Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Beta Released, See What's New

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail <i>final beta</i> has been <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview">released</a> today</b>, this being the first and only milestone for Raring. If you're not using Raring already, <b>read on to find out what's new!</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Note: this is the first and only Ubuntu 13.04 beta, even though the ISO says "beta 2", however, some Ubuntu flavours already had a beta release so today it's beta 2 for Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Kubuntu for instance.</i></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-beta-screenshot-m.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKBSG2_yo9icWrX-_JMAQv4E6rwGfDWor9yvS0tCdELGUbO584bGn8Kh1gA5s5MLFlvrK1yeu12gNDUmFIJOwoynYu5AfoEFw6vi1iTYEQ0tgeYgTcFdRjduZIxGxinY1vkQNxZdcvZw-/s450/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-beta-screenshot-m.png" title="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail" width="450" /></a></div><br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><h2>Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Beta video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As usual, I'll start the article with a video in which you can see most of the visual changes in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Beta:</div><br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1Sr3XjqXAqc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sr3XjqXAqc">direct video link</a>; subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a> for more videos)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Unity changes in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Beta</h2><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Unity has got two new features that should make it <b>easier to switch between multiple open windows of the same application</b>:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>if an application has two or more open windows, the window title will be displayed as an Unity quicklists and you can switch between those windows by clicking on the quicklists;</li><li>again, if an application has two or more open windows, users can switch between those open windows by scrolling on the application icon in the Unity Launcher.</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There have also been quite a few <b>UI changes</b> to Unity in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail beta:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>new Unity-style shutdown / logout / suspend dialogs;</li><li>new icons for the Dash icon (BFB), workspace switcher, lenses, Software Updater, Ubuntu Software Center and Nautilus;</li><li>new window snap animation which shows the window preview as it expands;</li><li>the 32px minimum Launcher icon size limit has been removed and the launcher can now be resized to a mimimum of 8px.</li></ul><br />Here are some screenshots with these changes:<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/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_1_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Unity-style shutdown / logout / restart dialogs</td></tr></tbody></table></div><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/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Unity-style shutdown / logout / restart dialogs</td></tr></tbody></table></div><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/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_3.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_3_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New BFB, Nautilus, Software Center, Software Updater and Workspace Switcher icons</td></tr></tbody></table></div><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/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_15.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_15_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Nautilus, Software Center and Software Updater icons</td></tr></tbody></table></div><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/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_4.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_4_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New lens icons</td></tr></tbody></table></div><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/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-screenshot-anim.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-screenshot-anim_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Window snap animation</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Further more, the new <b>workspace switcher icon now indicates the current active desktop</b>. However, with Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, the <b>workspaces have been disabled by default</b> and they can be enabled from <i>System Settings > Appearance</i>, on the "Behavior" tab ("Enable workspaces"):</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_11.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_11_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Unity <b>Dash</b> has received special attention in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail and it's now <b>a lot faster</b> to open, search and display previews. Also, Dash Previews have received a slightly modified animation and an updated design. And finally, <b>Dash now comes with overlay scrollbars</b>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_5.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_5_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_6.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_6_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Dash already had a legal notice, accessible from the bottom right Dash corner, but with Ubuntu Raring, the legal notice can also be accessed from <i>System Settings > Details</i>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_7.