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Friday, November 27, 2015

Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 2 available for Testing with GNOME 3.12


Ubuntu GNOME development team officially announces the release of Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" with new features and improvements. Well this is the final beta release of Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 which is going to release on 23rd October, 2014. Currently this release is beta phase and only available for testing purposes, so use it very carefully.

According to official announcement, Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 2 comes with default GNOME 3.12 desktop environment. As you know that few days ago, GNOME 3.14 desktop was released but the Ubuntu GNOME developers stick with older GNOME desktop environment which also allows its users to upgrade to newer version via PPA available in Ubuntu repository.

Apart from GNOME 3.12 desktop, you will be able to find other GNOME applications like GNOME Maps, GNOME Shell and GNOME Weather. Currently, the GNOME desktop still facing some known issues like Utopic ubiquity froze while reformatting existing partition, can't select which drive to resize when using "install alongside" in Trusty. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in Software World ?

Other known issues are Utopic installation freezes during partition creation, after reboot of Ubuntu Gnome installation, password for LVM encryption is not accepted and Ubiquity offers to erase existing OS rather than use entire disc even when more than one disc exists. 
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Monday, November 2, 2015

Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 1 available with Gnome Shell 3.12 Support


Ubuntu GNOME development team officially announces the release of Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 1 "Utopic Unicorn" with new features and updated applications. As you can see this is the beta version, so it is obvious that it might contain issues and bugs which you have to report them while testing. This release is strictly not for those users who are not familiar about pre-release issues.

According to official announcement, Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 1 "Utopic Unicorn" comes with support for Gnome Shell 3.12 along with default programs like gnome-weather and gnome-maps. Apart from these major new changes, this release also includes series of issues like Ubiquity offers to erase existing OS rather than use entire disc even when more than one disc exists. You can also download ISO Image of Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 1 for your machine.

Other known issues includes Utopic installation freezes during partition creation, Utopic "Installation completed" window nearly spans the width of screen and after reboot of Ubuntu Gnome installation, password for LVM encryption is not accepted. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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How to Install Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.8 using PPA on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr"


Ubuntu Tweak is very popular among Ubuntu users as it is the best GUI tool which is used to customize Ubuntu easily. This tool provides useful desktop and system options which you might not get in default Ubuntu system. You might also like to check out other Software News on our website.

Ubuntu Tweak offers several key features like GNOME session control, auto start program control, quick install popular applications, show/hide and change splash screen, tweak metacity window manager's style and behaviour and GNOME panel settings.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.8 tool using PPA on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" system, but you can install this release on older releases of Ubuntu.

Step Wise Installation of Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.8 using PPA on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr"

Step 1 : First open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.8 on your Ubuntu 14.04 system.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.8 in the software repository on your Ubuntu 14.04 system.
$ sudo apt-get update
Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.8 on your Ubuntu 14.04 system.
$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
After installation, search for "Ubuntu Tweak" in Unity Dash and lauch it from there. You customize your current Ubuntu theme with the help of Ubuntu Tweak tool.

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