy OS forums</a>.<br /><br />

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elementary OS Luna Beta 2 Available For Download

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Five months after the first beta, elementary OS Luna beta 2 has been <a href="http://elementaryos.org/journal/luna-beta-2-released">released</a> yesterday. Based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Luna beta 2 comes with improved multi-monitor support, updated default applications and artwork and more.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GfP9GBn4oIU/UYk_ILigMaI/AAAAAAAAPJY/wt8aTGTX9y8/s1600/elementary-os-luna-beta2-screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GfP9GBn4oIU/UYk_ILigMaI/AAAAAAAAPJY/wt8aTGTX9y8/s450/elementary-os-luna-beta2-screenshot.png" width="450" /></a></div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>elementary OS Luna beta 2 video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Even though there aren't any major visual changes, except for the improved artwork, I've decided to make a video anyway so you can see the beautiful effects and the overall desktop feel of this beautiful Linux distribution. And obviously, you can also check out some of the changes in the latest Luna beta 2.</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/59RvVf-x_6A" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59RvVf-x_6A">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Changes in elementary OS Luna beta 2</h2><br /><b>Changes / new features in elementary OS Luna beta 2 since <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/elementary-os-luna-beta-1-available-for.html" title="elementary OS Luna Beta 1 Available For Testing">beta 1</a>:</b><br /><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Switchboard (system settings) now includes two new Keyboard and Power sections as well as an option to switch dock (Plank) themes;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved multi-monitor support for Plank and Wingpanel;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved elementary theme (both GTK and icon theme), including brand new folder icons<b>, </b>file manager icon and emoticons set;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Shotwell, Midori, Noise (now called Music), Geary and Pantheon Terminal have received various enhancements and bug fixes:</li><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Geary email client now includes multiple account support, "collapsed" messages in conversations, "important" folder support, option to mark emails as spam and many bug fixes;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Midori, the default elementary OS web browser has received a customizable new tab page behavior, a new Cookie Security Manager extension, improved extension loading, a reworked downloads backend, etc. </li><li style="text-align: justify;">Noise is now called "Music" and the latest version comes with duplicate-detection, some design updates, improved external device support and more. </li></ul><li style="text-align: justify;">better translations support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">many bug fixes;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more. </li></ul><br /><br />Below you can see some elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-switchboard-system-settings.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-switchboard-system-settings_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">System Settings (Switchboard)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-power.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-power_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Power settings</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-keyboard.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-keyboard_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Keyboard settings</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-keyboard_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-keyboard_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Keyboard settings</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-plank-settings.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-plank-settings_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pantheon Dock (Plank) settings</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-plank_theme_1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-plank_theme_1_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plank - switching between themes</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-plank_theme_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-plank_theme_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plank - switching between themes</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-geary.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-geary_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geary email client</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-indicator.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-indicator_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">elementary OS desktop / Calendar indicator</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-marlin-files.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-marlin-files_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pantheon Files (Marlin fork) and the new elementary OS icon theme folder icons</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-midori.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-midori_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Midori web browser</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-music-noise.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-music-noise_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Music (Noise)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-expose.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-expose_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Expose (Super + W)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-workspace-switcher.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="elementary OS Luna beta 2 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/elementary-os-luna-beta2-workspace-switcher_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Workspace switcher (Super + S)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br />For more about elementary OS Luna, see our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/elementary-os-luna-beta-1-available-for.html" title="elementary OS Luna Beta 1 Available For Testing">beta 1 article</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download elementary OS Luna Beta 2</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've installed elementary OS Luna beta 1 or a daily build and have all the packages up to date (e.g.: updated using Update Manager, "apt-get upgrade", etc.), you already have the latest beta 2 so there's no need to reinstall. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To read the official release notes, see how you can contribute or download elementary OS Luna beta 2, see announcement @ <a href="http://elementaryos.org/journal/luna-beta-2-released">elementaryos.org</a></b></div><br /><br />

elementary OS Luna Beta 2 Available For Download

Five months after the first beta, elementary OS Luna beta 2 has been released yesterday. Based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Luna beta 2 comes with ...

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