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_7_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another Dash change is the addition of a small, fast library called "libcolumbus" that provides <b>error tolerant matching</b> which makes it easier to search the Dash: for instance, if you type "gdit" instead of "gedit", Dash will find Gedit, something that wouldn't have happened in previous Ubuntu versions:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_8.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_8_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>Unity Online Accounts has received per application on/off toggles</b> so for instance if you add your Google account, you can select not to use it for the Dash photo search plugin and Shotwell, but enable it for Empathy:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_9.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_9_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtlwPzzlRbkPzEIJDfmpYAS8hL4WzkRL8M37mZK-Ow2tnhMMTdo0rqmjTt5sdRHLKSZKlvuLYxR2yd4urv9-ZIWNLYRNMkHRiBoCySfOnCuvd6mjmWpBNiKAfv7_T9kze9fHC19Sj_ZHQe/s1600/appindicators.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu appindicators" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtlwPzzlRbkPzEIJDfmpYAS8hL4WzkRL8M37mZK-Ow2tnhMMTdo0rqmjTt5sdRHLKSZKlvuLYxR2yd4urv9-ZIWNLYRNMkHRiBoCySfOnCuvd6mjmWpBNiKAfv7_T9kze9fHC19Sj_ZHQe/s320/appindicators.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the additions above, there's also a removal: <b>the Unity systray whitelist has been removed</b>, so you can no longer whitelist applications to allow them to use the notification area in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. However, Java and Wine applications have been hard-coded as the only software still able to use the notification area so this change only affects some old applications that don't come with AppIndicator support. And since Qt applications systray icons are automatically converted to appindicators thanks to <i>sni-qt</i>, this change shouldn't affect too many applications.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Other changes</h2><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/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_13.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_13_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sync Menu</td></tr></tbody></table></div><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/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_14.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_14.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bluetooth Indicator</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Two new indicators have been added by default in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail: </b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Sync Menu, an indicator that only supports Ubuntu One but later it might support other services such as Dropbox. The indicator has been available starting with Ubuntu 12.10, but it wasn't added by default until now. For now, it can be used to enable/disable Ubuntu One sync, display current and recent transfers or share files, but more features should be available in the future;</li><li>Bluetooth Indicator - a proper indicator for Bluetooth, which has replaced the old Bluetooth indicator that was basically just a patch over the fallback gnome-bluetooth icon.</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The work to "make Ubuntu fit on mobile" had advantages for the desktop too and with Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, the <b>memory usage should be greatly reduced</b>. For instance, some processes were changed to exit-on-idle and be restarted-on-demand rather than running all the time, there have been many optimizations and fixed memory leaks and so on. And this is just the beginning.</div><br /><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/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_16.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_16_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LibreOffice 4.0 with appmenu and HUD support by default</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><b>Other changes:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Intel SNA (2D acceleration for the Intel Linux graphics driver that improves the X.Org performance) has been turned on by default in Raring;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Gvfs now has a MTP backend which allows users to access Android 4.0 devices that don't support USB Mass Storage without any tweaks;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">LibreOffice has got appmenu (global menu) / HUD support by default (although it's still a bit buggy);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Many multi-monitor fixes, including a fix or the bug that caused the launcher / top panel to show up on top of full-screen applications on the inactive monitor;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">13 new gorgeous <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/download-ubuntu-1304-raring-ringtail.html">community wallpapers</a>  have landed in Raring.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, with Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, <b>the maintenance period has been reduced from 18 months to 9 months</b> - this change won't affect just Raring but all future non-LTS releases.</div><br />And of course, there have been many other minor changes, improvements and bug fixes, too many to cover in a single post. Give Ubuntu 13.04 a try and you'll notice them for yourself.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications</h2><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/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-screenshot-nautilus36.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu appindicators" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-screenshot-nautilus36_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nautilus 3.6</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu 13.04 will ship with GNOME 3.6 for most applications / libraries, just like Ubuntu 12.10. However, Ubuntu 12.10 was released with Nautilus 3.4, GNOME Control Center 3.4 and Totem 3.4 while Ubuntu 13.04 ships with the latest 3.6 stable versions of these applications: <b>Nautilus 3.6.3</b>, GNOME Control Center 3.6.3 and Totem 3.6.3.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, <b>Gwibber and the Gwibber lens have been removed from Ubuntu for now</b>. It will probably be replaced with an application re-written in QML called Friends-App and the Gwibber Service will be replaced by Friends Service. This change is still pending approval.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_12.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_12_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the applications mentioned above, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail beta ships by default with Firefox 19.0.2, Thunderbird 17.0.4, LibreOffice 4.0.1 (now with built-in global menu support), Ubuntu Software Center 5.6.0, Transmission 2.77, Deja Dup backup tool 26.0, Shotwell 0.14.0, Rhythmbox 2.98, Gedit 3.6.2, Brasero 3.6.1 and Empathy 3.6.4 on top of Unity 6.12 daily build as of 13.04.01 and GTK3+ 3.6.4.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raring beta uses the Ubuntu Linux Kernel 3.8.0 based on the upstream Linux Kernel 3.8.5, Xorg server 1.13.3 and Mesa 9.0.3.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail final beta</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail has been very stable from the beginning and I'm not the only one saying this, many users have reported that Raring is the most stable development version of Ubuntu so far. However, this obviously depends on the hardware too, and this is stil la beta, so it's not recommended you install it on production machines!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've installed Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail daily build and you've updated the packages through the Software Updater, you already have Raring beta so there's no need to reinstall it.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview">Download Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail final beta</a></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the only Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail beta release (not counting the other Ubuntu flavours - with Raring, each flavour can have its own release schedule) and the next milestone will be the final Ubuntu 13.04 release, on April 25th.</div><br /><br />

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Firefox 20 Lands In Ubuntu, Brings Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Firefox</a> 20, released a couple of days ago, has just landed in all supported Ubuntu versions. The new Firefox version brings a few long-awaited features such as per-window private browsing and a new download manager.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Firefox 20 introduces <b>per-window private browsing</b>: accessing <i><b>File > New Private Window</b></i>, you'll get a window for private browsing that doesn't affect the other Firefox windows. In previous Firefox versions you couldn't have both a regular Firefox window and a private window open in the same time.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/firefox-20-private-browsing.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Firefox 20 private browsing Ubuntu" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyZHiBzhldYUvRwk7Z1bfoZKT1moEl7N1y30pJJF-X3Mp_e04xtaXqtKhwXbB-zO0W2v9kInTsCkZ3Lz1Fdvo6vlhZcoEZV5jcly8v9B6EZ6JbskOVdG3JvzLBAtmFyCsIDIFbCk3U-xFO/s320/firefox-20-private-browsing.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Private browsing lets you browse the web without saving information about the sites you visit, meaning the pages won't show up in the Firefox history, the passwords won't be saved, no downloads will be listed in the new Downloads Manager and also, no cookies of cached web content are saved. However, the website can still track you so you're not completely anonymous when using this feature.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/firefox-20-downloads.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Firefox 20 new download manager Ubuntu" src="http://img.netupd8.com/firefox-20-downloads_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With Firefox 20, there's also a <b>new download manager</b>. The downloads are no longer displayed in a separate window and instead, Firefox now uses a download button on the toolbar, which displays the remaining download time and when clicked, it lists the most recent downloads and lets you open the files.</div><br /><br /><b>Other changes in Firefox 20:</b><br /><ul><li>ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging;</li><li>continued performance improvements for page loads, downloads, shutdown, etc.;</li><li>new JavaScript Profiler tool;</li><li><canvas> now supports blend modes;</li><li>various <audio> and <video> improvements;</li><li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/20.0/releasenotes/">more</a>.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Firefox 20 has been uploaded to the official Ubuntu repositories today so if you're using Ubuntu, you should get an update in a few minutes / hours.</div><br /><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Download Firefox</a>

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MATE 1.6 Released, Install It In Ubuntu [GNOME 2 Fork]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMtGx4oKsLUr5tz5ORL1WpTphnX4Utog99DxAxHNFWNk1zclmfF6TgF5w2AfYwGm73AWy7uOfV2i7sx3kqYMA_roAkXo9tQ5b0e-GJT-u-ruQP-1-SVhmBE5RmGsIAQAlWc1aI4TmEfLX/s320/mate-desktop_1.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After 8 months of development, <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/">MATE</a> 1.6 has been <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/2013/04/02/mate-1-6-released/">released</a></b> yesterday and its Ubuntu and Debian repositories have been updated a few hours ago with the latest MATE desktop. <b>The new version comes with</b><b> many changes such as Systemd-logind support, Caja (file manager) improvements and more.</b><br /><br /><b>MATE 1.6</b> is "<b>a giant step forward from the 1.4 release</b>" according to the MATE developers and with this release, many deprecated packages and libraries have been replaced with new technologies available in GLib. <b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with MATE, this is a <b>GNOME2 fork</b> which lets you use the old GNOME 2 desktop interface and applications but it also allows you to use new applications so for instance, you can use Nautilus 3 with it and so on. Also, MATE can be installed in parallel with GNOME 3, something that wasn't possible with the vanilla GNOME 2. </div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><h2>Changes in MATE 1.6</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Caja</b>, the default MATE file manager has received some interesting improvements, including support for new thumbnailers specifications and a new thumbnails frame, a new connect server dialog backported from Nautilus 3, the sidebar has been improved and there were many bug fixes:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKBF17ZqCChwECKVAKez3yvztv38P5iOTLAYsV41HKgFoxTuUCYyskKtEU5vwwhNntTcaVHVr3HeLUvK0QhIwY_hbtJR_e4vlUok6AAsnHPvzaY4Eizn-hy-Vi7lShWseShs7ktKbLP2W/s320/mate-desktop-1.6.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>MATE panel</b> Window List now supports middle clicking to close a window and the workspace switcher now has an option to wrap around between workspaces with the mouse wheel.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7XyPpzq9I_6JmJRmJLzhtuZg7NLlY6nYsNDEcIltOELkjtFytRQxvir4PPfGNmm0_eORfSgPp4REm9Dp54AHcfXFkBCB2BSqrPnAcXfD93jMFsYgMqFsGh-UWt3ZM_hf67IYB67-l7F_/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATE Control Center</b> has received some improvements too, including an <b>option to enable Marco compositing manager</b> and fast alt-tab window preferences and others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another interesting change has been made to the <b>Notification Daemon</b> which now has an <b>option which allows users to specify on which screen the notifications should be displayed</b> on and there's also support for notifications that "never expire".</div><br /><br /><b>Other improvements in MATE 1.6:</b><br /><ul><li>added support for systemd-logind in mate-session-manager, mate-screensaver and mate-power-manager (now you can reboot/shutdown without ConsoleKit);</li><li>MPRIS V2 support to send media keys to media players;</li><li>Caja now supports opening remote terminal;</li><li>other changes and bug fixes.</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/mate-desktop_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRgNUFOfVMXCHhA0oDKPl_B5Ezz1xSEB7qil1ZlnJj6B0BQP3S5kQ1f2LzJDIAb1qhUAYrKHk79Z_DXnT9vB-kTbgyH0CrWHmqh90_PxL5xdQ9lM7EVKKqmz52ls32oQsR7oQvIZasci9/s320/mate-desktop_3.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BlackMATE theme</td></tr></tbody></table><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/mate-desktop_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOV5a1xnIn9Li2_VXFQFsJIB81pSX_8wle_s0au0g7lq2GoBdKyBRlt7lnEhrshOAFRfLV796BG0IaFeopoZfb1vBrOXItTfCICvj0Kp98MzQVaDRJFyuwabjvQhYld2R2e0WJlGQpqswK/s320/mate-desktop_2.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GreenLaguna theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, <b>MATE 1.6 ships with new GTK2/3 themes</b>: Menta (seen throughout most of the screenshot of this article), BlackMATE, GreenLaguna and Traditional Green and there's a <b>new icon theme</b> as well: Menta. Also, GTK3 support has been added to some of the existing themes: TraditionalOk, TraditionalOkTest and ContrastHigh. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With version 1.6, MATE has transitioned to some new packages: GSettings has replaced MateConf, DBus has replaced MateCorba/MateComponent, GIO/GVFS has replaced MateVFS and libnotify has replaced libmatenotify.</div><br /><br />Here are a few more MATE 1.6 Desktop screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7DiVDLkJ3I7hCdZ811mqjr1pin92ljPT0753dWlFjnqw5LhgWRSBR4tiI3ULvdcWln5MMaj34ZFIFx0ZABBCWfQHHbH7Zpi-Gne5HvyXADaV0-a33k3TYWLdm0xaCoegi7ZjVz7QCvw_l/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuj5wH5tQQbsVK3CuKohUEWzAzdwfhctOxJBjBJQ_OyfXFROTSR9Ksg_x5oRRsCOKvx54gTYw0efW8FFTd73X7d8cetSdkmbYBj0Ju_v7D3Dr6HUDqKCz27IC4ssIhZSIcEWIQym_Z0vsd/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5-lcPjO7pkJa8oWd70zh1ARvIz6ik8DQXtvygTwZ3Hw6BxifvmepJx9-LD_7X-eX3iXZcPWMwWDYBzE7JdtQtlxak0pFB11jHdybMgKffdIFjh6FzJYmUQGtKRMEHHIlt0KYYg9QZsrz/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQXxE7McV6JANuEM78E70Oi8MBCR27P1hXaXMDSNgsrXGHqB2wXnXI-pNK1k59-mnwf9H3fDwcSfuterMSLUuE92eDDvL3J12nJp1taU0m8mKpzbGOd0QKqklmct-z1nGJUQzjq9zuf8e_/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLt5A28uD2At7Tg2MShuJqyg1Z1Qb6yIi4UjNvzNzFA9ZhCFUtSmoSDx-3BHJcbqMbcomkz8L6M2X2hFJYpkWOjVzTHkC9WI7NgypjGASVTsPhGUqJaT7G4XK5ljaNS_HiLbbq3kiQMQc/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MATE Desktop in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>MATE is not currently available in the official Ubuntu / Debian repositories but it seems it will make it soon because it's currently on Debian ftp-master <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">new queue</a>.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and 11.10 users can install MATE Desktop by using its official repositories. To add the repositories and install MATE, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment</code></pre>Then, log out and select MATE from the login screen.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: for some reason, in my test, the MATE Notification Daemon wasn't installed by default so if that's the case for you too, use the following command to install it:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install mate-notification-daemon</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've also seen some Raring packages in the MATE repositories so it seems Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be supported soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, see the MATE installation <a href="http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download">wiki page</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Removing MATE</h2><br />If you've installed MATE in Ubuntu using the commands above and you want to remove it, use the command below in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove mate-archive-keyring mate-notification-daemon atril atril-common caja caja-common engrampa engrampa-common eom eom-common gir1.2-mate-panel libatril libcaja-extension libmarco libmatedesktop libmatekbd libmatekeyring libmatemenu libmatepanelapplet libmatepolkit libmateweather libmateweather-common libmatewnck libmatewnck-common marco marco-common mate-applets mate-applets-common mate-backgrounds mate-calc mate-control-center mate-core mate-desktop mate-desktop-common mate-desktop-environment mate-dialogs mate-icon-theme mate-media mate-media-common mate-media-gstreamer mate-menus mate-panel mate-panel-common mate-polkit mate-power-manager mate-power-manager-common mate-screensaver mate-screensaver-common mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-settings-daemon-common mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-system-monitor mate-terminal mate-terminal-common mate-themes mate-utils mate-utils-common pluma pluma-common</code></pre><br />And to remove the MATE repositories, use:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI7Peicd2sf2JV2UiE0MPKaZsDxbFxQfVulFMyvJyWT4Uq8A6ysAFat6Ap_iwINT2bDGvuzGmtI8AR4WK6DIiFaox8BXVIOdQ6U_tu6ziBVVN1Bas7Tkqx6JPLScihphtdQzblwZPf9JRP/s320/terminology.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">Terminology</a> is a relatively new terminal emulator written for the Enlightenment desktop, but it can be used in other desktop environments. The application comes with many cool features, some of which do not exist in any other terminal emulator.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides features that are already available in other terminal emulators such as split views support, Terminology can do a lot of things you wouldn't expect from a terminal emulator, like displaying <b>thumbnails</b> for images, videos and documents and furthermore, it also allows you to <b>preview</b> those <b>files</b> directly from Terminology.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That's not all Terminology can do. Other features included in the latest 0.3 release:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>tabs support (although these aren't like the tabs you've seen in other applications - they look like a desktop switcher / expose); the tab switcher has live thumbnail content;</li><li>custom background support and transparency (and each tab or slip can have its own background; supported backgrounds: bitmap, scalable/vector, animated gif, videos);</li><li>text / links drag and drop;</li><li>themes for the layout and design;</li><li>URL, file path and email address detection and link-handling;</li><li>inline display of link content;</li><li>works in X11 and Wayland;</li><li>can be touch controlled;</li><li>scan scale by UI scaling factors;</li><li>can render using OpenGL or OpenGL-ES2;</li><li>block text selection;</li><li>cool visual bell that can be themed;</li><li>comes with a few built-in color schemes, including the popular Solarized light / dark;</li><li>more!</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/terminology-tabs.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaoLotbQlF9LZG03PPwDK-OzYR8iLAbaPmS6W3vY2v5VdNa6XZgNza7oyAGMS2oE1cEGfX1XqIgJPMieU2Si6dT0c_JO8TcuGvv93RI9oeISEOBqILFlY2gQ0-qq__JduuA77MuoYTtocN/s320/terminology-tabs.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terminology "tabs"</td></tr></tbody></table><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/terminology-preview.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJthNK2BebV9ed0KE40jEN6PrPcUdzIEwGAOV-gVSp_5fq_FFgJcwITSEDbVNC5pjEn337KTUVSJ0FZloYkLptyWFbBn2f0x59FV5BVWS7SXVNz3JBGWCgaWchet24coiooxFPhq1zEof/s320/terminology-preview.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Previewing a video file</td></tr></tbody></table><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/terminology-preview-tycat.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVgJZ8uANrG4y4lhMP4EplDi3aizwLHuHT0NSeiwHlviY1czvotL_E01sfHeMsv3GqCikl0xG_deW8oes5Bt_ZowSEb43QAli3RJ8iFD9Yormr5ebwoaWicWLkyCpu1quJkPhqMDNzt642/s320/terminology-preview-tycat.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"tycat" command allows previewing files</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video recorded by the Terminology developer, demoing the application (unfortunately, the resolution isn't great but it should be enough to get an idea on what Terminology can do):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ibPziLRGvkg" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPziLRGvkg">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Using Terminology</h2><br />Here are a few Terminology usage tips:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To set a background image use "<i>tybg image.jpg</i>" (where "image.jpg" is the image you want to use). The background can be a jpg, png and you can even use animated backgrounds, such as videos for instance. To reset the background, use: tybg ""</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> To get a list of files with thumbnails, use "<i>tyls -m</i>". Please note that in my test under Ubuntu, the thumbnails only showed up for some image files, probably because of some missing dependency. Clicking on the thumbnail opens the Terminology external file previewer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> To preview a file, besides clicking on the thumbnail as stated above, you can also use "<i>find /path/to/some/folder</i>", etc., for example "<i>find ~/Videos</i>", and then click on the file - the full path is required so this won't work for "ls" for instance. You can also use "typop file".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also preview a file in the terminal by using "tycat file".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> To switch between tabs, use Ctrl + PageUp / PageDown. These keyboard shortcuts are hardcoded for now so you can't change them.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Terminology in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Terminology is included by default in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/minimalistic-e17-linux-distribution.html">Bodhi Linux</a> (which is based on Ubuntu) so if you're running Bodhi, it should already be installed.<b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install the latest Terminology in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, you can use the PPA below</b> which provides daily builds for E17, EFL and some apps:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install terminology</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also use the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries <a href="https://launchpad.net/~efl/+archive/trunk">stable PPA</a>, but currently this PPA provides Terminology 0.2 (the latest being 0.3).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Terminology via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/terminology/">AUR</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, get Terminology from <a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">HERE</a>.</b></div>

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Open Source Real Time Strategy Game `0 A.D.` Alpha 13 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-mauryan-buildings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="0 a.d." border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_84T6pydp8arLvGgFmoRWx1vuTrx9yW3AYplrhZ9NkWLk4RPquWN6XyEoQquctwtlxXDCt9ztb5oufg7EAwRAapNLiztz31Irdu87ZPijPbLjMrF24MEetqygUJx_ZP2S78vfSx2WQ4Z/s320/0ad-mauryan-buildings.jpg" title="0 a.d." width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The thirteenth alpha version of <a href="http://play0ad.com/">0 A.D.</a> has been <a href="http://play0ad.com/alpha-13-magadha/">released</a> yesterday, bringing a new civilization: Mauryan Indian, new songs, AI improvements and more</b>. 0 A.D. is an open source, historical real-time strategy game developed by Wildfire Games, that can be played on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><b>Changes in 0 A.D. Alpha 13 "Magadha":</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new Mauryan Indian civilization which includes new units and buildings which reflect the culture's original architectural style;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Aegis bot (the default AI) has been greatly improved in all areas: defending, attacking or building a strong economy;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">attack/move command: when using Ctrl + right click to move units to a location, they will go to that location and stop to attack enemies they meet on the way;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the building preview now always shows the precise final variation that will be built;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">when buildings can't be placed somewhere, helpful messages are displayed now;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">6 new songs have been added;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new and improved animal sounds for lions, tigers and bears;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">user mod support - see the <a href="http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Modding_Guide">modding guide</a> for more info;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new Javascript debugger.</li></ul><br />Below you can watch a video with the new features in 0 A.D. alpha 13:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y-0l7Ej3cM8" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-0l7Ej3cM8">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">0 A.D. uses Pyrogenesis game engine which is mostly written in C++ and uses Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for scripting and it features excellent graphics and sound. The game allows users to control about 11 ancient civilizations, including Gauls, Spartans, Persians, Romans, Carthaginians and so on and one of its biggest downsides is that there's no matchmaking service yet, although it does have multiplayer support (as well as single player), but only peer-to-peer is currently supported.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you can contribute to 0 A.D. (programming, art, sound, documentation and more), see the programmers <a href="http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers">getting started</a> page and join #0ad-dev on QuakeNet on IRC.</b></div><br /><br /><h2>Install 0 A.D. game in Ubuntu</h2><br />Ubuntu users can install the latest 0 A.D. by using its official PPA:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install 0ad</code></pre><br /><br /><b>Download 0 A.D. for other <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/linux/">Linux</a> distributions, <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/win">Windows</a> or <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/mac">Mac OSX</a>.</b>

Open Source Real Time Strategy Game `0 A.D.` Alpha 13 Available For Download

The thirteenth alpha version of 0 A.D. has been released yesterday, bringing a new civilization: Mauryan Indian, new songs, AI improvement...

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Audience Media Player Getting Close To A New Release, Help Test It!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gLwkD51i_2y7T6l5cUYY74f1k_WnTE0WPXrHH5lUdtGbA2nMDSkLWibWzRbtJefTwzATbpxPJWb2sjN5YJCNRMgGjFxZC-3mZf1YXuRg9VUidGhNptZp-y10HQeLE3LLcXd5x-6YAUAK/s1600/audience-media-player.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="audience media player" border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0gLwkD51i_2y7T6l5cUYY74f1k_WnTE0WPXrHH5lUdtGbA2nMDSkLWibWzRbtJefTwzATbpxPJWb2sjN5YJCNRMgGjFxZC-3mZf1YXuRg9VUidGhNptZp-y10HQeLE3LLcXd5x-6YAUAK/s320/audience-media-player.png" title="audience media player" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://launchpad.net/audience">Audience</a> is a minimalistic, Gstreamer-based media player written in Vala. The second Audience release is getting close and its developers have invited users to help test it</b>. There aren't any major new features since the previous release, but a large amount of bugs have been fixed recently. So if you can help test it or just want to give it a try, read on.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Audience comes with a beautiful, minimalistic clutter-based interface and very few configuration options and is designed to play videos without getting in your way. The progress bar (which comes with previews support) along with a play/pause button, a sidebar (from where you can access the playlist and language / subtitles) toggle button and an add to playlist button are displayed at the bottom and are set to autohide by default. A few more settings can be tweaked by using Dconf editor (<i>org > pantheon > audience</i>). </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIccQjCWovTp5_BaXOyYFMSDk60e8w3ZPfgaNEKoVWW1KkP286hAY2NKzHaspDnIofsm0eqBOQrfchm_E_0AjsC5ITn15j1B-FtstRjgbVjD_TG-ip9IB7sDlhQoMKlOSLSgRuSnd4GZR/s1600/audience_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIccQjCWovTp5_BaXOyYFMSDk60e8w3ZPfgaNEKoVWW1KkP286hAY2NKzHaspDnIofsm0eqBOQrfchm_E_0AjsC5ITn15j1B-FtstRjgbVjD_TG-ip9IB7sDlhQoMKlOSLSgRuSnd4GZR/s320/audience_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can notice from the Dconf path above, Audience is designed for the elementary OS desktop (Pantheon) and it will probably become the default media player in the future. But of course, you can use it in any desktop environment.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Audience</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before proceeding, please note that this PPA has quite a few elementary packages that are unstable so read the PPA description before adding it. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Audience can be installed in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 (and obviously, elementary OS and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, etc.) by using the elementary Daily PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audience</code></pre><b><br />Arch Linux</b> users can install the latest Audience via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/audience-bzr/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And a note from Cody Garver, the main Audience developer, on how to report bugs for Audience: </div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We only ask that users test videos that do not play/produce errors in Totem before submitting a bug to make sure it's Audience-specific.</blockquote><br /><b>Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/audience">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Cody Garver for  the tip!<b> </b></i></div>

Audience Media Player Getting Close To A New Release, Help Test It!

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Minimalistic E17 Linux Distribution `Bodhi Linux` 2.3.0 Available For Download

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Bodhi Linux, a minimalistic Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the Enlightenment Desktop (<a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/?p=about/e17">E17</a>) by default, has reached version 2.3.0.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDmokxt6eFdR67lo2kn7JwB-7Rwr1UAnR_BVVG5EW0-sT8f6D_vD3jvnSMb8DqlWgDRg_mOFRs7jX8Q4dn8HiHGd3yFoQoEcTycMHr_gSfSobhWzDeyOwtCZ_CZ2aKYKx7Jgci3s3xhzO/s1600/bodhi-linux-eccess.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Bodhi Linux"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDmokxt6eFdR67lo2kn7JwB-7Rwr1UAnR_BVVG5EW0-sT8f6D_vD3jvnSMb8DqlWgDRg_mOFRs7jX8Q4dn8HiHGd3yFoQoEcTycMHr_gSfSobhWzDeyOwtCZ_CZ2aKYKx7Jgci3s3xhzO/s320/bodhi-linux-eccess.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><b>The Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 release brings:</b><br /><ul><li>Linux Kernel 3.8;</li><li>Enlightenment 0.17.1;</li><li>Midori 0.4.9;</li><li><a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">Terminology</a> 0.3.0 (a really nice terminal emulator for E17);</li><li>eCcess system tool (a tool that lets you change the time and date and manage users / groups) - see screenshot above;</li><li>Ubiquity 2.12;</li><li>Repository updates: Firefox 19.0.2, Chromium 25, Nvidia 210 drivers and LibreOffice 4.0.1;</li><li>5 new themes available by default.</li></ul><br />Here are a few more screenshots:<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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-nJO_hWWVQzbnLln_iDhHHYNLD_SfSZPq_sH_cogzJ0ytPH_jN3F6K83drgLhz_gBgFE0t6YVK9029iBAvpbxpndZijPSBYmP5Kp_AjEOnTlk93UPR27-nh1DVcgiIv2VDx06C05FvOs/s1600/bodhi-linux_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Bodhi Linux with the default theme, Tiling profile; on the left and bottom right: Terminology; on the top right: the default file manager"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-nJO_hWWVQzbnLln_iDhHHYNLD_SfSZPq_sH_cogzJ0ytPH_jN3F6K83drgLhz_gBgFE0t6YVK9029iBAvpbxpndZijPSBYmP5Kp_AjEOnTlk93UPR27-nh1DVcgiIv2VDx06C05FvOs/s320/bodhi-linux_3.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bodhi Linux with the default theme, Tiling profile; on the left and bottom right: Terminology; on the top right: the default 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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmkksnrJ3PY8dX6z-VH3nUnIwkP_-trBJCt62T9DYTaGCT2LULpcyNhvKQ-dHP07vzXoJHDQQdOAkSesB78BYPWxwG-gS5DH1JZDGktZuvB_Mgpn9KhJ2Wu0EqkOxYL_RTCj29mZXGq4P/s1600/bodhi-linux_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="New Bodhi Forum theme (Desktop profile)"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmkksnrJ3PY8dX6z-VH3nUnIwkP_-trBJCt62T9DYTaGCT2LULpcyNhvKQ-dHP07vzXoJHDQQdOAkSesB78BYPWxwG-gS5DH1JZDGktZuvB_Mgpn9KhJ2Wu0EqkOxYL_RTCj29mZXGq4P/s320/bodhi-linux_2.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Bodhi Forum theme (Desktop profile)</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4b-FdNofhL_P8m_Or88psCFyzUj7ocs8Wb4HpZIRMM1hOdPOqWOFvTj2e1mlPBDk_xzqWB0bTLJ8DlPqFiwI3Y60JC6ZpPnH0d9UjgOBn6DMwrjyM2sMlkTlU9jhPWVK8sckxQLzvv4Gp/s1600/bodhi-linux_5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="New Angelic theme (Compositing profile)"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4b-FdNofhL_P8m_Or88psCFyzUj7ocs8Wb4HpZIRMM1hOdPOqWOFvTj2e1mlPBDk_xzqWB0bTLJ8DlPqFiwI3Y60JC6ZpPnH0d9UjgOBn6DMwrjyM2sMlkTlU9jhPWVK8sckxQLzvv4Gp/s320/bodhi-linux_5.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Angelic theme (Compositing profile)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This lightweight Linux distribution uses a "semi-rolling" release model: they follow the Ubuntu LTS release cycle for the core of the distribution but there's also backported software so users can stay up to date with applications such as Firefox, LibreOffice and other packages.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><h2>Download Bodhi Linux</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bodhi Linux is available for 32 bit (both PAE and non-PAE ISO files are available), 64 bit and ARMHF (Samsung Chromebook, MK802, Nexus 7, Raspbery Pi and Genesi Smartbook). <b>Download the latest Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 from its <a href="http://www.bodhilinux.com/">homepage</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2013/03/bodhi-linux-230-released.html">Jeff Hoogland</a></i></div>

Minimalistic E17 Linux Distribution `Bodhi Linux` 2.3.0 Available For Download

Bodhi Linux, a minimalistic Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the Enlightenment Desktop ( E17 ) by default, has reached version 2...

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